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.
97%
Image 97%Gallery 3%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Cartoon 70Video Game 36Web Series 27Movie 26Anime 24Music Video 14Commercial 9Live-Action TV 7Comic/Manga 6Sports 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
How many members does r/explainthisscreen have?
r/explainthisscreen has about 39.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 304 of its posts; the biggest reached 648 upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/explainthisscreen?
"[Scoob! 2020]" reached 648 upvotes and 115 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/explainthisscreen.
What subreddits are similar to r/explainthisscreen?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/TheMirrorCult, r/CzechCoconutCommunity, r/InterviewMan, r/news2, r/bondmarket, r/themayormccheese.
What kind of posts do best on r/explainthisscreen?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are image posts and 3% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/explainthisscreen?
Across 304 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (271 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (69 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 12:00 UTC (60 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/explainthisscreen?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/explainthisscreen has 113 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 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/explainthisscreen, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.