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Vintage CGI. CGI from the 70's-00's: lost computer graphics that have washed upon the digital shore. Founded 2014 · 87K members

87K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.7K upvotes, which works out to 112 per 1,000 members.

112peak upvotes per 1,000 members
87Kmembers
9.7Kbest post
169most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

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.

66% 13% 11%
Video 66% Gallery 13% Image 11% Text 4% Link 4% Question 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Video 206 Image 70 Discussion 23

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

I found a CD with CGI renders I made as a kid in the late 1990s

↑ 9.7K 💬 169 gallery 2026

Weep, Liberty - Tad Cronn (2001)

↑ 2.3K 💬 53 gallery 2026

Island flyby I made in VistaPro, late 1990s

↑ 2.3K 💬 45 video 2026

Sample renders from Autodesk toolkit, 1993 (various artists)

↑ 2.2K 💬 57 gallery 2026

Found on the 1991 CD-ROM "GIF's Galore"

↑ 1.8K 💬 31 image 2026

More of my late 1990s 3DS MAX renders

↑ 1.8K 💬 28 gallery 2026

My VistaPro CGI renders from the late 1990s

↑ 1.6K 💬 33 gallery 2026

Rendering Competition website with renders starting from 1992, still up and viewable!

↑ 1.4K 💬 27 gallery 2026

A selection of images from Mix 96: CG Space Odyssey (2001)

↑ 1.4K 💬 46 gallery 2026

The Need for Speed (1994) on 3DO

↑ 1.3K 💬 45 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/vintagecgi, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/vintagecgi?
r/vintagecgi ("Vintage CGI") describes itself this way: CGI from the 70's-00's: lost computer graphics that have washed upon the digital shore. It was founded in 2014 and has 87K members.
How many members does r/vintagecgi have?
r/vintagecgi has about 87K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.7K upvotes, which is 112 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/vintagecgi?
"I found a CD with CGI renders I made as a kid in the late 1990s" reached 9.7K upvotes and 169 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/vintagecgi.
What subreddits are similar to r/vintagecgi?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/InvictaSolaris, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche.
What kind of posts do best on r/vintagecgi?
Of the posts we hold, 66% are video posts and 13% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/vintagecgi?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 13:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (706 avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (702 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/vintagecgi?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/vintagecgi has 721 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 72 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/vintagecgi, 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.