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I Took a Picture: Give and get feedback on photography. A subreddit about photography techniques and styles. Post your work here to ask for critique, or browse the submissions and learn how photography techniques are achieved. Founded 2009 · 7.6M members · links only

7.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 73.3K upvotes, which works out to 10 per 1,000 members.

10peak upvotes per 1,000 members
7.6Mmembers
73.3Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
437posts 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.

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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.

ITAP of “Rush Hour” in Los Angeles during the first day of California’s shelter in place.

↑ 73.3K 💬 1K image 2020

ITAP of a turtle in a clear lake.

↑ 61.8K 💬 1.6K image 2023

ITAP of a ship

↑ 60.6K 💬 440 image 2020

ITAP of a deer

↑ 55.3K 💬 475 image 2025

ITAP of my friend

↑ 53.6K 💬 499 image 2018

ITAP of my girlfriend doing homework in NYC.

↑ 53.2K 💬 1K image 2021

ITAP of both sides of a neon sign in NYC

↑ 52.2K 💬 400 image 2021

ITAP , only one

↑ 47.4K 💬 752 image 2017

ITAP of a Seattle sunset over two hours time

↑ 46.1K 💬 275 image 2024

ITAP of a sunset and a powerline over 2 hours

↑ 46K 💬 401 image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/itookapicture, in numbers

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

What is r/itookapicture?
r/itookapicture ("I Took a Picture: Give and get feedback on photography") describes itself this way: A subreddit about photography techniques and styles. Post your work here to ask for critique, or browse the submissions and learn how photography techniques are achieved. It was founded in 2009 and has 7.6M members.
How many members does r/itookapicture have?
r/itookapicture has about 7.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 437 of its posts; the biggest reached 73.3K upvotes, which is 10 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/itookapicture?
"ITAP of “Rush Hour” in Los Angeles during the first day of California’s shelter in place." reached 73.3K upvotes and 1K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/itookapicture.
What subreddits are similar to r/itookapicture?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/itookapicture?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are image posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/itookapicture?
Across 437 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 12:00 UTC (40.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (25.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (23.8K 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/itookapicture?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/itookapicture has 36K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 33 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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