r/aitubers rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for AI video creators, built as part of the NewTubers network of small content creator communities. The people posting here are up-and-coming channels working on AI-generated or AI-assisted video, and they come to improve through resources, critiques, and cooperation with their peers. The community says it plainly in its description: it teaches you how to start, build, and sustain a content career. The rules reinforce that this is a learning room, not an audience room. The stated goal is to help you learn, not to watch your videos for you. So expect questions about growing a channel, requests for critique, collab seeking, and discussions about the craft and business of being an AI video creator.

The rule that decides almost everything here is “Linking Your Content”. It says this is a discussion-first community, not a place to dump videos and leave, and links to your own content are only allowed in the Feedback Friday and Self-Introduce Saturday megathreads or in critique threads run by other users. If someone asks for your channel in the comments, you must DM the link instead of posting it. The second gatekeeper is “Advertising”, which bans any promotion of third-party services or products, paid or free, unless the mod team gives prior written authorization. You have to contact the moderators with your product and your proposed post text before you post anything promotional. “Introducing Yourself” matters because hello-style posts are not allowed on the subreddit, they belong in the Self Introduce Saturday thread. “Milestone Threads” bans self congratulation posts, which belong in Motivational Monday. “Critique Threads” sets the exchange rate for feedback: you must give meaningful feedback on at least two other people before posting your own content, and the first two commenters have one hour to provide feedback after posting. “Giving Critique” adds that you cannot post your own links in a critique thread and you cannot ask for submissions for a video critique of your own. “Flairing Your Post” is the quiet one that gets people, unflaired or wrongly flaired posts may be removed without notice. Finally, “User Involvement and Moderator's Discretion” means the moderators can remove anything they deem unfit, so the safest reading is that anything smelling of promotion needs approval first.

For a founder, the honest path here is to be a helpful peer first. Ask questions about what AI video creators struggle with, answer other people's questions, and comment on posts that have not received many replies, since the behavior guidelines explicitly ask for that. If you want to share your own channel or video, do it inside the weekly Feedback Friday or Self-Introduce Saturday megathreads, and only after giving meaningful feedback on two other people. If you want to post anything that promotes a third-party product or service, even a free one, contact the mod team first with your product and proposed post text and wait for written authorization. If you are looking for collaborators among AI video creators, a collab seeking post is an allowed post type. Discussions and community topics are welcome without limit, so a thoughtful question about workflow, tools, or growth is a safe shape for a post. Whatever you submit, flair it correctly before you walk away, or it may be removed without notice.

The fastest removal is posting a video or channel link outside the megathreads, because that breaks “Linking Your Content” straight away. The second fastest is promoting your product or service without written mod approval, which breaks “Advertising”, and note that this covers free stuff too, so a free trial or a free tool is still advertising. Skipping the flair breaks “Flairing Your Post” and can get your post removed without any notice. Writing a hello post breaks “Introducing Yourself”, and posting your subscriber milestone breaks “Milestone Threads”. Dropping your own link in a critique thread, or running a critique thread just to harvest video submissions, breaks “Giving Critique”. In the megathreads, forgetting to give meaningful feedback on two people first, or ignoring the one hour window for the first two commenters, breaks “Critique Threads”. And posting your channel link in the comments when asked, instead of DMing it, breaks “Linking Your Content” as well. On top of all that, the behavior guidelines ban harassment, vote manipulation, and breaking Reddiquette or Reddit's content policy.

What stands out to me is how much of this rulebook is designed around one bad habit, dropping a link and leaving, and how many escape hatches they still give you, from megathreads to critique threads to DMs. The two-feedbacks-before-you-post rule is my favorite part, because it turns self-promotion into a trade instead of a dump. If your product serves AI video creators, this room is full of exactly your users, but the written permission path for advertising is right there in the rules, so use it. A community this structured about giving before taking deserves the same from you.