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r/offbeat

Offbeat. (Funny/Weird/Sad News). Offbeat: funny, weird, sad, strange or quirky news that's just....just offbeat :) Founded 2008 · 792.6K members · links only

792.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 26K upvotes, which works out to 33 per 1,000 members.

33peak upvotes per 1,000 members
792.7Kmembers
26Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
501posts 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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The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

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

'Trump is a coward' now trending on ex-president's own social media network

↑ 26K 💬 1K link 2024

Walmart employees share 'there's no way' their 19-year-old co-worker locked herself in a walk-in oven and "baked to death"

↑ 22.6K 💬 1.5K link 2024

The internet has nominated the Twitter employee who shut down Trump's account for a Nobel Peace Prize

↑ 21.9K 💬 1.1K link 2017

Mom speaks out after school finds her OnlyFans account and expels her sons: 'It's body shaming and bullying'

↑ 20.5K 💬 2.1K link 2021

Luigi Mangione’s sweater sells out at Nordstrom one day after court appearance

↑ 19.8K 💬 493 link 2024

Oregon Finally Legalizes Pumping Your Own Gas After 72 Years

↑ 16.1K 💬 1.3K link 2023

Beyoncé's "Support and Empower Women" clothing range is made by women sweat shop labourers working hard on less than £ 0.44 per hour

↑ 16.1K 💬 849 link 2016

George Orwell's 1984 Is Now the #1 Bestselling Book on Amazon

↑ 15.6K 💬 790 link 2017

A man knocked down a wall in his basement. He found an abandoned underground city that was once home to 20,000 people.

↑ 15.6K 💬 848 link 2023

Joe Rogan says Trump 'doesn't have much to lose' because he is about to die soon

↑ 15.1K 💬 870 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/offbeat, in numbers

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What is r/offbeat?
r/offbeat ("Offbeat. (Funny/Weird/Sad News)") describes itself this way: Offbeat: funny, weird, sad, strange or quirky news that's just....just offbeat :). It was founded in 2008 and has 792.6K members.
How many members does r/offbeat have?
r/offbeat has about 792.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 501 of its posts; the biggest reached 26K upvotes, which is 33 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/offbeat?
"'Trump is a coward' now trending on ex-president's own social media network" reached 26K upvotes and 1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/offbeat.
What subreddits are similar to r/offbeat?
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/offbeat?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/offbeat?
Across 501 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 13:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (5.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 12:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/offbeat?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/offbeat has 11.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 44 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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