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r/orcas

77.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6K upvotes, which works out to 78 per 1,000 members.

78peak upvotes per 1,000 members
77.1Kmembers
6Kbest post
188most 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.

47% 27% 24%
Video 47% Image 27% Gallery 24% Text 1% Link 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.

Video 14 Photo 8 Wild Orcas 8 Sightings 7 News 4 Art 4 Memes 2 Discussion 1 Education 1 Captive Orcas 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

1-year-old orca calf breaches and spins repeatedly

↑ 6K πŸ’¬ 61 video 2024

Patagonian orcas surfing the waves off of Argentina

↑ 5.3K πŸ’¬ 39 gallery 2026

Beautiful interaction

↑ 5K πŸ’¬ 75 image 2024

A very rarely documented birth of an orca calf off of Norway

↑ 4.6K πŸ’¬ 49 gallery 2025

2 mother and calf orca pairs check out an underwater photographer off of Baja California Sur in Mexico

↑ 4.5K πŸ’¬ 59 gallery 2025

JACK

↑ 4.5K πŸ’¬ 89 video 2025

This is Sophia, a 60-year-old grandmother killer whale, and this is the first time anyone's witnessed a single orca killing a great white shark.

↑ 3.6K πŸ’¬ 67 video 2024

A new calf has been spotted in J Pod (amongst the J16s)

↑ 3.6K πŸ’¬ 62 gallery 2025

Saw my first orca in the wild on 7/15!

↑ 3.5K πŸ’¬ 123 video 2024

Just orcas being silly lil guys

↑ 3.5K πŸ’¬ 28 video 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/orcas, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.