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r/unusual_whales

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

252.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 70.3K upvotes, which works out to 279 per 1,000 members.

279peak upvotes per 1,000 members
252.3Kmembers
70.3Kbest post
6.7Kmost comments
402posts 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.

60% 19% 12% 8%
Link 60% Image 19% Text 12% Video 8% Gallery 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

BREAKING: AOC has said there is insider trading in Congress. "It's so crazy... we're supposed to act like money only corrupts Republicans? Give me a…

↑ 70.3K 💬 2.1K question 2025

President Biden says members of Congress should not trade stocks in his farewell address to the nation.

↑ 66.3K 💬 3.8K video 2025

South Africa Just Named Elon Musk 'the worst thing to ever come out of South Africa'

↑ 57.2K 💬 1.1K link 2025

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi and her husband appear to have used unreported $28 million in Covid pandemic grants to make their personal investments in a ho…

↑ 49.6K 💬 2.5K link 2024

Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the ELON MUSK act (full name is Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act) which w…

↑ 48.2K 💬 667 text 2025

Bernie Sanders has said: You want to talk about government efficiency? We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses t…

↑ 46K 💬 784 link 2024

BREAKING: California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has approved a campaign to gather signatures petitioning for a vote on whether California shoul…

↑ 43.9K 💬 4.8K text 2025

BREAKING: The White House is preparing an executive order to eliminate the Department of Education, per NBC

↑ 41.8K 💬 6.7K text 2025

BREAKING: Biden calls for a ban on congressional stock trading by politicians.

↑ 33K 💬 1.2K link 2024

Mark Zuckerberg paid record breaking lobby bribe money to get TikTok banned

↑ 29.5K 💬 1K link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/unusual_whales, in numbers

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

How many members does r/unusual_whales have?
r/unusual_whales has about 252.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 70.3K upvotes, which is 279 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/unusual_whales?
"BREAKING: AOC has said there is insider trading in Congress. "It's so crazy... we're supposed to act like money only corrupts Republicans? " reached 70.3K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/unusual_whales.
What subreddits are similar to r/unusual_whales?
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/unusual_whales?
Of the posts we hold, 60% are link posts and 19% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/unusual_whales?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 02:00 UTC (40.4K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (21.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (14.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/unusual_whales?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/unusual_whales has 22.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 16 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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