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r/TheWalkingDead. The Official Subreddit of The Walking Dead TV & Comic Universe Founded 2010 · 2.7M members

2.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 32K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.7Mmembers
32Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
413posts 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.

47% 28% 12%
Image 47% Text 28% Question 12% Video 6% Gallery 6% Link 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.

No Spoiler 143 Show Spoiler 130 /r/all 40 TWD: Dead City 27 All Spoilers 15 TWD: Daryl Dixon 14 Show Spoiler /r/all 9 Comic and Show Spoilers 7 Comic Spoiler 7 Fear Spoiler 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Andrew Lincoln surprised Chandler Riggs at his graduation party.

↑ 32K 💬 736 image 2017

TFW you realize the title decay corresponds to writing quality....

↑ 22.9K 💬 546 image 2018

Literally

↑ 21.1K 💬 206 image 2025

I love when the show does throwbacks to an earlier season like this.

↑ 20.8K 💬 349 image 2017

My Uncle sent me this picture of his prosthesis doctor. Next level!!!

↑ 19.5K 💬 325 image 2017

"Alright Carl, your turn"

↑ 17.4K 💬 283 video 2017

Chandler Riggs' celebrating 4/20

↑ 16.2K 💬 242 image 2017

I LOVE this cosplay!

↑ 16.1K 💬 272 image 2018

A Rick & Daryl drawing i did

↑ 15.6K 💬 609 image 2017

[TV SPOILERS] /u/DubstepCheetah, it's time to eat your underwear.

↑ 15K 💬 718 image 2016

Communities its size

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

r/thewalkingdead, in numbers

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

What is r/thewalkingdead?
r/thewalkingdead ("r/TheWalkingDead") describes itself this way: The Official Subreddit of The Walking Dead TV & Comic Universe. It was founded in 2010 and has 2.7M members.
How many members does r/thewalkingdead have?
r/thewalkingdead has about 2.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 413 of its posts; the biggest reached 32K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/thewalkingdead?
"Andrew Lincoln surprised Chandler Riggs at his graduation party." reached 32K upvotes and 736 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/thewalkingdead.
What subreddits are similar to r/thewalkingdead?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/thewalkingdead?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are image posts and 28% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/thewalkingdead?
Across 413 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 15:00 UTC (11.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 16:00 UTC (8.9K 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/thewalkingdead?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/thewalkingdead has 11.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 94 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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