About r/babyelephantgifs
In its own words:
Guaranteed to make you smile.
Community guide
r/babyelephantgifs (#820, about 1.3 million subscribers) covers Guaranteed to make you smile. A recent sample averaged 0.4 posts a day (~100% video). Its public rules include: All submissions must feature baby elephants.; Use a reliable website to host your gif.; Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.; Bots must receive approval before posting.; Please try not to repost.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: All submissions must feature baby elephants.; Use a reliable website to host your gif.; Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.; Bots must receive approval before posting.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Search before reposting.
The community was created on Mar 9, 2014, which makes it 12 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 184 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/AskCulinary (#820) and ahead of r/Jazz (#822) in our ranking.
What sets r/babyelephantgifs apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 5.0 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.3 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.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/babyelephantgifs climbed from 1,293,943 to 1,294,409 subscribers (+466, +0.04%). That is about 9 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/babyelephantgifs this week
The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Baby elephant zoomiesu/KayleighDelta · Nov 1 · video
- Her first dust bath vs nowu/unistirin · Nov 4 · video
- Baby elephantu/unistirin · Nov 7 · video
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/babyelephantgifs, from 2016 to 2018, ranked by Reddit.
- Baby elephant wipes out while chasing birdsu/holdenwook · Jun 22, 2017 · 37,612 points · 692 comments · image
- Baby elephant falls asleepu/wizardoflaw · Aug 16, 2017 · 26,153 points · 260 comments · image
- Ooops. I'm ok mama!Sep 25, 2017 · 25,944 points · 381 comments · image
- I will wreck you mateu/holdenwook · Apr 30, 2017 · 24,901 points · 291 comments · image
- Cute as a buttonu/holdenwook · Feb 14, 2018 · 22,661 points · 158 comments · image
- Imma stomp you sooo hard! Rawwrrrr ... Just kidding! MOMMY!!!u/me_007 · Jul 10, 2017 · 20,350 points · 144 comments · image
- Dammit human, I'm not a dog!u/holdenwook · Oct 3, 2017 · 20,875 points · 189 comments · image
- Hello yes I would like hug pleaseu/holdenwook · Jul 3, 2017 · 19,508 points · 250 comments · image
- Sometimes you drink from the well, and sometimes the well drinks you.u/holdenwook · Jun 20, 2017 · 19,590 points · 427 comments · image
- Baby elephant waves hello and continues on his merry way.u/holdenwook · Jul 2, 2017 · 19,307 points · 102 comments · image
Activity and best time to post
r/babyelephantgifs gets about 0.4 new posts a day. The public archive holds 26,941 posts and 135,285 comments in total, about 5.0 comments per post.
Rules of r/babyelephantgifs
The moderators of r/babyelephantgifs list 5 rules. In short:
- All submissions must feature baby elephants.
- Use a reliable website to host your gif.
- Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.
- Bots must receive approval before posting.
- Please try not to repost.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs 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 many subscribers does r/babyelephantgifs have?
r/babyelephantgifs has 1,294,409 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #821 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 466 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/babyelephantgifs?
r/babyelephantgifs was created on Mar 9, 2014, so it has been around for 12 years.
How active is r/babyelephantgifs?
Moderately: r/babyelephantgifs gets about 0.4 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 26,941 posts and 135,285 comments.
What is r/babyelephantgifs about?
The community describes itself as: “Guaranteed to make you smile.” Recent post titles often mention baby and elephant.
Is r/babyelephantgifs safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/babyelephantgifs as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/babyelephantgifs?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/babyelephantgifs accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “All submissions must feature baby elephants.”; “Use a reliable website to host your gif.”; “Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). 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/babyelephantgifs.