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r/sydneyNSFW

Sydney, Australia. Links relating to the City of Sydney and NSW in general - please read our rules before posting. Founded 2008 · 789.8K members

790.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 19.2K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
790.5Kmembers
19.2Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
819posts 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.

29% 22% 20% 11% 11%
Image 29% Link 22% Text 20% Question 11% Gallery 11% Video 7%

The topics it labels

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

Image 110 Photography 72 Art 10 Connections 4 Historic 4 Videography 2 Duplicate 2 Night Thread 2 ✌️❤️ 2 Covidiocy 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

When you're anti-immigration but pro-Yum Cha

↑ 19.2K 💬 1.1K image 2025

Dan Murphy’s Bankstown - Nice Trim 😂😂😂

↑ 18.2K 💬 160 image 2024

Iconic ✌️❤️😄

↑ 17.2K 💬 606 image 2022

Came home from work to a dog on my roof

↑ 15K 💬 441 image 2026

I drew the North Sydney skyline from the Warringah Freeway in MS Paint

↑ 13.2K 💬 310 image 2017

The trolleys are returning, nature is healing

↑ 11.8K 💬 316 image 2023

Someone chopped down a tall tree to get a better view of Sydney harbour so the put up a tall sign where it once was to block the view.

↑ 11K 💬 527 image 2024

Merry Christmas everyone, annual water fight with the rural fire service!

↑ 11K 💬 176 video 2025

Saw this in Sydney Airport, thought it's quite clever

↑ 10.6K 💬 261 image 2024

Took a photo of the Sydney NY Fireworks.

↑ 10.1K 💬 114 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/sydney, in numbers

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

What is r/sydney?
r/sydney ("Sydney, Australia") describes itself this way: Links relating to the City of Sydney and NSW in general - please read our rules before posting. It was founded in 2008 and has 789.8K members.
How many members does r/sydney have?
r/sydney has about 790.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 819 of its posts; the biggest reached 19.2K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sydney?
"When you're anti-immigration but pro-Yum Cha" reached 19.2K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sydney.
What subreddits are similar to r/sydney?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/sydney?
Of the posts we hold, 29% are image posts and 22% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sydney?
Across 819 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 01:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 10:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/sydney?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sydney has 7.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 234 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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