About r/tattooadvice
In its own words:
Unsure of a design? Wondering if your tattoo is infected? Whatever the question, r/tattooadvice is here for you! PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE POSTING
Community guide
r/tattooadvice (#628, about 1.7 million subscribers) is oriented around: Unsure of a design? Wondering if your tattoo is infected? Whatever the question, r/tattooadvice is here for you! PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE POSTING Recent activity samples show 135 posts/day in recent samples (~40% image, ~36% gallery, ~21% text). Public rules we collected include: Do not body shame.; Post must ask a specific question regarding a tattoo or tattoo design.; NSFW potential infections.; Provide detailed and constructive advice.; Be respectful to others.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent fandoms or general off-topic dumps. Self-promotion and advertising are tightly limited—read those rules before linking your own channel, shop, or site. Civility and anti-harassment rules are explicit; personal attacks get you removed regardless of how right you think you are.
How it differs from lookalikes
The length of the public rule list is itself a signal: skim all of them once before assuming defaults from similar communities.
Practical pointers
Read the current sidebar/rules on Reddit before posting; collected rules can lag. Avoid clickbait titles; say what the post actually is. Common flairs in samples include: General Advice, Design, Healing, tattoo newcomer advice. Volume is high—clear titles help your post survive the firehose.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Feb 27, 2012, which makes it 14 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 2,571 subscribers (+0.15%). Among the 11 communities on our tattoos list it is number 3 by size. It sits just behind r/VintageFashion (#627) and ahead of r/Anticonsumption (#629) in our ranking.
What sets r/tattooadvice apart
r/tattooadvice is far more image-driven than most big subreddits: 40% of its recent posts are images, against a median of 21% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 80.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 94% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.29% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 97% of the Top 100. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (19:00 UTC) sees about 5.6× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/tattooadvice grew from 1,665,356 to 1,686,773 subscribers (+21.4K, +1.29%). That is about 487 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/tattooadvice talks about
We read the titles of 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “tattoo”, “advice”, “healing”, “design” and “normal”. Other frequent themes are artist, tattoos, sleeve, regret, ideas and placement. Recurring phrases include “second skin”, “dry healing”, “design regret” and “regret dry”. By format, 40% are images, 36% are galleries and 21% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: General Advice (368), Design (135), Healing (97), tattoo newcomer advice (52), Infected? (45), Appointments (3).
Activity and best time to post
r/tattooadvice gets about 130 new posts a day. The public archive holds 229,587 posts and 4,496,237 comments in total, about 19.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (146 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (109). Posting peaks around 19:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/tattooadvice
The moderators of r/tattooadvice list 10 rules. In short:
- Do not body shame.
- Post must ask a specific question regarding a tattoo or tattoo design.
- NSFW potential infections.
- Provide detailed and constructive advice.
- Be respectful to others
- No questions about pricing/tipping. Exceptions may be made for unusual experiences and discussion.
- No vague titles
- No Spam/Promotions
- No crossposts
- No discrimination or hate speech.
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/tattooadvice 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 members does r/tattooadvice have?
r/tattooadvice has 1,686,773 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #628 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 21,417 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/tattooadvice created?
r/tattooadvice was created on Feb 27, 2012, so it has been around for 14 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Nov 17, 2015.
Is r/tattooadvice still active?
Yes. r/tattooadvice gets about 130 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 229,587 posts and 4,496,237 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 585 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/tattooadvice?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 19:00 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/tattooadvice?
The community describes itself as: “Unsure of a design? Wondering if your tattoo is infected? Whatever the question, r/tattooadvice is here for you! PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE POSTING” Recent post titles often mention tattoo, advice, healing, design and normal. Most posts are images (40%).
Is r/tattooadvice SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/tattooadvice 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/tattooadvice?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/tattooadvice accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Do not body shame.”; “Post must ask a specific question regarding a tattoo or tattoo design.”; “NSFW potential infections.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/tattooadvice?
Communities with similar topics include r/TattooDesigns (1.9M), r/tattoos (10.4M), r/Design (4.5M), r/AskCulinary (1.3M) and r/freefolk (1.4M).
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/tattooadvice.