For photos that are, you know, mildy interesting. A place for things that are of slight interest, including sticks, fingers, hands and wasps. Founded 2012 · 761.6K members
768.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached
140.2K upvotes, which works out to
183 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.
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Image 80%Video 18%Text 2%Link 1%
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What is r/mildyinteresting?
r/mildyinteresting ("For photos that are, you know, mildy interesting") describes itself this way: A place for things that are of slight interest, including sticks, fingers, hands and wasps. It was founded in 2012 and has 761.6K members.
How many members does r/mildyinteresting have?
r/mildyinteresting has about 768.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 840 of its posts; the biggest reached 140.2K upvotes, which is 183 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/mildyinteresting?
"Light switches indicating what they switch on" reached 140.2K upvotes and 953 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/mildyinteresting.
What subreddits are similar to r/mildyinteresting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/mildyinteresting?
Of the posts we hold, 80% are image posts and 18% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/mildyinteresting?
Across 840 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 07:00 UTC (46.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 09:00 UTC (41.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (35.3K 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/mildyinteresting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/mildyinteresting has 66K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 349 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/mildyinteresting, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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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