Reddit's license plate enthusiast community!. A subreddit dedicated to license plate collecting, spotting, and general discussion. Founded 2008 · 170.2K members
173.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached
25.7K upvotes, which works out to
148 per 1,000 members.
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.
97%
Image 97%Gallery 2%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
In the wild 359Help Me Decode! 28What is this plate? 10My plate! 9General discussion 6Plate news 3Collection showcase 3Illegible 3
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/LICENSEPLATES?
r/LICENSEPLATES ("Reddit's license plate enthusiast community!") describes itself this way: A subreddit dedicated to license plate collecting, spotting, and general discussion. It was founded in 2008 and has 170.2K members.
How many members does r/LICENSEPLATES have?
r/LICENSEPLATES has about 173.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 421 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.7K upvotes, which is 148 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/LICENSEPLATES?
"My Gay plate just showed up here. Figured I’d say hello!" reached 25.7K upvotes and 946 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/LICENSEPLATES.
What subreddits are similar to r/LICENSEPLATES?
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/LICENSEPLATES?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are image posts and 2% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/LICENSEPLATES?
Across 421 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (8.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 21:00 UTC (7.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (7.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/LICENSEPLATES?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/LICENSEPLATES has 11.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 174 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/LICENSEPLATES, 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.
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