About r/thisismylifenow
In its own words:
This is a subreddit with gifs or pics of people and animals accepting their uncommon situations.
Community guide
r/thisismylifenow (#813, about 1.3 million subscribers) — This is a subreddit with gifs or pics of people and animals accepting their uncommon situations. A recent sample averaged 1.0 posts a day (~50% video, ~25% image, ~25% gallery). Its public rules include: No recent reposts; No low-effort posts; The content must be associated with the subreddit; No porn.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort or empty shitposts are often removed—add real context. Match posts to: No recent reposts; No low-effort posts; The content must be associated with the subreddit; No porn.
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 11, 2014, which makes it 12 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 150 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/modernwarfare (#812) and ahead of r/ImTheMainCharacter (#814) in our ranking.
What sets r/thisismylifenow apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.8 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/thisismylifenow climbed from 1,305,092 to 1,306,317 subscribers (+1.2K, +0.09%). That is about 24 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/thisismylifenow, from 2017 to 2021, ranked by Reddit.
- Bill Gates waiting in line for a burger like a normal citizenu/GallowBoob · Jan 17, 2019 · 80,623 points · 44 comments · image
- Sleepy London woman snuggles up to total strangeru/GallowBoob · Mar 18, 2018 · 59,097 points · 1,529 comments · image
- Recently got specs and no one told me thisu/Your_post_not_good · Jan 17, 2020 · 54,773 points · 1,559 comments · image
- This duck couple hit the jackpotu/GallowBoob · Nov 16, 2017 · 48,843 points · 834 comments · image
- guess I'm going under this Meowu/OllyTwist · Jan 25, 2018 · 47,561 points · 436 comments · image
- Sure, you might THINK you're goth, but unless you dejectedly ride the subway with your raven, you may as well hang up your black velvet frock coat and hit the beach.u/GallowBoob · Apr 16, 2019 · 47,701 points · 1,511 comments · image
- I guess I'll just drift offu/FlashyWoodenTurd · Jul 23, 2018 · 51,257 points · 426 comments · image
- Dad clutching a baby runs onto stage to hold his ballet dancing daughter's hand after she suffers stage fright... and becomes the star of the showu/GallowBoob · Jun 8, 2018 · 48,880 points · 1,016 comments · image
- Captain Multitask: Drunk-friend holder & passionate kisser.u/GallowBoob · Oct 30, 2017 · 46,581 points · 605 comments · image
- College lifeu/-N3ptun3- · Dec 7, 2017 · 44,865 points · 361 comments · image
Activity and best time to post
r/thisismylifenow gets about 1.0 new post a day. The public archive holds 37,066 posts and 490,191 comments in total, about 13.2 comments per post.
Rules of r/thisismylifenow
The moderators of r/thisismylifenow list 4 rules. In short:
- No recent reposts
- No low-effort posts
- The content must be associated with the subreddit
- No porn
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/thisismylifenow 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/thisismylifenow have?
r/thisismylifenow has 1,306,317 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #813 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,225 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/thisismylifenow?
r/thisismylifenow was created on Mar 11, 2014, so it has been around for 12 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Mar 12, 2014.
How active is r/thisismylifenow?
Moderately: r/thisismylifenow gets about 1.0 new post a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 37,066 posts and 490,191 comments.
What is r/thisismylifenow about?
The community describes itself as: “This is a subreddit with gifs or pics of people and animals accepting their uncommon situations.”
Is r/thisismylifenow safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/thisismylifenow as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/thisismylifenow?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/thisismylifenow accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “No recent reposts”; “No low-effort posts”; “The content must be associated with the subreddit”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/thisismylifenow?
Communities with similar topics include r/AnimalTextGifs (1.2M), r/AnimalsBeingJerks (6.5M) and r/Zoomies (1.5M).
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/thisismylifenow.