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r/Virginia

Virginia News, Discussion, and More. News, discussion, pictures, recommendations, and more about Virginia (and its counties, cities, and regions). Founded 2008 · 376.4K members

377.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 77.6K upvotes, which works out to 206 per 1,000 members.

206peak upvotes per 1,000 members
377.3Kmembers
77.6Kbest post
2.5Kmost comments
408posts 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.

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Link 50% Image 20% Text 12% Question 9% Video 6% Gallery 4%

The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Democrat Abigail Spanberger becomes first female governor of Virginia

↑ 77.6K 💬 907 image 2025

Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor's race

↑ 24.1K 💬 590 link 2025

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful

↑ 23.5K 💬 490 link 2026

Virginia has no king. Virginia with their seal, their flag, their motto will bow to no king.

↑ 23.1K 💬 185 image 2025

Good job Virginia. Today democracy wins............

↑ 20.8K 💬 1.9K image 2026

The reporting double standard on gerrymandering is wild

↑ 19K 💬 606 image 2026

Virginia House votes to end Confederate tax breaks, license plates

↑ 16.9K 💬 454 link 2026

Virginia Senate passes bill to end tax exemptions for Confederate organizations

↑ 13.1K 💬 199 link 2025

Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Trump’s SOTU speech: "In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does — he lied, he scapegoated, and he distr…

↑ 12.3K 💬 874 video 2026

A reminder that in 2010, this was the Republican gerrymander for Virginia

↑ 11.7K 💬 591 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/Virginia, in numbers

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

What is r/Virginia?
r/Virginia ("Virginia News, Discussion, and More") describes itself this way: News, discussion, pictures, recommendations, and more about Virginia (and its counties, cities, and regions). It was founded in 2008 and has 376.4K members.
How many members does r/Virginia have?
r/Virginia has about 377.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 408 of its posts; the biggest reached 77.6K upvotes, which is 206 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Virginia?
"Democrat Abigail Spanberger becomes first female governor of Virginia" reached 77.6K upvotes and 907 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Virginia.
What subreddits are similar to r/Virginia?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Virginia?
Of the posts we hold, 50% are link posts and 20% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Virginia?
Across 408 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (25.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (6.6K 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/Virginia?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Virginia has 8.5K 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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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Virginia, 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.