About r/Awww
In its own words:
A subreddit with minimal rules for stuff that makes you go *awww*! Feel free to post pics, gifs, or videos of cats, dogs, babies, or anything cute.
Community guide
r/Awww (#780, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: A subreddit with minimal rules for stuff that makes you go *awww*! Feel free to post pics, gifs, or videos of cats, dogs, babies, or anything cute. Recent activity samples show 79 posts/day in recent samples (~66% video, ~24% image, ~9% gallery). Public rules we collected include: Direct link to content.; No NSFW posts..
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Direct link to content.; No NSFW posts..
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; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Cat(s), Other Animal(s), Dog(s), Human(s).
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 8, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 2,945 subscribers (+0.22%). It sits just behind r/notinteresting (#779) and ahead of r/awfuleverything (#781) in our ranking.
What sets r/Awww apart
Compared with other large communities, r/Awww leans heavily on videos (66% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 4%). For its size it is unusually busy: about 57.7 new posts a day per million members, more than 90% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.37% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 97% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (13:00 UTC) sees about 3.3× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Awww went up from 1,349,504 to 1,368,002 subscribers (+18.5K, +1.37%). That is about 420 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Awww talks about
We read the titles of 586 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “cat”, “baby”, “dog”, “elephant” and “cute”. Other frequent themes are love, halloween, tiny, happy, puppy and family. Recurring phrases include “baby elephant”, “happy halloween”, “elephant calf” and “chuck likes”. By format, 66% are videos, 24% are images and 9% are galleries.
Popular post flairs: Cat(s) (123), Other Animal(s) (123), Dog(s) (115), Human(s) (17), Other Cute Thing(s) (12).
Activity and best time to post
r/Awww gets about 79 new posts a day. The public archive holds 235,577 posts and 1,615,204 comments in total, about 6.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (94 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (71). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Awww
The moderators of r/Awww list 2 rules. In short:
- Direct link to content.
- No NSFW posts.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Awww 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/Awww?
r/Awww has 1,368,002 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #780 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 18,498 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/Awww created?
r/Awww was created on Sep 8, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Oct 11, 2011.
Is r/Awww still active?
Yes. r/Awww gets about 79 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 235,577 posts and 1,615,204 comments. In a sample of 586 recent posts we counted 341 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/Awww?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/Awww?
The community describes itself as: “A subreddit with minimal rules for stuff that makes you go *awww*! Feel free to post pics, gifs, or videos of cats, dogs, babies, or anything cute.” Recent post titles often mention cat, baby, dog, elephant and cute. Most posts are videos (66%).
Is r/Awww SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Awww 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/Awww?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Awww accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 2 posted rules, starting with: “Direct link to content.”; “No NSFW posts.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Awww?
Communities with similar topics include r/aww (37.9M), r/cats (9.5M), r/pics (33.6M), r/StartledCats (1.6M) and r/IllegallySmolCats (1.5M).
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/Awww.