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r/The1980s

174.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.9K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
174.2Kmembers
3.9Kbest post
1.6Kmost comments
300posts 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.

48% 26% 13%
Image 48% Video 26% Gallery 13% Text 6% Question 4% Link 3%

The topics it labels

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

80’s Movie 37 80’s Music 32 80’s TV 24 80’s Video Games 18 80’s Products 13 80’s Fashion 9 80’s WTF 6 Thirsty Thursday 5 80’s Advertisement 4 80’s Pictures 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Phil Collins- in the air tonight

↑ 3.9K 💬 155 video 2026

Man of the 80's (One of Them)

↑ 3.4K 💬 117 image 2026

My mom in the 80s. Btw her dream was to become an (famous) actress but she was rejected for every role she applied for.

↑ 3.4K 💬 256 image 2026

Clue, one of my favorite movies from the 80s

↑ 2.9K 💬 143 gallery 2026

The original Lazer Tag StarLyte pistol (1986) was the toy that turned every suburban backyard into a sci-fi battlefield.

↑ 2.8K 💬 140 image 2026

RIP Tim Curry (The Worst Witch, 1986)

↑ 2.1K 💬 39 gallery 2026

Olivia d'Abo in ‘Conan the Destroyer’ (1984)

↑ 2.1K 💬 57 gallery 2026

Who remembers Hart to Hart?

↑ 2.1K 💬 161 gallery 2026

Beetlejuice - Day O (Banana Boat song)

↑ 2K 💬 55 video 2026

Kim Basinger in ‘My Stepmother Is an Alien’ (1988)

↑ 2K 💬 32 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/The1980s, in numbers

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

How many members does r/The1980s have?
r/The1980s has about 174.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 3.9K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/The1980s?
"Phil Collins- in the air tonight" reached 3.9K upvotes and 155 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/The1980s.
What subreddits are similar to r/The1980s?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/The1980s?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are image posts and 26% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/The1980s?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (999 avg upvotes), Thursday at 12:00 UTC (912 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (761 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/The1980s?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/The1980s has 1.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 74 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/The1980s, 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.