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r/BlackSuperheroes

Black Superheroes. For farrrr too long, Black characters have been both sidelined or stereotyped. This space exists to change that by spotlighting the full spectrum of Black superheroes and villains. From the U.S. to the Caribbean, Brazil to the Motherland, we celebrate the power and complexity of the African diaspora in every panel and pixel in all forms of media. Black indie creators are welcomed - support their work. Founded 2020 · 32.5K members

33.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11.8K upvotes, which works out to 356 per 1,000 members.

356peak upvotes per 1,000 members
33.2Kmembers
11.8Kbest post
799most comments
399posts 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.

44% 23% 22%
Image 44% Gallery 23% Video 22% Link 6% Text 4% Question 3%

The topics it labels

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

Discussion 115 Film/TV 86 Art 79 Comics 55 Cosplay 23 Other 17 News 15 Recommendations 5 Anime 3 Graphic Novel 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Shuri Cosplay. She had tons of jealous haters in her comments.

↑ 11.8K 💬 443 image 2026

👏 👏 👏

↑ 7K 💬 586 video 2026

Wonderful cosplay ❤️ Nubia

↑ 5.6K 💬 62 image 2026

@chunlicherie 😳🤯😍🤩 Chun Li

↑ 5.3K 💬 259 video 2026

@kalvinkosha Black Samurai 😍 looks like Dreamcon was fun

↑ 5.2K 💬 75 gallery 2026

Eartha Kitt. The first black catwoman 🐈‍⬛💃🏾

↑ 5.1K 💬 86 video 2026

Storm voice actor

↑ 4.5K 💬 59 video 2026

The Parallels😂

↑ 3.7K 💬 51 gallery 2026

90s and 00s hits different

↑ 3.6K 💬 40 video 2026

These suits are 🔥 👏

↑ 3.2K 💬 39 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/BlackSuperheroes, in numbers

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

What is r/BlackSuperheroes?
r/BlackSuperheroes ("Black Superheroes") describes itself this way: For farrrr too long, Black characters have been both sidelined or stereotyped. This space exists to change that by spotlighting the full spectrum of Black superheroes and villains. From the U.S. to the Caribbean, Brazil to the Motherland, we celebrate the power and complexity of the African diaspora in every panel and pixel in all forms of media. Black indie creators are welcomed - support their work. It was founded in 2020 and has 32.5K members.
How many members does r/BlackSuperheroes have?
r/BlackSuperheroes has about 33.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 399 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.8K upvotes, which is 356 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BlackSuperheroes?
"Shuri Cosplay. She had tons of jealous haters in her comments." reached 11.8K upvotes and 443 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BlackSuperheroes.
What subreddits are similar to r/BlackSuperheroes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/BlackSuperheroes?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 23% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BlackSuperheroes?
Across 399 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 09:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/BlackSuperheroes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BlackSuperheroes has 2.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 35 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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