Hello everyone,

Although only a small number of members took the opportunity to participate in the poll, the winning vote was YES to allowing video posts. So, we're happy to give it a go, and from today, videos are welcome on r/vintagecats.

As always, content must meet our definition of vintage, meaning it must be over 40 years old.

Of course, with AI generated content becoming increasingly common, we want to do our best to preserve the authenticity of the content shared here. To help with this, we will encourage posters, wherever possible, to try and provide a source or other evidence of provenance . For example, if a video was circulating online before AI became widespread, a link to an older post or an official source can help establish its authenticity.

We also ask that videos aren’t upscaled or colourised using AI. Part of the beauty of old media is its grainy texture, imperfections, and charm. We want to preserve that original look and feel rather than try to make everything look modern.

We already have automated systems in place to remove posts from bots and users with the lowest Contributor Quality Scores (CQS). With these measures, we hope to also automatically catch inauthentic content.

This decision will be reviewed if necessary. If we see a significant increase in attempts to submit obviously fake or AI videos, we’ll reconsider the policy and, if appropriate, return to allowing photographs only.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote and share their views.

Video Details:

Title: "La Petite Fille et son Chat" Dated 1899–1900. By the filmmaker, Louis Lumière. Featuring Madeleine Koehler feeding a cat.

Uploaded to the Internet Archive, in 2012 - https://archive.org/details/LaPetiteFilleEtSonChat?

Hello! Just a quick update to let you know that I’m the new Mod. I’m not sure what happened to the previous Mod, but Reddit Admin has given me moderator privileges to keep the subreddit running.

I’ve given the community a bit of a visual makeover, but I haven’t made any significant changes to the rules, apart from clarifying that this sub is for vintage photographs (meaning over 40 years old).

To help combat repost bots, I’ve implemented some AutoMod rules. Bots are generally brand new accounts with little or no comment history, so accounts must now be at least 15 days old and have a minimum of 50 comment karma to submit new posts. Commenting is unaffected.

As for vintage artworks, please post them to our sister community, r/CatsInArt instead.

That’s all for now! Keep enjoying the vintage kitties!

^{Photo credit: Kodak Kitty - circa. 1900 - George Rinhart}