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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. The best place to learn what not to do. Founded 2013 · 8M members · links only

8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 168.1K upvotes, which works out to 21 per 1,000 members.

21peak upvotes per 1,000 members
8Mmembers
168.1Kbest post
8.3Kmost comments
523posts 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.

97%
Video 97% Image 3%

The topics it labels

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

Repost 22 Tough to watch 1 WCGW Approved 1 Awful Title 1 Title Gore 1 RONG 1 Misleading Title 1 NSFL 1 Classic 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

WCGW when you ask a fashion blogger a nuclear weapon question?

↑ 168.1K 💬 8.1K video 2022

what could go wrong harassing a muslim family?

↑ 164.9K 💬 4.5K image 2020

WCGW trying to copy a technique without planning?

↑ 145.9K 💬 4.4K video 2023

WCGW Forgetting to switch to the Alt account

↑ 144.4K 💬 796 image 2020

Using a lighter to open plastic bags at a COTTON WAREHOUSE...?

↑ 139.2K 💬 4.4K video 2020

WCGW kicking snow

↑ 136.9K 💬 1.9K video 2021

WCGW Listening to music out loud on a boat and then insulting whoever asks you to turn it down

↑ 135.4K 💬 6K video 2021

When you teach the no so tech savvy how to play VR

↑ 133.5K 💬 1.9K video 2020

WCGW If I break into this house

↑ 131.6K 💬 6.9K video 2021

Block a farmers gate... What could go wrong?

↑ 130K 💬 7.6K video 2021

Communities its size

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

r/Whatcouldgowrong, in numbers

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

What is r/Whatcouldgowrong?
r/Whatcouldgowrong ("What Could Possibly Go Wrong?") describes itself this way: The best place to learn what not to do. It was founded in 2013 and has 8M members.
How many members does r/Whatcouldgowrong have?
r/Whatcouldgowrong has about 8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 523 of its posts; the biggest reached 168.1K upvotes, which is 21 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Whatcouldgowrong?
"WCGW when you ask a fashion blogger a nuclear weapon question?" reached 168.1K upvotes and 8.1K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Whatcouldgowrong.
What subreddits are similar to r/Whatcouldgowrong?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/Whatcouldgowrong?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are video posts and 3% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Whatcouldgowrong?
Across 523 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (82K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (75.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (74.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/Whatcouldgowrong?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Whatcouldgowrong has 110.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 81 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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