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I knit this 1930s dress takes rank 1 on Reddit Hot Posts on September 5, 2026, a craft photo replacing yesterday's Terry Crews drawing of Sofia Vergara. A second row, Russian general who ordered attack on children's hospital shot in head, is the only hard-news title in the ten. Versus the September 4 Reddit Hot board, all 10 names are new. The Reddit Hot Posts API snapshot is as of 08:01:32 UTC.
Top trending posts on Reddit: September 5
I knit this 1930s dress: Craft photo of a finished vintage-pattern dress. No widely reported news trigger identified for September 5 beyond the post itself. New at 1.
Russian general who ordered attack on children's hospital shot in head: News headline post. No extra corroborating dispatch was matched in a same-day fetch beyond the Reddit title. New at 2.
Father crosses the river with his son inside a sack so that he arrives clean at school.: Photo or video of a parent carrying a child across water. No widely reported named-location trigger identified for September 5. New at 3.
I can get on board with this: Image-macro style title. No widely reported trigger identified for September 5. New at 4.
Borzoi lying completely flat in a patch of green grass and clover: Animal photo. No widely reported trigger identified for September 5. New at 5.
Cowboy needed assurance to cuddle with Cactus: Pet photo. No widely reported trigger identified for September 5. New at 6.
That core strength is lit: Sports or fitness clip title. No widely reported trigger identified for September 5. New at 7.
The one who celebrated wasn't the left: Political-reaction title. No widely reported named event identified for September 5 beyond the post. New at 8.
TIL NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, a fan of visiting zoos, claims gorillas would always go wild seeing him behind glass: Today-I-learned factoid citing animal expert Ron Magill. Recirculated trivia, not a September 5 news event. New at 9.
Natural rubber being extracted from rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis): Process photo. No widely reported commodity-news trigger identified for September 5. New at 10.
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What changed on Reddit Hot Posts since yesterday
New entrants: all 10 rows.
Drop-offs: Terry Crews drawing Sofia Vergara (1), squirrel house (2), dentist dog (3), Katta-kun pelican (4), Me_irl (5), Never [OC] (6), Eltz castle (7), anti-yellowing phone case (8), It is done (9), home security cat (10).
What today's Reddit Hot posts reveal
The hot feed is a Saturday image dump. Nine of ten titles are crafts, animals, trivia, or reaction images. Rank 2 is the exception, a war-crime headline that would also fit Reddit World News but landed here as a hot-page row.
That mix is the point of this source. It is not a news wire. A knitted dress can outrank a general on a weekend.
The API returned 10 posts at 08:01:32 UTC with a complete name mismatch versus all 10 rows on September 4, which is 0 holdovers. Rank 9's Shaquille O'Neal trivia cites gorillas behind glass, a zoo anecdote rather than a 2026 box score. Rank 10 names the rubber species Hevea brasiliensis, which is the only scientific binomial on the list.
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This list came from the Trends MCP get_top_trends tool with type Reddit Hot Posts and limit 10. The feed is for analysts who need a dated ranked board rather than a homepage screenshot.
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