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r/chemistryNSFW

3.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 35.4K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.9Mmembers
35.4Kbest post
4.4Kmost comments
1.9Kposts 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.

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Image 35% Text 19% Video 13% Gallery 13% Question 12% Link 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

A pair of scissors sitting on my table (formica top) suddenly burst into flames. No heat source, electricity, or battery nearby. No contact with anyt…

↑ 35.4K 💬 4.4K gallery 2025

I made this benzene stamp so I never have to fail at drawing a benzene ring in a lecture ever again

↑ 23.7K 💬 391 image 2018

I accidentally grew a giant chunk of copper sulfate crystal

↑ 13.8K 💬 305 image 2026

Found this in the metallography lab at work - how worried should I be?

↑ 13.2K 💬 1.4K image 2025

I raise all of you the 500L volumetric flask

↑ 12.5K 💬 287 image 2021

Organic salt

↑ 10.9K 💬 384 image 2016

Almost had a heart attack when my friend sent me this photo

↑ 10.9K 💬 326 gallery 2025

If your organic chemistry test starts with a joke, that will be the last time you smile all day.

↑ 10.4K 💬 214 image 2020

I see your 50L round bottom flask and raise you to a 72L. Your move.

↑ 10.2K 💬 281 image 2021

Caption this

↑ 9.7K 💬 111 image 2018

Communities its size

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/chemistry, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.