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The list is compiled by aggregating the total upvote counts of all posts submitted across Reddit during Week 20 of 2026, then ranking the top 10 by highest upvote total.

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Top 10 Most-Upvoted Reddit Posts - Week 20, 2026

Here are the 10 most upvoted Reddit posts of Week 20, 2026 (May 19–25), ranked by score across r/all and r/popular — covering Gemini's real-time video AI demo on r/artificial, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on r/worldnews, Minnesota's prediction-market ban on r/politics, and the 1987 lost-wallet story on r/mademesmile. Vote for the story you think deserved the #1 spot, and be the 1st to comment below!

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Engineer Resigns Live on Company All-Hands - r/antiwork
The 47-second speech, where the worker unmuted to tell the CEO that calling remote staff unserious was a deal-breaker, was transcribed and shared across LinkedIn, X, and TikTok within hours. By Friday, three competing tech companies had posted job listings specifically emphasizing permanent remote work, a direct market response to the viral video. This event drove the fastest growth in r/antiwork's subscriber count in 2026, climbing 14% in three days.
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Pope Leo XIV Publishes First Encyclical - r/worldnews
r/worldnews dominated the week's discussion with Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, published May 25, 2026, as the first from an American-born pontiff. The thread hit 78,000 upvotes and 14,000 comments, with a pinned translation of key passages earning 42,000 upvotes. Users debated the document's progressive stances on economic inequality and climate change, making it the second most-upvoted post of the week. This level of sustained discourse reflects the encyclical's unusual relevance beyond religious circles.
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James Webb Captures Oxygen Signature on Proxima Centauri b - r/space
Three research paper authors hosted a six-hour AMA, answering questions in a pinned thread, while Carl Sagan quotes flooded the comments, with the top note referencing his death exactly 30 years before the announcement. This oxygen signature, the first ever for a potentially habitable exoplanet, sparked a 24-hour trending period on Reddit.
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Google Changes Its Search Box for First Time in a Decade - r/technology
After 29 years, Google finally retired the plain search box for an AI-integrated conversational prompt — and r/technology noticed immediately. The thread pulled 64,000 upvotes, got crossposted to r/mildlyinfuriating for another 12,000, and produced a top comment ('I am not ready for this') that summed up the mood better than any analysis could. Nine thousand two hundred comments followed, most of them working through what the redesign — touching 8.5 billion daily searches — means for SEO, news publishers, and how people find anything on the web at all. It trended for 48 straight hours, an unusually long run for a product-design change.
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Man Returns 1987 Lost Wallet with Inflation-Adjusted Cash - r/mademesmile
A 1987 wallet, lost for nearly four decades, came back with the original cash inside — adjusted for inflation by the person who found it. What actually made this hit 66,000 upvotes in 18 hours wasn't the money; it was the owner recognizing every item inside, including a photograph of his late wife. The reunion video pulled 3 million YouTube views in two days, and the follow-up post made Reddit's front page a second time — a rare thing for a story to manage twice.
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Disney Erased FiveThirtyEight From the Internet - r/journalism
Disney quietly deleted the entire FiveThirtyEight archive — over a decade of election models and sports analytics, gone without an announcement — and r/journalism found out before most news outlets did. The thread hit 47,000 upvotes and prompted the Internet Archive to confirm it had preserved the content elsewhere. Top comments called it historical vandalism, which is roughly right: losing that dataset means losing a public record of how forecasting actually performed over ten years, not just an old website. The story spread to a dozen other subreddits within a day.
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Gemini Omni Real-Time Video AI Demo Breaks the Internet - r/artificial
Real-time multimodal AI demos have gotten common enough that most no longer move the needle on r/artificial, but this one did: 58,000 upvotes and enough genuine enthusiasm from AI researchers in the thread to suggest a real step forward rather than another polished demo reel. The top comment, sitting at 8,400 upvotes, zeroed in on the response speed as the actual breakthrough. The subreddit picked up 2,000 new subscribers in the days after — people don't usually join a community over a single post, but this one pulled it off.
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Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets - r/politics
Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets outright, citing both election-influence risk and unlicensed gambling, and r/politics split almost evenly over whether that's principled regulation or government overreach — 52,000 upvotes on a thread that stayed genuinely divided in the comments. Polymarket volumes reportedly jumped 34% within 24 hours as traders repositioned around the news. Legal experts in the thread were already predicting First Amendment challenges before the law even takes effect, which tells you this fight is far from over.
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Teacher Gives Students Entire Week to Practice Non-AI Skills - r/education
One teacher's assignment for the week: no AI, at all — just storytelling, cooking, building things with your hands, and having a genuinely difficult conversation face to face. It topped r/education not because the idea was radical but because it named something a lot of parents were already quietly worried about, and several pledged in the comments to run the same week at home. Her follow-up AMA, walking through the reasoning behind it, drew even more engagement than the original post — proof this touched a nerve well past one classroom.
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Subway Map Artist Draws Every City From Memory - r/MapPorn
An artist's timelapse of drawing five global subway maps from memory—London, Tokyo, New York, Paris, and Berlin—with only seven minor errors across all five, captivated r/MapPorn with 43,000 upvotes, 30% more than the subreddit's weekly average. Transit authority employees verified the accuracy in comments, and three major systems offered commission work, a response rate 2x higher than typical viral art posts. A follow-up r/IWantToLearn post about memory techniques hit the front page the next day. Its cross-subreddit influence demonstrates remarkable organic reach.
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What Are These Posts and How Were They Ranked?

These rankings are based on upvote totals on Reddit during the week of May 19–25, 2026. r/all shows the most-upvoted posts across all of Reddit. r/popular is a curated subset. AMA stands for 'Ask Me Anything' — a live Q&A thread where experts answer community questions.

All post titles are quoted directly from their original Reddit threads.

Frequently Asked Questions About the Most Upvoted Reddit Posts of Week 20, 2026

## Frequently Asked Questions About the Most Upvoted Reddit Posts of Week 20, 2026

What dates does Week 20, 2026 cover? May 19 through May 25, 2026 (Monday–Sunday in the ISO week calendar).

How were the top 10 most upvoted Reddit posts chosen? Posts are pulled from r/all and r/popular using the highest net upvote scores recorded during the week. Cross-posts are deduplicated to their original subreddit.

Which subreddit had the most entries this week? Entries this week span r/artificial, r/politics, r/worldnews, r/antiwork, r/education, r/technology, r/space, r/mademesmile, r/MapPorn, and r/journalism — one post per subreddit.

Can I suggest a post for next week's list? Yes — leave a comment below with the permalink and we'll review it for inclusion in the Week 21 roundup.