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r/What

Averages 6 posts/day, top 25% activity. Most active Fridays around 1 AM UTC. Mostly image posts (94%).

Posts / Day Average posts per day this month. Arrow is change vs the prior calendar month.
6 6%
Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post this month (upvotes minus downvotes). Arrow is change vs the prior month.
23 23%
Avg Comments Mean number of comments per post this month. Arrow is change vs the prior month when that month’s data is available.
38 160%
Activity Rank #21,733 by posts/day among 92,652 tracked SFW subreddits as of Jul 2026 (Top 25%). Arrow is spots gained or lost vs the prior month.
#21,733 1,446
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.
6%
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.
51%

r/What Traffic & Engagement

Volume and engagement over time

Posts/DayAvg Upvotes051015050100150200Jul 1Jul 8Jul 15Jul 22Jul 29
Posts/Day Avg Upvotes Mean net upvotes per post in this bucket.

Post Format

Top Post Type Image
Typical Title Length Short (31 chars)
Peak Day Tuesday

Upvote Distribution

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

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22%
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Posts that get upvoted Share of posts that received at least one upvote (2+ net upvotes). Most posts at 1 upvote are excluded. 36%
Median upvoted post Median upvotes among posts that received upvotes. Differs from Avg Upvotes in the snapshot, which includes every post. 15
Top post Highest upvote count on a single post this month. 460

r/What Most Active Times

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Most Active by Day

Sun 12 AM
Mon 5 PM
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r/What 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

94%image posts

r/What Trending Keywords

Ranked by how often they appear

KeywordMentions ▼UpvotesComments

r/What Mentioned Domains

Most linked sites

Domain Links Upvotes
youtube.com73

r/What Top Posts

Highest-performing posts

What is going on here?

460 upvotes 173 comments image Jul 18

What s that line?

422 upvotes 2.8K comments image Jul 21

What are these tiny white squares in some toothpastes for?

368 upvotes 233 comments image Jul 21

What do you call this?

367 upvotes 988 comments image Jul 12

what?

222 upvotes 51 comments image Jul 8

What, when, where, how?

197 upvotes 152 comments image Jul 5

What the fudge do we call this?

186 upvotes 206 comments image Jul 24

What does this say

183 upvotes 109 comments image Jul 4

What?

176 upvotes 42 comments image Jul 31

“What” Guess I’ll Just Have the Water.

173 upvotes 38 comments image Jul 3

r/What Audience Overlap

Overlapping audiences

View in Atlas →
r/notinteresting 272 posts/day
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7% overlap
r/whatisit 424 posts/day
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5% overlap

r/What FAQ

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

Based on posting volume, r/What is most active on Fridays around 1 AM UTC. That window has the most community activity, but busier hours also mean more competition for attention.

How active is r/What?

r/What averages 6 posts per day and ranks in the top 25% for activity among tracked SFW subreddits.

How many upvotes do posts on r/What get?

Posts on r/What average about 23 upvotes this month (net score per post).

What kind of posts does r/What get most?

On r/What, most posts are image posts (94%)