About r/tippytaps
In its own words:
Animals doing Tippy Taps
Community guide
r/tippytaps (#858, about 1.2 million subscribers) covers Animals doing Tippy Taps. A recent sample averaged 0.7 posts a day (~100% video). Its public rules include: Suitable Content; Non-OC Content; Be Respectful; Animal Cruely.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Suitable Content; Non-OC Content; Be Respectful; Animal Cruely.
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. Common flairs include: Bird, Dog.
The community was created on Aug 6, 2016, which makes it 10 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 320 subscribers (+0.03%). It sits just behind r/btc (#858) and ahead of r/Pareidolia (#860) in our ranking.
What sets r/tippytaps apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.6 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/tippytaps went up from 1,230,316 to 1,231,631 subscribers (+1.3K, +0.11%). That is about 26 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/tippytaps this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Someone said he's making tap wateru/ChicagoMensch · Nov 4 · video
- Snippy taps, snappy taps, chompy stompsu/Naive_Navel · Nov 6 · video
- 🌸CHACHA🌸 Taps My Hand When She Wants Some Attention😸🐾u/BabaMe6024 · Nov 5 · video
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/tippytaps, from 2017 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.
- She's (14) retiring from life in a week and we're taking her to the parks everyday. This is her old lady tippytaps.u/urbanbobo · Oct 6, 2019 · 82,102 points · 1,928 comments · video
- Our dog KoKo passed away today peacefully in her sleep. She was just about to turn 16. This is a video recorded after a bath 9 hours before she passed.u/FwireFwower · May 1, 2019 · 53,416 points · 1,240 comments · video
- When in doubt, tap it out.u/CrimsonLawbringer · Feb 23, 2020 · 48,938 points · 397 comments · video
- Our old gal Nami can't walk anymore, but she still tippy taps for dinneru/HeightAquarius · Dec 6, 2022 · 51,763 points · 591 comments · video
- Do flippyflaps count as tippytaps?u/Michellehas2ls · Jan 25, 2018 · 42,829 points · 467 comments · video
- Dog does tippy tap dance whenever he's happy.u/natsdorf · Feb 18, 2018 · 42,413 points · 329 comments · image
- Rottweiler tap tap tapu/HeavyAd9422 · Mar 25, 2022 · 44,375 points · 187 comments · video
- The tiniest tapsu/MattBaster · Dec 3, 2020 · image
- Max has explosive tippytapsu/CitesQuo · Jun 4, 2022 · 37,562 points · 246 comments · video
- Guinea pigs on their way to protect the princess.u/StanzelMafia · Mar 4, 2019 · 37,462 points · 446 comments · video
Activity and best time to post
r/tippytaps gets about 0.7 new posts a day. The public archive holds 31,422 posts and 354,183 comments in total, about 11.3 comments per post.
Rules of r/tippytaps
The moderators of r/tippytaps list 4 rules. In short:
- Suitable Content
- Non-OC Content
- Be Respectful
- Animal Cruely
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/tippytaps 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/tippytaps have?
r/tippytaps has 1,231,631 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #859 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,315 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/tippytaps created?
r/tippytaps was created on Aug 6, 2016, so it has been around for 10 years.
Is r/tippytaps still active?
Moderately: r/tippytaps gets about 0.7 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 31,422 posts and 354,183 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/tippytaps?
The community describes itself as: “Animals doing Tippy Taps”
Is r/tippytaps SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/tippytaps as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/tippytaps?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/tippytaps accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and videos enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Suitable Content”; “Non-OC Content”; “Be Respectful”. 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/tippytaps.