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r/MilitaryNSFW

The largest military subreddit on reddit. Founded 2008 · 557.2K members

555.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 61.5K upvotes, which works out to 111 per 1,000 members.

111peak upvotes per 1,000 members
555.1Kmembers
61.5Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
100posts 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.

80% 12%
Image 80% Video 12% Link 6% Gallery 1% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

MEME 24 MEME /r/all 15 Satire 10 Video 7 Discussion 6 Pic 4 MISC /r/all 4 Story\Experience /r/all 3 Satire /r/all 2 Article /r/all 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Footage of British and American volunteers in Ukraine striking a Russian BTR

↑ 61.5K 💬 3.1K video 2022

James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution

↑ 53.1K 💬 1.7K link 2020

Came across this.

↑ 50.4K 💬 1.2K image 2017

"legally the porn actress can quit"

↑ 39.1K 💬 1.5K image 2017

It didn’t sink, it was promoted to submarine

↑ 34.2K 💬 474 image 2022

You know, to avoid confusion

↑ 30.6K 💬 497 image 2022

Oh hey! Thats Akhmed! I know him from work!

↑ 29.8K 💬 549 image 2022

I am not a smart man.

↑ 28.7K 💬 382 image 2023

In 1978, 11 years old, I submitted missile designs to the Pentagon. They wrote back!

↑ 27.5K 💬 831 image 2018

We are now officially three weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine

↑ 25.6K 💬 1.8K image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/Military, in numbers

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

What is r/Military?
r/Military describes itself this way: The largest military subreddit on reddit. It was founded in 2008 and has 557.2K members.
How many members does r/Military have?
r/Military has about 555.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 61.5K upvotes, which is 111 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Military?
"Footage of British and American volunteers in Ukraine striking a Russian BTR" reached 61.5K upvotes and 3.1K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Military.
What subreddits are similar to r/Military?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/complaints.
What kind of posts do best on r/Military?
Of the posts we hold, 80% are image posts and 12% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Military?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (24K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (11.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/Military?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Military has 14.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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