Hollow Knight. We are a fan community for the Hollow Knight franchise; both titles are 2D adventure/Metroidvania games for the PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch (1&2), PlayStation 4&5, and Xbox One! The sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, released on September 4, 2025 and brought new lore! Please help us stay spoiler-free by keeping major spoilers out of the title. Founded 2014 · 1.2M members
1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached
53.8K upvotes, which works out to
45 per 1,000 members.
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.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/HollowKnight?
r/HollowKnight ("Hollow Knight") describes itself this way: We are a fan community for the Hollow Knight franchise; both titles are 2D adventure/Metroidvania games for the PC, Mac, Linux, Nintendo Switch (1&2), PlayStation 4&5, and Xbox One! The sequel, Hollow Knight: Silksong, released on September 4, 2025 and brought new lore! Please help us stay spoiler-free by keeping major spoilers out of the title. It was founded in 2014 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/HollowKnight have?
r/HollowKnight has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 53.8K upvotes, which is 45 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/HollowKnight?
"Just made the best umbrella ever" reached 53.8K upvotes and 494 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/HollowKnight.
What subreddits are similar to r/HollowKnight?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/alberta, r/massachusetts.
What kind of posts do best on r/HollowKnight?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are image posts and 19% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/HollowKnight?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 10:00 UTC (14.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (8.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (7.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/HollowKnight?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/HollowKnight has 16.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 615 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
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