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r/superman

Look Up. Clark Kent. Kal-El. The Man of Steel. The Last Son of Krypton. A place to discuss Superman and all things Superman related. Founded 2009 · 297.4K members

299K members. The best post we have captured here reached 31K upvotes, which works out to 104 per 1,000 members.

104peak upvotes per 1,000 members
299Kmembers
31Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
412posts 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.

51% 26% 8%
Image 51% Gallery 26% Video 8% Text 7% Question 7% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Weekly 2 The post that started it all 1 "Super Friends" Only 1 Poll 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Henry Cavill announced on Instagram he won’t be returning as Superman

↑ 31K 💬 2.4K image 2022

This scene still lives rent free in my head. THIS is Lex Luthor. They finally did him justice in Live Action.

↑ 23.1K 💬 728 image 2025

Everyone knows the famous picture of Superman over earth, but do you know the full context:

↑ 21.2K 💬 581 gallery 2024

She deserved better imo

↑ 18.5K 💬 928 gallery 2025

Pspspspspspspsp

↑ 15.7K 💬 95 image 2024

I didn't write this, but I 100% agree with it and feel it's what makes Superman so special.

↑ 15.2K 💬 132 image 2025

God this makes me feel terrible for Henry Cavill.

↑ 14.4K 💬 989 image 2025

They removed the eye flinch

↑ 13.7K 💬 581 video 2025

"Fuck this shit, i'm out!"

↑ 13.5K 💬 189 image 2025

The fact is This article was written by clark kent 🥹

↑ 13.1K 💬 287 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/superman, in numbers

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

What is r/superman?
r/superman ("Look Up") describes itself this way: Clark Kent. Kal-El. The Man of Steel. The Last Son of Krypton. A place to discuss Superman and all things Superman related. It was founded in 2009 and has 297.4K members.
How many members does r/superman have?
r/superman has about 299K members. ViralHunt has tracked 412 of its posts; the biggest reached 31K upvotes, which is 104 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/superman?
"Henry Cavill announced on Instagram he won’t be returning as Superman" reached 31K upvotes and 2.4K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/superman.
What subreddits are similar to r/superman?
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/superman?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are image posts and 26% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/superman?
Across 412 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (9.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (8.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (7.9K 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/superman?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/superman has 10.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 187 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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