Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ. ⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements. Founded 2008 · 3M members
3M members. The best post we have captured here reached
53.4K upvotes, which works out to
18 per 1,000 members.
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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Text 33%Question 31%Image 27%Gallery 3%Video 3%Link 3%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/Piracy?
r/Piracy ("Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ") describes itself this way: ⚓ Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy, including ethical problems and legal advancements. It was founded in 2008 and has 3M members.
How many members does r/Piracy have?
r/Piracy has about 3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 53.4K upvotes, which is 18 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Piracy?
"real?" reached 53.4K upvotes and 643 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Piracy.
What subreddits are similar to r/Piracy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/Piracy?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are text posts and 31% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Piracy?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 01:00 UTC (21.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (16.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 08:00 UTC (15.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/Piracy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Piracy has 30.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 338 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Piracy, 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.