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r/Detroit

r/Detroit: News, Events, Food, Discussion, and More about Detroit. News, Events, Food, Discussion, and More about Detroit and Southeast Michigan. Founded 2008 · 265.9K members

266.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 49.1K upvotes, which works out to 184 per 1,000 members.

184peak upvotes per 1,000 members
266.6Kmembers
49.1Kbest post
3.5Kmost comments
536posts 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.

27% 23% 20% 14% 11%
Text 27% Link 23% Image 20% Question 14% Gallery 11% Video 6%

The topics it labels

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

Talk Detroit 83 News 80 Picture 56 Community 52 Food/Drink 31 Eastern Market Mode 15 Sports 15 Politics/Elections 10 Memes 9 Historical 9

What the ceiling looks like

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

Ford employee calls Trump a “pedo protector”. Trump briefly flashes IQ.

↑ 49.1K 💬 978 video 2026

I am Detroit and I endorse this message

↑ 33.4K 💬 3.5K image 2024

At the Detroit auto show,

↑ 12.7K 💬 182 image 2026

Just a bald eagle on an iceberg enjoying a meal in the Detroit River

↑ 11.8K 💬 247 video 2026

VIDEO: In a protest transcending national boundaries, hundreds of Detroiters and Canadians came out Saturday to voice their displeasure with Trump

↑ 9.4K 💬 358 video 2025

Detroit’s finest stopped me for a pic.

↑ 9.1K 💬 305 image 2025

Jack White's response to the White House is legend

↑ 8.4K 💬 228 gallery 2025

Who country, like Detroit ? 🤔

↑ 7.5K 💬 1.6K image 2024

Over $300,000 Raised After Ford Suspends Worker Who Humiliated Trump in Public

↑ 7.5K 💬 233 link 2026

J6er Jake Lang at city council telling Muslim members "You guys are outbreeding, insidious parasites. You will never look like us. Get the f**k out"

↑ 7.2K 💬 2.8K video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Detroit, in numbers

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

What is r/Detroit?
r/Detroit ("r/Detroit: News, Events, Food, Discussion, and More about Detroit") describes itself this way: News, Events, Food, Discussion, and More about Detroit and Southeast Michigan. It was founded in 2008 and has 265.9K members.
How many members does r/Detroit have?
r/Detroit has about 266.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 536 of its posts; the biggest reached 49.1K upvotes, which is 184 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Detroit?
"Ford employee calls Trump a “pedo protector”. Trump briefly flashes IQ." reached 49.1K upvotes and 978 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Detroit.
What subreddits are similar to r/Detroit?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/Detroit?
Of the posts we hold, 27% are text posts and 23% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Detroit?
Across 536 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (5.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 20:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/Detroit?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Detroit has 4.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 252 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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