What's going viral with content creators on X

The top 3

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   1. 👩‍💻 Paige Bailey

   @DynamicWebPaige · 76.5K followers

   6.2×their usual

   the secret to becoming an expert is embarrassingly boring: build in public, write down what you learned and the process behind it, teach all that to someone, help them ship repeat for a few years, and you're solid

   28.9K views · Oct 29

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   2. Linus ✦ Ekenstam

   @LinusEkenstam · 245.7K followers

   6×their usual

   ”an artist with zero skills” aka @antrofrog_ emerged in the last 40 days across socials, this video alone has now done somewhere around 200M views in 36h across platforms. created by Antrogfrog using @midjourney and @krea_ai it is an absolute masterpiece in storytelling for…

   73.3K views · Nov 1 · Video · Leads with a number

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   3. Rick Golfs

   @Top100Rick · 76.2K followers

   4.9×their usual

   Legit insane. The Barstool Internet Invitational has 6 million views already! 6 million!! Whatever you think of Barstool, this is insane viewership. For context: The PGA Tour backed Creator Classic got 1 to 3 million views. There is a huge golf fanbase that is young and…

   187K views · Oct 28 · Photo · Leads with a number

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The openings behind them

Too few creator posts went viral in these weeks to say which openings worked.

How we count

Postel's library follows thousands of individual creators on X: founders, builders, writers and other people posting as themselves. Brands, news and fan accounts, politicians and aggregators are kept out. This page reads their original English posts from Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026, leaving out replies and reposts.

A post counts as viral when it gets at least 3 times its creator's usual views and 10,000 views in all. A creator's usual is the median views of their posts over the 60 days before the period ended, leaving out posts younger than three days. Comparing each post with its own creator means a big account's ordinary post doesn't count, and a small account's unusually big post does.

A model then reads every viral post, sorts it into a topic by what it's about, and leaves out politics, gossip, news about other people, health claims, get-rich pitches, giveaways and anything else this page shouldn't feature. A second, stricter model approves each post before it's shown with its creator's name. The list ranks the approved posts by how far each beat its creator's usual, one post per creator. Openings are sorted by the plain rules in the table.

Every post links to the original on X. Creators: if you'd rather your post weren't on this page, send its link through the contact form and it comes off within a few days.

Other topics

Or see what's going viral on X this week across every topic.

• AI68 viral posts passed our check last week
• Startups and founders23 viral posts passed our check last week
• Software developers30 viral posts passed our check last week
• Careers and work29 viral posts passed our check last week
• Marketing and sales15 viral posts passed our check last week
• Design10 viral posts passed our check last week
• Investing10 viral posts passed our check last week

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