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r/TourismHell

Tourism Hell. #TourismHell Founded 2017 · 36.5K members

36.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 34.8K upvotes, which works out to 943 per 1,000 members.

943peak upvotes per 1,000 members
36.9Kmembers
34.8Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
102posts 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% 37% 13%
Link 47% Video 37% Image 13% Text 2% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

U.S. border officer dangerously speeds toward a Canadian tourist in road rage, yelling, 'Never come to the U.S. again!'

↑ 34.8K 💬 2.7K video 2025

Las Vegas workers lose over half their income. but yeah, keep telling us it's a 'strong economy'

↑ 28.3K 💬 1.2K image 2025

Canadian tourists gone 'from a faucet to a drip,' Las Vegas mayor says | On Aug. 7, Las Vegas Shelley Berkley mayor spoke about the tourism downturn …

↑ 25.3K 💬 2.8K video 2025

Las Vegas Faces Tourism Decline

↑ 16.7K 💬 2.6K video 2025

'It's a ghost town,' Florida beach businesses struggle through slower than normal Summer season | The Summer travel season usually brings in the most…

↑ 14.5K 💬 2.1K video 2025

How to plan a trip to the USA ...

↑ 14K 💬 273 image 2025

U.S. border officer dangerously speeds toward a Canadian tourist in road rage, yelling, 'Never come to the U.S. again!'

↑ 13.3K 💬 1.4K video 2025

Norwegian tourist barred from entering US as JD Vance meme found on phone

↑ 12.1K 💬 1.2K image 2025

A South Korean electrician thrown into an ICE detention center says "I will never visit the United States again." He was helping build a factory that…

↑ 9.9K 💬 406 image 2025

"The new normal": As Trump pursues mass deportations, tourists land in ICE detention | "The unusual part of this is that they've been detained so lon…

↑ 7.7K 💬 149 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/TourismHell, in numbers

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

What is r/TourismHell?
r/TourismHell ("Tourism Hell") describes itself this way: #TourismHell. It was founded in 2017 and has 36.5K members.
How many members does r/TourismHell have?
r/TourismHell has about 36.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 34.8K upvotes, which is 943 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TourismHell?
"U.S. border officer dangerously speeds toward a Canadian tourist in road rage, yelling, 'Never come to the U.S. again!'" reached 34.8K upvotes and 2.7K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TourismHell.
What subreddits are similar to r/TourismHell?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/TourismHell?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are link posts and 37% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TourismHell?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 21:00 UTC (10K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 18:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/TourismHell?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TourismHell has 5.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 2 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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