Tool Gifs. Tools and machines, plus processes, components, and infrastructure. Sometimes entertaining, always educational. Founded 2022 · 304.9K members · links only
307K members. The best post we have captured here reached
16.9K upvotes, which works out to
55 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Video 100%
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What is r/toolgifs?
r/toolgifs ("Tool Gifs") describes itself this way: Tools and machines, plus processes, components, and infrastructure. Sometimes entertaining, always educational. It was founded in 2022 and has 304.9K members.
How many members does r/toolgifs have?
r/toolgifs has about 307K members. ViralHunt has tracked 499 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.9K upvotes, which is 55 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/toolgifs?
"Pressing sinks" reached 16.9K upvotes and 257 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/toolgifs.
What subreddits are similar to r/toolgifs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana, r/popculture.
What kind of posts do best on r/toolgifs?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are video posts and 0% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/toolgifs?
Across 499 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 23:00 UTC (9K avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (7.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (6.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/toolgifs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/toolgifs has 11.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 108 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/toolgifs, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.