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r/berkeley

A subreddit for the community of UC Berkeley as well as the surrounding City of Berkeley, California. Founded 2008 · 184.2K members

183.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14K upvotes, which works out to 76 per 1,000 members.

76peak upvotes per 1,000 members
183.7Kmembers
14Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
557posts 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.

45% 24% 14% 14%
Text 45% Question 24% Image 14% Link 14% Gallery 2% Video 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.

University 158 Other 83 News 36 CS/EECS 34 Local 32 Events/Organizations 27 Politics 16 mod approved witchhunt 1 University faculty/staff 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Couldn’t have said it any better

↑ 14K 💬 852 image 2024

A lecturer in the CS department at UC Berkeley speaks out against the school's capitulation to the Trump administration under the guise of combating …

↑ 9.7K 💬 440 video 2025

Milo Wins!

↑ 7.3K 💬 1.5K text 2017

Mahmoud Khalil Is the First Activist to Be Disappeared by Trump— This was the moment yall, not *just* free Palestine

↑ 4.9K 💬 603 link 2025

UC students sue education department over DOGE’s access to financial data

↑ 3.9K 💬 116 link 2025

Wired identifies a recent Cal student implementing Elon Musk's government takeover

↑ 3.8K 💬 117 link 2025

I survived living in LA and commuting to Cal by plane over the past academic year to save on rent, AMA

↑ 3.5K 💬 612 text 2023

yo berkeley students what the fuck is this

↑ 3.3K 💬 183 gallery 2025

We live in their heads rent free

↑ 3.3K 💬 571 image 2025

Bay Area teen rejected by 16 colleges, hired by Google files racial discrimination lawsuit

↑ 3.1K 💬 1.3K text 2025

Communities its size

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

r/berkeley, in numbers

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

What is r/berkeley?
r/berkeley describes itself this way: A subreddit for the community of UC Berkeley as well as the surrounding City of Berkeley, California. It was founded in 2008 and has 184.2K members.
How many members does r/berkeley have?
r/berkeley has about 183.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 557 of its posts; the biggest reached 14K upvotes, which is 76 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/berkeley?
"Couldn’t have said it any better" reached 14K upvotes and 852 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/berkeley.
What subreddits are similar to r/berkeley?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/berkeley?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are text posts and 24% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/berkeley?
Across 557 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 05:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 03:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/berkeley?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/berkeley has 2.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 38 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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