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r/worldnews

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

47.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 204.5K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
47.6Mmembers
204.5Kbest post
32Kmost comments
2Kposts 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.

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The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Russia/Ukraine 466 Israel/Palestine 116 Dynamic Paywall 69 Behind Soft Paywall 64 North Korea 15 COVID-19 14 Venezuela 12 Trump 8 Hong Kong 4 Russia 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window

↑ 204.5K 💬 8.3K link 2020

Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power

↑ 202.9K 💬 19.9K link 2019

Vladimir Putin's black belt revoked by international taekwondo organization

↑ 200.2K 💬 6.8K link 2022

Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had…

↑ 189.4K 💬 17.9K link 2018

Queen Elizabeth II has died, Buckingham Palace announces

↑ 189K 💬 16.3K link 2022

More than 150 senior Russian officials sign open letter condemning Putin's invasion of Ukraine as 'an unprecedented atrocity' and warn of 'catastroph…

↑ 178K 💬 7.6K link 2022

Rejecting US evacuation offer, Zelensky says I need anti-tank ammo, 'not a ride'

↑ 171.6K 💬 8.2K link 2022

Anonymous leaks database of the Russian Ministry of Defence

↑ 165.2K 💬 6.3K link 2022

2.6 terabyte leak of Panamanian shell company data reveals "how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies sec…

↑ 154.8K 💬 11.9K link 2016

Kyiv: full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT has been achieved, the process has begun

↑ 152.1K 💬 6.8K link 2022

Communities its size

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

r/worldnews, in numbers

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

How many members does r/worldnews have?
r/worldnews has about 47.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 2K of its posts; the biggest reached 204.5K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/worldnews?
"An anti-gay Hungarian politician has resigned after being caught by police fleeing a 25-man orgy through a window" reached 204.5K upvotes and 8.3K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/worldnews.
What subreddits are similar to r/worldnews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile, r/wallstreetbets, r/interestingasfuck, r/Damnthatsinteresting, r/Unexpected.
What kind of posts do best on r/worldnews?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/worldnews?
Across 2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (48.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (43.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 22:00 UTC (40.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/worldnews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/worldnews has 142.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 428 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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