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r/philadelphiaNSFW

News and happenings in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded 2008 · 602.2K members

603.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 69K upvotes, which works out to 114 per 1,000 members.

114peak upvotes per 1,000 members
603.2Kmembers
69Kbest post
12.9Kmost comments
828posts 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.

32% 25% 19% 11% 8%
Link 32% Image 25% Text 19% Question 11% Gallery 8% Video 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question? :snoo_thoughtful: 133 News 114 Photo of the Day :libertybell: 86 Events :phanatic: 38 Serious :snoo: 35 Politics 31 Crime Post 31 Local Business 27 Party Jawn :phanatic: 26 Urban Development/Construction 26

What the ceiling looks like

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

Trump leaves Super Bowl early after backing the losing team

↑ 69K 💬 3.6K link 2025

Pat Toomey is still a scumbag. He sold out Net Neutrality for chump change.

↑ 54.7K 💬 708 image 2017

Go birds 🦅 Fuck Trump

↑ 36.6K 💬 942 image 2025

New signage in KOP

↑ 36.2K 💬 635 image 2025

Robert M., one of hundreds of Philadelphia IRS workers laid off this week, previously supported President Trump. "I thought that someone with, like, …

↑ 36K 💬 12.9K video 2025

There's a bus stop directly outside my window so I turned an old sports clock into an internet connected display to let people know when the next bus…

↑ 32.2K 💬 406 image 2024

AJ Brown visits Andre Howard in hospital, 10 year old boy who was in a coma after shielding his sister at the plane crash in NE and asked if he misse…

↑ 30.2K 💬 363 image 2025

Proud of my city tonight

↑ 26.7K 💬 584 image 2026

Should r/philadelphia ban X/Twitter Links?

↑ 23.6K 💬 973 question 2025

We needed this win. Fuck fascism.

↑ 18.1K 💬 905 text 2025

Communities its size

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

r/philadelphia, in numbers

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

What is r/philadelphia?
r/philadelphia describes itself this way: News and happenings in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 2008 and has 602.2K members.
How many members does r/philadelphia have?
r/philadelphia has about 603.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 828 of its posts; the biggest reached 69K upvotes, which is 114 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/philadelphia?
"Trump leaves Super Bowl early after backing the losing team" reached 69K upvotes and 3.6K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/philadelphia.
What subreddits are similar to r/philadelphia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/WomenInNews.
What kind of posts do best on r/philadelphia?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are link posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/philadelphia?
Across 828 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 14:00 UTC (10.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 02:00 UTC (9.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 17:00 UTC (7.5K 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/philadelphia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/philadelphia has 12.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 253 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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