This community is for the sole purpose of powerscaling and debating characters from fictional media. Read the Subreddit Guidelines and Rules before posting Founded 2019 · 269.5K members
273.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached
48.2K upvotes, which works out to
176 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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/PowerScaling?
r/PowerScaling describes itself this way: This community is for the sole purpose of powerscaling and debating characters from fictional media. Read the Subreddit Guidelines and Rules before posting. It was founded in 2019 and has 269.5K members.
How many members does r/PowerScaling have?
r/PowerScaling has about 273.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 747 of its posts; the biggest reached 48.2K upvotes, which is 176 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PowerScaling?
"Is this true?" reached 48.2K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PowerScaling.
What subreddits are similar to r/PowerScaling?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/PowerScaling?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 37% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PowerScaling?
Across 747 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 13:00 UTC (21.3K avg upvotes), Saturday at 01:00 UTC (17.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (15.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/PowerScaling?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PowerScaling has 15.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 324 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/PowerScaling, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.