About r/AnimalsBeingJerks
In its own words:
A place for sharing videos, gifs, and images of animals being jerks.
Community guide
r/AnimalsBeingJerks is the antagonistic sibling of wholesome animal-clip communities: animals being jerks, not helpers. Rank #120 (about 6.5 million subscribers). Rules require a real animal, a jerk moment, and funny framing—while banning animal hate, memes/compilations, and unmarked NSFW.
Editorial bar
Share media where an animal’s behaviour is mischievous or antagonistic in a humorous way. Context/aftermath notes belong in the title when needed per rules.
Versus Bros / Derps / Aww
AnimalsBeingBros wants cooperative kindness; Derps wants clumsy cuteness; Aww is general adorable. Jerks is the “being rude” lane. Low daily volume in our sample (~1 ppd) means theme fit matters more than posting often.
Practical pointers
No reposts; tag NSFW; no hate speech; keep it funny without celebrating harm to animals.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Feb 22, 2013, which makes it 13 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 0 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/entertainment (#119) and ahead of r/malefashionadvice (#121) in our ranking.
What sets r/AnimalsBeingJerks apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.1 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.02% since Sep 19, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/AnimalsBeingJerks climbed from 6,545,190 to 6,546,275 subscribers (+1.1K, +0.02%). That is about 25 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/AnimalsBeingJerks gets about 0.9 new posts a day. The public archive holds 131,809 posts and 1,936,803 comments in total, about 14.7 comments per post.
Rules of r/AnimalsBeingJerks
The moderators of r/AnimalsBeingJerks list 9 rules. In short:
- Must be an Animal
- Keep posts funny
- No Reposts
- Tag NSFW
- No hate speech
- No memes/comics. No compilation videos.
- Must be a jerk
- Context in Title/Aftermath posts
- No animal hate
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/AnimalsBeingJerks?
r/AnimalsBeingJerks has 6,546,275 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #120 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,085 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/AnimalsBeingJerks created?
r/AnimalsBeingJerks was created on Feb 22, 2013, so it has been around for 13 years.
Is r/AnimalsBeingJerks still active?
Moderately: r/AnimalsBeingJerks gets about 0.9 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 131,809 posts and 1,936,803 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/AnimalsBeingJerks?
The community describes itself as: “A place for sharing videos, gifs, and images of animals being jerks.”
Is r/AnimalsBeingJerks SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/AnimalsBeingJerks as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/AnimalsBeingJerks?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/AnimalsBeingJerks accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Must be an Animal”; “Keep posts funny”; “No Reposts”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/AnimalsBeingJerks?
Communities with similar topics include r/AnimalsBeingBros (6.9M), r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M), r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M), r/HumansBeingBros (6.8M) and r/productivity (4.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/AnimalsBeingJerks.