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r/whatisthisbug

229.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 20K upvotes, which works out to 87 per 1,000 members.

87peak upvotes per 1,000 members
229.4Kmembers
20Kbest post
3.4Kmost comments
102posts 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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Gallery 47% Image 46% Video 7%

The topics it labels

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

ID Request 7 Just sharing 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I say hummingbird, girlfriend says bug… what is it?

↑ 20K 💬 1.9K gallery 2023

Woke up with this attached to my leg this morning. Is this a tick?

↑ 17.8K 💬 754 image 2023

Pulled these off my dog, are they bedbugs?

↑ 14.9K 💬 1.2K image 2023

Is this just a stick bug? He's so cool!

↑ 13.5K 💬 990 gallery 2023

Ignore those common spotted lantern flies. Instead enjoy this fabulous long nosed Thai lantern fly.

↑ 11.9K 💬 266 image 2023

Is this…?

↑ 11.6K 💬 931 gallery 2023

Goodbye NYC parks

↑ 11.6K 💬 989 image 2023

Who is my new neighbor?

↑ 10.3K 💬 1.6K gallery 2023

I found a friend

↑ 10K 💬 323 gallery 2023

Is this an alien?

↑ 9.4K 💬 971 gallery 2023

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/whatisthisbug, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.