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Terrifying as Fuck. A subreddit for interesting and absolutely terrifying things! Founded 2014 · 842.6K members · links only

844.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.3K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
844.8Kmembers
10.3Kbest post
409most comments
436posts 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.

83% 12%
Video 83% Image 12% Gallery 4% Link 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.

accident/disaster 106 human 104 nature 100 animal 70 general 20 technology 17 war 10 medical 6 nuke from orbit 2 paranormal 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Dudes use a table to save people from a burning building.

↑ 10.3K 💬 209 video 2026

Nature’s Deadlock: An Eagle and Snake Found Dead, Still Locked in Mutual Strangulation

↑ 9.2K 💬 178 video 2026

Riding the cable car during the 7.4 earthquake that hit Colombia

↑ 7.5K 💬 303 video 2026

Map of IP addresses that downloaded child p*rn in the USA

↑ 6.7K 💬 354 video 2026

Argentinian flight instructor Leandro Andrés Bertazzo jumps out of a plane mid-flight, committing suicide after telling his 22 year old student: 'You…

↑ 6.4K 💬 320 image 2026

A random guy swims in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with over 16,000 feet of water below him.

↑ 6K 💬 365 video 2026

It finally happened...😳

↑ 5.7K 💬 227 video 2026

In 2011, Olga Moskalyova and her stepfather, Igor, were killed by brown bears in Siberia. Olga called her mother as she was being eaten alive.

↑ 5.3K 💬 287 image 2026

Brazilian Firefighter Training is... Well, intense.

↑ 5.2K 💬 126 video 2026

Deadly Fire Rages Through Brewery in Bangkok, Thailand, Killing Over 30

↑ 5.2K 💬 261 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/TerrifyingAsFuck, in numbers

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

What is r/TerrifyingAsFuck?
r/TerrifyingAsFuck ("Terrifying as Fuck") describes itself this way: A subreddit for interesting and absolutely terrifying things. It was founded in 2014 and has 842.6K members.
How many members does r/TerrifyingAsFuck have?
r/TerrifyingAsFuck has about 844.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 436 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.3K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TerrifyingAsFuck?
"Dudes use a table to save people from a burning building." reached 10.3K upvotes and 209 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TerrifyingAsFuck.
What subreddits are similar to r/TerrifyingAsFuck?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/TerrifyingAsFuck?
Of the posts we hold, 83% are video posts and 12% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TerrifyingAsFuck?
Across 436 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 11:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 10:00 UTC (2.6K 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/TerrifyingAsFuck?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TerrifyingAsFuck has 3.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 82 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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