← All communities
Reddit community

r/WorldNewsHeadlinesNSFW

World News Headlines. Stay current with real time updates on global events. WorldNewsHeadlines is your hub for breaking stories, international coverage, and essential developments worldwide. Founded 2020 · 52.1K members · links only

52.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 32.3K upvotes, which works out to 620 per 1,000 members.

620peak upvotes per 1,000 members
52.1Kmembers
32.3Kbest post
2.2Kmost comments
400posts we track

Open r/WorldNewsHeadlines on Reddit ↗

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.

49% 39% 12%
Link 49% Video 39% Image 12% 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.

r/all 44

What the ceiling looks like

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

Hundreds are now marching in Tel Aviv with pictures of children killed in Gaza.

↑ 32.3K 💬 683 video 2025

Tel Aviv.

↑ 26.7K 💬 2.2K video 2025

Co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ben Cohen was removed from RFK Jr.'s hearing for protesting the U.S.'s continued funding of Israel's genocide in Gaza

↑ 16.3K 💬 478 video 2025

'I just want bread' - This elderly Palestinian man, Sameer, broke down in tears from extreme hunger caused by Israel's blockade in Gaza.

↑ 15.3K 💬 959 video 2025

Benjamin Netanyahu claims that the phrase “Free Palestine” has become a new Nazi slogan. Meanwhile he's starving 2+ million Palestinians to death in …

↑ 15.1K 💬 948 video 2025

Israel booed at Eurovision and chants of Free Palestine

↑ 14.5K 💬 856 video 2025

The Swiss under-23 fencing team turned their back on Israeli competitors during the national anthem

↑ 14.2K 💬 898 image 2025

Apartheid Israel in action

↑ 13.6K 💬 496 video 2025

The new Pope, Leo XIV calls for Gaza ceasefire in first Sunday message

↑ 10.8K 💬 232 video 2025

Over 100,000 protest in The Hague against Dutch government's stance on Israel and Gaza war

↑ 10.4K 💬 220 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/WorldNewsHeadlines, in numbers

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

What is r/WorldNewsHeadlines?
r/WorldNewsHeadlines ("World News Headlines") describes itself this way: Stay current with real time updates on global events. WorldNewsHeadlines is your hub for breaking stories, international coverage, and essential developments worldwide. It was founded in 2020 and has 52.1K members.
How many members does r/WorldNewsHeadlines have?
r/WorldNewsHeadlines has about 52.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 400 of its posts; the biggest reached 32.3K upvotes, which is 620 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/WorldNewsHeadlines?
"Hundreds are now marching in Tel Aviv with pictures of children killed in Gaza." reached 32.3K upvotes and 683 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/WorldNewsHeadlines.
What subreddits are similar to r/WorldNewsHeadlines?
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/WorldNewsHeadlines?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are link posts and 39% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/WorldNewsHeadlines?
Across 400 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 19:00 UTC (11.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (7.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (6.3K 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/WorldNewsHeadlines?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/WorldNewsHeadlines has 8.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 15 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.

Start free →

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