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r/Layoffs

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

188.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 42.6K upvotes, which works out to 226 per 1,000 members.

226peak upvotes per 1,000 members
188.7Kmembers
42.6Kbest post
3.7Kmost comments
892posts 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.

50% 26% 17%
Text 50% Link 26% Question 17% Image 6% Video 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.

news 228 recently laid off 216 advice 99 question 70 job hunting 49 about to be laid off 46 previously laid off 41 unemployment 18 resources 10 meme 8

What the ceiling looks like

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

I made $140k last year and now I work at Walmart for $15.50/hr

↑ 42.6K 💬 3.7K text 2024

8 days ago the President laid off all members of a critical aviation security advisory group, froze hiring of air traffic controllers.

↑ 21.6K 💬 59 link 2025

Elon layoffs Ramaswamy from DOGE after Ramaswamy criticizes tech companies abusing H1Bs

↑ 9.2K 💬 54 link 2025

The US software industry is at great risk, and the government must implement penalties for offshoring ASAP

↑ 8.9K 💬 1.2K text 2025

"But Twitter is better than ever after layoffs!" 84% collapse in revenue leaving Musk admitting X could face bankruptcy

↑ 6.4K 💬 551 link 2024

The biggest threat to US tech jobs isn't AI. It's 5.4M Indian engineers willing to work twice the hours

↑ 6.1K 💬 39 link 2025

Tech bros are hiring HOneBee engineers at 70k/year.

↑ 5.6K 💬 349 image 2024

Laid off today. Only US-based employees were let go

↑ 5.5K 💬 573 text 2025

My heart rate as I was being laid off yesterday

↑ 4.2K 💬 207 image 2025

Trump moves to cancel recent union agreements with federal workers

↑ 4.2K 💬 209 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Layoffs, in numbers

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

How many members does r/Layoffs have?
r/Layoffs has about 188.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 892 of its posts; the biggest reached 42.6K upvotes, which is 226 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Layoffs?
"I made $140k last year and now I work at Walmart for $15.50/hr" reached 42.6K upvotes and 3.7K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Layoffs.
What subreddits are similar to r/Layoffs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/Layoffs?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are text posts and 26% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Layoffs?
Across 892 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (5.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/Layoffs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Layoffs has 3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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