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r/UrbanHell

1.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 50.8K upvotes, which works out to 29 per 1,000 members.

29peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.7Mmembers
50.8Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
103posts 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.

86% 14%
Image 86% Gallery 14%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Car Culture 16 Ugliness 14 Suburban Hell 10 Concrete Wasteland 10 Other 9 Absurd Architecture 8 Poverty/Inequality 8 Decay 6 Pollution/Environmental Destruction 6 Conflict/Crime 5

What the ceiling looks like

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

New Delhi - during lockdown vs now

↑ 50.8K 💬 459 image 2020

Egypt’s New Administrative Capital – A $58 Billion Ghost City

↑ 48.6K 💬 2.6K gallery 2025

Johannesburg, South Africa

↑ 40.6K 💬 2.7K image 2021

Mecca, this cityscape is deeply unsettling

↑ 39.9K 💬 1K image 2020

Same place, different perspective

↑ 39.7K 💬 1K image 2021

Am I the only one who joined this sub because they find the urban hell pictures beautiful?

↑ 38.1K 💬 849 image 2024

Malé, capital of The Maldives

↑ 34.8K 💬 999 image 2025

Nobody: Southwest US developers:

↑ 34.7K 💬 1.3K image 2019

Ah, good old car culture...

↑ 34.2K 💬 751 image 2020

Deserted street in Baltimore, Maryland. I asked my friend why there were no people. "They come out at night."

↑ 33.6K 💬 1.2K image 2020

Communities its size

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/UrbanHell, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.