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r/ParasitologyNSFW

A community for anyone interested in the things that live on and in you. Founded 2010 · 76.6K members

76.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.2K upvotes, which works out to 238 per 1,000 members.

238peak upvotes per 1,000 members
76.3Kmembers
18.2Kbest post
2.4Kmost 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.

36% 35% 19%
Image 36% Video 35% Gallery 19% Text 7% Question 2% 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.

parasite photo 3 Question 2 Meme/Humor 2 Mod post 1 parasite video 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Found this walking near my groin, what is this?

↑ 18.2K 💬 2.1K image 2025

Anisakis-infested cod liver

↑ 7.2K 💬 698 video 2024

Tick found on my dog. What type ? Should I be worried ?

↑ 6.4K 💬 657 gallery 2024

Why do people in the United States not deworm themselves?

↑ 6.3K 💬 2.4K question 2025

Is it usual for a tick to go this deep in the skin?

↑ 5.6K 💬 562 image 2024

Found on my porch after heavy rain. Parasite?

↑ 5.2K 💬 356 gallery 2024

The parasite living inside of this praying mantis is gnarly

↑ 3.4K 💬 384 video 2024

Found in my salmon

↑ 3.4K 💬 428 gallery 2024

Praying Mantis lowered into water to entice out the parasite within

↑ 3.1K 💬 274 video 2024

Found on the ears of a cat. They were very small, anyone knows what they are?

↑ 2.8K 💬 249 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Parasitology, in numbers

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

What is r/Parasitology?
r/Parasitology describes itself this way: A community for anyone interested in the things that live on and in you. It was founded in 2010 and has 76.6K members.
How many members does r/Parasitology have?
r/Parasitology has about 76.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.2K upvotes, which is 238 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Parasitology?
"Found this walking near my groin, what is this?" reached 18.2K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Parasitology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Parasitology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Parasitology?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are image posts and 35% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Parasitology?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 19:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 20:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/Parasitology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Parasitology has 1.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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