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Averages 10 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Thursdays around 11 AM UTC. Mostly link posts.

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
10 13%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
196 16%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
25 3%
Activity Rank #14,126 by posts/day among 90,883 tracked SFW subreddits as of Sep 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#14,126 1,663
Top 25%
Posts w/ Links The percentage of posts that link off-site. This counts true link posts plus text posts with a URL in the body. Image and video posts are not counted.
57%
Low-Reply Rate Share of posts with 0 or 1 comment. A single comment is often an automated mod reply rather than real community discussion.
28%

r/unusual_whales Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes051015200200400600Sep 1Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Link
Typical Title Length Long (111 chars)
Peak Day Saturday

Upvote Distribution

How upvoted posts perform Only posts with 2+ upvotes. The bands below show how those posts are spread by upvote count.

2–9
8%
10–99
33%
100–999
56%
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3%
Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 80%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 131
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 2.1K

r/unusual_whales Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

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Tue 8 AM
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r/unusual_whales Flair Performance

Upvotes and volume by flair

This subreddit doesn't use post flairs.

No flaired posts were found in this month's data.

Post Type Breakdown

Share by text, image, or link

55%link posts

r/unusual_whales Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments
per
90 (29.3%)
25829
trump
35 (11.4%)
18338
year
29 (9.4%)
22228
breaking
26 (8.5%)
21845
hit
23 (7.5%)
19622
iran
23 (7.5%)
17441
prices
21 (6.8%)
23226
billion
19 (6.2%)
12714
said
17 (5.5%)
52151
diesel
16 (5.2%)
20825

r/unusual_whales Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
twitter.com125284
ibtimes.co.uk365
theguardian.com3234

r/unusual_whales Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

Warren Buffett said he could end the Federal deficit in five minutes. His idea? Ban all sitting members of Congress from reelection whenever the deficit tops 3% of GDP. The federal deficit currently sits at 5.8% of GDP.

2.1K upvotes 75 comments link Sep 13

Bill Burr has said AI should replace CEOs, not their working employees: “Why don’t they make an AI CEO? They’re making way more [than] all the workers. You’re going to save way more money replacing one guy. Why don’t you do that? Because it’s not for us. It’s for them.”

1.8K upvotes 69 comments link Sep 23

WATCH: The Houthis are Taking American Equipment Seized from Saudi-Backed Forces

1.6K upvotes 228 comments image Sep 12

Governor Beshear on Mitch McConnell: "I have still heard absolutely nothing from the senator & it's been 3 months now, which is unacceptable. If he's not there on Monday, he owes an explanation to the American people."

1.3K upvotes 86 comments link Sep 10

Tucker Carlson has said the US government is pushing gambling, porn and drugs on its own population

1.2K upvotes 123 comments link Sep 3

Days before the towers fell, extremely unusual stock trades were made on companies directly affected by the attack

1.2K upvotes 62 comments image Sep 12

Thomas Massie has said: I predicted they’d call off Congress until the election to stop our new Epstein bill.

1.1K upvotes 22 comments link Sep 7

⚡️BREAKING: Saudi Arabia's Main International Airport in the Capital, Riyadh, has been Struck by Yemen's Houthis

1.1K upvotes 89 comments image Sep 19

The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia by UPS, per Bloomberg.

864 upvotes 75 comments link Sep 23

Andrew Yang has reportedly said that a prominent AI lab leader believes the autonomous OpenAI agents that escaped containment in July 2026 did not just hack Hugging Face: they also polluted the internet with self-replicating code, per CNBC interview

860 upvotes 102 comments link Sep 17

r/unusual_whales Audience Overlap

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r/unusual_whales FAQ

What's the best time to post on r/unusual_whales?

Based on posting volume, r/unusual_whales is most active on Thursdays around 11 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/unusual_whales?

r/unusual_whales averages 10 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/unusual_whales get?

Posts on r/unusual_whales average about 196 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/unusual_whales get most?

On r/unusual_whales, posts are a mix of formats, mostly link posts