The most popular post featured on Reddit was posted in the subreddit r/places with over 434 thousand upvotes. The post shows the full screenshot of the 2022's r/place April's Fool traditional collective artwork that Redditors created. Since 2017 Redditors come together to create an original pixel art piece in the popular subreddit, with thousands of users participating every year. The second most popular post was "In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded" and was awarded more than 403.5 thousand upvotes.
Leading posts on Reddit worldwide in 2022, by number of upvotes
(in 1,000s)
Post description
Number of upvotes in 1,000s
r/place: Full screenshot of r/place 2022
434.3
** r/interestingasfuck: In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded"
403.5
r/mademesmile: he finally got his acorn
379.8
r/aww: Man stops to rescue kitten, gets ambushed by platoon
357.2
r/place: Place has ended.
353.7
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