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PlayStation5 • Community. A subreddit for [ALMOST] anything PlayStation 5 related Founded 2013 · 155.4K members

155K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.6K upvotes, which works out to 94 per 1,000 members.

94peak upvotes per 1,000 members
155Kmembers
14.6Kbest post
2.9Kmost comments
105posts 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.

76% 11%
Image 76% Gallery 11% Text 7% 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.

SCREENSHOT / PHOTO 65 MEME 12 NEWS 12 DISCUSSION 7 CONCEPT ART / FAN MADE 4 VIDEO / GAMEPLAY 3 Required by EU GDPR Storage Limitation Principle 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I don’t have a PS5 yet but I tell people my air purifier is a PS5 Extreme

↑ 14.6K 💬 242 image 2025

Please don’t take away the new themes

↑ 8.6K 💬 352 image 2024

Merry Christmas to me & my happily single life

↑ 8.3K 💬 575 image 2025

Genuinely, thank you Sony.

↑ 8.1K 💬 1.2K text 2026

Just got my PS5 guys

↑ 7.8K 💬 542 gallery 2025

You should boycott Sony NOW.

↑ 7.4K 💬 2.2K text 2026

This is why PlayStation wants to destroy physical media.

↑ 7.1K 💬 997 image 2026

DEAR PLAYSTATION we are the loyal fans talking

↑ 7K 💬 1.3K image 2026

This is the perfect message to SONY

↑ 6.6K 💬 771 image 2026

“Cancelling your subscription doesn’t hurt Sony. You look stupid…”

↑ 6.4K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/playstation5, in numbers

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

What is r/playstation5?
r/playstation5 ("PlayStation5 • Community") describes itself this way: A subreddit for [ALMOST] anything PlayStation 5 related. It was founded in 2013 and has 155.4K members.
How many members does r/playstation5 have?
r/playstation5 has about 155K members. ViralHunt has tracked 105 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.6K upvotes, which is 94 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/playstation5?
"I don’t have a PS5 yet but I tell people my air purifier is a PS5 Extreme" reached 14.6K upvotes and 242 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/playstation5.
What subreddits are similar to r/playstation5?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/playstation5?
Of the posts we hold, 76% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/playstation5?
Across 105 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 22:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 20:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 20:00 UTC (3.5K 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/playstation5?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/playstation5 has 5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/playstation5, 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.