Console Gaming. The one and only destination for all console gaming. Oldschool, newschool and everyschool. Totally free of bias and console warfare - Lets talk consoles! Founded 2009 · 301.4K members
302K members. The best post we have captured here reached
11.2K upvotes, which works out to
37 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/consoles?
r/consoles ("Console Gaming") describes itself this way: The one and only destination for all console gaming. Oldschool, newschool and everyschool. Totally free of bias and console warfare - Lets talk consoles. It was founded in 2009 and has 301.4K members.
How many members does r/consoles have?
r/consoles has about 302K members. ViralHunt has tracked 226 of its posts; the biggest reached 11.2K upvotes, which is 37 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/consoles?
"Wtf I thought these were rare?" reached 11.2K upvotes and 1.5K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/consoles.
What subreddits are similar to r/consoles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/consoles?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/consoles?
Across 226 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 22:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (1.6K 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/consoles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/consoles has 3.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/consoles, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.