Top Posts of the Year and Best of 2012 Awards

from best of /r/Photoshopbattles

2012 has come to a close, and it's been an amazing year for reddit. We've had approximately:

 • 37 Billion Pageviews
 • 400 Million Unique Visitors
 • 4 Billion Votes
 • 30 Million Posts
 • 260 Million Comments

Here are some highlights from the year.

Top Ten Posts of 2012 (by total pageviews)

1. I am Barack Obama, President of the United States -- AMA (5,598,171 pageviews)

2. What's your "picture you can't see without laughing"? (2,450,140 pageviews )

3. What's your favorite picture on the whole Internet? (2,148,400 pageviews)

4. reddit, what do you look like before and after makeup? Is there a real difference? (2,142,071 pageviews)

5. Today, a homeless looking man handed me $50 and this note. Do any of you have any idea what it means? (1,756,748 pageviews)

6. What GIF makes you laugh every single time? (1,749,185 pageviews)

7. I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years. This is the result. (1,651,956 pageviews)

8. I am South Korean Singer, Rapper, Composer, Dancer and Creator of Gangnam Style PSY. AMA (1,514,034 pageviews)

9. What's your secret that could literally ruin your life if it came out? (1,482,935 pageviews)

10. I'm Snoop Lion! Ask me anything!! (1,467,071 pageviews)

First Post of 2012 - reddit, what mistake do you regret that didn't turn out so bad, yet you still regret it anyway?

Last Post of 2012 - (will be updated once determined)

Best of 2012 Awards
This year we decided to do something a bit different and have the glorious multitude of subreddits host their own Best of 2012 awards. Here are some highlights of the results from /r/Bestof2012:

• Best of /r/PhotoShopBattles
• Best of /r/ExplainLikeImFive

• 

  from /r/woahdude's best of 2012

  Best Static Visualization & more from /r/DataIsBeautiful
• Best of /r/StonerPhilosophy
• Al Borland of the Year from /r/HomeImprovement
• Most Inspiring Story & Best of /r/RandomActsofChristmas
• Best of /r/LadyBoners
• Meta statistics - traffic, moderation & more form /r/TheoryOfReddit 
• Årets kommentar & Best of /r/Sweden
• Most Interesting /r/AskScience Posts
• Top "What Are You Wearing Today" photo & other /r/MaleFashionAdvice awards
• Most Evil Plan of the Year from /r/MyEvilPlan
• Best /r/OnePiece Manga Chapter of the Year
• "The Moanies" - The Top /r/IrishProblems of the Year
• Best Academic Advice for /r/UCSantaBarbara Students
• Best Theory Analysis, Top Crow, & Other /r/ASOIAF awards
• Best Wrestling Match of the Year, Worst Merchandise & other awards from /r/SquaredCircle
• Trippiest Mindfuck & other Best of's from /r/woahdude
• "The Jerkies" - 2012's Biggest Circlejerks

/r/TrueBestof2012 is also holding community awards, and there is still time to vote for:

• Best Mod-Team of the Year
• Best New Community
• Best Big Community
• Worst Troll of the Year
• Best Little Community of the Year

And just for fun, here are some stats on admin voting patterns during 2012

Happiest Admins (Highest ratio of upvotes to downvotes)

      • krispykrackers
      • kirbyrules
      • kemitche & chromakode (tie)


Unhappiest Admins (Highest ratio of downvotes to upvotes)

      • rram
      • reostra
      • bitcrunch


Thanks for an outstanding 2012. Looking forward to what you all come up with in the new year!