Reddit Recap 2022 reveals most popular UK threads and gaming content of the year

Social news website Reddit has posted its Reddit Recap 2022, revealing some of the most popular threads and subreddits.

We’ve included some of the most popular Reddit content in the UK over the past year, as well as the most-read gaming content on Reddit.

Reddit has more than 100,000 active communities from around the world, and in 2022 Redditors created 430m+ posts, a year-on-year rise of 14%.

As of November 2022, the site has seen 2.5bn+ total comments, representing a year-on-year increase of 7%.

And in terms of upvotes, there were 24bn+ of them in 2022.

General data was pulled from January 1st to October 23rd 2022, while the most upvoted posts and AMAs were pulled from January 1st to November 22nd 2022. See our picks of the most popular on Reddit in 2022 below, and the Reddit Recap 2022 full list of content here.

Reddit’s top 10 most-viewed communities in the UK

1. r/amitheasshole
2. r/askreddit
3. r/soccer
4. r/casualuk
5. r/worldnews
6. r/askuk
7. r/formula1
8. r/unitedkingdom
9. r/antiwork
10. r/ukraine

Reddit’s top 10 most-engaged communities in the UK (in terms of posts and comments submitted)

1. r/askreddit
2. r/askuk
3. r/casualuk
4. r/soccer
5. r/ukpolitics
6. r/teenagers
7. r/unitedkingdom
8. r/amitheasshole
9. r/worldnews
10. r/formula1

Reddit’s most-upvoted posts in the UK

1. r/casualuk: Received from my landlady this morning, they aren’t all bad 😀
2. r/casualuk: Preparing the Golden Balls of Disappointment for Halloween 🙂
3. r/casualuk: On a conference call…my 14yr old daughter presented me with this note to
   avoid disturbing me….
4. r/casualuk: Just had this queueing experience in Homebase. Couldn’t believe my fellow
   brits. I’m the orange one.
5. r/clevercomebacks: Twitter has gotten funnier recently

Most-upvoted AMA (Ask Me Anything) posts in the UK

1. r/movies: Hello, I’m Nicolas Cage and welcome to Ask Me Anything
2. r/casualuk: I am the “Whisk Guy” from Come Dine With Me. AMA!
3. r/casualuk: I’ve been skipping (bin diving) for years as my main source of food. AMA !
4. r/casualuk I’m on the Glasgow-London overnight megabus AMA
5. r/iama I’m Louis Theroux. AMA – Forbidden America, Jiggle jiggle and more.

Elden Ring named the most popular gaming subreddit in 2023

Reddit has historically been a place for gamers around the world to gather–and it remained that
way in 2022.

By the numbers:

● With 30.9 million subscribers, r/gaming is the #4 most-subscribed community on Reddit
globally
● r/eldenring became the #1 most-viewed subreddit in the category and the #8
most-viewed subreddit on the platform, while r/genshin_impact moved to the #5
most-viewed subreddit in the category (from the #1 spot last year)
● Lost Ark had a huge resurgence, with r/lostarkgame going from unranked to the #4
most-viewed subreddit in the category in 2022 (see our Reddit Recap 2021 article here, which saw r/leagueoflegends take second place)

Dom Sacco

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.

As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.