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1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 58.1K upvotes, which works out to 43 per 1,000 members.

43peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.4Mmembers
58.1Kbest post
2.7Kmost comments
100posts 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.

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Video 78% Image 20% Gallery 2%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

When something from The Depths Below makes it's way onto land...

↑ 58.1K 💬 2.1K video 2022

Strange W shaped pupil of a Cuttlefish

↑ 56.9K 💬 1.1K gallery 2024

Huge sixgill sharks spotted by submarine, eating a whale carcass. They then decide to smash into the submarine

↑ 55.7K 💬 1.1K video 2024

angler fish spotted swimming vertically to the surface on the coast of Tenerife 😱

↑ 53.3K 💬 2.4K video 2025

Footage from the Mariana Trench. 10,792 meters (36,000 feet) below the ocean surface.

↑ 50.4K 💬 1.2K video 2022

Just the largest animal to ever live on our planet coming up for air...

↑ 48.4K 💬 1.6K video 2021

Giant Squid makes an appearance in Tokyo Bay

↑ 43.2K 💬 2K video 2018

A deep-sea creature rarely seen by humans called the oarfish has washed ashore in Mexico!

↑ 41.1K 💬 1.4K video 2025

"Hi, Nice shoes by the way!"

↑ 39.4K 💬 570 video 2025

Incredible little fishy 🐟

↑ 36.8K 💬 1.3K video 2024

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/TheDepthsBelow, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.