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147.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 16.2K upvotes, which works out to 110 per 1,000 members.

110peak upvotes per 1,000 members
147.5Kmembers
16.2Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
300posts 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.

50% 26% 15% 9%
Image 50% Video 26% Link 15% Gallery 9%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Army Vet discusses his reasons for enlisting - “The recruitment tool of the US military is to go to impoverished areas and offer things America doesn…

↑ 16.2K 💬 280 video 2026

Can you tell that Bob Fosse’s performance in The Little Prince (1974) massively influenced Michael Jackson?

↑ 10.9K 💬 379 video 2026

Alessandro Moreschi was the last castrato, the final survivor of a brutal 500 year tradition that castrated up to 4,000 boys a year at its peak. He's…

↑ 10.2K 💬 463 image 2026

This is 'I Viaggiatori' by the artist Bruno Catalano. It symbolizes the void created by leaving one's country, one's family, one's people for anothe…

↑ 8K 💬 50 image 2026

Michael Jackson was known for using disguises to allow him to go out in public throughout his life. These are a few of the more surreal ones.

↑ 4.7K 💬 317 gallery 2026

In 1949, a group of kindergarten students were given a simple Father’s Day assignment: Draw your dad. Without photographs, references, or correction…

↑ 4.6K 💬 114 gallery 2026

Meet Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's little sister. She shared his name, his childhood, and very little else. Paula Hitler never joined the Nazi Party,…

↑ 4.6K 💬 274 gallery 2026

There's a tree in Bükk National Park, Hungary that was cut down years ago. The big tree in the photo has been holding onto and feeding it ever since.…

↑ 4.1K 💬 33 image 2026

Throwback to the time when some of the world's greatest drummers try to explain what made Ringo Starr so special.

↑ 3.7K 💬 184 video 2026

Leta Powell Drake was a Nebraskan celebrity interviewer who more often than not left her subjects staring wide-eyed in disbelief at what the hell she…

↑ 3.6K 💬 233 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/UtterlyInteresting, in numbers

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

How many members does r/UtterlyInteresting have?
r/UtterlyInteresting has about 147.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.2K upvotes, which is 110 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/UtterlyInteresting?
"Army Vet discusses his reasons for enlisting - “The recruitment tool of the US military is to go to impoverished areas and offer things Amer" reached 16.2K upvotes and 280 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/UtterlyInteresting.
What subreddits are similar to r/UtterlyInteresting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/PopCultureV2, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/UtterlyInteresting?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are image posts and 26% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/UtterlyInteresting?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 16:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (2.2K 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/UtterlyInteresting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/UtterlyInteresting has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 54 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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