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r/toronto

News, People, Places, Events, Pictures, and Discussions on Toronto; Canada's Business and Financial capital, and the Provincial capital of Ontario. Founded 2008 · 946.1K members

949.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 47.9K upvotes, which works out to 50 per 1,000 members.

50peak upvotes per 1,000 members
949.3Kmembers
47.9Kbest post
2.4Kmost comments
1.3Kposts 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.

31% 25% 17% 16% 9%
Link 31% Image 25% Gallery 17% Video 16% Text 9% Question 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.

Picture 417 News 270 Video 164 Discussion 138 Article 121 Arts & Culture 53 NEEEEEERRRR WOOOOSSSSHHHHHH 43 History 40 Alert 15 Sports 14

What the ceiling looks like

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

Mike Myers on SNL last night

↑ 47.9K 💬 871 image 2025

Found a cat on the streetcar tonight

↑ 24.9K 💬 895 gallery 2026

It’s trash day

↑ 19K 💬 467 image 2025

A guy from Toronto spent a year running to draw a cartoon of his route.

↑ 18.4K 💬 214 video 2024

Cops park illegally for their Starbucks run then give the finger to the person calling them out.

↑ 17K 💬 709 video 2024

Packed Skydome crowd boo the American anthem before proudly singing the Canadian anthem tonight

↑ 16.9K 💬 650 video 2025

Closed my car door a little too loudly and my neighbour wasn’t too pleased…

↑ 14.9K 💬 181 image 2025

I walked the entire length of Yonge Street in one day (36 miles, 11 hours, one almost broken soul)

↑ 13.7K 💬 892 gallery 2025

Spotted on a car with New York plates in Toronto

↑ 13.6K 💬 503 image 2025

7 pm sunsets

↑ 13.1K 💬 152 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/toronto, in numbers

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

What is r/toronto?
r/toronto describes itself this way: News, People, Places, Events, Pictures, and Discussions on Toronto; Canada's Business and Financial capital, and the Provincial capital of Ontario. It was founded in 2008 and has 946.1K members.
How many members does r/toronto have?
r/toronto has about 949.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.3K of its posts; the biggest reached 47.9K upvotes, which is 50 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/toronto?
"Mike Myers on SNL last night" reached 47.9K upvotes and 871 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/toronto.
What subreddits are similar to r/toronto?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/toronto?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are link posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/toronto?
Across 1.3K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (6.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 05:00 UTC (4.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 04:00 UTC (3.7K 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/toronto?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/toronto has 10.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 593 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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