About r/babyelephantgifs
In its own words:
Guaranteed to make you smile.
Community guide
r/babyelephantgifs (#820, about 1.3 million subscribers) covers Guaranteed to make you smile. Recent activity samples show 0.4 posts/day in recent samples (~100% video). Public rules we collected include: All submissions must feature baby elephants.; Use a reliable website to host your gif.; Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.; Bots must receive approval before posting.; Please try not to repost..
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: All submissions must feature baby elephants.; Use a reliable website to host your gif.; Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.; Bots must receive approval before posting..
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. Search before reposting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 9, 2014, which makes it 12 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 79 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/Millennials (#819) and ahead of r/AskCulinary (#821) in our ranking.
What sets r/babyelephantgifs apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 5.0 comments per post, against 13.1 for a typical large subreddit. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.3 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/babyelephantgifs climbed from 1,293,943 to 1,294,225 subscribers (+282, +0.02%). That is about 6 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/babyelephantgifs gets about 0.4 new posts a day. The public archive holds 26,941 posts and 135,285 comments in total, about 5.0 comments per post.
Rules of r/babyelephantgifs
The moderators of r/babyelephantgifs list 5 rules. In short:
- All submissions must feature baby elephants.
- Use a reliable website to host your gif.
- Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.
- Bots must receive approval before posting.
- Please try not to repost.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/babyelephantgifs 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/babyelephantgifs have?
r/babyelephantgifs has 1,294,225 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #820 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 282 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/babyelephantgifs?
r/babyelephantgifs was created on Mar 9, 2014, so it has been around for 12 years.
How active is r/babyelephantgifs?
Moderately: r/babyelephantgifs gets about 0.4 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 26,941 posts and 135,285 comments.
What is r/babyelephantgifs about?
The community describes itself as: “Guaranteed to make you smile.” Recent post titles often mention baby and elephant.
Is r/babyelephantgifs safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/babyelephantgifs as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/babyelephantgifs?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/babyelephantgifs accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “All submissions must feature baby elephants.”; “Use a reliable website to host your gif.”; “Non-gif posts must receive moderator approval.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/babyelephantgifs?
Communities with similar topics include r/MadeMeSmile (12.7M), r/likeus (2.8M), r/Awww (1.4M), r/boxoffice (1.2M) and r/formuladank (1.1M).
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/babyelephantgifs.