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Megalophobia: Fear of Large Things. Fear of Large Things Founded 2014 · 1.1M members · links only

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 72.9K upvotes, which works out to 63 per 1,000 members.

63peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
72.9Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
497posts 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.

46% 40% 9%
Video 46% Image 40% Gallery 9% Link 4%

The topics it labels

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

🌉・Structure・🌉 74 ⛰️・Geography・⛰️ 51 🏛️・Building・🏛️ 49 🌪️・Weather・🌪️ 46 🚢・Vehicle・🚢 40 🐳・Animal・🐳 35 😨・Other・😨 33 🗿・Statue・🗿 28 💭・Imaginary・💭 28 🪐・Space ・🪐 17

What the ceiling looks like

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

Giant tower collapses during parade in India

↑ 72.9K 💬 2.1K video 2024

The second largest known near earth asteroid-Eros.

↑ 61.2K 💬 2.7K video 2023

Boaters capture footage of an erupting Mount Stromboli

↑ 55.6K 💬 1.5K video 2025

Airplane contrails are much larger up close than they appear high in the sky

↑ 54.3K 💬 1.3K video 2025

We need more underground stuff

↑ 53.4K 💬 1.3K video 2023

This is one of the craziest lightning strikes you’ll ever see.

↑ 43.1K 💬 432 video 2025

Sunset in Arizona

↑ 42.2K 💬 318 video 2025

Driving past a 90-ton rocket crawling down the highway

↑ 42K 💬 847 video 2025

First wind-powered cargo ship...

↑ 41.9K 💬 2.8K image 2023

Banana for scale

↑ 40.2K 💬 354 video 2019

Communities its size

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

r/megalophobia, in numbers

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

What is r/megalophobia?
r/megalophobia ("Megalophobia: Fear of Large Things") describes itself this way: Fear of Large Things. It was founded in 2014 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/megalophobia have?
r/megalophobia has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 497 of its posts; the biggest reached 72.9K upvotes, which is 63 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/megalophobia?
"Giant tower collapses during parade in India" reached 72.9K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/megalophobia.
What subreddits are similar to r/megalophobia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics, r/alberta.
What kind of posts do best on r/megalophobia?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are video posts and 40% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/megalophobia?
Across 497 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (29.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 23:00 UTC (24K avg upvotes), Thursday at 18:00 UTC (20.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/megalophobia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/megalophobia has 33.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 79 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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