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233.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.2K upvotes, which works out to 78 per 1,000 members.

78peak upvotes per 1,000 members
233.9Kmembers
18.2Kbest post
100most 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.

89% 11%
Link 89% Video 11% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham

↑ 18.2K 💬 77 link 2026

Brad Pitt Drops Last Name In Solidarity With Family

↑ 5.5K 💬 47 link 2026

U.S. Mint Unveils Series Of Gold Coins Commemorating President’s Extramarital Affairs

↑ 4.6K 💬 35 link 2026

Infowars store is now selling gay frog plushies

↑ 4.4K 💬 42 link 2026

WELCOME TO THE REAL INFOWARS

↑ 4.1K 💬 100 video 2026

Sophie Cunningham Claims Any Woman Who Averages More Than 8 Points Per Game Should Not Be Allowed To Play In WNBA

↑ 3.9K 💬 51 link 2026

One-Week Sober Man Thought All Problems Would Be Fixed By Now

↑ 3.7K 💬 62 link 2026

Karoline Leavitt Slams Toddler Son Over Baseless Accusations That Caterpillar Very Hungry

↑ 3.6K 💬 22 link 2026

Antichrist Rolls Eyes Throughout  Peter Thiel Lecture

↑ 3.6K 💬 19 link 2026

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

↑ 3.5K 💬 27 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/TheOnion, in numbers

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

How many members does r/TheOnion have?
r/TheOnion has about 233.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.2K upvotes, which is 78 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TheOnion?
"Paramedics Praised For Being Too Late To Save Lindsey Graham" reached 18.2K upvotes and 77 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TheOnion.
What subreddits are similar to r/TheOnion?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/TheOnion?
Of the posts we hold, 89% are link posts and 11% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TheOnion?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 06:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 19:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/TheOnion?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TheOnion has 2.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 124 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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