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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Image 95%Video 4%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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/whennews?
r/whennews describes itself this way: Your #1 stop for soul crushing news delivered with a funny gif. Official sister sub of r/whenthe. It was founded in 2024 and has 120.5K members.
How many members does r/whennews have?
r/whennews has about 122.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 708 of its posts; the biggest reached 56.8K upvotes, which is 465 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/whennews?
"Huh?" reached 56.8K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/whennews.
What subreddits are similar to r/whennews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/whennews?
Of the posts we hold, 95% are image posts and 4% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/whennews?
Across 708 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 02:00 UTC (19.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (16.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (13.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/whennews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/whennews has 23.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 323 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/whennews, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.