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A place for pictures and videos that are not the ordinary type of terrifying, but *oddly* terrifying. Founded 2013 · 2.6M members · links only

2.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 177.1K upvotes, which works out to 67 per 1,000 members.

67peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.6Mmembers
177.1Kbest post
12.1Kmost comments
570posts 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.

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Image 51% Video 38% Gallery 11% Link 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Pulled up the carpets in newly purchased house to find this

↑ 177.1K 💬 9.2K image 2022

Biblically Accurate Angel

↑ 157.2K 💬 9.1K video 2022

George Stinney. 14 years old and youngest case of execution in the U.S. He got electrocuted after he got accused of killing two white girls. The jury…

↑ 131.5K 💬 7.6K image 2022

I am currently working construction at a new Amazon fulfillment center (650,000 sq ft). This is the fourth of fifth floor. That is fog in the backgro…

↑ 129K 💬 3.8K image 2022

They are evolving

↑ 122.5K 💬 4.4K video 2021

This is true fear

↑ 120.4K 💬 4.3K image 2021

Luang Pho Yai. 109 years old Thai Buddhist monk.

↑ 116.3K 💬 7.7K video 2022

Fish who eats everything thrown at it

↑ 114.7K 💬 5.4K video 2022

Found this in my girlfriends loft. She only moved in 3 months ago and says she has never been up there. Guess what my name is...

↑ 113.5K 💬 5.8K image 2022

Why you shouldn't do Meth

↑ 113.5K 💬 1.9K image 2022

Communities its size

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r/oddlyterrifying, in numbers

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What is r/oddlyterrifying?
r/oddlyterrifying describes itself this way: A place for pictures and videos that are not the ordinary type of terrifying, but *oddly* terrifying. It was founded in 2013 and has 2.6M members.
How many members does r/oddlyterrifying have?
r/oddlyterrifying has about 2.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 570 of its posts; the biggest reached 177.1K upvotes, which is 67 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/oddlyterrifying?
"Pulled up the carpets in newly purchased house to find this" reached 177.1K upvotes and 9.2K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/oddlyterrifying.
What subreddits are similar to r/oddlyterrifying?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/oddlyterrifying?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are image posts and 38% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/oddlyterrifying?
Across 570 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (81.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 17:00 UTC (59.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (51.6K 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/oddlyterrifying?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/oddlyterrifying has 100.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 121 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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