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r/Veterans

179.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 596 upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.

3peak upvotes per 1,000 members
179.3Kmembers
596best post
425most 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.

75% 21%
Text 75% Question 21% Image 2% Link 1% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

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

Question/Advice 204 Discussion 51 GI Bill/Education 18 Employment 8 VR&E - Voc Rehab Veteran Readiness 7 Article/News 7 Call for Help 2 Moderator Approved 2 VA Home Loan Question 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

RIP my son Jeff

↑ 596 💬 58 text 2026

Who else always forgets to ask for veteran discount?

↑ 503 💬 202 image 2026

Did anybody else get way more emotional as they got older? What the hell happened to me?

↑ 239 💬 106 question 2026

What’s the most condescending use of the word “sir” you’ve heard?

↑ 236 💬 42 question 2026

Coworker asked me in the breakroom if I'd ever killed anyone

↑ 202 💬 270 text 2026

National Airborne Day

↑ 156 💬 58 image 2026

They were right. The real world is different.

↑ 151 💬 73 text 2026

Younger veterans

↑ 138 💬 425 text 2026

Getting older

↑ 129 💬 58 text 2026

PSA: If you plan to be buried in a vet's cemetery one day, get pre-approval *now*

↑ 119 💬 50 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Veterans, in numbers

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

How many members does r/Veterans have?
r/Veterans has about 179.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 596 upvotes, which is 3 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Veterans?
"RIP my son Jeff" reached 596 upvotes and 58 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Veterans.
What subreddits are similar to r/Veterans?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/Veterans?
Of the posts we hold, 75% are text posts and 21% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Veterans?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 02:00 UTC (129 avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (88 avg upvotes), Saturday at 15:00 UTC (81 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/Veterans?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Veterans has 83 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 288 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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