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r/chemicalreactiongifs

Chemical Reaction GIFs. A subreddit showcasing the complexity of those lovely little atoms, as well as other interesting science topics in gif form. Founded 2012 · 1.3M members

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 30.5K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
30.5Kbest post
776most comments
589posts 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.

86% 13%
Video 86% Image 13% Link 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.

Chemical Reaction 56 Physical Reaction 16 Physics + Chemistry 15 Physics 5 Chemistry 4 Biology + Chemistry 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Creating a mirror using silver nitrate

↑ 30.5K 💬 459 video 2017

On par with black magic fuckery?

↑ 30.4K 💬 425 video 2018

Extinguishing 300 candles with Sulfur Hexafluoride (x-post r/Oddlysatisfying)

↑ 30.1K 💬 374 video 2018

/r/chemicalreactiongifs supports the fight for net neutrality!

↑ 29.3K 💬 111 link 2017

Cool Chemical Reaction

↑ 28K 💬 622 video 2017

Slow-Mo Iodine Clock Reaction

↑ 26.9K 💬 276 video 2018

Powdered sugar is highly flammable, so take care when you make a birthday cake

↑ 26.9K 💬 436 video 2018

Pure alcohol and Lithium aluminum hydride

↑ 26.5K 💬 548 video 2018

Different types of chemical flames.

↑ 26.5K 💬 319 image 2018

Dry ice being dropped into non newtonian fluid

↑ 25.7K 💬 426 image 2018

Communities its size

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

r/chemicalreactiongifs, in numbers

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

What is r/chemicalreactiongifs?
r/chemicalreactiongifs ("Chemical Reaction GIFs") describes itself this way: A subreddit showcasing the complexity of those lovely little atoms, as well as other interesting science topics in gif form. It was founded in 2012 and has 1.3M members.
How many members does r/chemicalreactiongifs have?
r/chemicalreactiongifs has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 589 of its posts; the biggest reached 30.5K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/chemicalreactiongifs?
"Creating a mirror using silver nitrate" reached 30.5K upvotes and 459 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/chemicalreactiongifs.
What subreddits are similar to r/chemicalreactiongifs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/chemicalreactiongifs?
Of the posts we hold, 86% are video posts and 13% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/chemicalreactiongifs?
Across 589 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 04:00 UTC (15.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (13.4K avg upvotes), Monday at 13:00 UTC (13.2K 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/chemicalreactiongifs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/chemicalreactiongifs has 21K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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