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r/velvethippos

For positive images and videos of velvet hippos.. Home for Hopeful Hippos and Positive Pitties Founded 2019 · 218.4K members · links only

218.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.9K upvotes, which works out to 73 per 1,000 members.

73peak upvotes per 1,000 members
218.8Kmembers
15.9Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
433posts 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.

44% 30% 14% 12%
Image 44% Gallery 30% Link 14% Video 12%

The topics it labels

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

Rescue Hippo 65 Seeking Adoption/Foster 64 Celebration of Life 15 Adoption Update 5 Advice 4 Adoption/Foster Success! 3 deserves all the pets 1 request 1 Costume Contest 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Look at the glow-up on my boy Brody!!!!!!!!!!!!!

↑ 15.9K 💬 700 gallery 2025

My great great grandmothers dog, who’s name has sadly been lost to time.

↑ 15.7K 💬 165 gallery 2026

She hates the boots

↑ 14.5K 💬 481 image 2026

Polly Wiggles' trip across the rainbow bridge is tomorrow, so my friend sent her a pizza.

↑ 12.9K 💬 495 video 2022

The Best Pittie I’ve Ever Owned! 🥰 Say “Hi” to Penny.

↑ 12.8K 💬 308 gallery 2025

This is Molly. She claims that her last meal was 84 years ago.

↑ 12.6K 💬 315 gallery 2025

When Sheila the Deaf Rescue doesn't want to do what your signing to do, she closes her eyes and pretends you are not there...

↑ 12.4K 💬 180 image 2024

Rattlesnake Bite Survivor

↑ 11.2K 💬 240 gallery 2026

Our neighbor said they couldn't take care of her anymore cause she was "destructive" and "too energetic". But after some walks shes a sweet calm hipp…

↑ 10.8K 💬 371 image 2021

I was recently told that Daisy was an ugly dog. It broke my heart. I went straight home afterwards and gave this beautiful girl all of the hugs and k…

↑ 10.4K 💬 1.4K gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/velvethippos, in numbers

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

What is r/velvethippos?
r/velvethippos ("For positive images and videos of velvet hippos.") describes itself this way: Home for Hopeful Hippos and Positive Pitties. It was founded in 2019 and has 218.4K members.
How many members does r/velvethippos have?
r/velvethippos has about 218.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 433 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.9K upvotes, which is 73 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/velvethippos?
"Look at the glow-up on my boy Brody!!!!!!!!!!!!!" reached 15.9K upvotes and 700 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/velvethippos.
What subreddits are similar to r/velvethippos?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska.
What kind of posts do best on r/velvethippos?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are image posts and 30% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/velvethippos?
Across 433 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 20:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 02:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/velvethippos?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/velvethippos has 9.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 30 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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