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r/whatsthisbug

Bug identification! All insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc. welcome!. Bug identification! All insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc. welcome! Founded 2010 · 1.3M members

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 81.8K upvotes, which works out to 65 per 1,000 members.

65peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
81.8Kbest post
4.1Kmost comments
410posts 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.

46% 40% 10%
Gallery 46% Image 40% Video 10% Link 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.

ID Request 390 Just Sharing 9 FRASSPOST 6 Other 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

About an inch long and furry. Found outside a gas station, SE US

↑ 81.8K 💬 132 image 2022

This lil mf'er just bit me. Do I need to go to the hospital? It sure feels like I do

↑ 55K 💬 54 gallery 2023

This bastard stung me so I punched him. Who is he. I need a name.

↑ 45.7K 💬 40 image 2023

What has blessed me today?

↑ 26.5K 💬 228 gallery 2023

Saw this on my bathroom floor in Ohio — what is it?

↑ 25.7K 💬 70 image 2023

Saw this crawling on my tire. Anyone know what this is?

↑ 24.7K 💬 103 image 2023

The homies and I found this giant bug in the water on campus. Looks kinda cockroachesque but more evil. Who is he??? (Minnesota)

↑ 19.5K 💬 152 image 2023

Who occupied my pipe?

↑ 19.2K 💬 35 gallery 2023

I found this on the trail in Northern India. Thought I’d was cool.

↑ 18.5K 💬 90 image 2023

My avocado tree is suddenly covered in trembling bees. What is happening here?

↑ 17.2K 💬 261 image 2023

Communities its size

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

r/whatsthisbug, in numbers

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

What is r/whatsthisbug?
r/whatsthisbug ("Bug identification! All insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc. welcome!") describes itself this way: Bug identification! All insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc. welcome. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.3M members.
How many members does r/whatsthisbug have?
r/whatsthisbug has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 410 of its posts; the biggest reached 81.8K upvotes, which is 65 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/whatsthisbug?
"About an inch long and furry. Found outside a gas station, SE US" reached 81.8K upvotes and 132 comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/whatsthisbug.
What subreddits are similar to r/whatsthisbug?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/TooMeIrlForMeIrl.
What kind of posts do best on r/whatsthisbug?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are gallery posts and 40% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/whatsthisbug?
Across 410 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 14:00 UTC (12.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (10K avg upvotes), Sunday at 20:00 UTC (5.7K 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/whatsthisbug?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/whatsthisbug has 14.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 285 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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