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r/TheWhyFiles

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

104.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.2K upvotes, which works out to 40 per 1,000 members.

40peak upvotes per 1,000 members
104.6Kmembers
4.2Kbest post
1.1Kmost 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.

46% 22% 15% 11%
Image 46% Text 22% Link 15% Video 11% Gallery 4% Question 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.

Let's Discuss 34 Jokes/Humor 24 Fan Artwork/Creation 9 Personal Thought/Story 8 Story Idea 7 Weird News 5 Suggestion for Channel 5 Question for AJ 4 Story + Research 2 MOD POST 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Nuclear Scientist MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro shot and killed at his home in Boston.

↑ 4.2K 💬 262 image 2025

Is it still the Mandela Effect? Knock offs?

↑ 4.1K 💬 1.1K image 2024

Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For First Time

↑ 2.7K 💬 179 link 2024

Forgotten building technology

↑ 2K 💬 181 video 2024

Scientists Confirm Water Exists All Over the Moon, Not Just at the Poles

↑ 1.8K 💬 70 link 2024

2 words Lizzird People

↑ 1.8K 💬 227 image 2025

Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old

↑ 1.7K 💬 261 link 2024

Look who showed up on the new season of “The UnXplained” on Netflix

↑ 1.7K 💬 79 image 2025

Pentagon whistleblower Matthew Brown just tweeted this

↑ 1.7K 💬 414 image 2025

Taking a break

↑ 1.6K 💬 419 video 2024

Communities its size

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

r/TheWhyFiles, in numbers

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

How many members does r/TheWhyFiles have?
r/TheWhyFiles has about 104.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.2K upvotes, which is 40 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TheWhyFiles?
"Nuclear Scientist MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro shot and killed at his home in Boston." reached 4.2K upvotes and 262 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TheWhyFiles.
What subreddits are similar to r/TheWhyFiles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/TheWhyFiles?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are image posts and 22% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TheWhyFiles?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 21:00 UTC (819 avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (588 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/TheWhyFiles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TheWhyFiles has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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