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r/wisconsinNSFW

Wisconsin: News from the Badger State. A local subreddit for the State of Wisconsin. Post news and interesting links about the greatest state in the Union! Founded 2009 · 320.5K members

321.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 94K upvotes, which works out to 293 per 1,000 members.

293peak upvotes per 1,000 members
321.2Kmembers
94Kbest post
4.8Kmost comments
562posts 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.

35% 26% 14% 11%
Image 35% Link 26% Text 14% Video 11% Gallery 7% Question 6% Poll 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Gov. Evers: “I Want Wisconsin to Become the First State in America to Start Auditing Insurance Companies over Denying Healthcare Claims”

↑ 94K 💬 981 link 2025

He was from Green Bay.

↑ 75.2K 💬 4.8K image 2026

True

↑ 71.6K 💬 761 image 2024

Make-A-Wish Wisconsin board member Shannon Kobylarczyk steps down, loses job

↑ 67.6K 💬 3.9K image 2025

Couldn't make it to any protests so I just walked around my small town :)

↑ 53.5K 💬 244 image 2025

Man I freaking love this dude

↑ 53.2K 💬 583 image 2025

Liberal Wisconsin brewing company promises 'free beer, all day long' after Trump dies

↑ 49.7K 💬 1K link 2026

Alex Pretti's hometown stood up today: A town of 105,000 people organized a protest of upwards of 2,000 people in attendance in under 48 hours.

↑ 44.4K 💬 1.1K gallery 2026

Republican Party HQ in Eau Claire target of vandalism

↑ 44.2K 💬 637 image 2026

A crowd of protesters have gathered outside a Milwaukee courthouse to support Judge Hannah Dugan after her arrest earlier today

↑ 41.1K 💬 1.6K video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/wisconsin, in numbers

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

What is r/wisconsin?
r/wisconsin ("Wisconsin: News from the Badger State") describes itself this way: A local subreddit for the State of Wisconsin. Post news and interesting links about the greatest state in the Union. It was founded in 2009 and has 320.5K members.
How many members does r/wisconsin have?
r/wisconsin has about 321.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 562 of its posts; the biggest reached 94K upvotes, which is 293 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/wisconsin?
"Gov. Evers: “I Want Wisconsin to Become the First State in America to Start Auditing Insurance Companies over Denying Healthcare Claims”" reached 94K upvotes and 981 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/wisconsin.
What subreddits are similar to r/wisconsin?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/wisconsin?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are image posts and 26% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/wisconsin?
Across 562 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 21:00 UTC (21K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (15.8K avg upvotes), Sunday at 16:00 UTC (15.4K 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/wisconsin?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/wisconsin has 19.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 136 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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