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Food Photos on Reddit. The internet's number one place for original food images and more! Founded 2008 · 24.6M members

24.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 85.7K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
24.6Mmembers
85.7Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
1.4Kposts 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.

63% 32%
Image 63% Gallery 32% Video 3% Text 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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

🧙 I don't know how I made this, Magic maybe? 74 Recipe In Comments 63 Image 46 Vegetarian 39 /r/all 36 :Spag: Blessed by noodly appendage 20 ✨Sprinkles at Maximum Capacity✨ 18 Gluten-Free 11 Vegan 8 Keto 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

[I ate] a taco box

↑ 85.7K 💬 2.2K image 2020

[Pro/Chef] “Raspbaby Yoda” Raspberry Pie

↑ 77.4K 💬 841 image 2019

[Pro/Chef] Mirror Glazed Mousse Cake

↑ 76.6K 💬 1.3K image 2021

[Homemade] Blackberry-Lemon Cheesecake

↑ 74.2K 💬 950 image 2019

[Homemade] cheesecake with buttercream frosting

↑ 67.1K 💬 411 image 2020

[Homemade] Homer Simpson Cake

↑ 64K 💬 465 image 2020

[Homemade] Crunchwrap Supreme

↑ 63.6K 💬 1.2K image 2021

[Homemade] Kraken Pie

↑ 62.4K 💬 716 image 2018

[Homemade] cartoon cake slice

↑ 61.5K 💬 964 image 2023

[Homemade] Cherry/Blueberry Bunny Pie

↑ 58.5K 💬 619 image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/food, in numbers

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

What is r/food?
r/food ("Food Photos on Reddit") describes itself this way: The internet's number one place for original food images and more. It was founded in 2008 and has 24.6M members.
How many members does r/food have?
r/food has about 24.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 85.7K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/food?
"[I ate] a taco box" reached 85.7K upvotes and 2.2K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/food.
What subreddits are similar to r/food?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside, r/oddlysatisfying.
What kind of posts do best on r/food?
Of the posts we hold, 63% are image posts and 32% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/food?
Across 1.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (19.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 12:00 UTC (18.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (16K 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/food?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/food has 52.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 331 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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