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Snoo, the time-traveling alien mascot of Reddit.

"Dive into anything"

—Reddit's Motto

Reddit is a very large news aggregator similar to Digg or Fark. Its structure is based around "subreddits", separate topic-specific aggregators which can be easily created.

Although Reddit isn't a wiki, users have the power to create their own subreddits on pretty much any topic. In fact, our researchers posit that it is probably because of this very aspect of Reddit that it has proven to be actually more addictive than TV Tropes. Don't believe us? Here,👁 Image
try it for yourself, but don't say we didn't warn you.

Works hosted on Reddit:

From r/nosleep:

Accounts from a Lonely Broadcast Station
Borrasca
The Brides of Christendom^noteThe third and fifth stories are hosted on the author's userpage instead of r/nosleep.
"Butcherface"
Case File No.56
The Claverhouse Emails
Dr. Harper Therapy
The Family of Fang and Claw^note"The Pancake Family", "Gehenna", and "Feeder of Her" were published on r/nosleep
How to Survive Camping
I Drive for Cerber
The Left Right Game
"Little Witch and Jack O'Lantern"
The works of Mohamed Gamal Frank
"The most obscure Disney film"
The Neverglades
"A Package Marked "Return to Sender""
The Patient That Nearly Drove Me Out of Medicine
Pen Pal
My Property Isn't Normal
"The Red Maiden: Grace's Story"
Search and Rescue Woods
"The Smiling Man"
"The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen"
Tales from the Gas Station
Tommy Taffy
The Spire In The Woods
"What Happens When the Stars Go Out"

Other:

Beast Fables
Bertstrips (r/bertstrips 👁 Image
)
Bosun's Journal
Codex Inversus
Dogelore
Heisenberg_52
The Interface Series
The Jenkinsverse (r/HFY 👁 Image
)
JoJo's OC Tournament (through r/stardustcrusaders 👁 Image
)
Jurassic Impact
Polandball (r/polandball 👁 Image
)
The Principal Saga
trickcal "what if"
Virgin vs. Chad ^noteThough the meme originated from 4chan (r/virginvschad 👁 Image
)
Wingstix (r/wingstix 👁 Image
)
World of Theseus

Some subreddits have inspired works of their own:

Bad Two Sentence Horror is a Twitter account showcasing posts from r/TwoSentenceHorror.
Two Sentence Horror Stories is a TV anthology series inspired by Two-Sentence Horror Stories (r/TwoSentenceHorror).
The NoSleep Podcast is a horror anthology podcast that started out adapting stories from r/nosleep.

r/tropes:

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12 Coins Puzzle: A post 👁 Image
in r/puzzles challenges redditors to find the sole heavier ball amongst a set of 8.

A to C

Accentuate the Negative: Subreddits dedicated to mockery (like /r/thatHappened or /r/cringe), especially the former, which expresses mocking disbelief towards almost anything. Extreme examples of this are in turn mocked by /r/nothingeverhappens.
Addled Addict: r/tooktoomuch 👁 Image
showcases people appearing to be under the influence of various substances engaging in bizarre behavior.
Alcohol-Induced Idiocy: /r/holdmybeer 👁 Image
is a collection of gifs depicting people performing comically ill-thought-out acts, generally titled "HMB while I [action]".
The Alleged Car: /r/Shitty_Car_Mods/👁 Image
is all about this, and /r/Justrolledintotheshop 👁 Image
is mostly about attempts to fix similar disasters on wheels.
Alt Text: /r/AskReddit 👁 Image
's snoo says "Ass Credit" when hovered over.
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents:
- The best case scenario for an /r/entitledparents 👁 Image
  story, where the poor kid will either look like they want to die because of their parent's narcissism-by-proxy-induced idiocy or calling them out for being terrible, at times apologizing for their parents' stupidity even though it's not their fault.
- It’s not all that uncommon to find such parents on /r/insaneparents 👁 Image
  .
Anti-Climax: In March 2013, dont_stop_me_smee posted this gallery showing a locked safe.👁 Image
9 Months later, somebody finally got it open 👁 Image
and inside was a spider.
A Rare Sentence: r/brandnewsentence is dedicated to cataloguing these.
Artifact Title: Since subreddits can't have their names changed after they are created, their names can sometimes become this over time, particularly if the sub goes through a topic shift or if the subject it's named after changes its name.
- /r/911FOX 👁 Image
  took its name from the fact that 9-1-1 originally aired on Fox, which canceled the series in 2023 after 6 seasons. It was subsequently picked up by ABC.
- /r/AdviceAnimals 👁 Image
  took its name from the "Advice Dog" image macro, which is now virtually non-existent. Not all of them have animals and most don't give any advice except the "Advice Mallard".
- /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu 👁 Image
  is named after the expression for rage, as the subreddit is for Rage Comics. However, they no longer always involve rage.
- /r/HarvestMoon 👁 Image
  is named after the video game series that is now known as Story of Seasons in Western markets after X Seed Games took over localization duties in 2014. As a result, /r/StoryOfSeasons 👁 Image
  was created to honour the new title, but the old subreddit is still active with discussion about not just the Story of Seasons games, but also the Rune Factory series and the new Harvest Moon-branded games created by Natsume since 2014.
- /r/Hornets 👁 Image
  are named after the New Orleans Hornets, who changed their name to the New Orleans Pelicans in 2013. Similarly, there's also /r/CharlotteBobcats 👁 Image
  (changed back to the Charlotte Hornets in 2014 after the Pelicans vacated the name), /r/Redskins 👁 Image
  after the Washington Redskins (now the Washington Commanders) and /r/ClevelandIndians 👁 Image
  (now the Cleveland Guardians). In all four cases, new subreddits with the team's new name were created to replace them, but some holdouts stuck with the old subs.
- /r/Noelle_Stevenson 👁 Image
  , was founded before ND Stevenson came out as transmasculine, and as such uses his deadname. /r/NDStevenson 👁 Image
  was founded to replace it, but it failed to gain any traction, and the old sub has been mostly abandoned in favour of other subs dedicated to Nate's individual works such as /r/nimona 👁 Image
  and /r/sheranetflix 👁 Image
  instead.
- /r/TikTokCringe 👁 Image
  was originally for only posting cringe content from TikTok, but it later allowed all content from TikTok to be posted, and now there are typically more comedy and wholesome videos than cringe.
- /r/Twitter 👁 Image
  and /r/TwitterFollowers 👁 Image
  are named after the social media platform that changed its name to X in 2023.
April Fools' Day: It may be more common for large subs to not do something silly on the first of April. Examples include:
- In 2012, the Subreddits for /r/Soccer and /r/NFL switched flairs. Hilarity ensued 👁 Image
  .
- On April 1st, 2013, Reddit posted a blog post 👁 Image
  stating that it has purchased Team Fortress 2 and would be implementing its gameplay into the standard Reddit experience. The TF2 blog, on the other hand,👁 Image
  stated the opposite.
- On the same day, /r/StarWars and /r/StarTrek switched backgrounds, to much confusion.invoked
- On April 1st, 2014, there was much buzz on /r/AssassinsCreed about Ubisoft announcing that Watch_Dogs was the real title of their secretive Assassin's Creed: Comet project. Having apparently forgotten what day it was, the excitement even spilled over into /r/Gaming. Funnily enough, when the game was released, it was confirmed that it does, in fact take place in the same universe as Assassin's Creed.invoked
- In 2015, the Subreddits for Homestuck and Steven Universe swapped places for the day, similarly to 2013. So /r/homestuck led to the Steven Universe Subreddit and vice-versa. This led to many confused fans on both ends. Both of the Subreddits lampshaded this. Steven Universe's "users here now" counter read "X confused homestucks" and Homestuck's read "X wondering if Steven Universe ever really existed in the first place".
- Similarly, in 2021, the subreddits for Danganronpa and Five Nights at Freddy's switched places.
- Also in 2015, the staff created a subreddit called "the button" (/r/thebutton 👁 Image
  ) which featured a prominent button, which you could click or not click. The button was attached to a timer counting down from 60. At whatever time you clicked, the button would reset — for everyone — and you would be given a flair based on that number. Soon, two sides emerged, pressers and non-pressers. By the second, there were over twenty factions.
- Elsewhere on Reddit, /r/TwitchPlaysPokemon, in a moment of Fun with Acronyms, changed their page 👁 Image
  and posted on the Trans-Pacific Partnership 👁 Image
  .
- For 2015, the DataIsBeautiful subreddit became a shrine to Data from Star Trek.
- For 2017, A subreddit called /r/place 👁 Image
  opened, a public canvas where you could place a coloured pixel of your choosing every 5 minutes, but placed pixels could be overridden with another. Just like the button, several factions appeared almost immediately. It was reopened in 2022, featuring a few upgrades over the original 2017 canvas, such as more colors to choose from and two separate canvas expansions.
- In 2019, r/polandball temporary bans drawing in the traditional ball based method.👁 Image
- Also in 2019, r/animemes 👁 Image
  and r/historymemes 👁 Image
  swapped, resulting in the surprising creation of a large number of history-based anime memes.
- In 2023, the two 👁 Image
  subreddits 👁 Image
  for Final Fantasy XIV and World of Warcraft swapped styles, and each subreddit was filled with screenshots of each other's game. A lot of people even posted how their respective "home cities" in the game looked a lot different.
Asshole Victim: r/ProRevenge 👁 Image
and r/NuclearRevenge 👁 Image
are about people taking revenge on their tormentors in ways that have ruined lives, and in the most extreme cases ended them.
AstroTurf:
- Reddit's founders, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, admitted to submitting links under various usernames when the site first launched to make it look like it there were more people using it than there actually were.
- If a heavily downvoted comment gets gilded 👁 Image
  , it's common for the poster in question to be accused of gilding themselves with an alternate account. This mindset applies even more so if it's an admin's comment.
- Given the subject matter of /r/conspiracy 👁 Image
  , it's probably not all that surprising to see every other comment accusing someone of either this or malicious LARPing, especially when a particular conspiracy theory gains enough traction.
As You Know: Any sort of TIL (Today I Learned) or "lifehack" threads will either be genuinely informative, or something that's already common knowledge or generic tricks we all learned in our childhood.
Bait-and-Switch: Because you can make a subreddit for almost any type of content with nearly any kind of title, you can come up with a fake subreddit name to bait people into clicking on a dead link. /r/SubsIFellFor 👁 Image
documents such instances. Conversely, /r/SubsIThoughtIFellFor 👁 Image
are for instances where someone expects a link to a non-existent subreddit, only to discover it's real.
Balkan Bastard: Played for Laughs on r/2balkan4you 👁 Image
, which is mostly a parody of the Misplaced Nationalism found in the Balkans.
Banned from Argo: You can and will be banned from /r/relationships👁 Image
for posting anything from that subreddit to SubredditDrama, and Word of God from their moderators confirms this.
- On a more sour note, several subreddits use bots to ban anyone who posts in certain other subreddits, despite this being against site policy.invoked
Based on a Dream: r/somnivexillology 👁 Image
, where people post flags they see in dreams, and r/thomastheplankengine 👁 Image
for memes seen in dreams. The latter tend to be very Surreal Humor.invoked
Becoming the Mask: Quite a few subreddits that were initially designed to mock or parody certain behaviors end up becoming shrines to what they were mocking, and sometimes it can be hard to tell if this is what has happened.
Belief Makes You Stupid: There are a lot of subreddits dedicated to bashing religion. r/atheism and r/religiousfruitcake are two of the bigger examples, often going so far as to attack the very concept of religion itself as inherently evil. Occurs to a lesser extent in r/exchristian, r/exmuslim, r/exmormon, etc., though they serve more as a place where former believers can connect with one another and share their shared struggles.
- Also inverted; needless to say, religious people generally don't appreciate their faiths being attacked and have formed their own subreddits to counter-bash the militant atheists. r/antitheistcheesecake is the antithesis to r/religiousfruitcake, and there are various r/ex(fruit/vegetable) subreddits, such as r/excarrots and r/extomatoes, which attack apostates from specific faiths.
Berserk Button:
- /r/shitredditsays formerly had this status, since it's a haven for snarky feminists, and really hates jokes about rape. The subreddit also has a low tolerance for Black Comedy, sex jokes, racial humor, and transphobia. It flew both ways — mentions of SRS on other subreddits garnered outrage and anger over "SJW"s — although this has subsided (and SRS itself has become less relevant) after the late 2010s, as Reddit started more actively moderating hate speech on its platform, and as the things SRS is against started to be more clearly agreed upon as bad by the site's user base.
- A mention of Colby the Dog will receive numerous responses of 'EVERY THREAD' or similar.
- The firing of a popular admin responsible for the celebrity AMAs prompted many subreddits to temporarily go private in protest.
- Several political views have the potential to trigger this when expressed.
- Some subreddits have such a bad reputation on the site that you’ll get autobanned from other subreddits if you post on one.
Bewildering Punishment: It is not unknown for Reddit to shadow-ban people, making it so that they think they're still on the site, yet no-one else can see or respond to their posts. This link 👁 Image
provides a form to check account status and appeal it if required. It is one of the few ways to actually check if one is shadow-banned.
Bittersweet Ending: The Colby the Dog story ends up like this. The poster and his wife get back together and the son sees a therapist over what happened, but the dog has to be sold.
*Bleep*-dammit!: /r/CensoringIsHard 👁 Image
, which catalogs token attempts at redactions and censorship of internet posts, such as scribbled out usernames and the like.
Blended Beastfolk: The Furry Fandom subreddit r/furry 👁 Image
has some art of this kind, with bunny + moth 👁 Image
, musk deer + bat 👁 Image
, and raccoon + jackal 👁 Image
hybrids being just a few of many examples.
Bold Inflation: Several subreddits have all of their text in allcaps and/or bolded font, whether as a subreddit rule or forced with CSS coding. /r/spacedicks has allcapital titles and comments as a subreddit rule, and comments posted that contain lowercase letters will be responded to with "WHAT CAN'T HEAR YOU". /r/FondantHate 👁 Image
, a community dedicated to the hatred of the use of fondant on cakes, uses CSS styling to force all of its text to be in allcaps Arial Bold font.
Boss Battle: /r/bossfight 👁 Image
posts pictures of strange objects, sculptures, animals, and costumes and gives them subtitles to present them as bosses in a video game or role-playing campaign.
Bothering by the Book: The essential theme of /r/MaliciousCompliance 👁 Image
. This is where the OP is told to do something by a boss, teacher, cop, lawyer, HOA board, or any other sort of governing authority. But whatever the OP is asked to do, it's either done as literally as possible, or to the exact point the request was made and no further. This always ends with the target of OP's wrath getting in some kind of trouble when they either didn't think through the implications of what they were asking for or end up getting just enough metaphorical rope to hang themselves with. A common thread is the OP being told to do something by their boss, OP advising the boss against the action, the boss insisting on the action anyway, and OP doing the action while letting the logical conclusion of the action play itself out so that their boss ends up in hot water.
Brain Bleach: /r/eyebleach 👁 Image
for washing away memories of /r/wtf 👁 Image
or /r/fiftyfifty.
Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: This post:👁 Image

If you go on the goddamn internet it will still be "Did you check the weather/mail/bank account/for missing children/on whatever cause she presently is interested in?"
Broken Aesop: If you visit /r/relationships, this is almost certainly expected, and lampshaded frequently.
Broken Pedestal: /u/unidan was a biologist almost universally loved by Reddit until an incident in 2014 when he lost his temper and it was revealed he had been using alternate accounts to manipulate votes in his favour. He's now mostly just another in-joke (don't mention jackdaws), but many users still seem to mourn the loss.
Butt-Monkey: /r/SequelMemes (subreddit for the Star Wars sequels) is widely made fun of across the website because of the ubiquity of /r/PrequelMemes (its prequel counterpart). It doesn't help that a sizable amount of Sequel Memes' userbase hates the sequels rather than celebrates them.
Cats Are Mean: Cats show up a lot in /r/AnimalsBeingJerks 👁 Image
, and jerks show up a lot in /r/CatSlaps 👁 Image
. To be fair, cats show up in /r/AnimalsBeingBros 👁 Image
as well.
Choosy Beggar: /r/ChoosingBeggars/👁 Image
is all about this. The subreddit is dedicated to text messages, social media posts, etc. of people who are in clear need of something, but are being incredibly picky or have impossible standards for whatever they want. For instance, a relatively common kind of post in the subreddit is a person who is looking for a potential romantic partner, but with a list of "must-haves" that is either impossible to achieve or self-contradictory.
Christmas Carolers: Played for Horror in the Creepypasta “My Neighbor won’t stop singing Christmas carols 👁 Image
”. The titular neighbors- the wife and daughter specifically- sing carols for days on end, never stopping, and will not respond to anything, even as they are peeing and crying, making it clear that something is wrong. They are being forced to sing by a race of goblins resembling pine trees, and anyone caught in a specific radius from one is magically compelled to join in the caroling forever- eventually, nearly the entire town joins in, with hordes of people forced to sing against their will before being devoured by the pine goblins.
Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Many, although _vargas_👁 Image
is one of the most popular.
Cluster F-Bomb: /r/fuck 👁 Image
Is full to the brim with this.
Comeback Tomorrow: The /r/staircasewit 👁 Image
subreddit provides a place for users to place these thoughts.
Comically Missing the Point: When a Redditor does this in response to another user's post, it's known as "the ol' Reddit switcharoo" [sic]. A long list of these is maintained, with each one linking to the next.
Conspiracy Theorist: A fairly common sight in political threads.
- According to /r/hailcorporate 👁 Image
  , every post is secretly a viral marketing campaign.
- Then there's, of course, /r/conspiracy 👁 Image
  . Played with in that the sub's sidebar maintains an up-to-date list of confirmed conspiracies.
- Parodied with /r/karmaconspiracy 👁 Image
  and /r/conspiratard 👁 Image
  , the latter of which is dedicated to mocking Truthers, Illuminati freaks, and Ufologists. r/amibeingdetained 👁 Image
  also sees this on a regular basis as a sub devoted to mocking sovereign citizens and "freemen upon the land".
- While r/askhistorians 👁 Image
  usually tries to dispel those, the site's inherent pop voting and lack of peer review can produce occasions where fringe historical stances are upvoted and made pass as academic consensus.
Contagious Laughter: /r/ContagiousLaughter 👁 Image
is just that. It's videos of people laughing or doing funny things, only for everyone around them (and hopefully, the viewer) to start laughing with them.
Cool Car:
- /r/Spotted 👁 Image
  , among others, is all about posting pictures of awesome vehicles.
- Th 👁 Image
  is 👁 Image
  ◊ is an actual NASCAR car sponsored by Reddit.
Cool Plane: many, both fictional and real, but one particular case is the SR-71. Every time it gets mentioned - every time - someone will post that story about the speed check 👁 Image
. It got to the point it's now an inside meme, and the SR-71 eventually got its own subreddit.
Cordon Bleugh Chef: /r/ididnthaveeggs/👁 Image
collects complaints from people who made stupid substitutions in online recipes and then complain that they didn't turn out well, because it's obviously the recipe's fault if they didn't follow it.
Cranky Landlord:
- r/LandlordLove 👁 Image
  (despite the name) is a subreddit of people complaining about landlords they consider cruel.
- r/LoveForLandlords 👁 Image
  is a parody of the above r/LandlordLove, in which users roleplay as the kinds of people the above subreddit complains about. Evicting tenants, raising rent, and other similar practices are bragged about and Played for Laughs.
Creator's Culture Carryover: With the exception of subreddits explicitly dedicated to other countries or cities, Reddit is heavily American-slanted, and many American redditors will automatically assume that any other users who don't include very obvious mistakes in their written English are themselves American. As a result, things like asking for, say, rust prevention advice in /r/DIY will result in redditors suggesting you buy Rustoleum brand chemicals, or asking about bicycle grease in /r/bicycling might get you suggestions for Phil's Wood Bearing Grease (prompting the obvious question "Who's Phil? Should I e-mail him?"). To say nothing of legal advice, which is state-specific, let alone country-specific.
- Extremely apparent in Tech-Related subreddits, where any and all advice ends up being American-Centric, leading to confused Europeans trying to use Craigslist and being told to go to the nearest Walmart. The fact that most articles that end up being shared are written from an American point of view (As seen with the iPhone SE, as decent Chinese mid-ranger Androids are completely non-existent in the US) doesn't help.
- Flip-flopped with /r/Android, as any question concerning budget phones will inevitably end up as a case of an Indian culture carryover, and a flood of recommendations for Xiaomi devices — despite the fact that they literally cannot work in the US due to not having the required bands to operate on most US 4G networks.
- r/USDefaultism 👁 Image
  is dedicated to mocking these kinds of Americans.
Creepypasta: r/nosleep 👁 Image
is Reddit's equivalent, though the mods scrub away badly-written examples.
Cringe Comedy: Several subs, including /r/cringe, /r/cringepics, or /r/cringetopia collect unintentional examples, though they have some accusations going against them of being too mean-spirited.
Cruel Twist Ending: The final hours of the 2022 r/place had the colors changed to only white, and thus forced the various communities that worked on the canvas to delete their own creations and blank out the canvas.
Cut Short: The infamous 'tree fiddy' (a South Park reference) stories posted by /u/thehealeroftri 👁 Image
(and others) open with a typically believable, interesting premise, then right before the climax of the story, typically involve one of the main characters asking for $3.50, then turning into a prehistoric animal and swimming away.
Cute Kitten: See /r/cats 👁 Image
, /r/aww 👁 Image
, etc.
Cute Little Fangs: /r/CuteLittleFangs 👁 Image

D to F

The Dandy: /r/malefashionadvice 👁 Image
is often accused of this; either they encourage a boring "uniform" look or they drift too far down "fashion-conscious" and into "effeminate".
Delusions of Eloquence: Like Know-Nothing Know-It-All, r/justneckbeardthings 👁 Image
, r/thathappened 👁 Image
, r/notliketheothergirls 👁 Image
, and especially r/iamverysmart 👁 Image
chronicle a lot of real-life examples of this. The subreddits are respectively about Dogged Nice Guys who act misogynistic while insisting they're nice people, telling stories that are obvious Blatant Lies, women who try to justify The Prima Donna behaviors, and people who get basic facts wrong while insisting that they're right.
Didn't Think This Through: The "Win Stupid Prizes" subreddit 👁 Image
. It involves people doing things that any sane person could tell is a bad idea (playing a stupid game), only for this decision to result in predictably bad consequences (winning a stupid prize). Frequent targets of mockery include doing dangerous stunts with clearly unsafe equipment, sticking fireworks anywhere close to a human body, or trying to pick a fight with a clearly superior opponent.
Disco Dan: /r/music 👁 Image
is widely derided for its focus on classic rock. /r/lewronggeneration 👁 Image
mocks internet denizens who complain about modern music, and frequently yearn for simpler times, before they were born.
Disproportionate Retribution: The whole point of /r/pettyrevenge 👁 Image
, and taken to the extreme in /r/nuclearrevenge 👁 Image
.
Dogs Are Dumb: A common joke on /r/DogShowerThoughts 👁 Image
, though it tends to go hand in hand with Dumb Is Good.
Don't Explain the Joke: r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/👁 Image
inverts this. The entire subreddit is dedicated to people explaining jokes, memes, and social media posts for people who don't get what they're supposed to be saying. The subreddit is named for Peter Griffin from Family Guy, who has a habit of doing this in-universe.
Donut Mess with a Cop: An anti-police subreddit is called r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut 👁 Image
.
Dude, Not Funny!: invoked SRS is an entire subreddit dedicated to this reaction to various ostensibly bigoted jokes on the site.
Dreadful Musician: /r/CrappyMusic 👁 Image
is full of them.
Drives Like Crazy: /r/IdiotsInCars/👁 Image
is full of reckless driving and/or car crashes from people who refuse to obey the rules of the road.
Eagleland: /r/MURICA👁 Image
parodies Type 2. There's several subreddits out there dedicated to bashing America, and it's not uncommon to see anger over the Pledge of Allegiance. Ironically, a lot of the users of these subreddits are American themselves.
- /r/ShitAmericansSay 👁 Image
  is a subreddit for quotes that sound like they came from here.
- /r/ANormalDayInAmerica 👁 Image
  is a subreddit for insane news stories from America.
- r/USdefaultism 👁 Image
  is a subreddit for internet users who automatically assume everyone else on the web is American.
Early-Installment Weirdness:
- Subreddits weren't introduced until 2008, 3 years after the site launched.
- AskReddit questions were previously more personal, and could ask for assistance.
- Account suspensions were introduced in 2015; before then, the only site-wide punishment for rule-breakers was shadow-banning 👁 Image
  , which was usually reserved for spammers.
The Eeyore: /r/2meirl4meirl, which is mostly reposting suicidal, extremely self-loathing, and nihilistic reposts from Tumblr and elsewhere, mixed in with pleas for death. It's like Shinji Ikari, Marvin the Paranoid Android, and Eeyore ruining all your favorite tumblr posts.
Enemy Mine: They have a long-standing rivalry with 4chan, mainly due to being accused of forcing Advice Animals and stealing 4Chan memes (in some instances, they did steal, but in others, they didn't). But when 9GAG started gaining steam and started taking credit for copied memes from both sites, they put aside their mutual dislike of each other to combine forces to take 9GAG down.
- In a way, they and 4Chan can be seen as Vitriolic Best Buds because while they both most assuredly take potshots at each other on site, many of the users frequent both sites, whether they want to admit it or not.
Entitled to Have You: A frequently seen mindset on r/niceguys 👁 Image
. The subreddit is dedicated to mocking the mindset of "nice guys" who act entitled to dates and/or a girlfriend. Posts typically show text messages from these "nice guys" showing their true colors at the slightest hint of rejection or disinterest.
Epic Fail: /r/therewasanattempt 👁 Image
documents these.
Erudite Stoner: /r/StonerPhilosophy 👁 Image
. At times.
Eskimos Aren't Real: There's an infamous post by a person who grew up believing that Finland isn't a real country, explaining that his parents convinced him that Finland was just an elaborate conspiracy created by Japan to get around fishing regulations. The post eventually led to the creation of an entire (satirical) subreddit dedicated to exposing the "Finland conspiracy".
Even the Guys Want Him: If a photo of a sufficiently attractive male appears, there will be several comments about going gay for him. Multiply that by about 200 for Ridiculously Photogenic Guy 👁 Image
.
Everyone Has Standards: /r/jesuschristreddit 👁 Image
, which collects offensive, often out of context comments for redditors to make fun of.
Everything Is an Instrument: /r/SoundsLikeMusic 👁 Image
chronicles videos of people using unconventional objects as musical instruments, or of animals and things unintentionally sounding like music or beats. Examples include a large indoor fan turned into a substitute for an electric guitar, a person trying to time their nail gun usage to a nearby band performing a march, a washing machine with a loose drum producing a beat almost identical to “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” (to which the person filming joins in with their guitar and vocals) and a dog howling to someone's blues saxophone practice.
Exact Words:
- /r/MaliciousCompliance 👁 Image
  is filled with stories about redditors spiting rude or obnoxious people by following their requests to the letter, typically leading to a disastrous result they had not anticipated.
- This bacon burrito 👁 Image
  is wrapped in bacon.
- /r/OnlyFans 👁 Image
  was once about reposting NSFW content from the website of the same name, which led to it getting so many DMCA takedowns it had to be closed and stayed that way for two years. In August of 2020, the current moderator requested to adopt the sub and subsequently turned it into a sub for fans. As in, air circulation devices.
Face Palm: /r/FacePalm 👁 Image
is for posts that elicit this reaction.
Felony Misdemeanor: Each sub has its own set of rules for conduct on top of Reddit's sitewide rules, and their enforcement is at the moderator team's discretion. Different subs may have considerably different standards for what warrants a temporary or permanent ban, including offenses that would receive only post deletion and/or a warning in other places, and let's leave it at that.
Fictional Flag: r/vexillology 👁 Image
and its parody equivalent r/vexillologycirclejerk 👁 Image
focus on the discussion of and the creation of flags. Users often create original flags, including those of Alternate History countries, Fictional Countries, or redesigns of current flags.
Fight Scene: r/FightPorn is dedicated to videos of real-life fights, from sanctioned matches to street brawls.
Five-Finger Discount: /r/shoplifting was dedicated to this trope, prior to it being banned. They even had an arch-nemesis in the form of /r/lossprevention.
Food Porn: /r/FoodPorn 👁 Image
and /r/DessertPorn 👁 Image
. /r/Cooking 👁 Image
, as well. /r/ShittyFoodPorn 👁 Image
is intended to be something like Food Gorn, but unless the posted edibles are truly atrocious, there'll be at least one redditor commenting how they'd gladly eat that.
For Great Justice: The spirit of /r/KarmaCourt 👁 Image
, a subreddit for trials of redditors who have committed various "karma crimes" on Reddit such as claiming someone else's work as their own, or lying for karma.
For the Evulz: The denizens of /rfoundsatan 👁 Image
partake in rather heinous pranks, with potentially chaotic results.
Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow: /r/SubredditDrama 👁 Image
has a rule against voting down comments in linked threads. However, when a thread is linked, the loser in the argument tends to accumulate a suspiciously low voting total. SRS also has a similar policy against participating in linked threads, but is also frequently accused of brigading.
Fridge Logic: Invoked with /r/Showerthoughts 👁 Image
, for all those odd thoughts you get from pondering too much. Also goes along with Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror.

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Gag Haircut: /r/Justfuckmyshitup 👁 Image
collects pictures of people with bad or just strange haircuts.
Gorn: /r/Spacedicks and /r/watchpeopledie were subreddits dedicated entirely to this. And by that, we mean real life gore. It would be an understatement to say that these subreddits are controversial. As of 2021, both of these subreddits no longer exist.
Gun Porn: /r/GunPorn 👁 Image
.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Every other day, Reddit launches a counterattack somewhere. Or on itself.
Haute Cuisine Is Weird: /r/WeWantPlates/👁 Image
collects pictures of restaurant dishes served in or on bizarre and unappetizing objects instead of on plates. /r/StupidFood 👁 Image
is also about stupid, pretentious, and/or overly trendy food, overlapping occasionally with /r/shittyfoodporn for food and food products that are merely stupid.
He-Man Woman Hater: Quite a few women (and men) on Reddit have complained about the site's skewed demographics (see There Are No Girls on the Internet) and outrageous sexism before, especially concentrated in /r/theredpill. /r/shitredditsays is the main hub for these complaints (although it's a subreddit that's widely accused of questionable behavior and comments in and of itself).
Heavy Metal: /r/metal 👁 Image
also includes all of Heavy Metal's sub-genres.
Heinous Hyena: the whole point of /r/hyenas👁 Image
is to subvert this trope.
- Hyenas are also a popular subject for /r/natureismetal 👁 Image
  , and are generally unpopular with most posters/commenters there.
Hide Your Lesbians: The site has an entire subreddit called Sappho And Her Friend 👁 Image
dedicated to this. While some examples are just ambiguous, many people ignore the just-as-logical LGBT explanation of characters' actions, others are obvious yet still being explained away as simply just close friends, roommates etc.
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: The stories posted by /u/rogersimon10, all of which involve his father beating him with jumper cables.
Hive Mind: Reddit sometimes acts like👁 Image
one in👁 Image
individual threads👁 Image
to troll the OP, mostly just for laughs.
- One OP accidentally changed his language settings to Spanish, and posted a thread to /r/askreddit 👁 Image
  about how to switch it back. Every response was written in Spanish, even an admin's.
- An infamously bizarre example is /r/CatsStandingUp,👁 Image
  where nearly every word and every post has to simply be "Cat." Saying anything else in the sub gets you an automatic ban.
Hoist by His Own Petard: /r/LeopardsAteMyFace/👁 Image
documents instances of people's own actions backfiring on them. Typically, posts will contain people expressing regret for things like a political policy that they were in favor of or voted for, but didn't think through all of the implications of the policy's implementation.
Honor Before Reason: The admins have refused to deal with some of the subreddits that promote illegal activity because it would violate their belief in freedom of speech, only deleting subreddits like /r/jailbait after media pressure.
The Horseshoe Effect: A few Subreddits are based on this concept.
- Stormfront or SJW?👁 Image
  challenges the reader to identify whether a given statement was said by someone expressing an opinion that is on the extreme right-wing (Stormfront) or extreme left-wing (SJW).
- Men Kampf 👁 Image
  observes how Nazi-esque statements from social justice warriors become when substituting "men" for "Jews" and "women" for "Aryans".
- Tankiejerk 👁 Image
  often makes the conclusion that "tankies"(a term refering to authoritarian Communists and those seemingly on the left defending any government opposed to the US government regardless of the quality of said regimes) are indistinguishable from the far-right.
Hugh Mann: The idea of /r/totallynotrobots 👁 Image
is to act like a Robot would, while also stumbling on many a humanism robots would be confused by.
Humans Are Morons: An extremely high number of Reddit users are the profile picture of this trope.
Humans Are Bastards: A huge portion of the users on the site. This is also what you'll probably think browsing through /r/morbidreality👁 Image
. There is also /r/Iamatotalpieceofshit👁 Image
and /r/Fuckthesepeople👁 Image
who are pretty much named after the featured individuals.
- Averted by /r/UpliftingNews 👁 Image
  , and the various "Wholesome" reddits
Hurricane of Puns: Entire threads of puns are not uncommon. There's even an entire subreddit dedicated to puns, simply named /r/puns.👁 Image
Hypocritical Humor: Commonly used by /r/circlejerk 👁 Image
, a Self-Parody subreddit, when pointing out Reddit's hypocrisies.
"Hot girl posting on reddit? Upvoted! Oh wait you're not very attractive? REDDIT IS NOT YOUR FACEBOOK!!"
"I hate COD because all the games are similar, but I love Pokemon."
"9GAG sucks for stealing our original content. Also, upvote this 4chan image!"
I Ate WHAT?!: In several /r/AmITheAsshole 👁 Image
posts, a person will have eaten something they would not have eaten otherwise; one such post had 2 young girls obsessed with rabbits unintentionally eating rabbit meat that they were told was chicken. A large number of posts on this and other relationship-based subs are about people being deliberately fed foods they're allergic to, usually by people convinced that food allergies aren't real or that the victim is faking them.
Idiot Programming: Invoked in /r/SoftwareGore 👁 Image
, which is images of software with very odd or broken behaviors due to strange glitches or errors in the code.
Ice-Cream Koan: The entire point of r/NotInteresting 👁 Image
, particularly with regards to meme templates.
I Have This Friend: /r/MyFriendWantsToKnow 👁 Image
.
I Just Want to Be Badass: r/iamverybadass 👁 Image
is dedicated to images and videos of people (usually men) trying to appear tough and warrior-like, but who just come off as sad or pathetic.
I Read It for the Articles: /r/WatchItForThePlot, which is a subreddit dedicated to nude scenes, boob shots, and sex scenes in movies and TV shows.
Inflationary Dialogue: A common gag in the comments, e.g. for news stories where a large amount of money was seized or embezzled, is to create a chain where each commenter makes note of the amount, which shrinks each time, suggesting that each commenter skimmed some of the money or whatever it is as it went down the line.
Innocent Innuendo: A number of subs have names that sound NSFW, but their content is anything but. For example, r/Tightpussy 👁 Image
is about pictures of cats in small or narrow spaces.
Insane Troll Logic: Some posts on /r/facepalm 👁 Image
are based on this.
Insufferable Genius: r/iamverysmart 👁 Image
revolves around some of the worst examples of people trying way too hard to sound smart. Ironically, one of the top posts on the sub is a headline of a news article where famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says that anyone who boasts about their high IQ score is a loser.
Intentionally Awkward Title:
- The "SFW Porn" subreddits all have "porn" in their titles, but it's Not What It Looks Like— they just mean it in the sense of Scenery Porn. For instance, the subreddit r/FoodPorn 👁 Image
  is dedicated to pictures of well-made and/or tasty-looking food; nothing in the sub is actually pornographic. That doesn't prevent these subreddits being blocked by overzealous network filters.
- The Incest Porn subreddit is one of the few that actually contains porn.
- Various subreddits labelled "circlejerk" are almost always about doing the act metaphorically; that is, it's an echo chamber where everyone spouts the same opinions to each other over and over.
Internet Counterattack: EA's attempt 👁 Image
to justify its controversial Star Wars Battlefront II (2017) microtransaction policy was not well received, suffice it to say. The fandom responded by brigading the thread and downvoting its most popular response: "The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment", to -668,000, making it by far and away the most downvoted comment in the site's history^noteA feat that actually earned them an official Guinness World Record 👁 Image
. To put that in perspective, the second most downvoted comment, with over 89,000 downvotes, literally asked for them while the most downvoted comment that isn't done as a joke is almost -60000 due to a perceived mod abuse from a Roll20 subreddit.
The Internet Is for Porn: The large large large selection of NSFW subreddits. There's even a "randnsfw" button that, if enabled, will carry you to a random subreddit that is wholly tagged as "not safe for work", and the vast majority of those are porn. Except those that aren’t.
Internet Jerk: The large userbase and loose moderation leads to many, many examples of the G.I.F.T in action.
It Makes Sense in Context: /r/nocontext👁 Image
and its derivatives are dedicated to images or comments like this.
- r/DisneyVacation 👁 Image
  is this trope applied specifically to WikiHow images.
I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: /r/blunderyears 👁 Image
, where users post embarrassing photos of their youth.
It Will Never Catch On: /r/RedditThroughHistory is mostly about this.👁 Image
Much of the humor in their 2012 April Fool's Day time-travel joke also relies on this.

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Jerkass: Some of the users have unpleasant attitudes, no matter how civil you can be towards them.
Jerkass to One: r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR 👁 Image
, a showcase of people being scornful towards one specific person or group for a variety of reasons.
Justified Title: Defied by /r/LeopardsAteMyFace 👁 Image
, whose first rule specifically forbids animal attacks, including ones that take the subreddit name literally.
Karma Houdini: Various r/LetsNotMeet 👁 Image
stories end with the (would-be) perpetrator fleeing the scene, never facing accountability for the threat they've posed to the writer.
Killed Mid-Sentence: r/redditsniper 👁 Image
collects posts with unfinished words or sentences, as if the user was shot in the middle of typing.
Knight Templar Parent: /r/entitledparents 👁 Image
sometimes features this trope gone wrong.
Know-Nothing Know-It-All: As with most online forums, Redditors are anonymous and any credentials they may claim to have are unverifiable, so take any facts and advice you read with a grain of salt^note unless said information is backed up by research, of course .
- /r/iamverysmart 👁 Image
  is a subreddit dedicated to finding and mocking people constituting this trope, usually with shades of being an Internet Jerk. /r/confidentlyincorrect 👁 Image
  also features people like this, though less bragging about how intelligent they think they are and more saying demonstrably incorrect nonsense as if it were a zinger. By their very nature, r/justneckbeardthings 👁 Image
  , r/notliketheothergirls 👁 Image
  , and r/thathappened 👁 Image
  also get quite a few of these.
Land Down Under: r/straya 👁 Image
is for humorous and often self-effacing looks at Australian life.
Law of Chromatic Superiority: Parodied with /r/ThreeTimesFaster 👁 Image
. Doubles as a Shout-Out to the obvious originator thereof.
Less Disturbing in Context: invoked /r/nocontext 👁 Image
collects lines that are disturbing, dirty (dirtier, anyway) or just silly out-of-context.
Long-Lost Uncle Aesop: Some participants on /r/relationships turn up just for the sake of participating in the situation (or are mentioned in the OP's post itself).
Lower-Class Lout: Chronicled extensively by r/trashy 👁 Image
and related subreddits.
Made of Indestructium: r/BuyItForLife 👁 Image
, whether it's for showing off your own things that live through the test of time, or finding stuff that will.
"Magic A" Is "Magic A": r/magicbuilding 👁 Image
is dedicated to creation of magic systems.
Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: /r/evenwithcontext 👁 Image
collects lines that are just plain weird both in and out of context.
Malaproper: All documented in r/boneappletea 👁 Image
.
Male Gaze: r/UpvotedBecauseBoobs 👁 Image
gathered posts with lots of upvotes simply because they had boobs, in contrast to the intent of upload. It was banned in 2024.
Mathematician's Answer:
- Answering "Is this X or Y?" with "Yes." is a gag that shows up in a variety of subs, and has its own: r/InclusiveOR 👁 Image
  .
- r/technicallythetruth 👁 Image
  exists to document statements that are technically true, but not necessarily the answer someone's looking for.
Meaningful Name: Reddit means "He/she/it gives back" in Latin.
Medal of Dishonor:
- This on-site wiki page👁 Image
  catalogues the most downvoted posts and comments on Reddit.
  - Out of this list special mention goes to the most downvoted comment which not only has over 7 times more downvotes than the second most downvoted comment, but the main post it was commented on now has the special flair of "The Pride and Accomplishment Thread" to refer to the infamous comment.
- r/HermanCainAward 👁 Image
  is dedicated to vocal antivaxxers^noteMeaning they must have made their beliefs public, via interviews, social media posts; etc. that have lost their lives to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
- One poster on r/AITA 👁 Image
  got a special "Mega Asshole" flair made just for him for trying to pressure his girlfriend into cutting off contact with her parents and then refusing to accept the community judgment, going as far as editing his post to insult the entire sub for calling him out on his borderline domestic abuse.
Men Can't Keep House: /r/malelivingspace/👁 Image
has a reputation for posting pictures of drab apartments occupied by single men.
Mind Screw:
- /r/firstworldproblems👁 Image
  inspired a number of strange "worlds".
  - /r/fifthworldproblems 👁 Image
    : Higher-dimensional Energy Beings, people from The Future and other strange beings discuss their troubles in The Multiverse.
  - /r/sixthworldproblems 👁 Image
    : Cannot be understood by mere mortals.
  - /r/seventhworldproblems 👁 Image
    : People living in what might be a Dystopia discuss colours, machines, and other things that are probably euphemisms for something very creepy.
  - /r/1000thworldproblems 👁 Image
    , in which everyone is part of a giant space wasp hive.
  - /r/infiniteworldproblems 👁 Image
    , where every post is a random assortment of symbols. The subreddit itself usually has a background that's mind-numbing to look at.
- /r/ooer 👁 Image
  looks like something a Manchild Mad Artist cobbled together after about a week of learning CSS.^noteEvidently 👁 Image
  a subreddit created by the eponymous /u/Ooer, which was originally for his own use to practice CSS programming. He eventually handed over the subreddit to his friends, which is how it ended up looking crazier and crazier. The subreddit continues to be maintained due to positive reception.
- /r/ihaveihaveihavereddit 👁 Image
  is only slightly more comprehensible that /r/Ooer (nonsensical CSS and all) due to being a parody of an existing subreddit, /r/ihavereddit 👁 Image
  .
- /r/weirddalle 👁 Image
  can reach this level at times; as the title suggests, this subreddit features bizarre A.I.-Generated Artwork, often with nonsensical text that sometimes amounts to a Starfish Language plastered on the images since image generators such as DALL-E have... issues with language processing. One image from this submission 👁 Image
  was bizarre enough to make it onto /r/Ooer 👁 Image
  .
Misanthrope Supreme: r/misanthropy 👁 Image
, of course.
Misleading Package Size: r/EgregiousPackaging 👁 Image
shows people getting boxes that are way too big for whatever they're shipping.
Mistaken for Servant: The point of /r/IDontWorkHereLady 👁 Image
. It frequently involves Insane Troll Logic, people refusing to admit they were wrong, and assault, though sometimes, the idiot does recognise their mistake before it gets out of hand.
Mistaken for Subculture: Subreddits like r/lostredditors 👁 Image
and r/substakenliterally 👁 Image
feature instances of, among others, users mistaking r/CrackheadCraigslist 👁 Image
^notea sub dedicated to funny, unnerving or just plain inane items sold on Craigslist for a sub for actual crack users, or mistaking r/thekinks 👁 Image
^notea sub dedicated to The Kinks for a kink subreddit.
Mister Seahorse: As told in a ragecomic, one male friend of a user took an ex-girlfriend's leftover pregnancy test for kicks and tested positive. Turns out he had cancer 👁 Image
, but it was caught in time.
Monstrous Seal: One reddior 👁 Image
was blocked from their room by a colony of sea lions.
Moral Myopia: /r/AmITheAsshole 👁 Image
attempts to avert this by letting posters submit their dubious actions for community judgment. Commenters respond by voting YTA (You're The Asshole), NTA (Not The Asshole(the other party is)), NAH (No Assholes Here(both sides have valid points)) or ESH (Everyone Sucks Here(both sides are being jerks)). Naturally, though, there are many posters who are stupefied to find that people believe they could be in the wrong.
Motion Blur:
- /r/blurrypicturesofcats 👁 Image
  and /r/blurrypicturesofdogs 👁 Image
  are just what they say; users uploading blurry, out of focus, pictures of cats and dogs respectively, often when they are moving about.
- /r/DrillCats 👁 Image
  and /r/DrillDogs 👁 Image
  are related to the above, but it's specifically all about cats and dogs respectively shaking their heads when a photo is being taken of them, making their head look distorted, or like a drill.
Motive Decay: Benignly, some subs start out with focusing on a subject matter or meme format then, over time, lose that focus and become a shadow of its former self, even if more and more people are attempting to add to it. More sinisterly, some subreddits started off with innocuous discussion topics but degraded into nationalism, misogny, and so on (these subreddits are best left unnamed here).
Multiple-Choice Past: Certain users who lie about themselves in comments and posts can wind up being exposed when someone else digs up contradictory posts in their profile history (i.e. improbable number of claimed careers for someone that age, etc.). These sometimes make it onto /r/QuitYourBullshit 👁 Image
.
My Nayme Is: /r/tragedeigh 👁 Image
catalogues and riffs on parents who give their children unusually spelled names.

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Nausea Fuel: Invoked in The Swamps of Dagobah story describes an awful smelling pus-riddled woman being operated on by the person posting it.
Nature Is Not Nice: /r/natureismetal 👁 Image
and /r/HardcoreNature 👁 Image
focuses on the more brutal parts of nature (such as animal deaths and predator kills).
Newbie Boom: r/gatesopencomeonin/👁 Image
invokes this. The subreddit describes itself as the antithesis of /r/gatekeeping 👁 Image
, in that the former subreddit is about posts which are inclusionary or encourage people to try new things without feeling bad about it.invoked
Nightmare Fetishist: The denizens of /r/creepy 👁 Image
and /r/nosleep 👁 Image
.
Nightmare Retardant: invoked Invoked with /r/shittynosleep 👁 Image
, a parody of /r/nosleep.
Non-Indicative Name:
- The "SFW Porn" group of subreddits, which unanimously refer to "porn" in the Food Porn and Scenery Porn sense, i.e. pretty photos of food and landscapes. Gets especially awkward with /r/HumanPorn 👁 Image
  (which does occasionally have artful nudes) and /r/AnimalPorn 👁 Image
  . This often will annoy redditors, who may not appreciate having the word "porn" in their history, no matter its intended use, enough so that a catch-all sub called /r/NoSillySuffix 👁 Image
  was formed to avert the trope.
- The Swamps of Dagobah post has nothing to do with Star Wars, and is in actuality a Squicky story.
- /r/trees 👁 Image
  is about marijuana. /r/marijuanaenthusiasts 👁 Image
  , therefore, was the logical place to put the subreddit that was actually about trees.
- /r/potatosalad 👁 Image
  is about John Cena. Like with the above, if you want actual conversations about potato salad, then you have to head to /r/johncena 👁 Image
  instead.
- r/worldpolitics became an NSFW subreddit in mid-2020, with r/anime_titties 👁 Image
  , the actual world politics subreddit, being formed in protest to the former descending into anarchy. The latter got its name for, well, Hentai being posted on the former sub.
- /r/stormfront👁 Image
  is about severe weather, not the notorious white supremacist forum. In a way a Subverted Trope, as it is, in fact, literally about storms.
  - Similarly, /r/white 👁 Image
    used to be about white supremacy until the current moderation petitioned to adopt it, whereupon they transformed it into a place for pictures of things that are shades of white.
- A subversion regarding r/tee 👁 Image
  , which was originally an English-language subreddit about tee-shirts until a wayward Germanophone posted about tea in the subreddit, and slowly the sub shifted into becoming a German-language tea community. Tee means tea in German.
- Around four out of every five subreddits with "pussy" in their name will actually pertain to cats. r/girlswithhugepussies👁 Image
  features pictures of girls holding large cats, while r/tightpussy👁 Image
  features cats fit snugly in tight places, such as corners, boxes, and the like.
  - Averted with r/pussy, which is about the body part, as well as /r/pussypassdenied 👁 Image
    , which is about girls trying use "I'm female" as a reason to be excused or forgiven for a misdeed.
- r/PeopleFuckingDying 👁 Image
  is a cute/wholesome content subreddit in the vein of r/aww or r/eyebleach. However, r/PeopleFuckingDying has posts with mockingly deceptive titles that suggest violent or gruesome content. For instance, a post titled "saDisTIc HoomAN makES DogS BatTLe For hIs aMuseMenT" is a video about a guy making two small puppies gently kiss each other 👁 Image
  , who then start playing together.
- r/alzheimersgroup 👁 Image
  is not a place for people to discuss Alzheimer's, but rather a role-playing subreddit where the same Garfield strip is reposted each day and commenters pretend they've never seen it before.
- In general, subs named after a specific meme or original incident will be confusing to those outside of the loop, especially if their names look like something that makes sense at first glance:
  - r/AccidentalTopGear 👁 Image
    isn't about weird sitatuions where the presenters of Top Gear (UK) are seen in clouds, or even out and about, it's about text being cut-off to make it read something else (usually something crude). The incident does comes from Top Gear (the crew make a 24 hour race car and put fake stickers on the sides, which spell out innuendo's when the car doors are open).
  - r/bonehurtingjuice 👁 Image
    is not about bones, hurting, juice or juice that hurts bones, but rather features edits of comics that changes the story based on an often literal/out-of-context interpretation of the artwork.
  - r/DisneyVacation 👁 Image
    is about re-contextualizing weird illustrations in WikiHow articles, not actual vacations to Disneyland or Disney World; for that would be /r/WaltDisneyWorld 👁 Image
  - r/DontDeadOpenInside 👁 Image
    has the meme they are named after permanently pinned to the top, otherwise you would have no idea what the sub is about. ^noteOddly formatted text that makes no sense when read in a traditional left to right format.
  - r/Follicle 👁 Image
    has nothing to do with follicles, and is a random shitposting subreddit. It was founded by complete accident by a Redditor who tried to ask a genuine question and didn't realize they were using the "create subreddit" function instead of the "submit text post" function, and was subsequently filled with inane, Dadaist memes.
  - /r/FellowKids 👁 Image
    is named after a moment in 30 Rock, where Steve Buscemi pretends to be a teenager at a school during a sting operation, while holding two skateboards, wearing a shirt saying "Music Band" in the style of AC/DC, and says "How do you do, fellow kids?" to a bunch of students. This went memetic and was used to make fun of corporations trying to appeal to a younger generation with ads using memes, often incorrectly, and spawned the subreddit, and the moment has remained the logo for the site to this day.
  - You'd be forgiven for thinking /r/kappa 👁 Image
    is either something Twitch-related (because of its namesake emote) or about the mythological Kappa. Instead, it's a subreddit related to the Fighting Game Community with a side order of shitposting.
  - r/LeopardsAteMyFace 👁 Image
    quotes a tweet from author Adrian Bott that gave their subreddit its name as the first part of the subreddit's description: "'I Never Thought Leopards Would Eat MY Face,' Sobs Woman Who Voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party". The subreddit is about the schadenfreude when someone is upset because they're suffering consequences from something they voted for, supported, or wanted to impose on other people. It has nothing to do with animal attacks or faces being eaten; the subreddit has explicit rules against those things.
  - /r/MoonPissing 👁 Image
    is not what the title suggests, it's actually a shitpost subreddit for the Sonic The Hedgehog fandom; the name coming from an infamous fandub 👁 Image
    of a cutscene in Sonic Adventure 2. In the game, Eggman uses an orbital laser cannon to cut the moon in half to prove he's a serious threat. The subreddit would later gain more traction thanks to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) adapting parts of the game, including that scene.
  - r/skamtebord 👁 Image
    is a misspelling of "skateboard", but it has nothing to do with skating. Rather, it's about images of single-word/sentence Non Sequiturs.
  - /r/Tomorrow 👁 Image
    is not about predicting the future (well, not normally, anyway), it's a satirical subreddit named after the hype train that surrounds Nintendo Directs, by making false predictions and treating Miyamoto as a god who needs all the money to keep Nintendo afloat.
  - /r/spicypillows 👁 Image
    is not about putting hot sauce or other spicy foods on pillows (the rules for the subreddit explicitly disallows these sorts of posts), it's the term given to bulging/inflated batteries for devices such as laptops, tablets or phones.
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer:
- /r/nottheonion 👁 Image
  collects real news articles that wouldn't look out of place on parody sites such as The Onion. The sidebar stresses that the sub is for true stories only.
- /r/subsithoughtifellfor/👁 Image
  chronicles subreddit names that sound fake, but are actually entirely real. Similarly, /r/subsiwishifellfor/👁 Image
  are for documenting subreddit links that are genuine, but are otherwise unwise to visit.
Not Me This Time: Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao was already disliked by some redditors for removing some subreddits among other actions. When a well-liked admin was let go unexpectedly, Reddit freaked out on Pao, only for it to be revealed later that it was actually /u/kn0thing that had fired the admin.
Not the Intended Use: After the website decided to greatly expand its award system to include more fun awards, people started to misuse them. The most infamous is using the "wholesome" award to express aproval of things that are in no way wholesome.
Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Those who fit the stereotype are mocked on /r/FuckYouKaren 👁 Image
, which originated as a series of memes about an obnoxious ex-wife and is now dedicated to memes about the entitled, argumentative suburban mom stereotype.
Offscreen Inertia: Commonly used in /r/thisismylifenow 👁 Image
, which is a subreddit dedicated gifs or pics of people and animals accepting their uncommon situations. One of the top posts is a woman who just got new glasses having to deal with the fact that they fog up whenever she tries to drink coffee.
Only in Florida: The subreddit /r/floridaman 👁 Image
examines various bizarre stories coming out of Florida.
Original Position Fallacy: /r/LeopardsAteMyFace 👁 Image
, named for a tweet from author Adrian Bott: "'I Never Thought Leopards Would Eat MY Face,' Sobs Woman Who Voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party". The subreddit is all about headlines showcasing people who rally for something, only to see this decision backfire when the consequences of what they rallied for start being applied to them. For instance, a frequent source of humor on the subreddit is people who voted for a political policy without thinking through the full implications of it eventually finding that the policy also applies to them, and suffering consequences for it.
Orphaned Punchline: Take Simon's Cat, strip out the buildup and convert it to a gif, and see the result 👁 Image
. The "switcharoo" meme is all about jokes that apparently are related to the subject matter at hand, but are often something about something else.
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Many of the posts on /r/atheism involve variations of this sentiment being expressed. /r/magicskyfairy is a mockery of such by deliberately taking the terminology antitheists and /r/atheism use a lot (magic invisible sky fairies that don't exist, fundies, etc) and upping it to eleven.
Overly Long Gag:
- Pun threads and "No, you're thinking of __" threads tend to devolve into these.
- Comment chains, sometimes stretching on into the hundreds or thousands long, are pretty common on the site. Expect any instance of "Nice" or "F" to have at least ten people after it comment the exact same thing.
Palette Swap: /r/reallifeshinies 👁 Image
, named after "shinies" from Pokémon, collects pictures of animals and objects that have a different color scheme than usual.
Papa Wolf: /r/dadreflexes 👁 Image
features fathers saving their young children from imminent danger.
Pass the Popcorn: The logo for /r/subredditdrama 👁 Image
, which, as the name suggests, records the various instances of flamewars on the site. Popcorn is also frequently mentioned in the posts. Popcorn flair is available in /r/politics 👁 Image
.
The Peeping Tom: In a major scandal (crassly dubbed "the Fappening") where many celebrities' private nude sexts were illegally copied from their phones, Reddit promptly became a hub for people distributing the leaked images. The offending subreddits were eventually shut down by the site admins, amid much controversy - but not before they'd reached critical mass, with the material spread so much as to have become trivial to find with a Google search.
The Points Mean Nothing: Often said about the "karma" points users collect from upvotes, and yet users still fight over them. Given new life when Reddit went apeshit over staff decision to remove the ability to see the exact number of upvotes and downvotes, and users with hundreds of thousands of link karma attract hate comments every so often. And, of course, the tagline for /r/scenesfromahat.
Poke the Poodle:
- The entire point of /r/firstworldanarchists 👁 Image
  .
- /r/madlads 👁 Image
  is similar, consisting of posts made on social media with the perpetrator worried, ashamed, proud, or otherwise putting more weight on their offense than it calls for.
Poe's Law:
- /r/atetheonion 👁 Image
  features examples of people mistaking articles from the satirical "news"paper The Onion for actual news articles. Conversely, /r/nottheonion 👁 Image
  is for legitimate news articles with subject matter so weird that it can be mistaken for an article from The Onion.
- The initial reaction to /r/pyongyang 👁 Image
  is generally confusion over whether it's serious or not. On the one hand, the idea of a bastion of English-language pro-North Korea propaganda on one of the most mainstream American sites is preposterous. On the other hand, they're very dedicated to the charade, and a number of far-left subreddits express unironic support for North Korea.
- In its heyday, /r/The_Donald often got this reaction from those outside of it, especially since it became so popular, the subreddit appeared on the front page numerous times. Based on the sheer amount of fanaticism its users had for Donald Trump, many users were unsure exactly how much of it is a joke.
- Political subreddits in general have been known to take sarcastic statements or parodies of their opponents as if they were genuine statements.
Pokémon Speak: /r/CatsStandingUp 👁 Image
only allows users to post "Cat." and nothing else. If anything else is posted, the user is banned.
Police Are Useless:
- It's well-documented that Reddit has almost no respect towards police officers, mainly due to Accentuate the Negative articles painting cops as useless, prone to Police Brutality, painting them as Dirty Cops or consistent Karma Houdinis.
- Occasionally subverted when a police officer does an AMA; what usually happens is that curiosity prevails and a lot of genuine questions are asked, often followed by newfound respect after it becomes clear that while there certainly are crooked cops, the average officer's job is not about whacking random people over the head with truncheons.
Police Brutality: One of the reasons Reddit hates cops, as noted above. /r/bad_cop_no_donut 👁 Image
is dedicated to instances where cops overstep their boundaries.
Precision F-Strike: Prolific novelty account u/Poem_for_your_sprog 👁 Image
leaves comments in the form of poems, several of which are about an unfortunate person named Timmy and end with "And Timmy fucking died."
Pretender Diss:
- /r/gatekeeping 👁 Image
  collects attempts at these that come off as being pointlessly exclusionary instead.
- On the other side. r/AsABlackMan 👁 Image
  is dedicated to exposing and mocking people who pretend to be Boomerang Bigots in order to undermine marginalized groups.
The Problem with Pen Island: Some subreddit titles will use this as a Bait-and-Switch. Most noteworthy is /r/superbowl 👁 Image
, which at first looks like it may be referring to the championship game in the NFL, but is actually in fact a subreddit full of owls of the superb variety.

Q to T

Rank Inflation: /r/trees has a number scale to indicate how high the poster is. The problem is that unlike 420chan's number scale, it's subjective (i.e. [10] is the highest the poster has ever been, as opposed to adhering to certain objective symptoms). The /r/trees FAQ acknowledges that most [10] posts are exaggerations. Some posters have suggested [11] or similar to actually refer to being that ridiculously high, but they are quickly shot down.
A Rare Sentence: r/BrandNewSentence 👁 Image
. Also /r/RareInsults 👁 Image
.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- /r/YouGotTold 👁 Image
  links to various instances on the site.
- /r/RoastMe 👁 Image
  is a downplayed, and more humorous, version where someone posts a pic of themselves and challenges others to come up with funny or creative insults.
- This occasionally shows up on r/MurderedByWords 👁 Image
Real Life: /r/outside 👁 Image
is Reddit's equivalent to our page on the subject.
Reliable Rustbucket: r/sleeperbattlestations 👁 Image
is dedicated to powerful PCs that utilize old or unassuming cases.
Rice Burner: r/Shitty_Car_Mods 👁 Image
, which features a lot of extremely impractical car mods.
Ridiculously Cute Critter: r/NatureIsFuckingCute 👁 Image
is all about adorable animals. A lot of subreddits dedicated to individual species are also based heavily on this trope.
Rouge Angles of Satin:
- /r/BoneAppleTea 👁 Image
  is a subreddit that chronicles examples of this.
- /r/excgarated 👁 Image
  collects [[Exaggerated|Trope]] examples of this trope, whose misspellings are so off the mark that not even autocorrect knows what's going on, leaving the "word" as is. It's named after this post 👁 Image
  , which contained a misspelling of "exaggerated" so far gone that Google initially pointed only to this exact comment when trying to search for the misspelled version.
Running Gag:
- There is no The Last Airbender movie. Anyone who mentions one will be invariably met with replies of "What movie?" Other movies have since gotten this treatment, such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Ghostbusters (2016). Some take the gag further by replying "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."
- "Are you that guy from the Warlizard gaming forum?" whenever /u/Warlizard comments. Warlizard will usually reply with "ಠ_ಠ"
- "GODDAMIT VARGAS"
- It went okay.
- You have been banned from /r/pyongyang.
  - You have been made a moderator of /r/pyongyang.
  - You have been banned from /r/pingpong.
- x/10 with rice. Thank you for your suggestion. Reference to this thread.👁 Image
- Any minor twist in a story will be met with "Directed by M. Night Shyamalan".
- "Test something Please Ignore" is given to anything created by redditors, whether it's a Minecraft modpack 👁 Image
  , an EVE Online alliance 👁 Image
  , or a political action committee 👁 Image
  . It's based off of a test post 👁 Image
  , which somehow became the most popular post on the site.
- Then my dad beat me up with jumper cables.
- u/Poem_for_your_sprog 👁 Image
  is a novelty account who leaves comments in the form of poems, many of which are about an unfortunate character named Timmy that always end with "...and Timmy fucking died".
- Learning Uzbek in the language learning subreddit.
- I also choose this guy's dead wife.
- Running gags and other inside jokes have in fact been a popular feature 👁 Image
  of Reddit culture since as far back as nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
Sarcastic Confession: This treecomic and its comments.👁 Image
Scenery Gorn: /r/DestructionPorn 👁 Image
and /r/ApocalypsePorn 👁 Image
. And, of course, a sizable part of the Imaginary Network, like /r/ImaginaryDerelicts 👁 Image
and /r/ImaginaryWastelands 👁 Image
.
Scenery Porn: Most of the "SFW Porn" subreddits, such as /r/EarthPorn 👁 Image
, /r/CityPorn 👁 Image
, /r/SpacePorn 👁 Image
, and /r/waterporn 👁 Image
, are dedicated to this. The Imaginary Network is mostly divided between Technology Porn (see the example below), Scenery Gorn (see the example above), and this, with subreddits such as /r/ImaginaryCityscapes 👁 Image
, /r/ImaginarySkyscapes 👁 Image
or /r/ImaginaryForests 👁 Image
The Schizophrenia Conspiracy: r/gangstalking 👁 Image
is notorious as a gathering place for paranoid schizophrenics and other people with paranoid or persecutory delusions and has occasionally been the target of ban petitions due to its status as an echo tank for seriously unwell people, but has so far managed to avoid that fate. r/legaladvice 👁 Image
also sees this from time to time with some of the stalking and harassment claims, but individuals who go there are almost always implored to get help and are often provided with mental health resources.
The Scottish Trope: r/PizzaTower👁 Image
:
- After the fandom's backlash over Lankybox's gameplay video of the game, the mods of the subreddit have confirmed 👁 Image
  that any new posts about the YouTube channel will be taken down.
- After the mods announced 👁 Image
  that they banned TylerBGaming762Offic (referred as "Tyler") from their subreddit (and also the Sugary Spire subreddit) over his transphobic behavior against Pizzelle, the main playable character of Sugary Spire^noteby insisting that they're still male, despite Pizzelle originally being male before they were officially retconned into a transgirl who goes by any gender pronouns, the mods said that any new posts about the user will also be taken down.
Screen Shake: /r/redditintensifies 👁 Image
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: This post caused 👁 Image
at least 30 accounts so far to delete themselves after announcing they would leave reddit forever. Also encompassed in r/JustUnsubbed 👁 Image
, where posters share the last straw of the subreddit they once followed.
Self-Deprecation: Very common among posters, especially in /r/suicidebywords 👁 Image
, a subreddit dedicated to self-deprecating humor. r/KamikazeByWords 👁 Image
too, which mixes in a Take That! at the poster's target.
Self-Parody: There are entire Reddit communities based around mocking Reddit, most notably /r/circlejerk👁 Image
. Unfortunately, this often escalates into bullying.
- /r/SUBREDDITNAME 👁 Image
  combines this with [Trope Name].
Sequential Boss: The concept is parodied with /r/2healthbars 👁 Image
— its content encompasses anything, even mundane oddities, that invokes the feeling of taking out a boss's health only for it to reveal its second form (and health bar).
Serial Escalation: When one user posts a certain image, some others decide to post a new image trying to either one-up the previous one, or add [Fixed] to the replacement image. By the time a random reader notices, it's the sixth time they've created a new escalation for a theme, and they've become increasingly efficient about it.
Serious Business:
- Karma points. Dear Lord. "Power users" with extremely high karma tend to attract a hatedom just for having high karma.
- Subreddit sidebar rules.
- Frivolous rules aren't exempt. For example: in /r/thingsforants 👁 Image
  you are to title every post "What is this, a <whatever> for ants??". Any deviation - like failing to include "what is this" at the beginning - will have members calling for the offender's ban.
- /r/CatsStandingUp 👁 Image
  takes this trope to its Logical Extreme... Played for Laughs. Every title and comment must be exactly "Cat.". The CSS on the page even changes the usernames and subreddit tabs to "Cat.".
- The Throwdown Thursday threads in /r/Nintendo 👁 Image
  have a hard-and-fast rule that every comment must be written in all-caps. These are common to other video game or sports subreddits who similarly have weekly shouting threads to vent/rage/circlejerk.
- /r/KarmaCourt 👁 Image
  parodies the concept by providing a place where users can make cases regarding unfair distribution of karma.
- /r/MemeEconomy 👁 Image
  is another parody. Investors advise and ask questions to other investors about the future value of memes, what to buy, what to sell, etc, with some users claiming to fall into depression after losing their fortune investing into a failed meme.
- /r/anime's 👁 Image
  annual "Best Girl Contests". Expect essays, video tributes, and entire photo albums devoted to someone's "waifu". The subreddit has many other contests, but the Best Girl contest dwarfs all of them, even the Best Character Contest (which includes male characters in addition to the females).
- /r/ShingekiNoKyojin 👁 Image
  , also known as Attack on Titan in the west, treats untagged spoilers as very serious business, given the reveal-heavy nature of the story.
"Shaggy Dog" Story: "Tree fiddy stories", via Memetic Mutation from South Park, where someone posts a long and ostensibly on-topic story, which ends up in a character asking for "about tree fiddy" and revealing himself to be a disguised Loch Ness monster.
Shoddy Knockoff Product: /r/crappyoffbrands 👁 Image
and its parody, /r/shittyoffbrands 👁 Image
, have examples of these from around the world.
The Singularity: /r/Singularity 👁 Image
, of course.
Someone Ruins It for Everyone: r/PizzaTower 👁 Image
has silently enabled the AutoModerator bot on it in late 2025 after months of dealing with the trolls who posting comments with NSFW fetish art on other posts (including those about the YouTuber Natilimka, which trolls allegedy have a grudge with). Although one new Redditor manages to convince the mods of the subreddit to disable AutoMod in December of 2025, only for the same troll to take advatange of this, go to a new post about Natilimka and cursed the OP to be a Future Loser... while posting an image of a inflated Skyox sprite from Riki's Inflation Game 2 as an Visual Pun.
Sophisticated as Hell: Prolific novelty account /u/Poem_for_your_sprog tends to reply to comments with a well-crafted, sometimes eloquent poem... that frequently end with a single, abrupt curse in the final line. Nearly any poem about a hypothetical "Timmy" is inevitably going to end with "And Timmy fucking died."
So Unfunny, It's Funny: /r/ComedyCemetery 👁 Image
collects text, comics, and videos of this nature. For truly hilariously unfunny material, there's /r/ComedyHeaven 👁 Image
. Then there's /r/ComedyNecrophilia 👁 Image
where people try to do this intentionally.
Speaks in Shout-Outs:
- In general, any fandom subreddit is going to have newcomers out of the loop if they don't know what the shoutouts refer to.
- The /r/unexpected line of subreddits, such as /r/UnexpectedTF2 👁 Image
  and /r/UnexpectedB99 👁 Image
  which often has users post screnshots of an unrelated topic being taken over by a shoutout of a particular show/ game/ movie reference.
Spiritual Successor: Reddit can be seen as one to Usenet, especially its alt.* hierarchy.
- /r/meirl 👁 Image
  is this to /r/me_irl 👁 Image
  , after the latter started banning people for subscribing to certain subs.
- /r/AgainstHateSubreddits 👁 Image
  and /r/topmindsofreddit 👁 Image
  are this to SRS, which experienced a decline in the middle of The New '10s.
Spoiled Brat: Among the worst case scenarios for an /r/entitledparents story, with parents refusing to admit their baaabyyy did something wrong or, even worse, actively encouraging the kid to do something wrong. Or trying to steal other people's belongings.
Spoiler Title: Subs in the NoNoYesYes family indicate how their gifs are going to go down ahead of time just by virtue of the nature of the subreddit's content. r/nonononoyes 👁 Image
is when someone almost fails but succeeds, and r/yesyesyesyesno/👁 Image
is when someone almost succeeds but fails. Defied by the /r/MaybeMaybeMaybe 👁 Image
subreddit, which can start or end in any direction without the subreddit name spoiling.
So Bad, It's Good: Invoked on a lot of subreddits.
- Most subs starting with "shitty" are dedicated to collecting particularly poor examples of something, though some of them, such as /r/shittylifeprotips 👁 Image
  , are deliberate attempts at it.
- /r/justfuckmyshitup 👁 Image
  collects really strange hairstyles, some of which would require a great deal of effort to create and maintain.
Spot the Thread: Reddit being what it is, the veracity of a decent amount of the stories and responses posted should be taken with a grain of salt, unless the sub in question requires proof of real-life credentials. Sometimes, however, other users that know what they're talking about will notice a detail inconsistency that exposes the fake, e.g. incorrect medical/law terminology, military members displaying inadequate or wrong Acronym and Abbreviation Overload.
Start My Own: It doesn't take much to start a new subreddit, so sometimes you see disgruntled members of a community split off to form their own, without rules or members they disagree with.
- Happened to the whole of Reddit, too, in the form of Voat and Ruqqus.
Stealth Parody: One interpretation of /r/shitredditsays is that its members talk about privileged people, namely Straight Able-bodied Cisgender White Males (SAWCASMs) the way they talk about minorities on Reddit.
Straw Fan: /r/salteirthankrayt 👁 Image
is devoted to calling them out, with a particular focus on detractors of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Straw Feminist: A self-mocking, ironic Running Gag on the SRS "fempire", used to mock accusations of being radical feminists. Also used, unironically, by its detractors.
Straw Nihilist: /r/2meirl4meirl/👁 Image
is a subreddit dedicated to mental health issues and self-deprecating humour. Many of the top posts are jokes about how badly someone is doing in life, how they struggle with depression, or how they feel worthless. As such, many of the posts and the comments are very self-defeating and fatalistic.
Stylistic Suck:
- /r/crappydesign 👁 Image
  is self-demonstrating, with Comic Sans as the default font for all text elements, an ugly, nonsensical banner, the sub name in barely-readable rainbow WordArt, a rotating upvote arrow, and a a downvote arrow with 'TM' superimposed on it.
- Some subreddits have taken to turning their subreddits as ugly as possible when viewed through the NP (no posting, which happens when you come to the Subreddit through a link from another subreddit - this is to prevent brigading) filter.
- The design for /r/mildlyinfuriating 👁 Image
  includes a simulated slow-loading banner image, randomly tilted comment text, glaring typos, and lots of other things to help it live up to its name.
- /r/ATBGE 👁 Image
  inverts this; the acronym stands for "Awful Taste But Great Execution". It's where someone's craftsmanship is ingenious or well-done, despite the fact that what they were doing still doesn't look very good or is clearly a bad idea.
Superdickery: Catalogued on r/Superdickery 👁 Image
, though posts from that subreddit are frequently cross-posted onto r/outofcontextcomics 👁 Image
as well, which focuses on comic book panels, pages and covers that don't make much sense without the proper context, of which silver-age comic Superdickery provides plenty of examples.
Take That!: r/MurderedByWords 👁 Image
, which is where someone makes a snappy comeback. r/KamikazeByWords 👁 Image
too, mixed with some Self-Deprecation.
Talkative Loon:
- Evoked by /r/nocontext 👁 Image
  , which shows just how weird some comments can sound out of context (or in context, for that matter).
- /r/titlegore 👁 Image
  .
Tall Poppy Syndrome: Users with high karma get hate just for having high karma.
- Post that do well enough will be added to /r/all, where they will get the most exposure of any posts on the site. It also means they will be seen by people outside the community it was posted in and who have little fear of moderator repercussions. The creators of such content are often "honored" with thousands of messages of hate and criticism.
Technology Porn: /r/MachinePorn 👁 Image
and /r/GeekPorn 👁 Image
. r/hardwaregore 👁 Image
is Technology Gorn. A lot of the Imaginary Network qualifies as well - like /r/ImaginaryStarships 👁 Image
and /r/ImaginaryRobots 👁 Image
.
Tempting Fate:
- If somebody posts "do not upvote" in terms of hiding an awkward question or post, people will probably upvote the hell out of it anyway.
- Various r/HermanCainAward/👁 Image
  "recipients" have downplayed the severity of the COVID-19 Pandemic, only to find themselves fighting for their lives - and eventually losing - against the virus.
Theme Naming: Subreddits with "shitty" in their name (such as /r/shittynosleep 👁 Image
, /r/shittyaskscience 👁 Image
, or /r/shittyama 👁 Image
) are humorous parodies of their respective "legit" subreddits, while those with "circlejerk" are parodies of the community associated with them. Note that there are exceptions - for example /r/shittykickstarters 👁 Image
is a (relatively) serious subreddit dedicated to debunking and exposing crowdfunding scams.
The Stoner: /r/trees 👁 Image
is the most popular marijuana subreddit. (If you actually want to talk about trees, go to /r/marijuanaenthusiasts 👁 Image
.)
There Are No Girls on the Internet: At one point 86.7% of the site was male.👁 Image
Nowadays it's closer to 67%-69% but it's still a clear majority.👁 Image
The Subreddit of TwoXChromosomes aims to avert this, and ShitRedditSays has a healthy female userbase.
Time Dissonance: Played for Horror in the r/nosleep post If you're armed and at the Glenmont Metro, please shoot me 👁 Image
. The narrator participates in a clinical trial for a drug that accelerates his brain functions, causing him to perceive time more slowly. At first, the downsides are only annoying and boring, with minutes feeling like hours and his 30-minute ride home feeling like days. As time goes on and the effects of the drug keep intensifying, to the point that turning the pages of a book takes longer than reading it and he can see the individual frames on TV, boredom gets the better of him he eventually decides to take an Ambien to try and sleep the effects off. The sleeping pill interacts with the drug and begins severely magnifying its effects, hitting him right as he was running down the stairs at the metro station, causing him to lose his footing from the sudden change and get locked into a fall down the steps that, from his perspective, takes days. The impact dislocates his shoulder and he discovers, while his senses are slowed down, the pain never subsides because his body is still working in real-time, and he decides it's too much and tries to throw himself onto the tracks. His perception of time eventually slows to the point that simply blinking plunges him into darkness for centuries. After enduring what feels like thousands of years of pain and boredom over the course of a few minutes, he posts online, begging for someone to put him out of his misery. A shot to the temple should only take a few decades.
Title Drop: Some r/LetsNotMeet 👁 Image
stories end with the writer telling the person they encountered a variation of "let's not meet". The content guidelines for the subreddit point this out, emphasising that this isn't required.
Trademark Favorite Food: Bacon, Nutella. In a more condescending stereotype, Doritos/Cheetos and Mountain Dew, usually to mock game journalists, after an infamous interview from Gamespot where an absolutely miserable-looking journalist conducted a piece with Mountain Dew and Doritos prominently placed in the vid.
Tragically Damaged Tree: There is a subreddit known as r/treelaw which focuses on this trope in real life. They basically rally around the idea of protecting all trees and getting back at those who they believe illegally cut down trees.
Totally Radical: /r/FellowKids 👁 Image
categorizes various advertisements that try (and fail) to use slang in order to appeal to a younger demographic, but which just come across as embarrassing due to the slang being used incorrectly, usually when they incorporate memes.
Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket: /r/wheredidthesodago 👁 Image
is dedicated to out-of-context infomercial scenes, most of which come in this form.
Torches and Pitchforks: /r/PitchforkEmporium 👁 Image
is dedicated to manufacturing and selling ASCII pitchforks for riots, paid in shmeckles.
Transhuman: /r/Transhuman 👁 Image
and /r/Transhumanism 👁 Image
. And, occasionally, /r/Singularity 👁 Image
.
Troll: Many subreddits are full of these. It's usually best to assume that "I Am A" and "Ask Me Anything" posts are fake until proven otherwise; as you can imagine the idea is such a lure for trolls.
Trust Password: IamA and AMA posters are encouraged to verify their authenticity by submitting photos with a timestamp.

U to Z

Unknown Rival:
- Most of 4chan deeply despises Reddit, to the point where they've made hundreds of fake versions of Reddit's rage comics to troll themselves with. However, the hatred is generally one-sided with a few subreddits dedicated to documenting 4chan such as /r/4chan 👁 Image
  and /r/classic4chan 👁 Image
  , and they're ambivalent at worst. Something Awful hates Reddit for the same reason, on top of all the misogynistic, anti-theist, pedophilic, and creepy (not in the 'horror genre' sense) subreddits. They organized a giant raid to force Reddit's admins to shut down all the child porn subreddits.
- Reddit has one of these with 9gag, Reddit having an entire sub-reddit devoted to complaining about 9gag, while most members of 9gag aren't even aware of that Reddit dislikes them and a fair few are very likely unaware that Reddit even exists.
- Reddit has had a long-standing feud with Gawker, which boiled over in the violentacrez debacle.
- A chunk of Redditors hate Imgur for some bizarre reason, despite a healthy shared userbase due to Imgur being (or used to be when Reddit added native image uploads, and when Imgur implemented unpopular policies) the primary go-to for Reddit uploads. It goes the other way as well. /r/IgnorantImgur 👁 Image
  was a subreddit for this.
- There have been many Reddit clones and offshoots 👁 Image
  made by people disgruntled about decisions that Reddit has made. Most of these offshoots are very small.
Unusually Uninteresting Name: Subverted with many well-known power users who often have usernames like ANAL_QUEEN👁 Image
or other sexual/disgusting phrase written in all caps.
- There's also a trend for "PM_ME_YOUR_[insert thing here in all-caps]" usernames, which can get quite odd very quickly. Even better if the thing the username is requesting can be interpreted either sexually, or innocently.
Viewers Are Geniuses: Some of the jokes on /r/fifthworldproblems 👁 Image
are more esoteric than anything on xkcd.
Vigilante Man: Those involving themselves in the events surrounding the now-private subreddit /r/findbostonbombers 👁 Image
, where the subreddit attempted to identify and locate the culprits behind the Boston Marathon bombing of 2013. It's become a Once Done, Never Forgotten subject among longtime users of Reddit, as the subreddit pointed the finger at the wrong person.
Virtual Paper Doll: Redditors can create their own Snoo avatar by opening up the avatar maker from their profile and customizing Snoo's face, pants, shirt, head and hair, and skin color.
Waxing Lyrical: Happens occasionally, with different redditors going line by line. Chronicled by /r/redditsings 👁 Image
.
The Walrus Was Paul: /r/gggg 👁 Image
, which was originally only Morse code messages, with lower case being dots and upper case being dashes.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: /r/whatcouldgowrong👁 Image
fits this to a tee.
- Inverted with /r/WhatCouldGoRight 👁 Image
Wicked Wasps: r/fuckwasps 👁 Image
is an entire community dedicated to people who find wasps evil and despicable. Posts in the community frequently contain images and videos of people trapping and/or killing wasps.
Wise Beyond Their Years: /r/wokekids 👁 Image
is a sub dedicated to posting about kids and babies making "profound" statements, spouting conspiracy theories, or having intellect beyond most adults. /r/thathappened 👁 Image
also commonly chronicles obviously fake or heavily embellished versions of this.
Wiki Walk: It is considered slightly bad form to post a link to TV Tropes in a comment thread. Not that anyone there doesn't like us; just that once they get here they'll be stuck for the rest of the day - although it's arguable they already had this problem by being on Reddit in the first place.
Your Mom: If there's an opportunity to make a joke like that at OP's expense, someone will take it.
Really 700 Years Old: /r/13or30 👁 Image
asks redditors to work out of the inage posted is the person at 13 years old or 30 years old.
Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb: The entire point of r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 👁 Image
is to showcase hilarious examples of this.
Zeerust: /r/RetroFuturism 👁 Image

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