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r/Knoxville

News for Knoxville. Welcome to our Scruffy City! Be sure to use the search function and check out the Sidebar and Wiki before posting, both are open for everyone to contribute to, so help keep our little slice of the internet up to date. Founded 2008 · 107.8K members

106.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 67.7K upvotes, which works out to 633 per 1,000 members.

633peak upvotes per 1,000 members
106.9Kmembers
67.7Kbest post
6.9Kmost comments
100posts 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.

62% 27%
Image 62% Gallery 27% Text 6% Link 5%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Spotted at Kroger

↑ 67.7K 💬 6.9K image 2025

This is my Senator, Mr. Bob Corker. He sold me, my fellow Tennesseans, and this nation to the telecom lobby for the price of $43,600.

↑ 39.7K 💬 112 image 2017

South Knoxville, TN

↑ 27.1K 💬 208 image 2025

Don't let cable companies control what you do online! This website will call your congressman for you and give you a script to read.

↑ 21.6K 💬 61 link 2017

Call your local state representative if you would still like your representatives to be able to vote without threat of jail. This is TN's idea of you…

↑ 7.5K 💬 851 image 2025

Also seen in Fountain City

↑ 4K 💬 115 image 2025

This is Marsha Blackburn. Since 2012, she has received $14k from Charter, $40k from Comcast & $27k from CenturyLink. She then voted to allow ISP's to…

↑ 3.3K 💬 160 image 2018

KKK pamphlets found in North Knoxville

↑ 2.8K 💬 1.5K image 2025

My response to anyone who says “I’m thinking about moving to TN”

↑ 2.6K 💬 808 image 2024

I love this Arby's

↑ 2.5K 💬 149 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Knoxville, in numbers

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

What is r/Knoxville?
r/Knoxville ("News for Knoxville") describes itself this way: Welcome to our Scruffy City! Be sure to use the search function and check out the Sidebar and Wiki before posting, both are open for everyone to contribute to, so help keep our little slice of the internet up to date. It was founded in 2008 and has 107.8K members.
How many members does r/Knoxville have?
r/Knoxville has about 106.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 67.7K upvotes, which is 633 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Knoxville?
"Spotted at Kroger" reached 67.7K upvotes and 6.9K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Knoxville.
What subreddits are similar to r/Knoxville?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/Knoxville?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are image posts and 27% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Knoxville?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 17:00 UTC (24.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (14K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/Knoxville?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Knoxville has 1.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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