About r/Zoomies
In its own words:
Videos, images, and gifs of happy animals zooming around.
Community guide
r/Zoomies (#707, about 1.5 million subscribers) is oriented around: Videos, images, and gifs of happy animals zooming around. Recent activity samples show 1.6 posts/day in recent samples (~53% video, ~33% image, ~13% gallery). Public rules we collected include: Zoomies; Repost; No scared animal zoomies; Not Directly linked to image or gif.; Don't be a dick..
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Zoomies; Repost; No scared animal zoomies; Not Directly linked to image or gif..
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. The public rule list is long enough that skimming all entries once beats assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Search before reposting common clips or questions. Common flairs in samples include: VIDEO, GIF, PIC.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Dec 16, 2015, which makes it 10 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 172 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/2meirl4meirl (#706) and ahead of r/diablo4 (#708) in our ranking.
What sets r/Zoomies apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.1 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 2, 2026, r/Zoomies went up from 1,499,598 to 1,500,942 subscribers (+1.3K, +0.09%). That is about 31 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Zoomies talks about
Looking at the titles of 15 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 3), the words that come up most are “snow”, “dog”, “love”, “good” and “puddle”. Recurring phrases include “good puddle”.
Popular post flairs: VIDEO (7), GIF (5), PIC (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/Zoomies gets about 1.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 70,707 posts and 604,533 comments in total, about 8.5 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (6 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (0).
Rules of r/Zoomies
The moderators of r/Zoomies list 9 rules. In short:
- Zoomies
- Repost
- No scared animal zoomies
- Not Directly linked to image or gif.
- Don't be a dick.
- Do not harass or dox.
- Animal Cruelty
- No joking about eating the animal in the post.
- No hatred toward breeds.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Zoomies 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/Zoomies?
r/Zoomies has 1,500,942 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #707 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,344 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/Zoomies?
r/Zoomies was created on Dec 16, 2015, so it has been around for 10 years.
How active is r/Zoomies?
Moderately: r/Zoomies gets about 1.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 70,707 posts and 604,533 comments.
When is r/Zoomies most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Zoomies about?
The community describes itself as: “Videos, images, and gifs of happy animals zooming around.” Recent post titles often mention snow, dog, love, good and puddle.
Is r/Zoomies safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Zoomies as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Zoomies?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Zoomies accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Zoomies”; “Repost”; “No scared animal zoomies”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Zoomies?
Communities with similar topics include r/AnimalsBeingJerks (6.5M), r/AnimalsBeingBros (6.9M), r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M), r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M) and r/gifs (21.5M).
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/Zoomies.