Reddit-V: Virality Prediction Dataset

A Reddit (cross-subreddit post collection) dataset of 31,725 posts across 91 subreddits, collected by EL-Amrany via Reddit API. Each record contains post title, subreddit, upvotes, score, upvote ratio, comment count, comment sentiment, title sentiment, image URL/format/dimensions, virality label (binary), and temporal features (hour, day, weekday, month, year). Reddit-V contains 31,725 Reddit posts labeled for virality (12.7% viral), with pre-computed engagement signals and sentiment scores designed for virality prediction benchmarking. Suitable for virality prediction, engagement modeling, multimodal analysis, sentiment analysis, content popularity research, social media classification benchmarks.

#Popularity prediction#Virality

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Content metrics

31,725 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

scoreμ 1.7K ± 5.8K
min 0max 126K
upvote ratioμ 0.866 ± 0.18
min 0.05max 1
low 32%medium 38%high 30%
comment countμ 45.294 ± 161.993
min 0max 9.2K
comment sentimentμ 0.071 ± 0.175
min -1max 1
low 25%medium 42%high 33%
title sentimentμ 0.029 ± 0.243
min -1max 1
low 15%medium 64%high 22%
viral12.7% true
true 12.7%false 87.3%
7.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2024hatepsbattlethankslikerulenewtimememedigitalknowdoncathelpinvestartthinkdaygoodpeoplegotgamefoundmakingmanyearneedolddogtodaywaylookrightyearsbestlittleguyslovedrawingwantrealworldlineoilpostacryliclookinggoingworkbad
Topic clusters

Topic 0

history
update
work
freedom
package
right
haha
want

Topic 1

psbattle
cat
dog
sit
man
jump
yawn
couch

Topic 2

game
steam
play
skin
sale
minecraft
fortnite
map

Topic 3

invest
buy
template
sell
meme
money
investment
stock

Topic 4

cook
eat
drink
coffee
skibidi
piss
cheese
poop

Topic 5

rule
martial
law
shipwreck
boop
insurance
tag
stare

Topic 6

hate
thank
realistic
thanks
square
tooth
toilet
shoe

Topic 7

sketch
pixel
drawing
draw
art
illustration
artist
drew

Topic 8

funny
joke
bad
stupid
laugh
terrible
dumb
awful

Topic 9

trump
vote
donald
election
biden
maga
crazy
joe

Topic 10

arcane
spoiler
riot
jinx
viktor
act
legend
league

Topic 11

font
feedback
logo
look
critique
design
typography
serif
Show all 36 topics

Topic 12

pattern
leather
dress
fabric
stitch
sewing
bag
sew

Topic 13

digital
portrait
graphite
art
self
photoshop
painting
study

Topic 14

meme
instagram
format
post
facebook
dank
emoji
die

Topic 15

today
day
reddit
remember
rest
morning
need
yesterday

Topic 16

war
korea
empire
crime
british
romans
south
japan

Topic 17

makeup
resin
mold
epoxy
paint
lip
cast
shade

Topic 18

good
fun
chill
enjoy
smile
happy
cool
day

Topic 19

acrylic
canvas
watercolor
oil
paint
acrylics
painting
watercolour

Topic 20

wars
star
jedi
clone
darth
lego
sith
wan

Topic 21

christmas
thanksgiving
ornament
december
tree
happy
gift
holiday

Topic 22

fix
corner
door
gap
wall
stud
repair
drywall

Topic 23

wife
gay
dad
father
marriage
bad
woman
daddy

Topic 24

light
nose
dark
face
shadow
blue
vampire
forest

Topic 25

truth
tell
wrong
fact
lie
weird
honest
bizarre

Topic 26

pencil
ink
paper
pen
colored
marker
alcohol
ballpoint

Topic 27

hate
thank
meat
candy
egg
cooky
chocolate
cream

Topic 28

guy
man
think
gender
dude
male
reveal
hey

Topic 29

phantom
menace
line
meme
sign
real
guy
time

Topic 30

think
thought
sense
belong
know
diagram
theory
writer

Topic 31

cosplay
self
jinx
gojo
roh
beetlejuice
power
amane

Topic 32

marvel
harry
potter
cringe
panel
fan
facebook
fandom

Topic 33

hurt
deny
trauma
blame
emotional
consequence
pain
defend

Topic 34

girl
boy
snow
mushroom
little
winter
frog
bird

Topic 35

hard
goat
seat
flash
gordon
femboy
big
sit
Top hashtags
#115
#210
#37
#55
#234
#44
#013
#023
#222
#24242
#62
#endthefed2
#s2
#universalheathcare2
#041
#101
#111
#1231
#1241
#1251
Top emoji
🤣160
😭124
😂111
🗿103
💀83
🤔65
😔47
😎46
🥰44
😡33
🙏31
🔥30
😱29
🤦29
🏻25

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
reddit-v-virality
Authors
EL-Amrany
Year
2024
Source paper
Reddit-V: A Reddit Virality Prediction Dataset
DOI / arXiv
10.26615/978-954-452-098-4-041
License
Unknown — verify before publishing
Records
31,725
Languages
en
Collected
2018-11-13 to 2024-12-06 (2010s, 2020s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/EL-Amrany/Reddit-V link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 26.2 MB across 4 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

Reddit-V: A Virality Prediction Dataset and Zero-Shot Evaluation with Large Language Models
Samir El-amrany, Matthias R. Brust, Salima Lamsiyah, Pascal Bouvry
Journal Article · Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing · 2025

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How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{elamrany_redditv,
  title  = {{Reddit-V}: A Reddit Virality Prediction Dataset},
  author = {EL-Amrany},
  year   = {2024},
  url    = {https://github.com/EL-Amrany/Reddit-V}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

EL-Amrany (2024). Reddit-V: Virality Prediction Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-098-4-041

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

EL-Amrany. Reddit-V: Virality Prediction Dataset. 2024, doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-098-4-041.

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