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r/collapse

Collapse of Civilization. Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise. Founded 2008 · 567.3K members

564.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 20K upvotes, which works out to 35 per 1,000 members.

35peak upvotes per 1,000 members
564.4Kmembers
20Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
100posts 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 78% Text 10% Video 7% Link 4% Gallery 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.

Casual Friday 55 Humor 10 Climate 7 Economic 5 Systemic 4 Conflict 3 Meta 3 Politics 3 Society 2 Ecological 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Chevron sent environmental attorney Steven Donziger to prison, in the what’s being called the first-ever case of corporate prosecution.

↑ 20K 💬 1.1K text 2021

A fresh cartoon from The New Yorker

↑ 15.3K 💬 261 image 2022

My newest artpiece, based on the IPCC report... I call this one "SUMMER 2030"

↑ 14.1K 💬 542 image 2021

The system isn't broken it's working as intended.

↑ 13.6K 💬 327 image 2022

Made me laugh inside

↑ 12.7K 💬 122 image 2022

We've all got a little something inside of us

↑ 11.9K 💬 217 image 2022

Work hard, they said. Get a degree, they said.

↑ 11.2K 💬 557 image 2022

The Late Fidel On Climate Change

↑ 10.9K 💬 1.5K video 2021

"We really had it all"

↑ 10.9K 💬 276 image 2022

I’m one of the people stranded on I-95 for the last 20 hours. Some thoughts and observations.

↑ 10.8K 💬 1.2K text 2022

Communities its size

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

r/collapse, in numbers

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

What is r/collapse?
r/collapse ("Collapse of Civilization") describes itself this way: Discussion regarding the potential collapse of global civilization, defined as a significant decrease in human population and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time. We seek to deepen our understanding of collapse while providing mutual support, not to document every detail of our demise. It was founded in 2008 and has 567.3K members.
How many members does r/collapse have?
r/collapse has about 564.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 20K upvotes, which is 35 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/collapse?
"Chevron sent environmental attorney Steven Donziger to prison, in the what’s being called the first-ever case of corporate prosecution." reached 20K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/collapse.
What subreddits are similar to r/collapse?
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/collapse?
Of the posts we hold, 78% are image posts and 10% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/collapse?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 18:00 UTC (9.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (8.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (8.3K 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/collapse?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/collapse has 9.1K 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/collapse, 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.