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58K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.9K upvotes, which works out to 240 per 1,000 members.

240peak upvotes per 1,000 members
58Kmembers
13.9Kbest post
273most comments
300posts 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% 36% 13% 8%
Image 38% Video 36% Gallery 13% Link 8% Text 4% Question 2%

What the ceiling looks like

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

My man sits like this every day, often while we are doing work in the kitchen.

↑ 13.9K 💬 99 gallery 2026

This stray cat was so desperate for attention

↑ 6.6K 💬 128 video 2026

Why lol

↑ 4.7K 💬 38 video 2026

I was so tired that it was not easy to get out

↑ 3.7K 💬 30 video 2026

Why do cats do this? Do any of your cats ever move things and make them fall?

↑ 2.9K 💬 273 video 2026

She melted!😭😂

↑ 2.4K 💬 31 image 2026

Love youuuuuuu💘💘💘

↑ 1.9K 💬 8 video 2026

I almost thought my cat was lost when I got home and didn't see it.

↑ 1.9K 💬 31 image 2026

Kitten got stuck and then rescued

↑ 1.6K 💬 58 video 2026

Why do cats push things off tables?

↑ 1.4K 💬 163 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/WhyCatHowCat, in numbers

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

How many members does r/WhyCatHowCat have?
r/WhyCatHowCat has about 58K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.9K upvotes, which is 240 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/WhyCatHowCat?
"My man sits like this every day, often while we are doing work in the kitchen." reached 13.9K upvotes and 99 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/WhyCatHowCat.
What subreddits are similar to r/WhyCatHowCat?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/InvictaSolaris, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/WhyCatHowCat?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are image posts and 36% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/WhyCatHowCat?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 16:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 03:00 UTC (758 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/WhyCatHowCat?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/WhyCatHowCat has 694 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 49 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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