r/hypotheticalsituation Mar 25 '26

Mod Post Warning about posts involving violence

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Hey everyone. I wanted to provide some information and a warning on a topic we've seen come up several times recently.

We're seeing an increasing number of accounts (including both mods) receiving warnings and bans for "threatening violence". We've seen messages like the following.

Reddit is a vast network of communities that are created, run, and populated by people like you. In order to keep communities welcoming, safe, and great places to be, everyone who uses the platform operates by a shared set of rules—a set of rules you may not have realized you broke.

Warning for threatening violence

We flagged the following as a potential policy violation:

After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you threatened violence or physical harm. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for threatening violence against people or animals. We don’t tolerate any behavior that threatens violence or physical harm against an individual, groups of people, places, or animals. Any communities or people that threaten violence towards an individual, group, animals, or place will be banned.

As a result, we’re issuing this warning, removing the violating content, and asking you not to break this rule again.

This is something happening on a sitewide admin level so the mod team has no influence over it. We strongly suspect that some sort of bot or AI is handing out these warnings and bans. Due to the subject matter frequently discussed on this subreddit it's happening to quite a few users here due to discussions of hypothetical violence. So what does this mean for you?

  1. Hypotheticals involving violence aren't outright banned but we strongly recommend that you be cautious when posting them or responding to them. Consider your wording and whether it could be mistaken for a threat by a bot. If the community as a whole starts getting admin attention we may be forced to ban these posts in the future. Posts that look too much like a real-world call to violence or a request for advice on how to commit violence will be removed under rule 3.

  2. If you do get one of these warnings or bans, please appeal them and explain that you're posting on /r/hypotheticalsituation and there is no real-world violence or threats of violence being discussed or contemplated. It's not a guarantee but we've seen these appeals work in the past and they may prevent your account from getting banned.


r/hypotheticalsituation 7h ago

Richard Guy, a rich guy, likes to verbally abuse people, and walks around offering a deal. If you are willing to be verbally abused by him for 5 minutes, he will give you 1 day’s salary. Do you accept his deal?

511 Upvotes

Richard Guy will sign a contract stating that he will give you 1 day of your verified salary if you let yourself be verbally abused by him for 5 minutes.

You cannot block your ears, you must look at him, and he will verbally abuse you.

What exactly he does depends on you. For example: he could make fun of your appearance, or look down upon you for your level of wealth, or scream at you nonstop for 5 minutes. Whatever he thinks will hurt you the most. He has motivation and imagination.

He will not physically hurt you.


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

Could you survive off $5,000 for an entire year if it meant you could win $10 million

234 Upvotes

Rules:

  1. You are given $5,000 in cash, you must survive 365 days strictly on just that money.
  2. You are not allowed to recieve help from others (no sleeping on a friends couch, no living with parents etc.)
  3. You will no longer accidentally find any loose change anywhere (no digging in your couches, finding a hidden $20 note etc.)
  4. You cannot have a job or a side hustle, basically anything that can provide income
  5. You are not allowed to recieve gifts or sell items for extra money
  6. If you attempt to rob anyone, the police will instantly appear behind you and arrest you.
  7. You don’t have to worry about anyone robbing you as the same thing will happen if you’re the victim
  8. If you are arrested, you will not be taken to jail and instead be released until after your year is up at which point you will have to suffer the consequences yourself
  9. You are given one pair of pants, a shirt, a winter coat and a pair of thick winter boots

Are you accepting? What’s ur plan for the next year

Edit: Since so many people are asking, I’ll add it here.

Any land,property,vehicle that you outrightly own will remain untouched and you can use it. However any bills/rent/mortgages/subscriptions etc. and the subsequent consequences of not paying them are your problem to deal with.


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

A 300k raise, to $450k, but you have to be in the office 200 miles away 3x a week. So, fly in, stay for 3 days at a hotel, and fly out. Would you do it? (also you have a family and young kids at home).

46 Upvotes

r/hypotheticalsituation 7h ago

1 billion U.S. dollars to remove your appendix, but the surgery is NO anesthesia

112 Upvotes

Someone wants to pay you 1 billion dollars for your appendix. The only catch is that the extraction surgery cannot use any anesthesia at all. You gotta raw dog it. Same with the recovery afterwards, no painkillers at all.

You’ll remain fully conscious during the surgery. If you go into shock or heart stops from the pain the doctors will revive you, keep you alive, and make sure you’re conscious. You also be tied to the operating table so you can’t move at all.


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

[No Loopholes] A genie is bored and offers to give you the full details of one true crime case. Which one do you pick and why?

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A bored genie appears before you and offers to give you the in and out deets of one true crime case of your choosing.

The rules are simple:

You can pick any specific true crime case regardless of the verdict or how long it’s been. As long as it can be categorised as “true crime”, and it refers to one specific case, it counts. For example, you can ask the genie about Epstein’s life and death, but you can’t say “tell me about all current active child molesters in the US government”.

The genie will provide any and all information about what you picked, and the genie is guaranteed to be correct, comprehensive, and truthful. The genie will answer any questions you have as long as it directly relates to the specific case you chose.

The genie will not produce physical evidence out of thin air, but the genie is more than happy to tell you things like where a body is buried or where you would locate evidence.

You can do whatever you want with the resulting information. The genie will not help you or hinder you.

What case do you pick and why?

Also, what would you do with the info once you have it?


r/hypotheticalsituation 6h ago

An elderly man and woman give you an offer. 100,000 dollars for every day they get to annoy you

48 Upvotes

The deal is such: They will pay you in advance every single day and the two seem polite...that is, except, when you receive your payment

then, they completely change and turn around. They will insult everything you wear and everything you do. They'll crack jokes at your expense constantly and laugh about them. They will also take jabs at anyone around you or you're with.

They will also get to hang out in your house as well, knocking shit over, sleeping in inconvenient spots, making loud ass noises for no reason

and they will follow you everywhere you go as well, no matter what

Basically, they become the most annoying possible in laws

If asked why they'd want this, they'd say: "We never had the chance to have grandkids. Just once, we want to heckle someone just like our grandfolkes did."

You will be made to sign a contract as well, to make it all 'official'

how many days would you put up with this?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1h ago

Humor Encouraged Mosquito deal

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You are at a lake when suddenly a Giant Mosquito materializes in front of you.

He tells you that you will get $1 for each mosquito that bites you, drinks as much as it needs, and gets to fly away safely instead of being interrupted or killed.

Also, 1 in 300 mosquitoes here are unique (but looks typical), and such mosquito brings you $1 million if it bites you.

You have three hours to try, after that the mosquito magic disappears.

– What would you do?


r/hypotheticalsituation 20h ago

A genie offers you 10x your current salary to never work again

397 Upvotes

A genie offers you 10x your current (gross) yearly salary as a tax-free sum. So for example, if you make $100k per year before tax, the offer would be a $1M tax free lump sum. Clarification: If you do not have a current income, your offer is either 10x the yearly salary from your most recent job, or 10x the yearly minimum wage salary for your locality (assuming 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year).

In exchange, you can never work a paying job again, or make/receive any money from external sources, including gifts or loans from family/friends. You can invest as much of the lump sum as you’d like, and make money that way, but that will be your only source of income, and all investments still carry the risk of tanking and losing all the money you invested.

You can still choose to work volunteer positions for fulfillment. You just cannot collect any income beyond the passive investment income.

Do you take the deal? If not, how much higher would the offer need to be before you accept?


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

Could you get home from a random point on the planet?

201 Upvotes

The bored Nth-dimensional being has decided to give you a challenge. You will have approximately 60 seconds to grab anything you want to bring with you, after which you will be transported... somewhere on the planet.

It will be on land, or on a boat within a mile of land. You will not be in danger of dying in the next minute or two. But other than that, it can be anywhere.

You have 30 days to make it home. If you succeed, she will grant you a wish (with a few restrictions--no killing, no mind control, no wishing for more wishes, no omnipotence, and she's not going to monkey paw or jerka$$ genie it, but she might somewhat nerf anything too OP). If you die, she will resurrect you back at home (but no wish). If you don't make it back within the time, she will offer you a ride back home.

She will make sure any obligations (kids, pets, jobs, etc) are taken care of in your absence. And if you sustain any serious injuries or the like in your travels, she will heal you when you get home whether or not you won.

  1. What are you grabbing? Please do this before you do step 2. You don't know where you will end up when you're grabbing things.

  2. Use https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/ to pick a place. Pick again if you get an invalid location (including Antarctica, unless you hit an actual base). You may reject your first valid location, but if you do, you end up at your next pick whether or not it's valid. Where do you end up, and do you think you could make it home from there? What will your strategy be?

  3. If you do make it home in time, what are you wishing for?

Also, any other thoughts?

Edit: If you indicate you are able to make it home, but do not indicate what wish you want once you do, you are probably going to get a reply with the word wish machine translated into a semi-random language.


r/hypotheticalsituation 7h ago

$73 but you have to stop posting on Reddit.com

13 Upvotes

A wizard genie reads the ridiculous bullshit you've been posting and offers you $73 TAX FREE to stop posting ever again. If you break the rules your skin turns into whipped cream.


r/hypotheticalsituation 8h ago

You meet an extremely boring person who wants to befriend you. The issue is, all this person wants to talk about is stuff you find so boring that it’s physically painful. The person is also impervious to social cues and always wants to talk for way longer than you do. What do you do?

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This person basically harmless, but after meeting you, always wants to spend time with you and talk about an inexhaustible amount of topics that you have less than 0 interest in.

This person also seems to have infinite free time to hang out with you, can’t take any hints, and will always try to persuade you to talk longer.

You can try to talk about stuff you actually care about, but this person’s boundless enthusiasm will always quickly and inevitably lead you back to topics you DO NOT CARE ABOUT.

If you flat out tell the person you don’t want to ever speak to them again they will get very sad.

What do you do?


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Humor Encouraged You can spawn a clone of yourself within a meter away from you. Your consciousness transfers into this clone.

8 Upvotes

The clone must be spawned tangiblly - meaning it can't go through walls or anything. The clone can also not be damaged directly; however, it shares damage with your original body (OB). This means that if you slap your OB, you're gonna feel it. Your OB will also go completely unresponsive and limp during this time... which brings us to the major catch.

Because your OB is basically in cardiac arrest, you can only be in the clones body for no more than 4 minutes. Any longer, and you'll start getting brain damage. Yes, you can despawn the clone at anytime - at which point your consciousness will return to your OB. There is a 6-hour cool down after each return.

What are you gonna do with this power?


r/hypotheticalsituation 4h ago

Loopholes Encouraged If you were a Movie Producer who was Purposely trying to get Fired, then what would be the worst movies and movie Spinoffs that you could come up with and produce, like for example "The Divorce Planner", ... "How to Lose a Cop in 10 Days.", ... "The God Mother" and etc?

4 Upvotes

"Cast from the Past"

"You Got Bail"

"Shes all Fake"

etc...


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

You have the power to bring extinct species back to life, but Charles Darwin will rub his beard on your face for 5 hours for every species you resurrect.

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You can bring back individuals or breeding populations of any extinct animal/plant/etc., but every time you invoke this ability, Charles Darwin will appear before you and drag his beard back and forth across your face for 5 hours.

You can split it up into sessions of no less than 10 minutes each over the course of up to a week. You must be awake during the beard rubbing. The extinct species will not manifest until the 5 hour requirement is met.

How many and which species are you bringing back?


r/hypotheticalsituation 42m ago

Serious Replies Only If your Bosses Wife was coming onto you, and she said that she wanted to sleep with you, and then she said that she would tell your Boss that you slept with her if you don't sleep with her.

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Would you also have been very shy and confused?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

[No Loopholes] 2 months to get a girlfriend in Miami, if you fail you go to prison for 5 years. If you succeed, you get 5 wishes from a genie.

184 Upvotes

Rules: You must get a woman to agree to be your girlfriend, without paying her with the idea of genie wishes or actual money. The only qualifier is being in a relationship at the end of a 60 day period. If you get in a relationship on the last day, that counts. If you date for 59 days and break up on the last, It doesn’t.

You are provided $5,000 cash, a small one bedroom apartment downtown, and a used chevy. Anything else will have to be obtained with the cash you have.


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

You Get a Bonus Weekend Day in a private time loop, or you get a $4,000,000 check

256 Upvotes

You are given an option of either a bonus weekend day that exists within your home/apartment only. Between 11:59 PM Saturday and 12:00 AM Sunday, and entire 24 hours of bonus time exists inside your home for you and anyone and everything in your home. You don't age another day. You can't physically leave your home in this time. You have access to any data stored within your home.

The internet doesn't work.

Or you get a check for $4,000,000.

Would you take an extra day every week where you can relax, read, enjoy existence, or take a one time pay out?

What dollar value would you put on a bonus day?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

[No Loopholes] Would you change biological sexes every month for $7,000 USD/month?

937 Upvotes

Basically as the tin says, a wizard offers you $7,000 USD/month until your death but the you have to agree to your biological sex changing every month.

-the change occurs monthly until you die and cannot stop unless you are willing to give up everything you earned from the deal/everything you bought with the earnings

-your gender identity will not change

-the monthly rate will be adjusted for inflation

-your outward appearance will change each month to match your gender and your level of attractiveness will stay the same. Changing genders doesn’t make you hotter. But if you got plastic surgery, then the surgery results would change to match the level of attractiveness each month (since some stuff people get would look odd on the opposite sex)

-if you get pregnant while you’re a woman, you will remain in your female state until the child is born while continuing to get paid

-you can get a hysterectomy or your tubes tied in your female state but it will result in your male state having corresponding results to your testes. Vice versa if you get the surgeries done in your male state.


r/hypotheticalsituation 5h ago

Would you rather get 10,000$ or have the ability to dispense water?

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Rules:

You receive 10,000$ in cash that you can use however you want with zero taxes, which completely belongs to you.
There are no catches.
OR:
You get the special ability to dispense fresh water anytime you want out of your body with a total capacity of 500ml. The water keeps coming back at a rate of 10ml per second. The water is totally pure, fresh and safe to drink. You can use the water however you want, your ability works at any time and it also refills its water capacity when you use it constantly. The water contains zero contamination.
Catch: The water comes out of your uretha.

Which one would you choose?


r/hypotheticalsituation 2h ago

Five million dollars, tax free, but you are dropped into the middle of a tragedy once a year

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The powers that be offer you a deal. Five million dollars deposited into your bank account, tax free, no questions asked. But once a year on a designated day of your choice (it has to be the same date every year) you are transported into the middle of some type of disaster, past or present. Maybe you’re dropped onto the titanic. Or you’re thrown into the middle of a mass shooting. Perhaps you’re transported into Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment while he’s with a victim. Or you’re suddenly in an alley with Jack the Ripper. You might be put into a war zone, or the place of a volcanic eruption/tsunami. You must survive otherwise you die for real. After ten minutes, you’re transported back home. Any injuries you sustained will disappear and history will not be changed or affected by your actions. You can’t ever back out of this. No returning the money to get off the hook. You in or out?


r/hypotheticalsituation 9h ago

Character creation for your partner.

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The Offer: A genie approaches you and offers you a character creation tool that you can use on your partner. Much like a character creator in a video game, this tool has a wide variety of sliders that would allow you to change your partner's appearance making them taller, shorter, more muscular, curvier, whatever you like. While there are no default options, if you got experienced enough using it, you could even make them look like someone else entirely such as your celebrity crush or favorite fictional character. The tool even comes with an attribute slider that would allow you to change aspects of their personality such as their intelligence, charisma, or even libido. Neither your partner nor the rest of the world will register that anything has changed with them. Everyone will act as if your partner has always looked/acted however they do after any changes you make just like when you change appearance in a video game.

The Catch: As previously mentioned, there are no default options in this character creation tool. As such, there is no button you can push to automatically return your partner's appearance or personality traits back to their original settings. Any attempt at writing down or digitally notating what those values are disappears immediately. If you want to return your partner to the way they were before you used the editor on them, you will have to remember what those values are yourself.

Do you accept the offer, why or why not? And if you choose to accept the offer, what about your partner would you change?


r/hypotheticalsituation 1d ago

If you could instantly learn any 5 languages, which ones would you pick and why?

143 Upvotes

Imagine you wake up tomorrow and have the ability to instantly speak, read, and write five languages of your choice fluently (native-level proficiency, zero study required).

The catch? You are permanently capped at five.

I'm curious how everyone would go about this. Are you going for global utility (business/travel), picking historical or endangered languages, or just choosing the ones you think sound the coolest?

Here's my wishlist:

  1. Old Norse
  2. German
  3. Irish
  4. Japanese
  5. French

Which five are making your cut!

Edit: Yes, you do get to keep your mother tongue and your five language choices are an add on and you dont have to unlearn any of the languages you already know.


r/hypotheticalsituation 21h ago

[No Loopholes] You are given $100,000 and you must double it in one year

52 Upvotes

A wealthy person decides to try a financial experiment on you. He gives you $100K and says you must double it using only legal means in one year using only the $100k he gave you as seed money. If you do, you get to keep it AND he will match all the money you have earned. So for example if you end up with exactly double, $200K, you keep the initial $100k and he matches the additional $100k you earned giving you $300k total. If you end up with $300k, he matches the $200k you earned, plus the initial $100k giving you a total of $500k. Make sense?

Now if you don't double the money, if you're even $1 short, you have to give back the money AND anything you earned. If you lose money, you need to pay back the difference.

How do you double your $100k in one year?

Remember, I said legally....so no drug deals or robbing banks.