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r/DiWHYNSFW

Ever try fixing things on your own? Didn't come out the way they were supposed to? Do you stand there questioning your whole life? If so, post your results here to DiWHY (Pronounced: Dee Eye WHY). Where shitty projects from DIY live prosperously. If at any time you feel that a specific post isn't living up to the sub (be gentle as this is a humor sub, not meant to be taken seriously), please feel free to report (give exact reason) and let your voice be heard with downvotes and comments. Founded 2013 · 3.9M members · links only

3.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 108.6K upvotes, which works out to 28 per 1,000 members.

28peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.9Mmembers
108.6Kbest post
7Kmost comments
466posts 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.

53% 30% 14%
Video 53% Image 30% Gallery 14% Link 2%

The topics it labels

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

Shitpost 2 Broomba 1 Uhhhhyaaaa 1 OC 1 Meta Shitpost 1 META 1 Satire Shitpost 1 DiWhy Engineer 1 Brickxit 1 Joke 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

What is the purpose of this

↑ 108.6K 💬 7K image 2025

I made headphones with integrated CD player, remote control, battery, disc storage, and jewel box compartment

↑ 91.1K 💬 5K gallery 2025

Flashbang leds for flashbangs on CS

↑ 80.5K 💬 1.1K video 2021

Roomba: the early years

↑ 77.2K 💬 732 video 2018

A bowl of human suffering

↑ 70.9K 💬 1.5K video 2018

my parents: we don't need a paint roller

↑ 70.3K 💬 5.1K image 2024

something i found on twitter

↑ 69.8K 💬 633 image 2019

Whose bright idea was this

↑ 67.3K 💬 1.6K image 2020

My local Home Depot is sick of your nonsense

↑ 67K 💬 2.9K gallery 2026

Made a WatermelonBoy and tested it out in public [OP]

↑ 65.4K 💬 715 image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/DiWHY, in numbers

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

What is r/DiWHY?
r/DiWHY describes itself this way: Ever try fixing things on your own? Didn't come out the way they were supposed to? Do you stand there questioning your whole life? If so, post your results here to DiWHY (Pronounced: Dee Eye WHY). Where shitty projects from DIY live prosperously. If at any time you feel that a specific post isn't living up to the sub (be gentle as this is a humor sub, not meant to be taken seriously), please feel free to report (give exact reason) and let your voice be heard with downvotes and comments. It was founded in 2013 and has 3.9M members.
How many members does r/DiWHY have?
r/DiWHY has about 3.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 466 of its posts; the biggest reached 108.6K upvotes, which is 28 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DiWHY?
"What is the purpose of this" reached 108.6K upvotes and 7K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DiWHY.
What subreddits are similar to r/DiWHY?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/doordash, r/dogpictures, r/youngpeopleyoutube.
What kind of posts do best on r/DiWHY?
Of the posts we hold, 53% are video posts and 30% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DiWHY?
Across 466 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 15:00 UTC (45.8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (40.6K avg upvotes), Saturday at 11:00 UTC (36.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/DiWHY?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DiWHY has 53.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 44 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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