r/SmallYoutubers

Small YouTubers

Founded July 2012 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 13

r/SmallYoutubers is a place where people new to YouTube can grow. Our goal if for you learn from each other, and make your channel the best that it can be. YouTube is not easy. It’s also not an overnight success. You need to put in the effort to get to where you want to be. This isn’t a dumping grounds for your videos to hopefully get a few extra views. Please read the rules before posting. We are in this together, and together we can flourish.

Members

252,801

253K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

35.4

from the last 100 posts, spanning 2.8 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 13

sampled Oct 13

Distinct posters

94%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 13 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

Tracking since Oct 13 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/SmallYoutubers — frequently asked

How many members does r/SmallYoutubers have?

r/SmallYoutubers has 252,801 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/SmallYoutubers growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/SmallYoutubers yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 13; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/SmallYoutubers?

Around 35.4 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 2.8 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.

When was r/SmallYoutubers created?

r/SmallYoutubers was founded in July 2012 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Who posts in r/SmallYoutubers?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 94% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.

Can I promote my product in r/SmallYoutubers?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/SmallYoutubers yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/SmallYoutubers for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/SmallYoutubers into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

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