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r/youseeingthisshit

2.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 244.7K upvotes, which works out to 92 per 1,000 members.

92peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.7Mmembers
244.7Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
301posts 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.

99%
Video 99% Image 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.

Funny Shit 3 Amazing Shit 3 Weird Shit 2 Impressive Shit 2 Good Shit 1 WTF is that Shit 1 Top Post 1 Classic Shit 1 Stupid Shit 1 ⭐⭐⭐ 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Son who lives abroad returns home and video calls his father

↑ 244.7K πŸ’¬ 2.7K video 2025

He definitely made the video 100x better

↑ 124.2K πŸ’¬ 2.8K video 2025

People reacting to the new Japanese Maglev bullet train passing right by them during a test run.

↑ 96.1K πŸ’¬ 1.5K video 2024

He knows what he did

↑ 92K πŸ’¬ 1.2K video 2025

Baby's first carwash

↑ 85.8K πŸ’¬ 1.1K video 2025

Goalkeeper randomly gifts little boy with his gloves

↑ 83.4K πŸ’¬ 423 video 2025

Kids after seeing their Father shaved for the first time.

↑ 81.1K πŸ’¬ 1K video 2026

Siblings witness brother’s first steps

↑ 75.5K πŸ’¬ 408 video 2025

She just wanted a kiss.

↑ 74.2K πŸ’¬ 596 video 2025

perfect spot

↑ 73.7K πŸ’¬ 780 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/youseeingthisshit, in numbers

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

How many members does r/youseeingthisshit have?
r/youseeingthisshit has about 2.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 244.7K upvotes, which is 92 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/youseeingthisshit?
"Son who lives abroad returns home and video calls his father" reached 244.7K upvotes and 2.7K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/youseeingthisshit.
What subreddits are similar to r/youseeingthisshit?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/okbuddycinephile, r/LeopardsAteMyFace.
What kind of posts do best on r/youseeingthisshit?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are video posts and 1% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/youseeingthisshit?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 03:00 UTC (35.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 09:00 UTC (26.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (26.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/youseeingthisshit?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/youseeingthisshit has 51.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 22 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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