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r/rollercoasters

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

152.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.1K upvotes, which works out to 27 per 1,000 members.

27peak upvotes per 1,000 members
152.9Kmembers
4.1Kbest post
1.8Kmost comments
705posts 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.

29% 25% 18% 12% 11%
Image 29% Gallery 25% Text 18% Video 12% Question 11% Link 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Photo/Video 149 Trip Report 136 Discussion 117 Question 60 Information 54 Construction 28 Photo 27 Art/Model/Merch 19 Article 15 Announcement 12

What the ceiling looks like

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

[Other] The man who was killed while riding Goliath has been identified. Rest in Peace Hassan Kariem.

↑ 4.1K 💬 416 image 2026

Spent over a month making this K’nex coaster in my apartment! Let me know what you guys think

↑ 3K 💬 155 video 2019

[Top Thrill Dragster] is being retired!

↑ 2.4K 💬 829 image 2022

[Kiddie coaster]’s front wheels pop off

↑ 2.2K 💬 205 video 2025

[Leviathan] at [Canada's Wonderland] has valleyed

↑ 2K 💬 285 video 2026

[Efteling] Prosthetic legs to be allowed on coasters from October, thanks to strap invented by young girl

↑ 2K 💬 83 video 2026

[dollywood] Dolly Parton has passed away

↑ 1.9K 💬 184 image 2026

11 yr old gets out of boat and falls down [Tiana's Bayou Adventure] at [Disneyland]

↑ 1.8K 💬 304 video 2026

POV -Custom Model Roller Coaster Built In My Bedroom!

↑ 1.8K 💬 133 video 2020

Northern Lights over [Cedar Point]

↑ 1.8K 💬 33 gallery 2024

Communities its size

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

r/rollercoasters, in numbers

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

How many members does r/rollercoasters have?
r/rollercoasters has about 152.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 705 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.1K upvotes, which is 27 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/rollercoasters?
"[Other] The man who was killed while riding Goliath has been identified. Rest in Peace Hassan Kariem." reached 4.1K upvotes and 416 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/rollercoasters.
What subreddits are similar to r/rollercoasters?
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/rollercoasters?
Of the posts we hold, 29% are image posts and 25% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/rollercoasters?
Across 705 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (846 avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (753 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/rollercoasters?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/rollercoasters has 1.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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