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.
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Video 57%Image 41%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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/gay_irl?
r/gay_irl ("gay_irl™") describes itself this way: welcome to gay_irl™ 😳 consume gay memes. It was founded in 2017 and has 225.8K members.
How many members does r/gay_irl have?
r/gay_irl has about 226.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 407 of its posts; the biggest reached 31K upvotes, which is 137 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gay_irl?
"Gay_irl" reached 31K upvotes and 384 comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gay_irl.
What subreddits are similar to r/gay_irl?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/DiscussionZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/gay_irl?
Of the posts we hold, 57% are video posts and 41% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gay_irl?
Across 407 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 16:00 UTC (12.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 11:00 UTC (11.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 18:00 UTC (10.9K 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/gay_irl?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gay_irl has 15.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 156 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/gay_irl, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.