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r/gayNSFW

Be you. - /r/Gay. r/gay is a community which welcomes ALL LGBTQIA+ people. Topics include: identity and self-discovery, love and relationships, community support, resilience, representation in culture/media, mental health, intersectionality. **Divisive / hateful speech in any form will not be tolerated**. Founded 2008 · 498.2K members

499.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 8.4K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
499.9Kmembers
8.4Kbest post
425most comments
107posts 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.

92%
Image 92% Gallery 4% Video 2% Text 1% Question 1% Link 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.

Meme 4 Wholesome 2 TV/Film/Music/Books/Media 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Anyone else loving Lil Nas X memeing on biggots?

↑ 8.4K 💬 185 image 2021

My poor gay heart can't handle this

↑ 8K 💬 425 video 2020

Gay black men are important too

↑ 7.6K 💬 166 image 2020

Finally gathered the courage to crossdress at my school :)

↑ 6.6K 💬 287 image 2021

Everyone deserves that chance

↑ 6.4K 💬 125 image 2020

Fashion

↑ 6.4K 💬 48 image 2021

The correct version of "boys will be boys"

↑ 6.3K 💬 114 image 2021

Huge

↑ 6.3K 💬 88 image 2020

Congrats to Gold Medalist Tom Daley in Tokyo!!

↑ 6.1K 💬 207 image 2021

My grandma is 83 and lives in rural Florida where she is surrounded by anti-gay, right wingers. She just had her two front benches repainted in suppo…

↑ 6.1K 💬 119 image 2021

Communities its size

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

r/gay, in numbers

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

What is r/gay?
r/gay ("Be you. - /r/Gay") describes itself this way: r/gay is a community which welcomes ALL LGBTQIA+ people. Topics include: identity and self-discovery, love and relationships, community support, resilience, representation in culture/media, mental health, intersectionality. **Divisive / hateful speech in any form will not be tolerated**. It was founded in 2008 and has 498.2K members.
How many members does r/gay have?
r/gay has about 499.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 107 of its posts; the biggest reached 8.4K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gay?
"Anyone else loving Lil Nas X memeing on biggots?" reached 8.4K upvotes and 185 comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gay.
What subreddits are similar to r/gay?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/gay?
Of the posts we hold, 92% are image posts and 4% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gay?
Across 107 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/gay?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gay has 5.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 4 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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