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r/Whistleblowers

Keeping authority honest. A place to report abuse and dishonesty by the people with power. Founded 2012 · 77.4K members

77.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 86.4K upvotes, which works out to 1.1K per 1,000 members.

1.1Kpeak upvotes per 1,000 members
77.2Kmembers
86.4Kbest post
7.6Kmost comments
100posts 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.

38% 27% 23% 10%
Video 38% Image 27% Link 23% Text 10% Gallery 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

President Trump openly threatens the Governor of Maine

↑ 86.4K 💬 7.6K video 2025

Elon Musk Is Faking DOGE Results To Hide His Incompetence

↑ 32.3K 💬 666 link 2025

This. Is. Not. Normal. Democratic House Representative Amy Stansbury from New Mexico sounds the Alarm 🚨

↑ 22.6K 💬 1.1K video 2025

The United States of America and the people Vs. Donald J. Trump, and the GOP party

↑ 17.3K 💬 1.3K image 2025

Elon Musk has taken over the US Office of Personnel Management

↑ 17K 💬 970 link 2025

Trump is a Russian Asset

↑ 16.3K 💬 611 text 2025

Enough said

↑ 16.1K 💬 263 image 2025

Sheriff Robert Norris attempts to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatens to pepper spray her if she does not c…

↑ 15.9K 💬 999 video 2025

We are going to need a bigger chart.

↑ 13.5K 💬 704 video 2025

The leaked Musk interview that keeps getting removed from all over the internet. Save it. Repost it.

↑ 12.8K 💬 168 video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Whistleblowers, in numbers

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

What is r/Whistleblowers?
r/Whistleblowers ("Keeping authority honest") describes itself this way: A place to report abuse and dishonesty by the people with power. It was founded in 2012 and has 77.4K members.
How many members does r/Whistleblowers have?
r/Whistleblowers has about 77.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 86.4K upvotes, which is 1.1K per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Whistleblowers?
"President Trump openly threatens the Governor of Maine" reached 86.4K upvotes and 7.6K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Whistleblowers.
What subreddits are similar to r/Whistleblowers?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Whistleblowers?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are video posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Whistleblowers?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 01:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (3.2K 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/Whistleblowers?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Whistleblowers has 7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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