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r/Futurism

A subreddit focused on the technological advancements, systemic changes and scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future of humanity. Founded 2008 · 78.6K members

77.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 25K upvotes, which works out to 321 per 1,000 members.

321peak upvotes per 1,000 members
77.9Kmembers
25Kbest post
844most comments
473posts 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.

51% 17% 13% 10% 8%
Link 51% Video 17% Text 13% Question 10% Image 8% Gallery 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data

↑ 25K 💬 844 link 2025

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Is Turning Against Him, Telling X Users He Spreads Misinformation - Decrypt

↑ 15.5K 💬 150 link 2025

Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in Lab Using Vibrating Molecules

↑ 7.5K 💬 128 link 2024

‘This Needs To Stop Now’—Elon Musk Confirms Radical Doge U.S. Treasury Plan

↑ 6.4K 💬 359 link 2025

Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages

↑ 6.3K 💬 441 link 2025

As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces New Version of ChatGPT Designed to Do Government Work

↑ 5.8K 💬 235 link 2025

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA's Moon Program

↑ 5.7K 💬 722 link 2025

Bernie Sanders Issues Warning About Elon Musk's Plans for AI: "You Will Be Out on the Street"

↑ 5.7K 💬 120 link 2025

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security

↑ 5.2K 💬 738 link 2025

Elon Musk Has Been Buying Up X Shares Near His Initial Purchase Price

↑ 4.5K 💬 278 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Futurism, in numbers

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

What is r/Futurism?
r/Futurism describes itself this way: A subreddit focused on the technological advancements, systemic changes and scientific breakthroughs that will shape the future of humanity. It was founded in 2008 and has 78.6K members.
How many members does r/Futurism have?
r/Futurism has about 77.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 473 of its posts; the biggest reached 25K upvotes, which is 321 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Futurism?
"Elon Musk Installs Illegal Server to Seize All Federal Workers’ Data" reached 25K upvotes and 844 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Futurism.
What subreddits are similar to r/Futurism?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Futurism?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are link posts and 17% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Futurism?
Across 473 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (7.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/Futurism?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Futurism has 2.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 14 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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