Barack Obama's 2012 post on the Reddit community r/IAmA was the most popular piece of content in the popular subreddit, with approximately 216,000 upvotes. Launched in 2009, the Reddit community r/IAmA is one of the most popular subreddits hosted on the platform. In this subreddit, public and famous figures can offer to answer users' questions in timed sessions and users can invite public figures to participate. Additionally, regular users can introduce themselves and present the reason why their experience might make them interesting people to ask questions to, like in the case of Michael Packard, a lobster diver who was swallowed by a whale, whose Reddit AMA collected 93,700 upvotes from users on the platform.
Most popular posts from public personalities and regular users in the r/IAmA ("Ask Me Anything") community on Reddit from 2009 to YTD 2022, by number of upvotes
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Most popular posts from public personalities and regular users in the r/IAmA ("Ask Me Anything") community on Reddit from 2009 to YTD 2022, by number of upvotes
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