← All communities
Reddit community

r/sharksNSFW

Sharks are awesome!. Sharks are amazing, important, and often misunderstood animals. We welcome enthusiasts, experts, and curious minds to dive in and explore the fascinating world of sharks! Founded 2010 · 277.4K members

278.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.2K upvotes, which works out to 51 per 1,000 members.

51peak upvotes per 1,000 members
278.1Kmembers
14.2Kbest post
1.1Kmost comments
106posts we track

Open r/sharks on Reddit ↗

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.

71% 26%
Video 71% Image 26% Gallery 3%

The topics it labels

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

Video 56 Image 13 Meme 6 Question 6 Arts & Crafts 5 News 3 Education 2 Discussion 2 Research 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

14ft Tiger Shark in Waianae Boat Harbour

↑ 14.2K 💬 308 video 2025

Humans rescue a shark in Florida

↑ 12.2K 💬 170 video 2023

[Not My Video] Shark Spotted - Bournemouth UK (Anyone ID?)

↑ 8.2K 💬 1.1K video 2024

Why is this kinda true tho…

↑ 8K 💬 50 image 2024

5M long pregnant great white in Bali

↑ 8K 💬 168 video 2025

I'm obsessed with this tattoo.

↑ 7.3K 💬 59 image 2025

Robert Irwin after he swam with a Great White Shark for the first time

↑ 6.9K 💬 113 video 2023

Feeding frenzy

↑ 6.8K 💬 297 video 2023

*HA! Made you flinch*

↑ 6.7K 💬 78 video 2023

My first hammerhead. San Pedro, Belize

↑ 6.6K 💬 140 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/sharks, in numbers

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

What is r/sharks?
r/sharks ("Sharks are awesome!") describes itself this way: Sharks are amazing, important, and often misunderstood animals. We welcome enthusiasts, experts, and curious minds to dive in and explore the fascinating world of sharks. It was founded in 2010 and has 277.4K members.
How many members does r/sharks have?
r/sharks has about 278.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 106 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.2K upvotes, which is 51 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sharks?
"14ft Tiger Shark in Waianae Boat Harbour" reached 14.2K upvotes and 308 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sharks.
What subreddits are similar to r/sharks?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/sharks?
Of the posts we hold, 71% are video posts and 26% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sharks?
Across 106 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 18:00 UTC (4.1K 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/sharks?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sharks has 5.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 3 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

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