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/r/PublicFreakout. A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public. Founded 2013 · 4.9M members · links only

4.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 299.7K upvotes, which works out to 62 per 1,000 members.

62peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.9Mmembers
299.7Kbest post
16.9Kmost comments
1Kposts 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.

99%
Video 99% Link 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.

🥊Fight 🤬 106 😫Chaos Moment🫨 97 🤬Public Rager😱 72 :snoo_tableflip::table_flip: Political Freakout :snoo_facepalm: 63 🗣📢Protest Freakout 42 ☠NSFL☠ 37 🥸Weirdo Freakout🥸 35 👮Arrest Freakout😭 35 🚗Road Rage🤬 34 🤷‍♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟‍♀️ 31

What the ceiling looks like

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

"Everybody's trying to shame us"

↑ 299.7K 💬 16.6K video 2020

She just got hired

↑ 231.6K 💬 2.4K video 2020

They secluded him behind a wall and looked around to see if anyone was watching so they can beat him... this is why we protest

↑ 230.4K 💬 8.4K video 2020

This woman from Myanmar was recording her aerobics class. Unbeknownst to her, she records the military Junta arriving to the parliament for a coup d'…

↑ 219.5K 💬 6.4K video 2021

Man who sucker punched 12-year-old boy just got sentenced to 7 years in prison.

↑ 200.8K 💬 14.6K video 2021

Cops shoot at window of guy recording in Louisville, Kentucky

↑ 185.1K 💬 6.7K video 2020

Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen pranked a bunch of racists by telling them a mosque was going to be built in their town?

↑ 184.5K 💬 8.4K video 2021

A farmer in Nebraska asking a pro-fracking committee member to honor his word of drinking water from a fracking location

↑ 173.3K 💬 4.1K video 2020

Dude throws rocks at car, instantly regrets it

↑ 172.3K 💬 5.3K video 2020

Fox News anchor doesn't realize she's live on air when a guest refuses to admit Joe Biden won the presidency

↑ 171.6K 💬 7.5K video 2020

Communities its size

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

r/PublicFreakout, in numbers

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

What is r/PublicFreakout?
r/PublicFreakout ("/r/PublicFreakout") describes itself this way: A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public. It was founded in 2013 and has 4.9M members.
How many members does r/PublicFreakout have?
r/PublicFreakout has about 4.9M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1K of its posts; the biggest reached 299.7K upvotes, which is 62 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/PublicFreakout?
""Everybody's trying to shame us"" reached 299.7K upvotes and 16.6K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/PublicFreakout.
What subreddits are similar to r/PublicFreakout?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/PublicFreakout?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are video posts and 1% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/PublicFreakout?
Across 1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 04:00 UTC (78K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (55.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (55K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/PublicFreakout?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/PublicFreakout has 151.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 368 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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