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.
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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 3Amazing Shit 3Weird Shit 2Impressive Shit 2Good Shit 1WTF is that Shit 1Top Post 1Classic Shit 1Stupid Shit 1⭐⭐⭐ 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/youseeingthisshit?
r/youseeingthisshit ("Are you seeing this shit?") is a Reddit community. It was founded in 2016 and has 2.7M members.
How many members does r/youseeingthisshit have?
r/youseeingthisshit has about 2.7M members. ViralHunt has tracked 319 of its posts; the biggest reached 244.8K 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 244.8K 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/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
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 319 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 03:00 UTC (35.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (30.7K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (28.7K 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 52.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 13 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/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.