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Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!. Reddit's Doctor Who Fan Community - News, Discussion, Artwork and Fan Creations! Founded 2008 · 1M members

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 25K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
25Kbest post
19.3Kmost comments
411posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

42% 17% 14% 12% 10%
Image 42% Question 17% Text 14% Gallery 12% Video 10% Link 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 169 Arts/Crafts 56 Misc 52 Question 41 Clip/Screenshot 27 Cosplay 16 News 15 Speculation/Theory 5 Audio 5 Spoilers 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Like Streaming Doctor Who? Please take 2 minutes out of your day and stop ISPs from destroying net neutrality and charging you more for the streaming…

↑ 25K 💬 183 link 2017

What do you think of Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Who?

↑ 19.2K 💬 504 link 2016

Amy and Vincent at the world cup

↑ 18.2K 💬 278 image 2026

This poster actually goes so hard

↑ 17.8K 💬 653 image 2025

Russell T Davies to return as Doctor Who showrunner

↑ 15.1K 💬 2.5K link 2021

Despite being the youngest actor to take on the role, no other actor has convinced me that the Doctor is a 1000 year old Time-Lord more than Matt Smi…

↑ 14.4K 💬 362 image 2025

without fail the scene where 'Vincent Van Gogh' Visits the gallery brings me near tears.

↑ 14K 💬 487 video 2017

Bernard Cribbins, star of The Railway Children and Doctor Who, dies aged 93

↑ 13.4K 💬 508 link 2022

Upvote K9 for 54 years of good luck.

↑ 13.3K 💬 55 image 2018

This was the coldest photo of 2013

↑ 13.2K 💬 292 image 2022

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/doctorwho, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/doctorwho?
r/doctorwho ("Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy!") describes itself this way: Reddit's Doctor Who Fan Community - News, Discussion, Artwork and Fan Creations. It was founded in 2008 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/doctorwho have?
r/doctorwho has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 411 of its posts; the biggest reached 25K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/doctorwho?
"Like Streaming Doctor Who? Please take 2 minutes out of your day and stop ISPs from destroying net neutrality and charging you more for the " reached 25K upvotes and 183 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/doctorwho.
What subreddits are similar to r/doctorwho?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/doctorwho?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are image posts and 17% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/doctorwho?
Across 411 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (7.1K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/doctorwho?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/doctorwho has 10.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 21 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/doctorwho, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.