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r/nostalgia

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 23.2K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.

14peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
23.2Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
167posts 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.

66% 19% 11%
Image 66% Video 19% Gallery 11% Link 4% 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Me on my 10th birthday reacting to getting a TV with a VCR & DVD player built in

↑ 23.2K πŸ’¬ 1.1K image 2026

Came across a Zoobooks kiosk out side of Rocky Mountain National Park!

↑ 9.2K πŸ’¬ 83 gallery 2026

Who remember Shark Bites?

↑ 5.8K πŸ’¬ 123 image 2026

A picture of my brother in his room in the early 90s

↑ 3.7K πŸ’¬ 183 image 2026

I always loved the taste of Amoxicillin

↑ 3.3K πŸ’¬ 338 image 2026

Remember lining up in bookstores at midnight for new Harry Potter books?

↑ 3.2K πŸ’¬ 212 image 2026

Jurassic Park, RIP Sam Neill

↑ 3.1K πŸ’¬ 54 image 2026

Hello I'm a Mac and I'm a PC commercial.

↑ 2.9K πŸ’¬ 184 image 2026

I would give anything to have the smells back

↑ 2.2K πŸ’¬ 177 video 2026

Remember when movie theaters had personalities?

↑ 2.2K πŸ’¬ 85 link 2026

Communities its size

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

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/nostalgia, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.