The end of the year is approaching and social media sites are taking stock of the past 12 months. After Spotify, Apple and TikTok, Reddit unveiled the figures that defined 2022 on its platform. And one thing is clear, the Reddit community has not stopped growing.
Reddit is on a roll. The community platform grew and won over new users in 2022. Looking back on the year, Reddit revealed that it now counts more than 100,000 active communities worldwide and that more than 430 million posts were created in 2022, a 14 per cent growth over 2021.
Reddit also saw an engagement increase with over 2.5 billion comments in 2022 by November 20. Again, this was an increase over the previous year, this time by 7 per cent; plus the site counted more than 24 billion upvotes, Reddit’s version of a “like,” which helps move a post up on the platform.
And when it came to specifics, the platform revealed that the post “Full screenshot of r/place 2022” in the subreddit “r/place” was the most popular publication with 434,300 upvotes.
Next came the post “In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia ‘in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded'” in the subreddit “r/interestingasfuck” with a total of 403,500 upvotes, followed by, in “r/mademesmile,” “he finally got his acorn ” with 379,800 upvotes and, in “r/aww,” “Man stops to rescue kitten, gets ambushed by platoon” with 357,200 upvotes.
A post “Place has ended” in “r/place” rounds out this top 5 of most popular posts with 353,700 upvotes.
Reddit and “r/tifu”
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The platform also highlighted the success of the “r/tifu” community, for “Today I F***ed Up,” which has risen 20 spots in the rankings in just one year, from the 47th most viewed community to 27th. Users have clearly embraced frank conversations regarding their curiosity, as the “r/AskMen” and “r/AskWomen” subreddits have grown by 59 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively, compared to last year.
Meanwhile the news has been a key topic for Reddit users. If internet users are now more generally increasingly turning to social networks for news, this is backed up by Reddit’s observations with the subreddit “r/worldnews” ranking as the year’s third most viewed community. The war in Ukraine was widely followed on the platform through “r/ukraine” which recorded a 76,000 per cent growth in views, amounting to 1.8 billion views in one year, and more than 6 million posts and comments.
Space also fascinated redditors as “r/space” enjoyed a 79 per cent increase in views.
The success of r/place
But the community that defined the year 2022 on Reddit is none other than r/place. The collaborative initiative brought together users from more than 236 countries and territories for 87 hours and racked up over 1.1 billion views.
More than 10.4 million redditors participated in a challenge that involved placing one pixel every five minutes, for a total of more than 5.9 million pixels placed every hour. This challenge resulted in a battle between web users from all over the world. – ETX Studio
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