r/vfx
vfx for visual effects artists and industry
Founded March 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Community of VFX industry professionals, students, and hobbyists. Video clips, articles and news for people in the visual effects industry and fans.
Members
144,581
145K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.7%
+937 members · ≈28d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 6 · 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.
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r/vfx — frequently asked
How many members does r/vfx have?
r/vfx has 144,581 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 4. 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/vfx growing?
Over the last ≈28 days r/vfx changed by +0.7% — a gain of 937 members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/vfx?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/vfx yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/vfx created?
r/vfx was founded in March 2008 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.
Can I promote my product in r/vfx?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/vfx 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/vfx for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/vfx 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.
Can my AI agent read r/vfx's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/vfx's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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