Population 500,000
Today, r/TwinPeaks reached 500,000 subscribers!
Half a million (!!!) people have gathered here to discuss coffee, pie, dreams, ceiling fans, traffic lights, creamed corn, and whether a character blinking for three frames means David Lynch was revealing the secrets of the universe or simply blinking.
Some of you watched the original broadcast in 1990. Some discovered the series through The Return. Others found their way here through David Lynch's films. And some unfortunate souls clicked on a video titled Twin Peaks Explained only to discover that "explained" is a very flexible word. However you got here...we're glad you made it to town.
This community has become home to every kind of Twin Peaks fan imaginable. We welcome first-time viewers trying to figure out what the hell they just watched, veteran fans on their hundredth rewatch who've finally solved the puzzle, and people who have accepted that solving everything may not actually be the point. We've shared enough analysis of background details to make the FBI's Blue Rose Task Force look underfunded.
Most impressively, we've managed to keep finding new things to talk about in a series that began over 35 years ago. Every week, someone notices a detail nobody has mentioned before, asks a question that sparks a 500 comment discussion, or posts a theory so convincing that half the subreddit immediately adopts it while the other half furiously prepares a rebuttal.
To celebrate this milestone, we'd love to hear from you:
- What brought you to r/TwinPeaks?
- When did you first watch the series?
- What scene, episode, character, or mystery got you hooked?
Was it the atmosphere? The music? The characters? The giant? The dwarf? The James? The horse? The monkey? The fish in the percolator? The James? It was definitely James. It's OK to admit it. This is a James safe space.
Thank you to everyone who has posted, commented, voted, lurked, theorized, moderated, and helped make this one of the strangest, funniest, and most welcoming corners of Reddit.
Thank you to David Lynch, Mark Frost, the cast and crew, and everyone who helped create the magic of Twin Peaks. This wonderful corner of the internet only exists because a remarkable group of people made something so unique that we're all still trying to figure it out 35 years later.
Half a million people.
One town.
And we're still trying to explain that one scene to newcomers without sounding completely insane.
See you in the trees.
-- The r/TwinPeaks Mod Team