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X-Files: The Truth Is Out There. Welcome to Reddit's X-Files Community! This is a place for lovers of everything X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, and Millennium. (Sub Icon designed by /u/Canes-305) Founded 2010 · 183.2K members

184.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 33.9K upvotes, which works out to 184 per 1,000 members.

184peak upvotes per 1,000 members
184.4Kmembers
33.9Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
453posts 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.

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Image 45% Text 20% Gallery 15% Video 10% Question 6% Link 3% Poll 1%

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 121 Meme/Humor 95 Original Content 77 Season Two :season2: 28 Season One :season1: 14 Season Three :season3: 13 :x: Spoilers :x: 13 First-Time Watcher (no SPOILERS!!) 9 Rumor/News 7 Season Six :season6: 6

What the ceiling looks like

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

My Agent Scully for Halloween!

↑ 33.9K 💬 1.3K gallery 2025

Teaser for the X-Files LEGO set featuring Gillian Anderson

↑ 9.7K 💬 411 video 2026

My wife and I are still joking about the “knife alien” weeks after we saw this meme. I’d like more meme, please.

↑ 9.4K 💬 282 image 2025

I knit my own X Files sweater!

↑ 8.3K 💬 264 gallery 2024

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↑ 7.5K 💬 80 image 2025

David Duchovny in Santa Monica

↑ 7K 💬 210 image 2026

I want to believe... in my knitting skills!

↑ 6.3K 💬 214 gallery 2024

My wife just met DD and took this photo for me because she knows how much I love this guy’s whole career. She said he was super kind and sweet 👽

↑ 6K 💬 180 image 2024

Gillian Anderson looks so good.

↑ 5.9K 💬 168 image 2026

When Gillian Anderson got the opportunity to write and direct her own episode of The X-Files, she used it to tell a story of love, faith, remorse, an…

↑ 5.9K 💬 216 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/XFiles, in numbers

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

What is r/XFiles?
r/XFiles ("X-Files: The Truth Is Out There") describes itself this way: Welcome to Reddit's X-Files Community! This is a place for lovers of everything X-Files, The Lone Gunmen, and Millennium. (Sub Icon designed by /u/Canes-305). It was founded in 2010 and has 183.2K members.
How many members does r/XFiles have?
r/XFiles has about 184.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 453 of its posts; the biggest reached 33.9K upvotes, which is 184 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/XFiles?
"My Agent Scully for Halloween!" reached 33.9K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/XFiles.
What subreddits are similar to r/XFiles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/XFiles?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 20% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/XFiles?
Across 453 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (7.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/XFiles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/XFiles has 4.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 43 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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