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r/TechGawker

Tech Gawker covers the meltdowns, lawsuits, fake demos, layoffs, and public implosions shaping the tech world. We post timeline breakdowns, legal docs, leaked threads, and the receipts behind the headlines. Just smart people watching the system glitch in real time. Founded 2025 · 52.2K members

54.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.2K upvotes, which works out to 921 per 1,000 members.

921peak upvotes per 1,000 members
54.6Kmembers
50.2Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
395posts 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.

44% 35% 17%
Image 44% Video 35% Link 17% Question 2% Gallery 1% Text 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.

News 169 Discussion 80 Data Center 35 Video 26 Image 17 Latest Tech 9 Lawsuit 7 Layoffs 5 Founder Drama 3 Leaks 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Congratulations, your road trip now has a searchable police history

↑ 50.2K 💬 799 image 2026

Flock CEO Garrett Langley thinks you don’t deserve the right to privacy. He also has opted to blur his house in Google Maps, because he thinks he des…

↑ 49.6K 💬 495 image 2026

This is what happens when people come together

↑ 32.6K 💬 370 image 2026

Nothing says responsible surveillance like reportedly checking where your ex is driving

↑ 32.2K 💬 695 image 2026

The city of Tempe, Arizona, has officially disabled all Flock cameras and ended its contract.

↑ 31.7K 💬 385 image 2026

Need public transit? Form a committee. Need more cameras? Grab a ladder

↑ 31.6K 💬 562 image 2026

Tech billionaires have officially lost the plot

↑ 25.7K 💬 329 image 2026

Doing the lord's work. He should get my tax dollars.

↑ 25.2K 💬 693 video 2026

It's 105°f out. Why isn't anyone swimming? ohh....

↑ 24K 💬 1.6K video 2026

A Texas constable just unplugged every Flock surveillance camera in his county and told the company to come get its garbage out of a free society.

↑ 23.8K 💬 319 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/TechGawker, in numbers

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

What is r/TechGawker?
r/TechGawker describes itself this way: Tech Gawker covers the meltdowns, lawsuits, fake demos, layoffs, and public implosions shaping the tech world. We post timeline breakdowns, legal docs, leaked threads, and the receipts behind the headlines. Just smart people watching the system glitch in real time. It was founded in 2025 and has 52.2K members.
How many members does r/TechGawker have?
r/TechGawker has about 54.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 395 of its posts; the biggest reached 50.2K upvotes, which is 921 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TechGawker?
"Congratulations, your road trip now has a searchable police history" reached 50.2K upvotes and 799 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TechGawker.
What subreddits are similar to r/TechGawker?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/TechGawker?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 35% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TechGawker?
Across 395 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 09:00 UTC (14.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 08:00 UTC (13.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 21:00 UTC (9.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/TechGawker?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TechGawker has 13.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 37 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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