r/YouTube is for discussion about YouTube. This is a fan sub, not run or owned by YouTube! Please read the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/wiki/index/rules NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802848 Founded 2008 · 3.5M members
3.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached
76.9K upvotes, which works out to
22 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/youtube?
r/youtube describes itself this way: r/YouTube is for discussion about YouTube. This is a fan sub, not run or owned by YouTube! Please read the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/wiki/index/rules NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802848. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.5M members.
How many members does r/youtube have?
r/youtube has about 3.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.8K of its posts; the biggest reached 76.9K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/youtube?
"Mr beast complains about us healthcare" reached 76.9K upvotes and 3.9K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/youtube.
What subreddits are similar to r/youtube?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/youtube?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are image posts and 24% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/youtube?
Across 1.8K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (36.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (16.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 09:00 UTC (14.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/youtube?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/youtube has 32.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 312 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.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/youtube, 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.