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1.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 4K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.5Mmembers
4Kbest post
298most comments
302posts 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.

89% 11%
Image 89% Gallery 11%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Sure ya did buddy...

↑ 4K 💬 81 image 2026

Hacked a treadmill and made it go 50 mph

↑ 3.8K 💬 217 image 2026

Turned down £75.000

↑ 3.1K 💬 51 image 2026

Wow, what a wild coincidence

↑ 2.7K 💬 100 image 2026

Logan (the liar) Paul

↑ 2.7K 💬 298 image 2026

And then everybody left the theatre and clapped

↑ 2.3K 💬 68 image 2026

Yeah, this didn’t happen.

↑ 2.1K 💬 64 image 2026

Social media ego gets you through TSA

↑ 2.1K 💬 51 image 2026

Definitely Real School

↑ 2.1K 💬 29 image 2026

Sure you did, Jan

↑ 2K 💬 47 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/thatHappened, in numbers

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

How many members does r/thatHappened have?
r/thatHappened has about 1.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 302 of its posts; the biggest reached 4K upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/thatHappened?
"Sure ya did buddy..." reached 4K upvotes and 81 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/thatHappened.
What subreddits are similar to r/thatHappened?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/thatHappened?
Of the posts we hold, 89% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/thatHappened?
Across 302 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (754 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/thatHappened?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/thatHappened has 1.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 29 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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