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London, UK. A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community. Founded 2008 · 1.6M members

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 98.1K upvotes, which works out to 62 per 1,000 members.

62peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
98.1Kbest post
6.1Kmost comments
1.1Kposts 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.

25% 22% 19% 19% 9%
Image 25% Text 22% Link 19% Question 19% Gallery 9% Video 5%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

image 187 Question 63 Local London 60 Transport 30 Ticket giveaway - FREE! 24 Serious replies only 24 Ticket giveaway - COMPLETE! 18 News 17 Tourist 15 Rant 12

What the ceiling looks like

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

More Anti Elon: Leyton High Rd Bus stop

↑ 98.1K 💬 1K image 2025

Luigi Mangione in Bethnal Green

↑ 80.2K 💬 1.2K gallery 2025

At the US Embassy

↑ 71.3K 💬 1.2K image 2025

Anti-Tesla ad on the tube.

↑ 66.7K 💬 546 image 2025

A heiling Elon Musk, with the US Presidential Seal attached to chargers at the Tesla Centre in Tottenham

↑ 64.2K 💬 2.2K video 2025

Uber driver took advantage of my friend when she was drunk

↑ 59.9K 💬 2.7K image 2024

Another beautiful day in London - Elon Musk's Tesla 'Swasticar Showroom' This Way.

↑ 52.2K 💬 908 video 2025

I spent the morning removing fascist stickers from Waterloo... what did I learn.

↑ 47K 💬 3K gallery 2025

I take pictures of London. This is how I see it. Pt 5

↑ 43.8K 💬 1.2K gallery 2024

Amazing how negative the British public can be...everyone raves about how China built a hospital in 8 days and how pathetic the UK were, fighting ove…

↑ 41.7K 💬 1.3K image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/london, in numbers

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

What is r/london?
r/london ("London, UK") describes itself this way: A sub for everyday London life and the occasional tourist that passes through. Please read the rules and be respectful to our community. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.6M members.
How many members does r/london have?
r/london has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 98.1K upvotes, which is 62 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/london?
"More Anti Elon: Leyton High Rd Bus stop" reached 98.1K upvotes and 1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/london.
What subreddits are similar to r/london?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/london?
Of the posts we hold, 25% are image posts and 22% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/london?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (19.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (11.4K 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/london?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/london has 23.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 310 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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