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r/OldPhotosInRealLife

Old Photos In Real Life. Comparing past and present locations through photography. Founded 2016 · 879.9K members

881.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 81.7K upvotes, which works out to 93 per 1,000 members.

93peak upvotes per 1,000 members
881.1Kmembers
81.7Kbest post
1.8Kmost comments
406posts 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 68% Gallery 28% Link 3% 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.

Rio de Janeiro's reforestation

↑ 81.7K 💬 1.8K gallery 2023

Craftsmanship

↑ 70.6K 💬 1.7K image 2021

My hometown Kharkov in Ukraine 2022-2022

↑ 50.8K 💬 172 gallery 2022

My girlfriend sent me this and it made me think of this sub

↑ 40.3K 💬 455 image 2021

Borodyanka, Ukraine – before the war and today

↑ 39.1K 💬 97 image 2022

Chichen Itza 1892 and now

↑ 38.8K 💬 696 image 2020

Today I got to fly in my grandfathers restored WW2 Hurricane!

↑ 38.4K 💬 387 image 2022

The Curecanti Needle, Black Canyon, Colorado, 1880s vs 2023

↑ 35.5K 💬 426 image 2023

Usually it’s the other way around, but this is so nice!

↑ 30.6K 💬 525 image 2023

Kabul, Afghanistan. 1967 vs 2007. The first photo shows what Afghan life was like before the Taliban takeover.

↑ 29.4K 💬 1.1K image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/OldPhotosInRealLife, in numbers

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

What is r/OldPhotosInRealLife?
r/OldPhotosInRealLife ("Old Photos In Real Life") describes itself this way: Comparing past and present locations through photography. It was founded in 2016 and has 879.9K members.
How many members does r/OldPhotosInRealLife have?
r/OldPhotosInRealLife has about 881.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 81.7K upvotes, which is 93 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/OldPhotosInRealLife?
"Rio de Janeiro's reforestation" reached 81.7K upvotes and 1.8K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/OldPhotosInRealLife.
What subreddits are similar to r/OldPhotosInRealLife?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/OldPhotosInRealLife?
Of the posts we hold, 68% are image posts and 28% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/OldPhotosInRealLife?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 21:00 UTC (35.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (24.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (19.4K 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/OldPhotosInRealLife?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/OldPhotosInRealLife has 21.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 12 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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