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/r/Xennials - A subreddit for the microgeneration that exists between Generation X and Millennial. Xennial birth years, roughly defined, are 1977-1984 Founded 2017 · 307.6K members

310.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.4K upvotes, which works out to 120 per 1,000 members.

120peak upvotes per 1,000 members
310.2Kmembers
37.4Kbest post
5Kmost comments
714posts 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.

45% 16% 16% 12%
Image 45% Text 16% Video 16% Question 12% Gallery 5% Link 5%

The topics it labels

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

Nostalgia 126 Discussion 60 Meme 19 Article 4 Announcement 📢 2 Weekly chat 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Bartending tonight and say to my customer - anyone ever tell you ya look like the dad from The Wonder Years? My jaw hit the floor when he said “I am …

↑ 37.4K 💬 569 image 2026

I had no idea. This is pretty messed up.

↑ 36.6K 💬 14 image 2025

Accurate

↑ 34.1K 💬 662 image 2025

Ironically we need 2 incomes to support our lifestyle.

↑ 34K 💬 1.7K image 2025

What were yours?

↑ 30.1K 💬 4.3K image 2024

We had some of the best

↑ 29.4K 💬 269 image 2025

As a younger xennial this speaks to my soul!

↑ 29.4K 💬 216 image 2026

What are some of yours?

↑ 29.1K 💬 2K image 2025

MySpace was the best.

↑ 29K 💬 718 image 2026

Nary a Xennial in sight to warn him

↑ 28.8K 💬 1.8K video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/Xennials, in numbers

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

What is r/Xennials?
r/Xennials describes itself this way: /r/Xennials - A subreddit for the microgeneration that exists between Generation X and Millennial. Xennial birth years, roughly defined, are 1977-1984. It was founded in 2017 and has 307.6K members.
How many members does r/Xennials have?
r/Xennials has about 310.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 714 of its posts; the biggest reached 37.4K upvotes, which is 120 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Xennials?
"Bartending tonight and say to my customer - anyone ever tell you ya look like the dad from The Wonder Years? My jaw hit the floor when he sa" reached 37.4K upvotes and 569 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Xennials.
What subreddits are similar to r/Xennials?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Nebraska.
What kind of posts do best on r/Xennials?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 16% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Xennials?
Across 714 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (14.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (12.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (11.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/Xennials?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Xennials has 21.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 39 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Xennials, 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.