The No.1 Subreddit for Stephen King's Avid Fans!. "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." -Stephen King (obviously). This sub is for all fans of American horror author Stephen King. We discuss books, movies, and social media presence. Share your King collections and discuss your favorite or most hated of his works. Be kind, be respectful. Founded 2009 · 415.5K members
417.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached
105.8K upvotes, which works out to
253 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/stephenking?
r/stephenking ("The No.1 Subreddit for Stephen King's Avid Fans!") describes itself this way: "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." -Stephen King (obviously). This sub is for all fans of American horror author Stephen King. We discuss books, movies, and social media presence. Share your King collections and discuss your favorite or most hated of his works. Be kind, be respectful. It was founded in 2009 and has 415.5K members.
How many members does r/stephenking have?
r/stephenking has about 417.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 580 of its posts; the biggest reached 105.8K upvotes, which is 253 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/stephenking?
"King stays king." reached 105.8K upvotes and 794 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/stephenking.
What subreddits are similar to r/stephenking?
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/stephenking?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are image posts and 20% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/stephenking?
Across 580 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 03:00 UTC (35.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (12.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (11.7K 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/stephenking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/stephenking has 11.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 142 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/stephenking, 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.
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