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r/crtgaming

CRT Gaming. Celebrating the art of playing video games on cathode ray tube displays. Founded 2016 · 176.8K members

178.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.5K upvotes, which works out to 48 per 1,000 members.

48peak upvotes per 1,000 members
178.1Kmembers
8.5Kbest post
627most comments
411posts 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.

37% 34% 12% 9%
Gallery 37% Image 34% Video 12% Text 9% Question 4% Link 4%

The topics it labels

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

Repair/Troubleshooting 68 Showcase 39 New Pick-up 27 Cables/Wiring/Connectivity 15 Battlestation 11 Image Adjustment/Calibration 11 Scanlines 4 Converter/Scaler 3 New Pick Up 2 Modding/Hardware Projects 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

I caught the final moments before my PS2's Graphics Synthesizer died.

↑ 8.5K 💬 627 video 2026

They said it couldn’t be done…

↑ 8.2K 💬 370 gallery 2026

Taipei last CRT repair shop

↑ 6.6K 💬 135 gallery 2026

It's still 2006 in my living room, and that's OK.

↑ 6.3K 💬 161 image 2024

When you buy a house and the wife says "You can have the basement." 🤔

↑ 5.6K 💬 583 gallery 2025

I thought you should see this...

↑ 5.3K 💬 288 video 2022

Picked up a Old Stock 32FV27

↑ 5.2K 💬 207 gallery 2026

Decided to take a Picture with my Setup before I move out of my College Apartment

↑ 4.8K 💬 120 image 2024

Just got another dream TV in my living room 🕹️

↑ 4.7K 💬 155 gallery 2024

Wanted to share my comfy place

↑ 4.5K 💬 131 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/crtgaming, in numbers

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

What is r/crtgaming?
r/crtgaming ("CRT Gaming") describes itself this way: Celebrating the art of playing video games on cathode ray tube displays. It was founded in 2016 and has 176.8K members.
How many members does r/crtgaming have?
r/crtgaming has about 178.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.5K upvotes, which is 48 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/crtgaming?
"I caught the final moments before my PS2's Graphics Synthesizer died." reached 8.5K upvotes and 627 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/crtgaming.
What subreddits are similar to r/crtgaming?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/crtgaming?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are gallery posts and 34% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/crtgaming?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 14:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 15:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/crtgaming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/crtgaming has 3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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