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r/rva

Richmond, VA. News, events, and goings-on in and around the Richmond, VA metro area known as RVA. And the well traveled cat that is back at Lowes. And opossums. Founded 2008 · 213.5K members

214.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 21.6K upvotes, which works out to 101 per 1,000 members.

101peak upvotes per 1,000 members
214.2Kmembers
21.6Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
410posts 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.

28% 25% 17% 14% 12%
Image 28% Text 25% Link 17% Question 14% Gallery 12% Video 5%

The topics it labels

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

🐕 Dog Army 11 ✊ Protest 10 🍰 Food 10 🌞 Daily Thread 10 😡 Heated/Controversial 9 😻 Francine 9 🤳 Tourist 3 🐦‍⬛ Birb 3 💸 Jobs 3 🚚 Moving 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia’s Governor Race!

↑ 21.6K 💬 331 image 2025

Should we ban "X" Links?

↑ 11.8K 💬 390 image 2025

Absolutely gutted about this

↑ 7.6K 💬 371 image 2025

She did it! We have our first female governor yall :)

↑ 7.4K 💬 565 image 2026

The Revolution has come to Richmond!

↑ 7.2K 💬 220 video 2025

Hey hey ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go!

↑ 6.1K 💬 274 gallery 2025

She's back at work ladies and gents

↑ 5.3K 💬 169 gallery 2025

There are so many protesters at Hanover Courthouse the roads are backed up for miles.

↑ 4.7K 💬 261 image 2026

Richmond, VA today. Deafening boos as VA governor exits a Patrick Henry Reenactment

↑ 4.7K 💬 254 video 2025

The Hanover county resistance exists!

↑ 4.6K 💬 245 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/rva, in numbers

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

What is r/rva?
r/rva ("Richmond, VA") describes itself this way: News, events, and goings-on in and around the Richmond, VA metro area known as RVA. And the well traveled cat that is back at Lowes. And opossums. It was founded in 2008 and has 213.5K members.
How many members does r/rva have?
r/rva has about 214.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 410 of its posts; the biggest reached 21.6K upvotes, which is 101 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/rva?
"Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia’s Governor Race!" reached 21.6K upvotes and 331 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/rva.
What subreddits are similar to r/rva?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska.
What kind of posts do best on r/rva?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/rva?
Across 410 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 17:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/rva?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/rva has 3.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 98 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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