because the internet has enough domesticated cats. r/bigcats is a community to share photos, videos, news articles, and stories and big cats with other like minded people! Founded 2011 · 167K members
168.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached
16.6K upvotes, which works out to
99 per 1,000 members.
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.
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Video 68%Image 17%Gallery 9%Link 5%
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What is r/bigcats?
r/bigcats ("because the internet has enough domesticated cats") describes itself this way: r/bigcats is a community to share photos, videos, news articles, and stories and big cats with other like minded people. It was founded in 2011 and has 167K members.
How many members does r/bigcats have?
r/bigcats has about 168.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 404 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.6K upvotes, which is 99 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bigcats?
"A pregnant cheetah looking for a shady spot because it is overwhelmed by the heat." reached 16.6K upvotes and 234 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bigcats.
What subreddits are similar to r/bigcats?
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/bigcats?
Of the posts we hold, 68% are video posts and 17% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bigcats?
Across 404 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 15:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (5.7K 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/bigcats?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bigcats has 7.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 19 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/bigcats, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.