r/movies vs r/television
Side-by-side using public descriptions, members, growth and rule titles from SubMouse. Missing fields show as n/a. Adult communities are excluded.
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Film community desk vs scripted TV discussion
r/movies describes itself as a large online film community for talking about movies. r/television’s public description limits the scope to content primarily about scripted television programming.
In our directory, movies is larger (about 37.7M members, rank #9) than television (about 18.2M, rank #50). Activity samples show movies posting more often (~200 vs ~59 posts/day). Both samples mix text and links; movies also showed a sizable share of images and some video in the window we collected.
Rule titles on both sides stress spoilers, piracy limits and civil discussion—television also bans recommendation-request threads and gossip in the short titles we collected. Talk theatrical or film-centric titles in movies; keep episode and series talk about scripted TV in television.
- Choose r/movies for film news, discussion and movie-centric threads.
- Choose r/television for scripted TV programming—not a general recommendation dump (per its short rule titles).
- Directory rank is listing order, not a quality score.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/movies
Movie News and Discussion
/r/movies is the world's largest online film community, with over 37,000,000 members. Come on in and talk about movies with us!
- Members
- 37.7M
- 7-day growth
- +9.8K
- Posts/day
- 199.8
- Directory rank
- #9
- Created
- Jan 25, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 52%, images 20%, links 17%
Topics: Movies, News
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Do Familiarize Yourself With Our Rules.
- No Intentional Antagonism or Negative Attention Whoring
- No Spam & Self-promotion - Same Source Posts
- No Image Posts & Memes
- No Ambiguous/Misleading/Inaccurate Information or Clickbait in the Submission Title
- No Extraneous Comic Book Movie Submissions
- No Repost or Discussion Threads of New Releases
- No Spoilers
- No Encouraging Piracy
- No Subreddit Brigading
- AI Generated Garbage
- No Low Effort Posts
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r/television
📺 Television Discussion and News
For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming
- Members
- 18.2M
- 7-day growth
- +2.2K
- Posts/day
- 58.5
- Directory rank
- #50
- Created
- Jan 25, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 47%, links 40%, videos 13%
Topics: News, TV Shows
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- No spoilers
- No piracy
- No duplicate news/old news
- No political reporting except for late night shows
- No bad titles
- No being uncivil to other users
- No threads to ask for a recommendation
- No requests for help
- No non-top level sources
- No gossip
- No off-topic posts
- Other rules
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/movies | r/television |
|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
/r/movies is the world's largest online film community, with over 37,000,000 members. Come on in and talk about movies with us! |
For content primarily about and related to scripted television programming |
| Size r/movies is larger in our directory (about 2.1×). |
37.7M members |
18.2M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
199.8/day |
58.5/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 52%, images 20%, links 17% |
text posts 47%, links 40%, videos 13% |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Movies, News |
News, TV Shows |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
Do Familiarize Yourself With Our Rules.; No Intentional Antagonism or Negative Attention Whoring; No Spam & Self-promotion - Same Source Posts; No Image Posts & Memes; No Ambiguous/Misleading/Inaccurate Information or Clickbait in the Submission Title |
No spoilers; No piracy; No duplicate news/old news; No political reporting except for late night shows; No bad titles |
What they share
- Shared SubMouse topics: News
Rules and tone we can verify
For r/movies we collected short rule titles covering familiarizing yourself with rules, no antagonism, no spam/self-promotion, no image posts and memes, no misleading titles, limits on comic-book-movie spam and new-release repost threads, no spoilers, no encouraging piracy, and no brigading.
For r/television: no spoilers; no piracy; no duplicate/old news; no political reporting except late-night shows; no bad titles; civility; no threads asking for a recommendation; no help requests; no non-top-level sources; no gossip.
Where this comparison comes from
Public titles, descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s SFW directory (see page date). Short rule titles and posting-activity samples SubMouse collected for both. Rule lines are short titles only — not full sidebar text.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.