r/gifs on SubMouse

About r/gifs

In its own words:

"GIFs" is officially pronounced with a hard "J"

The community was created on Feb 14, 2009, which makes it 17 years old. Since Oct 19, 2026, it has gained 458 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/Futurology (#34) and ahead of r/Damnthatsinteresting (#36) in our ranking.

What sets r/gifs apart

Compared with other large communities, r/gifs leans heavily on images (98% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 9%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.2 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 (0.01% since Sep 19, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.

Subscriber growth

Between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, r/gifs went up from 21,512,156 to 21,513,912 subscribers (+1.8K, +0.01%). That is about 44 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (8 so far), so it gets longer every week.

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/gifs, from 2016 to 2020, ranked by Reddit.

Leaked Drone footage of shackled and blindfolded Uighur Muslims led from trains. As a German this is especially chilling.u/i_hate_kitten · Jul 15, 2020 · video
1 dad reflex 2 childrenu/iswearidk · Dec 22, 2016 · 166,964 points · 5,585 comments · image
Finnish ski jumping teamu/Buki1 · Jan 22, 2018 · 186,678 points · 1,980 comments · video
Kids in Elementary school hold a surprise party for their beloved school custodianu/TooShiftyForYou · Oct 17, 2018 · 183,286 points · 4,278 comments · image
Tear gas canisters filmed raining in Hong Kong - against all regulations, while police deny firing from heightu/30624700306247705342 · Aug 22, 2019 · 167,900 points · 6,466 comments · image
Trump boards Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoeu/TooShiftyForYou · Oct 5, 2018 · 176,962 points · 8,280 comments · image
Weird Al just got his star on the Walk of Fameu/unknown_human · Aug 27, 2018 · 171,514 points · 2,982 comments · image
My dog got on the news. This was my favourite bit.u/DrChilton · Mar 22, 2019 · 162,930 points · 1,708 comments · video
Bush cracks joke to Obama while Clinton makes a speechu/NainoRed · Oct 22, 2017 · 164,027 points · 7,649 comments · image
Letting the horses out in the snow.u/xMeta4x · Jan 8, 2018 · 169,237 points · 2,588 comments · video

What r/gifs talks about

Across 40 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “gif”, “digital”, “cold”, “outside” and “fidget”. Recurring phrases include “cold outside”, “fidget toy” and “digital fidget”. By format, 98% are images and 3% are links.

gif 7
digital 4
cold 4
outside 4
fidget 3
toy 3
brain 3

Activity and best time to post

r/gifs gets about 4.1 new posts a day. The public archive holds 1,039,152 posts and 27,777,230 comments in total, about 26.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (10 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (2). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.

Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 21, 2026 – Oct 27, 2026

Images 98%Links 3%

Rules of r/gifs

The moderators of r/gifs list 11 rules. In short:

No Reposts or Recent Popular Crossposts
No Reaction, HIFW, Analogy, Cakeday, Upvote gifs
Better suited to video/Longer than 20 seconds
Direct image links REQUIRED
No depictions of real-life harassment or assault
No witch-hunts or brigading
No nudity, porn, gore, or other obscene material allowed.
Titles must be descriptive
No hate speech of any kind
Breaks Reddit rules/redditquette

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/gifs 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/gifs?

r/gifs has 21,513,912 subscribers (Oct 29, 2026), which makes it the #35 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,756 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026.

When was r/gifs created?

r/gifs was created on Feb 14, 2009, so it has been around for 17 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 20, 2009.

Is r/gifs still active?

Yes. r/gifs gets about 4.1 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 1,039,152 posts and 27,777,230 comments.

What is the best time to post in r/gifs?

Based on post counts from Oct 21, 2026 to Oct 27, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What kind of posts are on r/gifs?

The community describes itself as: “"GIFs" is officially pronounced with a hard "J"” Recent post titles often mention gif, digital, cold, outside and fidget. Most posts are images (98%).

Is r/gifs SFW?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/gifs as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

What are the rules of r/gifs?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/gifs accepts both text and link posts, with images enabled. It has 11 posted rules, starting with: “No Reposts or Recent Popular Crossposts”; “No Reaction, HIFW, Analogy, Cakeday, Upvote gifs”; “Better suited to video/Longer than 20 seconds”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

What subreddits are similar to r/gifs?

Communities with similar topics include r/StartledCats (1.6M), r/oddlysatisfying (12.8M), r/Unexpected (12.1M), r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M) and r/FunnyAnimals (8.7M).

Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 29, 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/gifs.

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