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r/PrepperIntel

Intelligence reports from preppers around the world. Founded 2020 · 396.1K members

396.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 87.9K upvotes, which works out to 222 per 1,000 members.

222peak upvotes per 1,000 members
396.5Kmembers
87.9Kbest post
9.2Kmost comments
400posts 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.

58% 16% 12% 9%
Link 58% Text 16% Image 12% Video 9% Question 4% Gallery 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.

North America 196 Europe 30 USA Midwest 26 Middle East 25 Asia 15 Intel Request 15 USA West / Canada West 13 Russia 12 USA Northeast / Canada East 11 USA Southwest / Mexico 9

What the ceiling looks like

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

PhD student detained by ICE wearing plain clothes and face masks

↑ 87.9K 💬 9.2K video 2025

"You're gambling with World War 3."

↑ 35.2K 💬 5.6K video 2025

Trump aiming to denuclearize the US as Russia is "not a threat to America"

↑ 31.1K 💬 3.4K text 2025

Zelensky Asked on Fox News if He Can Salvage Relationship with Trump

↑ 26K 💬 1.1K video 2025

NATIONAL GUARD WILL BE DEPLOYED TO 19 US STATES

↑ 17.3K 💬 3K link 2025

After Just 3 Months, China's Alleged 'Taiwan Invasion Barges' Are Complete and Undergoing Tests – First Leaked Local Images

↑ 16.2K 💬 2.7K gallery 2025

POTUS: Declaring “National Emergency on Electricity”, increasing Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs from 25% to 50%, increasing Canadian automobile …

↑ 15.7K 💬 5.2K gallery 2025

FYI Michigan and NY

↑ 15.2K 💬 3.6K image 2025

Be aware: ALL countries getting tariffs, per Trump.

↑ 14.3K 💬 1.7K video 2025

Haven’t seen reporters wearing gas masks since Trump 1.0

↑ 13.8K 💬 268 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/PrepperIntel, in numbers

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

What is r/PrepperIntel?
r/PrepperIntel describes itself this way: Intelligence reports from preppers around the world. It was founded in 2020 and has 396.1K members.
How many members does r/PrepperIntel have?
r/PrepperIntel has about 396.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 400 of its posts; the biggest reached 87.9K upvotes, which is 222 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PrepperIntel?
"PhD student detained by ICE wearing plain clothes and face masks" reached 87.9K upvotes and 9.2K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PrepperIntel.
What subreddits are similar to r/PrepperIntel?
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/PrepperIntel?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are link posts and 16% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PrepperIntel?
Across 400 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 18:00 UTC (13.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 04:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/PrepperIntel?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PrepperIntel has 9.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 43 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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