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r/awesome

For everything that is awesome! Founded 2008 · 1.4M members · links only

1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 152.4K upvotes, which works out to 111 per 1,000 members.

111peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.4Mmembers
152.4Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
203posts 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.

66% 21% 11%
Video 66% Image 21% Gallery 11% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Video 31 Image 28 GIF 3 Article 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

This bus driver reacted immediately she saw a car drifting into oncoming traffic

↑ 152.4K 💬 1.9K video 2025

Hatching of octopus egg

↑ 82.7K 💬 1.4K video 2023

Such a nice guy!!

↑ 56.9K 💬 2.6K image 2024

Cold front seen from above

↑ 52.7K 💬 585 image 2023

You don't need lots of friends, just the right ones..🐕🐾🧓🎂😊

↑ 49.9K 💬 144 video 2025

This is peak performance.

↑ 46.9K 💬 1.7K video 2023

The way they all lower their heads is precious

↑ 35.5K 💬 307 video 2024

Don't know what's her name, but it's amazing

↑ 35.5K 💬 806 video 2024

A true example of courage, intelligence, and resilience under extreme conditions.

↑ 33.4K 💬 242 image 2025

Not as easy as it looks!

↑ 31.4K 💬 159 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/awesome, in numbers

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

What is r/awesome?
r/awesome describes itself this way: For everything that is awesome. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.4M members.
How many members does r/awesome have?
r/awesome has about 1.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 203 of its posts; the biggest reached 152.4K upvotes, which is 111 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/awesome?
"This bus driver reacted immediately she saw a car drifting into oncoming traffic" reached 152.4K upvotes and 1.9K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/awesome.
What subreddits are similar to r/awesome?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/Indiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/awesome?
Of the posts we hold, 66% are video posts and 21% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/awesome?
Across 203 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (37.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (27.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (18.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/awesome?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/awesome has 26.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/awesome, 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.