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r/Michigan

A heavily moderated midwest friendly subreddit dedicated to the latest news and happenings in the great state of Michigan. Please adhere to our rules & Reddit's sitewide rules when generating content for this subreddit. Founded 2008 · 511.2K members

512.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.9K upvotes, which works out to 99 per 1,000 members.

99peak upvotes per 1,000 members
512.3Kmembers
50.9Kbest post
4.3Kmost comments
518posts 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.

37% 28% 15% 13% 8%
Link 37% Image 28% Gallery 15% Text 13% Question 8%

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 📰🗞️ 89 Discussion 🗣️ 79 Photography/Art 📸🎨 73 Mitten Mode 35 News 23 Weather 🌤️⛈️⚡️🌈 16 Events🎉🥳 12 Picture 12 Humor/Satire 🤣🤪 10 Politics 🇺🇸 8

What the ceiling looks like

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

This is Mike Bishop, he sold us out for $40,500. Let him know that us Michiganders don't tolerate this kind of stuff.

↑ 50.9K 💬 410 image 2017

This is congressman Jack Bergman. He sold out to the telecom companies for $21k... He is a Marine and is screwing over the country he bravely fought …

↑ 48.4K 💬 403 image 2017

No Kings Grand Rapids!

↑ 47.9K 💬 287 image 2025

It’s a strange day. I voted Democrat as a conservative.

↑ 44.1K 💬 649 text 2024

As seen in Flint...

↑ 29.7K 💬 201 image 2026

Pure Michigan

↑ 29.6K 💬 763 image 2018

This election is so wasteful

↑ 28.4K 💬 1.6K image 2024

University Of Michigan Defies Trump By Refusing To Release Immigration Status Of Students

↑ 28.4K 💬 1.4K link 2017

Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident

↑ 27.1K 💬 367 link 2026

Michigan judge refuses to resign for saying Charlie Kirk died for his 'beliefs'

↑ 26.9K 💬 1.1K link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Michigan, in numbers

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

What is r/Michigan?
r/Michigan describes itself this way: A heavily moderated midwest friendly subreddit dedicated to the latest news and happenings in the great state of Michigan. Please adhere to our rules & Reddit's sitewide rules when generating content for this subreddit. It was founded in 2008 and has 511.2K members.
How many members does r/Michigan have?
r/Michigan has about 512.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 518 of its posts; the biggest reached 50.9K upvotes, which is 99 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Michigan?
"This is Mike Bishop, he sold us out for $40,500. Let him know that us Michiganders don't tolerate this kind of stuff." reached 50.9K upvotes and 410 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Michigan.
What subreddits are similar to r/Michigan?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow.
What kind of posts do best on r/Michigan?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are link posts and 28% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Michigan?
Across 518 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 15:00 UTC (20.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (10K avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (10K 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/Michigan?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Michigan has 13.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 29 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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