Reddit launched its Reddit Recap 2022 Thursday, taking a deep dive into the greater than 430 million posts (up 14% in contrast with 2021) and roughly 2.5 billion feedback (up 7% year-over-year) on its platform via November.

The corporate wrote in its introduction, “Our annual Reddit Recap is right here. With greater than 100,000 lively communities from around the globe throughout Reddit, there are lots of conversations taking place in any given second. So, we leap in our very personal wayback machine to supply perception into 2022’s most memorable moments, spotlight our most lively communities and reveal the largest dialog drivers on Reddit and past.”

One development that emerged was Redditors embracing their humanness and normalizing their errors, as r/tifu, which stands for “at this time I fucked up,” jumped to No. 27 on the record of most considered communities from No. 47 final 12 months, whereas the highest spot on the record went to r/amitheasshole, adopted by r/AskReddit.

Reddit famous that r/AskMen and r/AskWomen noticed respective 59% and 52% year-over-year will increase in views as individuals sought sincere conversations, from inspiring quotes to high quality of life.

Healthful content material additionally resonated with Redditors, as r/mademesmile noticed a forty five% year-over-year rise in views, bumping it as much as the No. 38 most views subreddit general.

Redditors confirmed curiosity in occasions throughout the globe, with r/worldnews turning into the third-most-viewed neighborhood and r/Ukraine seeing its views depend skyrocket by 76,000% from 2021, to 1.8 billion, with greater than 6 million posts and feedback this 12 months.

Shifting even farther from residence, r/area climbed from No. 11 to No. 4 with a 79% year-over-year leap in views.

Redditors embraced local weather change and taking motion on it fairly than merely discussing it, with massive jumps in views by communities together with r/climateoffensive, r/guerillagardening and r/nolawns.

Reddit introduced again its r/place April Fools’ stunt after a five-year hiatus, throughout which a single Redditor can solely place a single tile each 5 minutes, and the platform stated that in the course of the 87-hour run for this version of r/place, Redditors from 236 international locations and territories worldwide contributed greater than 160 million tiles, making it No 16 on the record of most-viewed subreddits, in addition to essentially the most upvoted publish of the 12 months.

The 2022 r/place tallied over 1.1 billion views, greater than 157 million complete canvas views, over 10.4 million Redditors who positioned tiles and greater than 5.9 million tiles positioned per hour on the peak of exercise.

Probably the most upvoted posts on Reddit in 2022 have been: