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.
How many members does r/ExplainTheJoke have?
r/ExplainTheJoke has about 1.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 556 of its posts; the biggest reached 121.6K upvotes, which is 66 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ExplainTheJoke?
"Can u help?" reached 121.6K upvotes and 3.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ExplainTheJoke.
What subreddits are similar to r/ExplainTheJoke?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/ExplainTheJoke?
Of the posts we hold, 88% are image posts and 3% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ExplainTheJoke?
Across 556 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 07:00 UTC (45.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 00:00 UTC (41.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (34.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/ExplainTheJoke?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ExplainTheJoke has 66.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 114 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/ExplainTheJoke, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.