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r/CatastrophicFailureNSFW

1.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 107.7K upvotes, which works out to 60 per 1,000 members.

60peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.8Mmembers
107.7Kbest post
7.2Kmost comments
201posts 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.

65% 19% 8%
Video 65% Image 19% Link 8% Gallery 7%

The topics it labels

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

Fire/Explosion 23 Equipment Failure 16 Structural Failure 9 Natural Disaster 8 Fatalities 7 Operator Error 6 Engineering Failure 6 Malfunction 4 Visible Fatalities 3 Visible Injuries 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

8.4.2020 Beirut - storage before the blast

↑ 107.7K πŸ’¬ 4K image 2020

December 2019 in Detroit: a large amount of chromium-6 leaked into the ground from a chemical storage facility that contained it improperly. It was o…

↑ 78.8K πŸ’¬ 2K image 2020

Beirut seaport explodes (8/4/2020)

↑ 75.3K πŸ’¬ 2.1K video 2020

New pictures from the Suez Canal Authority on the efforts to dislodge the EverGiven, 25/03/2021

↑ 71.5K πŸ’¬ 4K gallery 2021

Water lines are freezing and bursting in Texas during Record Low Temperatures - February 2021

↑ 67.7K πŸ’¬ 4.9K video 2021

Ever Given AIS Track until getting stuck in Suez Canal, 23/03/2021

↑ 65.1K πŸ’¬ 2.2K video 2021

Tourist trapped 100m high on Chinese glass bridge after floor panels blow out (May 7, 2021)

↑ 64.9K πŸ’¬ 2.4K image 2021

Huge fire at a Huawei research facility in China, September 25, 2020

↑ 63.4K πŸ’¬ 2.5K video 2020

Container ship β€˜One Apus’ arriving in Japan today after losing over 1800 containers whilst crossing the Pacific bound for California last week.

↑ 62.5K πŸ’¬ 2.8K image 2020

Red wine cistern catastrophically ruptures at Sicilian winery, happened 2 weeks ago

↑ 62.5K πŸ’¬ 3K image 2019

Communities its size

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

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.

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