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r/australiaNSFW

A dusty corner on the internet where you can chew the fat about Australia and Australians. Founded 2008 · 2.9M members

2.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 64.9K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.9Mmembers
64.9Kbest post
6.2Kmost comments
862posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

61% 13% 12%
Link 61% Text 13% Image 12% Question 5% Video 5% Gallery 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

politics 220 no politics 155 culture & society 147 image 115 news 84 science & tech 51 political satire 25 entertainment 24 sport 19 #3 low quality 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Absolute legend on Melbourne Zoo livestream

↑ 64.9K 💬 819 video 2020

Welcome to the real world Scomo

↑ 64.2K 💬 4.7K video 2020

“Jesus, we’re on the f**king tele.” 🤣🤣🤣

↑ 63.4K 💬 620 video 2022

Australia is NOT America — Stop Normalising Tipping Here

↑ 60.3K 💬 4.1K text 2025

Trick or Treat.

↑ 60.3K 💬 4.1K image 2022

"Tell the Prime Minister to go and get f*ed" - Firefighter from Nelligen, NSW

↑ 59.2K 💬 2.1K video 2020

Housing Crisis 1983 vs 2023

↑ 57.3K 💬 1.8K video 2023

Australia votes yes to legalise Same Sex Marriage

↑ 54.8K 💬 5.3K link 2017

My physics teacher defended her house from bushfires by herself, and then waited out the fire in her pool using a scuba tank.

↑ 52.5K 💬 1.8K image 2020

Our cat came home after missing in the fires for 7 nights. She’s burnt but should live. We thought her lost when the fire consumed most of our proper…

↑ 51.5K 💬 762 image 2020

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/australia, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/australia?
r/australia describes itself this way: A dusty corner on the internet where you can chew the fat about Australia and Australians. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.9M members.
How many members does r/australia have?
r/australia has about 2.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 862 of its posts; the biggest reached 64.9K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/australia?
"Absolute legend on Melbourne Zoo livestream" reached 64.9K upvotes and 819 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/australia.
What subreddits are similar to r/australia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/australia?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are link posts and 13% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/australia?
Across 862 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 06:00 UTC (22.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 09:00 UTC (19K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 09:00 UTC (18.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/australia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/australia has 40.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/australia, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.