← All communities
Reddit community

r/historyNSFW

18.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 53.8K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
18.7Mmembers
53.8Kbest post
6.4Kmost comments
990posts we track

Open r/history on Reddit ↗

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.

65% 19% 10%
Link 65% Text 19% Question 10% Video 6%

What the ceiling looks like

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

New "Discovery Mode" turns video game "Assassin's Creed: Origins" into a fully narrated, interactive guided tour through a detailed recreation of Pto…

↑ 53.8K 💬 676 link 2018

We are not here to help you with your End of Term papers.

↑ 38.4K 💬 0 text 2018

A 1776 excerpt from John Adam's diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they ha…

↑ 36K 💬 556 link 2018

Famous Viking warrior burial revealed to be that of a woman

↑ 34.9K 💬 441 link 2017

3,000-year-old underwater castle discovered in Turkey's largest lake

↑ 34.2K 💬 920 link 2017

Researchers built a database from 4000 year old clay tablets, plugged it into an economic trade model, and pinpointed 11 potential lost cities

↑ 34.1K 💬 929 link 2017

My Jewish-American grandfather guarded Nazis in WW2 France. After the war, one his prisoners sent him this illustrated book of his time in the camp.

↑ 33.5K 💬 1.7K text 2017

/r/history is closing down for the next 24 hours in response to current events and reddit's response as a platform

↑ 32.9K 💬 1 text 2020

700-year-old Knights Templar cave discovered in England

↑ 32.2K 💬 897 link 2017

The "Harlem Hellfighters" were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a tr…

↑ 31.5K 💬 438 video 2017

Communities its size

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

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.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/history, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.