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Signs found in the world that you don't want to be near!. Signs that stop you in your tracks Founded 2014 · 439.5K members · links only

438.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 39.1K upvotes, which works out to 89 per 1,000 members.

89peak upvotes per 1,000 members
438.8Kmembers
39.1Kbest post
698most comments
101posts 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Scary-sad, but comforting to know you can be safe.

↑ 39.1K 💬 548 image 2020

Don’t Do Meth

↑ 17.8K 💬 281 image 2018

The scary part is that they must get a lot of people asking for them

↑ 16.7K 💬 698 image 2020

Trailhead in Tennessee

↑ 16.3K 💬 190 image 2020

Road sign I found in Texas

↑ 15.7K 💬 183 image 2019

Percy Preist Lake in Nashville, TN

↑ 14.9K 💬 251 image 2020

Something about this unsettles me

↑ 14.3K 💬 237 image 2020

Took this picture a few years ago in near the border

↑ 13.6K 💬 340 image 2020

Fight back

↑ 12.6K 💬 279 image 2021

Umm

↑ 12.5K 💬 54 image 2019

Communities its size

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

r/ScarySigns, in numbers

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

What is r/ScarySigns?
r/ScarySigns ("Signs found in the world that you don't want to be near!") describes itself this way: Signs that stop you in your tracks. It was founded in 2014 and has 439.5K members.
How many members does r/ScarySigns have?
r/ScarySigns has about 438.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 101 of its posts; the biggest reached 39.1K upvotes, which is 89 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ScarySigns?
"Scary-sad, but comforting to know you can be safe." reached 39.1K upvotes and 548 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ScarySigns.
What subreddits are similar to r/ScarySigns?
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/ScarySigns?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ScarySigns?
Across 101 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 20:00 UTC (12.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 01:00 UTC (9.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (9.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/ScarySigns?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ScarySigns has 10.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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