r/NewTubers rules, stats, and what to post

r/NewTubers is a community for small YouTube video creators and Twitch streamers who are starting out and want to improve. The people here are up-and-coming channels looking for resources, critiques, and cooperation with peers who are in the same boat. The community describes itself as discussion-first, which means the point is to teach and learn how to start, build, and sustain a content career, not to hand anyone an audience. The rules make that plain in their own words, this is not a place to dump your videos and leave. So the room is full of creators asking questions, giving each other feedback, and sharing what is working, and it is run by moderators who actively remove anything that looks like self promotion, advertising, or spam.

The rule that decides almost everything here is “No Self Promotion”, which says this is a discussion-first community and not a place to dump your videos and leave, and it limits links to the Feedback Friday and Self-Introduce Saturday megathreads or critique threads made by other users. “No Advertising” is the one that matters most if you sell anything, because advertising any third-party service, product, or material, paid or free, needs prior written authorization from the mod team, and that includes market research. “Introducing Yourself” bans standalone introduction posts and points you to the Self Introduce Saturday thread instead. “Milestone Threads” bans self congratulation posts and sends you to Motivational Monday. “No AI-written Posts” matters if any part of your workflow leans on generated text, because the community views that as spam. “Giving Critique” and “Critique Threads” govern the one place you can share your own video, and they require meaningful feedback on at least two other people before you post your own link. “Flairing Your Post” is easy to overlook, but unflaired or wrongly flaired posts may be removed without notice. Finally, “User Involvement and Moderator's Discretion” reminds you the moderators can remove anything they deem unfit for the community.

A good post here is a genuine discussion post with the right flair attached. Ask a specific question about growing a channel, share a lesson you learned from your own experience, or start a community topic that helps other creators think through a problem. If you want eyes on your video, take part the way the community asks, give meaningful feedback on at least two other people first, then post your link in the Feedback Friday megathread or in another user's critique thread, mentioning both positive and negative points in the feedback you give. If you are new, introduce yourself in the Self Introduce Saturday megathread rather than a standalone post, and consider joining the Discord the rules point to. If you want to celebrate a win, save it for Motivational Monday. If you have a product or service for creators, do not post it, contact the moderation team first with your product and proposed post text and wait for written permission. One more thing that helps you fit in, comment on posts that have not received many comments yet and try to answer other people's questions, because the rules explicitly ask for that.

The fastest way to get removed is posting a link to your own content anywhere outside the allowed megathreads and critique threads, and that includes comments, because even when someone asks for your channel you must send it by direct message. Advertising a third-party service or product without prior written approval from the mod team is banned, and it covers free products too, plus market research. Standalone introduction posts and milestone or self congratulation posts are both banned, use the megathreads instead. AI-written posts are treated as spam and are not allowed. Posting your own link inside a critique thread you started, or asking for video critique submissions yourself, is not allowed. In critique threads you must give meaningful feedback on at least two other people before posting your own content, and the first and second people to comment have one hour to provide feedback after posting. Skipping the flair, or picking the wrong one, can get your post removed without notice. And the behavior guidelines ask you to follow Reddiquette, avoid vote manipulation, and be nice to each other.

What stands out to me is how much of this rulebook is built around one idea, that you earn the right to share your link by helping others first, with the two feedback rule making that literal. I also respect that they ban AI written posts outright, which tells you this room values a real human voice more than anywhere else I have written about. If you sell anything to creators, read rule two twice before you touch this subreddit, because free products need written approval just as much as paid ones.