Most Viral Yet Controversial r/dataisbeautiful Posts (2020–2024)

Top 30 highest-scoring posts on r/dataisbeautiful with upvote ratios below 70%, ranked by score with comment counts and metadata.
# date
score
upvote_ratio
num_comments
title
author
url
permalink
domain
is_self
1 2021-11-19 67093 0.699999988079071 3200 Coworkers asked what maternity leave was like. This was my wife’s response:🔥🔥🔥[OC] infinitemoment22 https://v.redd.it/u84l06ikym081 https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... v.redd.it False
2 2021-04-09 65378 0.699999988079071 6499 [OC] The 2020 election if only people under 45 voted. BLAZENIOSZ https://i.redd.it/3uonaxgip2s61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
3 2022-09-19 58903 0.6399999856948853 6840 [OC] China emits more CO2 than the entire Western hemisphere maanyos https://i.redd.it/8rte7ermguo91.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
4 2020-11-12 57365 0.6399999856948853 7617 [OC] Trump voters are less likely to have a college degree heresacorrection https://i.redd.it/v46ajhc78ty51.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
5 2021-01-28 49146 0.5899999737739563 1553 President Trump false or misleading claims while in office [OC] fredfery https://i.redd.it/87fs8xow80e61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
6 2022-07-21 46857 0.6899999976158142 2308 Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn transtwin https://lawsuit.org/general-law/repub... https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... lawsuit.org False
7 2021-01-21 46565 0.6700000166893005 2287 Trump is the only president not to register a 50% job approval rating at any point in his presidency since Gallup began measuring presidential job approval in 1938 (Avg Record-Low 41%) dect60 https://news.gallup.com/poll/328637/l... https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... news.gallup.com False
8 2020-06-18 45277 0.6800000071525574 3604 In U.S., 87% Approve of Black-White Marriage, vs. 4% in 1958 lnfinity https://news.gallup.com/poll/163697/a... https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... news.gallup.com False
9 2020-10-29 43719 0.6700000166893005 1513 [OC] Distribution of emotions during the presidential debates analyzed using an expression recognition neural network fredfredbur https://v.redd.it/506rhcerg1w51 https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... v.redd.it False
10 2021-06-15 43607 0.6600000262260437 3708 [OC] California is the world's 5th largest economy. Here are the top 5. JPAnalyst https://i.redd.it/e1hb7lu0if571.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
11 2020-06-11 43322 0.6800000071525574 2755 [OC] White House Diversity AFBismarck https://i.redd.it/jzbv08aez7451.jpg https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
12 2021-04-14 35907 0.6299999952316284 771 [OC] Should you be too worried after taking the J&J vaccine despite it being paused (out of an abundance of caution)? holospiritwolf https://i.redd.it/07ozdbh5x2t61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
13 2021-08-05 35822 0.699999988079071 5089 Where can you afford to live on the minimum wage in the United States? [OC] loveandwars https://i.redd.it/x5zantin8jf71.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
14 2022-05-12 35302 0.699999988079071 2431 [OC] The structural advantage held by the Republican Party in the US Senate JPAnalyst https://i.redd.it/lom9jmrcc1z81.jpg https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
15 2022-08-31 35029 0.6600000262260437 1249 Obituaries saying someone "died suddenly" closely track opioid deaths [OC] TrueBirch https://i.redd.it/zs7pfb6x33l91.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
16 2022-10-16 31722 0.6899999976158142 4182 Everyone Thinks They Are Middle Class [OC] theimpossiblesalad https://i.redd.it/aduriviqd7u91.jpg https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
17 2021-05-06 31512 0.6499999761581421 4907 [OC] President Biden has an approval rating of 54. Here is a comparison of president’s approval ratings on day 102 going back to 1945. JPAnalyst https://i.redd.it/qq0onc2whhx61.jpg https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
18 2021-03-01 30502 0.6899999976158142 1218 I tracked all of my gaming time between December 2019 and November 2021 [OC] Xenon_GH https://i.redd.it/0lb0zxqsefk61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
19 2020-06-07 30491 0.6000000238418579 1040 Fatal police shootings in the U.S. since January 01, 2015 [OC] statisticly https://i.redd.it/ezhufdgn2i351.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
20 2021-01-14 30150 0.6899999976158142 1527 [OC] American Presidential Impeachments by Body Weight Game_of_Jobrones https://i.redd.it/639hokgvyab61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
21 2021-05-05 30064 0.6600000262260437 1507 [OC] AirPods Revenue vs. Top Tech Companies Dremarious https://i.redd.it/oo52wnmjbcx61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
22 2023-01-31 29621 0.699999988079071 6305 [OC] The world's 10 richest women jcceagle https://v.redd.it/gwwunicr9dfa1 https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... v.redd.it False
23 2021-01-29 29099 0.699999988079071 1322 US Inauguration Address: Word Frequency (Biden vs. Trump) [OC] PixelWrangler https://i.redd.it/flw6p4ygf7e61.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
24 2021-04-07 27524 0.6399999856948853 2731 [OC] Are Covid-19 vaccinations working? jcceagle https://v.redd.it/58uxv6u9npr61 https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... v.redd.it False
25 2020-07-20 27395 0.5600000023841858 5933 The best (& worst) countries for raising a family (2020) [OC] [deleted] https://i.redd.it/7y8a9bng60c51.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
26 2024-04-01 25212 0.6899999976158142 2485 [OC] I met a woman who was also a data nerd, so we tracked our sex for three years. Nizidramaniiyt https://i.redd.it/7dtakqsu6vrc1.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
27 2022-10-13 24855 0.550000011920929 3594 [OC] Number of police killings in developed countries flyingcatwithhorns https://i.redd.it/iv2lvkix1kt91.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
28 2020-05-24 23963 0.6800000071525574 1856 [OC] Differences between Men and Women Stand-Up comedy specials. More in Comments HouseCopeland https://i.redd.it/ywpnsxo78q051.gif https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False
29 2021-07-21 22608 0.699999988079071 1111 [OC] Usain bolt , Tiger, German Shepherd, Bugatti, Boeing 737 All in a 200 meter race. [deleted] https://v.redd.it/5rx26yshmkc71 https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... v.redd.it False
30 2020-08-12 20076 0.6899999976158142 1046 [OC] Environmental impact of having fewer children GoodLifeIII https://i.redd.it/kxs6gqld4ig51.png https://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/... i.redd.it False

Most Viral Yet Controversial r/dataisbeautiful Posts (2020–2024) — Analysis

Political posts dominate: 13 of 30 top controversial posts are about politics, averaging 41K score vs 35K for non-political

The most divisive post (55% upvote ratio) is about police killings — nearly half of all voters downvoted it

Controversial Posts by Year
Most Discussed Posts by Comment Count
Most Divisive Posts by Upvote Ratio
Top 10 Posts by Score

Key Findings

  • Every post here scored 20K+ upvotes yet had upvote ratios of 55-70% — meaning 30-45% of voters actively downvoted
  • 2021 was peak controversy with 14 of 30 posts, coinciding with the post-election political climate
  • The most-commented post (7,617 comments) was about Trump voters and college degrees — 3x the comment rate of the average viral post
  • Posts about race, policing, and elections cluster at the bottom of the upvote ratio, suggesting these topics provoke the strongest disagreement
  • "Engagement intensity" (comments per 1K score) is highest for the most controversial posts, confirming that disagreement drives discussion

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