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r/BirdsArentReal

Birds Aren't Real. They used to be. Until the U.S. Government replaced them with drone replicas designed to spy on the American public. Founded in 1976. Founded 2017 · 546K members

544.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 55.5K upvotes, which works out to 102 per 1,000 members.

102peak upvotes per 1,000 members
544.9Kmembers
55.5Kbest post
376most comments
200posts 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.

62% 24%
Image 62% Video 24% Text 5% Link 4% Gallery 3% Question 2%

The topics it labels

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

New Concept 3 Question 2 Stop reporting this, it’s staying up 1 Meme 1 New Spy Technique 1 Photo 1 Repost but it’s too popular to delete, for shame 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Revolution.

↑ 55.5K 💬 333 video 2020

Government making an example of this drone.

↑ 36.1K 💬 124 image 2020

Just when you think you're safe

↑ 33.3K 💬 108 image 2020

In Avengers (2012), Hawkeye is played by a man. This is a nod to the fact that hawks aren't real.

↑ 30.1K 💬 82 image 2019

Brain hurty

↑ 29.7K 💬 181 image 2019

no no, he’s got a point

↑ 27K 💬 242 image 2020

Don't silence me

↑ 26.4K 💬 75 image 2020

They protect their drones more than their own people

↑ 25.5K 💬 376 image 2019

In Birds of Prey (2020), the Birds are played by human actors, this is a nod to the fact that birds aren't real

↑ 25K 💬 161 image 2020

How can you be this ignorant???

↑ 24.1K 💬 375 image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/BirdsArentReal, in numbers

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

What is r/BirdsArentReal?
r/BirdsArentReal ("Birds Aren't Real") describes itself this way: They used to be. Until the U.S. Government replaced them with drone replicas designed to spy on the American public. Founded in 1976. It was founded in 2017 and has 546K members.
How many members does r/BirdsArentReal have?
r/BirdsArentReal has about 544.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 55.5K upvotes, which is 102 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BirdsArentReal?
"Revolution." reached 55.5K upvotes and 333 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BirdsArentReal.
What subreddits are similar to r/BirdsArentReal?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/BirdsArentReal?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are image posts and 24% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BirdsArentReal?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 14:00 UTC (18.6K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (18.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (15.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/BirdsArentReal?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BirdsArentReal has 18.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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