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r/gaming. The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet. Founded 2007 · 47.3M members

47.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 269.8K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
47.3Mmembers
269.8Kbest post
14.9Kmost comments
3.4Kposts 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.

34% 25% 16% 15% 10%
Image 34% Link 25% Question 16% Text 15% Video 10%

The topics it labels

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

Weekly Friends Thread 5 Weekly Free Talk Thread 5 Weekly Simple Questions Thread 4 Weekly Self Promotion Thread 4 Thanks Jerry 1 [Misleading Title] 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Take your time, you got this

↑ 269.8K 💬 3.5K image 2019

My parents (late 70s) got me a ps5 controller for Christmas. I do not own a playstation 5...

↑ 241.2K 💬 5.5K image 2020

I got off the horse by accident right before a cutscene in red dead

↑ 227.2K 💬 2.2K video 2018

boy gamer

↑ 220.5K 💬 6.5K image 2021

Minesweeper 99 x 99, 1500 mines. Took me about 2.5 hours to finish, nerve-wracking. No one might care, but just wanted to share this.

↑ 202.9K 💬 2.7K image 2022

The perfect cosplay doesn’t ex...

↑ 197K 💬 1.8K video 2020

'Play until we lose'

↑ 193.4K 💬 1.4K image 2018

Can we please boycott Star Wars battlefront 2

↑ 182.1K 💬 12K text 2017

How the Grim Reaper sends good boys to the afterlife in The Sims 3

↑ 178.5K 💬 2.7K video 2022

As a teen in the 80s, my conservative God-fearing family wouldn't let me own Dungeons & Dragons. Thirty years later, my son and I are starting our D …

↑ 175.4K 💬 4.9K image 2017

Communities its size

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

r/gaming, in numbers

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

What is r/gaming?
r/gaming ("r/gaming") describes itself this way: The Number One Gaming forum on the Internet. It was founded in 2007 and has 47.3M members.
How many members does r/gaming have?
r/gaming has about 47.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 3.4K of its posts; the biggest reached 269.8K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gaming?
"Take your time, you got this" reached 269.8K upvotes and 3.5K comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gaming.
What subreddits are similar to r/gaming?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile, r/wallstreetbets, r/interestingasfuck, r/Damnthatsinteresting, r/Unexpected.
What kind of posts do best on r/gaming?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are image posts and 25% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gaming?
Across 3.4K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (49.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (45.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (42.3K 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/gaming?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gaming has 166K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 439 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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