r/whenthe swag ass baljeet Jun 25 '26

Announcement!!!!! A crackdown on the rules

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u/B3T4_Baljeet swag ass baljeet Jun 25 '26

Sup whenthe, recently we have noticed a notable drop in quality in posts, and as a result moving forward over the next few weeks you will begin to see a lot more posts being taken down for rule 1 and rule 6. We are aiming for a level of quality that makes the sub enjoyable, and so while it may seem harsh we will be cracking down a lot more on posts that the mod team deems are low effort and unfunny/degen. There has been an influx in pretty dumb drama posts, and a clear indication that a lot of posts are just seeking to karmafarm and piggy back off of trending topics. That is not at all in alignment with our vision for this subreddit. This post serves as a warning, any posts still up that you think meet this criteria will not be scrutinized, but moving forward we will be a bit more selective with what qualifies under those two rules. Happy posting whenthers.

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u/draketroll Jun 25 '26

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

How is he even Alive

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u/Practical-Mode310 Jun 25 '26

Everyone in McKinney is dead

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

Bit cold bruv

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u/Cultural-Air9962 Jun 26 '26

Bit chilly innit?

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u/No_Research4416 Jun 25 '26

That isn’t even the worst comically high temperature I have seen

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u/Practical-Mode310 Jun 25 '26

Arizona man over here

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u/childrenmm Jun 26 '26

Phoenix doubles that in January

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u/AncientBacon-goji Jun 26 '26

“I think steel boils at this temperature.”

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u/Scuttleboi19mk2 Jun 25 '26

Just saw the image and immediately went “Everyone in McKinney is dead.” Didn’t even need to read the text above

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u/Past-Background-7221 Jun 26 '26

I live in that area. I’m not entirely sure McKinney is a real place. I’ve never met anyone from there.

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u/EnbyFemboyOnyx Jun 25 '26

To be fair, I would also be making that face if I saw that on mu thermometer

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u/Katap1mbas Jun 25 '26

Right? Ts is cold af

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

It's only 232 c fucking freezing

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u/YaBoiKlobas Jun 25 '26

He isn't made of paper

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u/CleoCommunist Jun 25 '26

Idk if peoplo under this Just make other comments or genuenly dont know 451 F

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

I know about the book

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u/The-Bigger-Fish That one guy from that one show. You know the one. Jun 25 '26

Literally animal farm

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u/resh78255 Jun 25 '26

how the internet sees the UK rn

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u/draketroll Jun 25 '26

While true, let's not pretend we're doing anything different to what Europe or the US are also doing or trying to do

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u/Apprehensive_Debate3 Jun 25 '26

Literally 1987

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u/Baseballidiot Jun 25 '26

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u/Flimsy-Secret-6187 i am now an approved user (AKA a microcelebrity), AMA Jun 25 '26

literally 9148

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u/Michael-556 Avid [insert peak here] enjoyer Jun 25 '26

Literally brave new world

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u/ianwgz Jun 25 '26

Literally fahrenheit 451

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u/Mrfunnyboi825 Jun 25 '26

Literally animal farm 

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u/Sickhadas Jun 25 '26

Haha Jonathan, you are farm animal now

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u/watchrrr Jun 25 '26

everyone wants that book to agree to them I swear to shit

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u/Filmologic Jun 25 '26

Yeah but my understanding is the correct one (I never read it)

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u/Mautos Extremely edible person Jun 25 '26

Which book? 

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

Nineteen Eighty Seven by Orwell George

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u/ffbyr49 plaen… 🤤 Jun 25 '26

jorjor wel

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u/Halal_Femboy Jun 25 '26

Markiplier From North Korea (2025) by Momiplier

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u/watchrrr Jun 25 '26

fuck I thought it said 1984. what is 1987 supposed to reference?

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u/The_Commie_Salami whenthe’s strongest NIKKE advocate Jun 25 '26

The Bite

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u/watchrrr Jun 25 '26

OHHHH YEAHHH god I'm stupid

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u/Wolveyplays07 I wish a femboy wolf would eat me and keep me inside him forever Jun 25 '26

The book

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u/Setster007 Jun 25 '26

Mix of “bite of 87” and “literally 1984” for the sake of comedy

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u/watchrrr Jun 25 '26

yeah lowk realised wayyyy too late for someone that has read 1984 and played FNAF

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u/-Pausanias- Jun 25 '26

1984

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u/watchrrr Jun 25 '26

so it is referencing the book. fuck yall confused abt then 😭

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u/zatenael Guys FTW! Jun 25 '26

1987, by George Orwell

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u/Voiremine Jun 25 '26

Seriously 😂😂😂 give it up, we all know it agrees with me

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u/Program-Emotional Jun 25 '26

Ok

Where's the funny on this post then.

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u/operativetheo8 Sex 2 when? Jun 25 '26

I stole it

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Send me good video memes Jun 25 '26

Om, nom... nom

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u/poopsemiofficial Jun 25 '26

At about the 22 second mark, after the word “Be”

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u/Lazakhstan Sonic DOOM! Jun 25 '26

It's no more more

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u/G1zm08 Jun 25 '26

The epic sci fi noises duh

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u/PsychologicalQuit666 Jun 25 '26

Let’s all report this post for rule 1 :)

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u/hightrix Jun 25 '26

Mods being funny? That is funny.

Mods judging what's funny? That's going to be....not funny.

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u/QuarianGuy Jun 25 '26

I genuinely thought this was a ragebait/complain subreddit until now...

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u/YourFat888 #1 Arlecchino (daddy) connoisseur Jun 25 '26

horrible

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u/Qaktus Jun 25 '26

But, but what other subreddit am I going to turn into my personal blog about the most intimate happenings of my life (while vague posting nonetheless)

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u/Rostingu2 Jun 25 '26

I know this is a retorical question but I feel some obligation to reply with r/norules

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u/ShadowTown0407 Jun 26 '26

norules, looks inside, rules

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u/dad-without-milk searching for the milk Jun 26 '26

Wireless, looks inside, wires

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u/REALMEGA I love yuri :3 mrraow :3 Jun 25 '26

how am i meant to be funny if i got no funny bone?

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u/Baseballidiot Jun 25 '26

HEY!!! THIS MF HAS NO FUNNY BONE, GET EM

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u/LukasYUc Jun 25 '26

You're one to talk 😭

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u/YourFat888 #1 Arlecchino (daddy) connoisseur Jun 25 '26

okay funny man
you're gonna get it

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u/acatohhhhhh Jun 25 '26

This is literally unfunny-phobic. It pushes away people (such as myself) who aren’t funny and further fuels the goals of the Evil Shower Curtain people in their quest for domination over rats. Please do better

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u/CoolDime12 Jun 25 '26

Something something glass house and stones or whatever.

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u/Silver-Marzipan7220 local athiest trans girlie Jun 25 '26

Can I have thy gif without the caption

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u/YourFat888 #1 Arlecchino (daddy) connoisseur Jun 25 '26

here ya go

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u/Silver-Marzipan7220 local athiest trans girlie Jun 25 '26

Thanks :3

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u/MM__PP purpl Jun 25 '26

Hehe kitty

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u/RTGMonika Jun 26 '26

But this post wasn't funny. Shouldn't it be gone?

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u/TestamentTwo I have an adult woman fetish😛😛😛 Jun 25 '26

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u/nick113124 Jun 25 '26

If this is the end of the random Twitter bullshit arc and the complaints masked as posts then I welcome this oppression

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u/bloodakoos h Jun 25 '26

First they came for the twitter bullshit posters
And i did not speak out —
Because i was not a twitter bullshit poster

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u/PLACE-H0LD3R It's PURPLE!? Arrgh, that stupid bug said it was FUCHSIA!! Jun 25 '26

I have regrets

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u/Dimension100 Jun 25 '26

IT'S YOU, YOU'RE THE ONE BEHIND ALL OF THE DELTARUNE POSTS (at least I assume cause of your pfp although I don't actually know what you've posted).

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u/B3T4_Baljeet swag ass baljeet Jun 25 '26

conversations were already happening tbf

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u/Sarfar_Mayka Jun 25 '26

you have a few

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u/lhamazaroo i love old robot ladies with aluminium stretch marks <3 Jun 25 '26

But where will i bitch about things that no living person would care?

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u/hit_the_showers_boi i ran over an old lady in 2006 with a Ford F-150 Jun 25 '26

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u/StiffDoodleNoodle Jun 26 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiTnsiwoxekWiNQ3u

That subreddit is funky and not in the good way.

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u/manultrimanula My 🏳️‍⚧️ name is Reimi and I'll be happy if you call me that Jun 25 '26
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u/Baseballidiot Jun 25 '26

We will build a subreddit wall that stops unfunny ppl from entering r/whenthe

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u/hit_the_showers_boi i ran over an old lady in 2006 with a Ford F-150 Jun 25 '26

Whenthe wall is complete, we will call it the Great Wall of When.

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Send me good video memes Jun 25 '26

The

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u/AltAccNum647294869 Jun 25 '26

we're gonna make r/691 pay. count your days roomba

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

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u/w33b2 yellow like an EPIC banana Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

YES! NO MORE UNFUNNY VAGUE POSTING FROM RANDOM NICHE FANDOMS!!!

(You fucks have single-handedly made me choose to never watch digital circus or whatever the hell it’s called)

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u/youabigstupid Jun 25 '26

Yess and Deltarune and the other games I've never played or some rando niche or Vaguepost, all just drama that nobody cares abt.

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u/mookie_pookie Jun 25 '26

But how will I know if the niche subreddit I'd never stumble across on my own might have a slight maga tilt in a comment thread???

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u/talaneta Jun 25 '26

*When you find out Kiarme is not longer considered frumi enough since the chuchupi event*

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u/Thornn05 Jun 26 '26

communities of literally anything are so fucking cancerous it makes me hate anything that’s remotely popular

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u/LoganCube400 The Dillinger Escape Plan is peak Jun 25 '26

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u/Zhryuriva Jun 25 '26

Tf you mean I can't post my femboy routine? Liteeally unplayable

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u/zezineo i suck😔 Jun 25 '26

Anti bad posts?! Sign me in!

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u/InevitableAd4156 Jun 25 '26

Literally 2077

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u/PhoenixTheValley I eat the people I don't like :3 Jun 25 '26

Guess we gotta pay a visit to Arasaka

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u/No-Start4754 Jun 25 '26

Gotta burn mikoshi 

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u/GenericVessel feelin a bit freaky iykwim Jun 25 '26

wale the fuck up, samurai

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u/0-Nightshade-0 Eatable Girl Flair :3 Jun 25 '26

This post didnt make me laugh :/

Mods, twist op's balls counter-clockwise for breaking rule 1

/s

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u/B3T4_Baljeet swag ass baljeet Jun 25 '26

I am the mods

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u/thisdesignup Jun 25 '26

You heard them! You gotta do it!

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi Jun 26 '26

It’s treason then

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u/ShawshankException Jun 25 '26

Awesome, no more fandomposting

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u/Ash_After_Dark Jun 26 '26

I never thought I'd live to see such utopian days..

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u/Rostingu2 Jun 25 '26

piggy back off of trending topics.

does that mean we no longer have one fucking thing flood the sub any time anything happens? like that one green arc the sub had where a week was just "haha green funny".

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u/manultrimanula My 🏳️‍⚧️ name is Reimi and I'll be happy if you call me that Jun 25 '26

Stuff that has a punchline or at least an attempt at a joke.

It's about posts that literally don't have a joke in them, we're not going to delete posts for just not adhering to our own sense of humor.

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u/Odd_Protection7738 Fuck martians I hate martians Jun 25 '26

Nope, every joke that’s personally unfunny needs the user skinned and impaled

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u/Voider765 Jun 25 '26

Lidolly 1884

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u/dulledegde Jun 25 '26

this is literally 2026

also is really a good idea to let degenerate reddit mods offense intended be the arbitors of what is and isnt funny

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u/Similar-Sector-5801 Jun 25 '26

Oh boy i sure hope this isn’t abused in some way by a rogue mod or something

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u/Right-Assumption584 Jun 25 '26

worry not MOD is a spy, so he wont actually take action against people disobeying the rule of funny

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u/OrangeHairedTwink No Yosuke romance, suicide moved up Jun 25 '26

Last post on the subreddit

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u/Fododel Jun 26 '26

Can I be the serious guy and say thank god.

Way too many sob stories, we get it. Where the funny dho?

Like it's always "my family issues :(" and "hard to come out, but I go through it 😔 but fun and wacky 🤪"

Somehow made the news era of the same way more entertaining.

Also less vagueposting?

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u/SuperPopcorn333 professional flower bfdi gooner Jun 25 '26

Literally 1985

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u/Rough-Sense-70 lurking through your screen >:) Jun 25 '26

Well guess I’ll try to be even more funnier with my posts

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u/MR_Happy2008 [CENSORED BY THE BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE] Jun 25 '26

Unfortunately I have stolen your funny bone. Now to get it back you must pay me 666 funny coins

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u/IapetusApoapis342 HAPPENINGCON 1 Jun 25 '26

this is just like Brave New World /j

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u/brokentoasters10k my booty hole itches for Gregor Samsa limbus company Jun 25 '26

Literally 2493

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u/Spainstateofmind Jun 25 '26

I get this sub recommended all the time and I literally thought its purpose was just for people to complain and ragebait

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u/Idont_like_redditors Jun 25 '26

Unrelated but that mf was NOT a spy 😭

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u/Aguythatexists123456 Jun 26 '26

I didn't find this post funny. Delete it immediately.

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u/WeeaboosDogma Jun 26 '26

Don't worry guys

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u/suprise_suplex gimmick posters die Jun 25 '26

Mods my post was funny

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u/DaKaijuKid Will upvote if Godzilla Jun 25 '26

Okay if there’s like a lot of effort put in but not super distinct comedy can it be allowed? A lot of people really wanted it so I’ve been working on a follow-up to this post about action figures discussing the potential of making more. It’s a stop motion animation I’ve been working for a week with tons of hours sunk in. I certainly think it’s goofy, and has some jokes, but is gonna be like 40 seconds long total and is not exactly the snappy comedy most of this sub is. I hope that any more action figure posts I make in the future will match the sub better (hoping to do actual memes and more GIF recreations). Can my current working project be accepted? (Please T-T)

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u/B3T4_Baljeet swag ass baljeet Jun 25 '26

for really high effort posts like that, there will obviously be exceptions, we are mainly concerned about low effort karma farming.

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u/Fatal_Contract DO THE IMPOSSIBLE, SEE THE INVISIBLE Jun 25 '26

HELL YEAH NO MORE FETISH POSTS!!!

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u/natt_myco Jun 25 '26

about time, every single post I get from this subreddit is so low effort now

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u/HichiShiro every War has it's Hammer Jun 25 '26

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u/eeveeplays50040 Jun 25 '26

Mods broke rule one.

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u/Derk_Mage Jun 25 '26

No "When the" at the start of the post name or meme.

Mods, flay this mod.

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u/Kahlizzle_Da_Boss Jun 25 '26

I don’t get it… I’ve never seen a funny post here…

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u/Goldberry15 Athena Cykes: Ace Attorney Jun 26 '26

Will this flair (tag?) still be allowed, given how the new Rule 1 removes the option to make a post that describes a life event? Or does the life event in question need to be considered funny?

For example, would this post here, had it not been posted then, and instead posted tomorrow, be allowed?

This is a genuine question, by the way.

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u/SoupahKnux uhe Jun 26 '26

we're so back

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u/Over_Heed ModsBreakingRule#9OverAGruElMachoGIFByNukingAFlairWasPureCinema. Jun 26 '26

Half the subreddit is getting nuked if people actually have to be funny.

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u/IamaJarJar Jun 25 '26

FUCK YOU, I'LL BE AS UNFUNNY AS I WANT!

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u/UBC145 What are we, some kind of furry fandom? Jun 25 '26

Hmm, I’m always wary of mods that take it solely upon themselves to determine what’s funny and high quality, because there is no obvious metric of how funny or quality a post is. I believe subjective qualities of a post like funniness should be decided by the community - in fact, I believe that is the way Reddit is supposed to be used. Naturally, very funny and relatable posts will tend to be highly upvoted, while unfunny and low quality posts will either get downvoted or not gain any traction.

There are many meme subs that lost relevance and died out due to overly strict, heavy-handed and subjective moderation. Don’t let this sub become one of those…or do, idc, I’m just some guy on the internet.

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u/Billybob123456789190 the black demon of the modern age Jun 25 '26

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u/GalaxyKid33 Jun 25 '26

not if i have anything to say about this!

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u/NoriaMan Jun 25 '26

Meh, gif not funny enough.

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u/Sniper2021yay Jun 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/v0ok8uhZvw3yE
Something something literally 1984

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u/Dawnguardian286 Jun 25 '26

I take it there was an amazingly high digital surplus of low effort fandom/Twitter drama posts?

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u/SmallBlueLad What am I supposed to write here? Jun 25 '26

Welp, I’m toast cause I got no clue how to be funny (I try, for whatever that’s worth).

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u/Inviz1mal Jun 25 '26

Wordle dev posts are in shambles rn

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u/16-Twelve Hello! Jun 25 '26

Literally Farenheit 451

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u/Godtierbunny Jun 25 '26

God speed🫡

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u/MemCreper Jun 25 '26

Literally 1933

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u/ALowlySlime Jun 25 '26

All my posts in here have been only funny so I'm safe

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u/Im_A_Paper Jun 25 '26

Honestly? Good, the loli post from yesterday was pretty dog shit

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u/OG-Name-Do-Not-Steal the fuck are you looking for? Jun 26 '26

what the hell

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u/SpookyWeebou Hey this is a private flair! Get out! Jun 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/v0ok8uhZvw3yE

This is worse than that time I was in George Orwell's 1984

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u/psycho_dog33 Jun 25 '26

Thank God.

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u/YeeYeeBeep Jun 25 '26

This post isnt funny, mods ban the mods >:[[[[[

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u/Perfect-Silver1715 I quite like men Jun 25 '26

Literally 8914

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u/Rohan_Guy Jun 25 '26

Honestly way to many posts were just venting and r/whennews material.

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u/lilliepadsy misinformation spreader Jun 25 '26

literally 9/11 2 my life is ruined now

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u/AmbitiousAd8978 Jun 25 '26

Ban vague posting while your at it

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u/Quadtbighs Jun 25 '26

A horrible meme format to call out bad memes wew

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u/PalpitationOdd7107 Jun 25 '26

So this is how liberty die ? With thunderous applause

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u/VivaHousamo Jun 25 '26

Very intersting choice of video...

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u/anon-e-mau5 we got machines but the kids got jesus Jun 25 '26

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u/Omelooo Jun 25 '26

Sub quality is way higher when you block the top 3 or 4 most active posters that just post unrelated anime gifs to fucked up captions

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u/Cultural_Ad1331 Jun 25 '26

Thank fuck

ngl guys vague posting about personal stuff sucks

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u/DigitalCoffee Jun 25 '26

Awesome. So that means no more unfunny political shit right?