About r/youtube
In its own words:
r/YouTube is for discussion about YouTube. This is a fan sub, not run or owned by YouTube! Please read the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/wiki/index/rules NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802848
Community guide
r/youtube (#294, about 3.5 million) discusses YouTube as a fan community—not run by YouTube. Rules require YouTube-adjacent discussion, ban toxicity, cover sitewide/abuse topics carefully, and forbid self-promo/self-linking/ads and spam; never give out personal information. Text/Image (~281.2 ppd).
Platform discussion, not channel spam
Talk about YouTube; don’t use the sub as free advertising for your channel.
Practical pointers
High volume text/image samples; Discussion/Question/UI Change/Bug flairs.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 3,235 subscribers (+0.09%). It sits just behind r/howto (#293) and ahead of r/Naruto (#295) in our ranking.
What sets r/youtube apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 4.0 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. For its size it is unusually busy: about 80.9 new posts a day per million members, more than 98% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.53% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 86% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/youtube grew from 3,458,015 to 3,476,388 subscribers (+18.4K, +0.53%). That is about 418 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/youtube talks about
Looking at the titles of 700 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “videos”, “video”, “shorts”, “channel” and “watch”. Other frequent themes are ads, app, help, algorithm, change and youtuber. Recurring phrases include “shorts feed”, “watch history”, “already watched” and “shorts algorithm”. By format, 47% are text posts, 37% are images and 8% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Discussion (156), Question (156), UI Change (99), Bug (86), Channel Feedback (47), Feature Change (27).
Activity and best time to post
r/youtube gets about 280 new posts a day. The public archive holds 1,353,943 posts and 5,400,188 comments in total, about 4.0 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Wednesday (324 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (261). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/youtube
The moderators of r/youtube list 5 rules. In short:
- YouTube and YouTube Adjacent Discussion
- Don't be Toxic
- Sitewide Rules/Abuse Discussion
- Self Promotion, Self Linking, or Advertising
- No Spam
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/youtube 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/youtube have?
r/youtube has 3,476,388 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #294 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 18,373 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/youtube?
r/youtube was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 1, 2008.
How active is r/youtube?
Very active: r/youtube gets about 280 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 1,353,943 posts and 5,400,188 comments. In a sample of 700 recent posts we counted 641 different authors.
When is r/youtube most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Wednesday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 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 is r/youtube about?
The community describes itself as: “r/YouTube is for discussion about YouTube. This is a fan sub, not run or owned by YouTube! Please read the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/wiki/index/rules NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: https://suppo…” Recent post titles often mention videos, video, shorts, channel and watch. Most posts are text posts (47%).
Is r/youtube safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/youtube as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/youtube?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/youtube accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “YouTube and YouTube Adjacent Discussion”; “Don't be Toxic”; “Sitewide Rules/Abuse Discussion”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/youtube?
Communities with similar topics include r/google (3.5M), r/grilling (2.6M), r/spacex (3.7M), r/askscience (26.4M) and r/technicallythetruth (5.9M).
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/youtube.