r/mealtimevideos • u/WritewayHome • Jan 21 '26

Mod Approved MTV 2025 | 6 MILLION VIEWS STRONG NOW! | Thank you to our community again!

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Hello MTV lovers and fans!

I have the privilege of being the head Mod for our beloved Mealtime Videos subreddit and lucky to be part of one of the fastest growing and best communities on the website!

Some highlights for the year of 2025:

3 Million more views than last year!
Over 13,000 new members!
Nearly double the amount of published posts!
16,000 more comments published from the previous year!

We have 1.98 million members with about 50,000 visitors each week!

I hope to share a surprise with the MTV family when we hit 2 million subscribers!

I'm amazed by the growth and it has genuinely been very busy for the mod team to keep up with.

Why I think we're so popular

4 reasons

Youtube removed it's trending tab which made it harder to discover popular and high quality content.
Other subreddits that share videos, have less and less varied content, and high quality videos. The strength of our community shines here, and leads into reason 3.
We have an amazing community that we Trust. You all post amazing comments, upvote regularly, and ensure there is robust discussion and amazing original content.
We also have a very soft handed moderator approach. It's often obvious if something needs to be removed, and we do a good job of removing those comments and posts.

If it's in the gray area, and it's a unique opinion, and it doesn't promote hate, we allow it and allow our complex audience to upvote or downvote it.

This is very very rare; most subreddits have a philosophical tilt and they don't tolerate disagreement. There are many comments however that I and our other mods disagree with, but we allow the speech to stand, because it's not our place to censor ideas, and people need to discuss and disagree openly; that's what reddit is all about. We are the true marketplace of ideas and discussion with disagreement.

Because of this our MTV community has different viewpoints of all perspectives that feel safe here; people you can't put into a neat box, and we promote healthy vehement disagreement, which we're proud of. We maintain Reddit's site rules and ensure hate isn't allowed.

2026 and Beyond

Some people proclaimed early in 2025 that MTV had too much political content, but as you can see throughout the year, month after month, the majority of our content is in no way related to politics.

We received quite a few messages of people with ruffled feathers of both perspectives asking us to shut down discussion, but we don't do that and we don't control what people post or upvote.

While Politics was on the minds of our community, it trended, and when we moved on as a society, our subreddit reflected that.

We leave the power in the hands of our users, and that is what makes MTV special, we trust you and expect the community to upvote and share the best content.

We will continue to do this into 2026 and as elections come up will moderate any videos using rule 5. Feel free to discuss the election and different factors in videos but no singular candidate promotions or hit pieces, on any one person; we'll leave that to other subs.
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What can you do to help our MTV family?

Keep doing what you're doing, posting the best content you find, commenting on our videos, and sharing this subreddit with friends and family.

MTV is and always has been a special place on Reddit, and our site and growth reflects that.

Let's show the rest of Reddit how amazing this place is and the amazing content you all find.

Genuinely, in just moderating our submissions, I found hundreds of new channels that you all suggested, and watched amazing content I would have never found without you all.

Thank you MTV family for an amazing 2025. Excited for 2026!

Always here to serve.

Always proud of you all.

And Always humbled for your trust.

-MTV Mod team and WriteWayHome

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