####/r/UKmonarchs

3,637 readers, a community for 8 months!

/r/UKmonarchs is a non-political sub that focuses on historical discussion of British monarchs, in the same way /r/Presidents focuses on presidents. On /r/UKmonarchs, we share interesting facts about monarchs, such as that George I, despite being King of England, only spoke German, and we also discuss things such as their personal lives, morality and quality as monarch.

We share fascinating photos and paintings of monarchs, post memes that relate to monarchs and we show off our monarchical artifacts. Anything at all that relates to a British monarch can be discussed on our sub.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/UKmonarchs:

1. British monarchs alignment chart (672 upvotes, 86 comments)
2. Fun fact: the only reason King Stephen survived the white ship disaster was because of a bad case of Diarrhoea, which prevented him from boarding the ship with William Adelin (342 upvotes, 26 comments)
3. I started collecting coins a few years ago, which sparked my interest in monarchical history, since then I have been trying to collect a coin from each English monarch (28 upvotes, 13 comments)

Guest-written by /u/Curtmantle_

####/r/gamemaker

83,725 developers making games for 15 years!

/r/gamemaker is a subreddit dedicated to providing programmer support for the game development platform, GameMaker Studio. If you don't know, GameMaker is software designed to make developing games fun and easy, featuring a drag-and-drop UI allowing for simple games, as well as a built-in programming language, GML, allowing for professionals to really utilise the software to create professional grade games.

/r/gamemaker has a weekly Work In Progress post, where developers post game content including games, videos and screenshots and provide feedback on other's posts as well. Another weekly post is the Monday Quick Questions, in which users ask for assistance, advice, questions, or something else entirely. For over 8 years, /r/gamemaker's community has also run the game jam gm(48), a casual, fun game jam that helps GameMaker developers of all ages and experience levels to learn and grow. The 48th gm(48) is coming up in July!

All in all, with its helpful resources, tutorials, and many other types of posts, /r/gamemaker is a very helpful subreddit focused on helping people make games. Go check it out!

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/gamemaker:

1. Hi guys! New here and look this sprite i made of the main character of my game :D (133 upvotes, 60 comments)
2. Forget feature creep. How do you fight layer creep? (90 upvotes, 44 comments)
3. Text effects for dialogue system (126 upvotes, 12 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/MassQuantities

4,059 posters marvelling at the massive for 5 years!

In October 2018, a /r/FindAReddit user posted a thread looking to find a subreddit dedicated to the appealing nature of mass quantities, "like thousands of laptops in a warehouse, or hundreds of balloons in a sky at one time". When none was found, the user created /r/MassQuantities - a subreddit dedicated to mass quantities. Organized or not, for some odd reason they appeal to us human beings on a deep level, like a cat seeing a giant dish filled with cat nip.

Posts on /r/MassQuantities are pictures, videos, and discussions about ANYTHING large in number. A flock of a thousand crows just flew over a field with two thousand pumpkins? Here's where you post it. You have a video? Even better! Videos are MassQuantities of pictures. And a picture is just a MassQuantity of pixels. This is actually a subreddit I moderate, and unfortunately it's not as active as it should be, which is a shame because I think it's just such a cool concept for a subreddit! So, if you have something to post, or you want something oddly satisfying or interesting to scratch in itch in your brain - this is the subreddit for it!

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/MassQuantities:

1. MassQuantity of train tickets collected by commuting to university for one year (182 upvotes, 2 comments)
2. The amount of cell phones found during cell searches at a California prison (11 upvotes, no comments)
3. My aunts potato pull this year! (57 upvotes, 3 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/UnexpectedFactorial

A community for 8 years, subscriber count of 57,875!

/r/UnexpectedFactorial is a place to document all the times when someone gets a little too excited and follows up a number with an exclamation point - making a factorial. What's a factorial, you may ask? Well, it's when a number is multiplied by every number below it - like 5! is 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 120. I think I explained that well. If not, check this out. Here are some examples of this phenomenon:

Pi = 4! I dunno man, 24 seems way off.

9 options - you can only pick 3! 6 is still a limited choice, this one still works!

MrBeast giving away $10,000! That's a lot of money.

Those are just some examples of the ways unexpected factorials are all around us. I discovered this subreddit years ago, and ever since it has crept into my every day life. Whenever I see a number followed by a !, I think "Ah, an unexpected factorial". That's a lie, I actually think "erm, well actually 4! isn't 4, it is 24 🤓", complete with my inner voice saying out "nerd emoji". It's a terrible fate.

Anyway, check out /r/UnexpectedFactorial's top of all time, some good stuff on there! I'll end this post with a dumb factorial joke:

"Timmy, what's 119+1?" Asked the teacher.
"5!" Yelled Timmy.
"Yes Timmy, that is correct."

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/BirdsArentReal

498,460 Redditors awoken to the truth for 6 years!

#bird
/bəːd/

noun

a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate animal distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, a beak, and typically by being able to fly.

That's the definition that the globalist shills at Google will tell you. Here's the real definition:

#"bird"
/who cares/

noun, allegedly

a drone operated by the United States government to spy on American citizens

Want the proof? Want to be part of the 498,460 enlightened? Go to /r/BirdsArentReal to discover more. Here is a taste of what you can find on the subreddit:

1. Revolution. (53,414 upvotes, 331 comments)
2. Not suspicious AT ALL (4018 upvotes, 76 comments)
3. Found this in a book. (2076 upvotes, 58 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

/r/crowbro

121927 corvid enthusiasts and their feathered friends for 10 years

Crows are very interesting birds. Intelligent. Gregarious. Open to being near humans. It’s no wonder there are so many fans of them. They, and their corvid brethren, have communities all across the internet, and here on Reddit the largest is today’s subreddit of the day, /r/crowbro. It’s a place where you’ll see the birds doing their own thing, whether it’s just being out and about, or visiting their human friends. The corvid family is distributed worldwide, so you’ll see crows, ravens, and more, spanning all across the globe.

I spoke to u/FillsYourNiche, a moderator of /r/crowbro as well as an ecologist, about the sub.

How much of the corvid family do you see in the sub? I see that the Corvidae family also includes birds you wouldn’t typically associate being closely related with crows, such as jays, but from what I can tell, the sub is specifically more for the “core” corvids like crows, ravens, jackdaws, etc.

u/FillsYourNiche This sub welcomes are Corvids, but crows and ravens seem to be the most common submissions. Family Corvidae does consist of 135 species! We'd love to see more diversity of species in the sub. We do occassionally get magpies (not Australian, they are not Corvids) and blue jays.

What’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen a crow bring someone?

u/FillsYourNiche One user received a small statue or maybe game piece which seemed kind of wild: https://www.reddit.com/r/crowbro/comments/14qlk4q/got_my_first_gift_today_from_egbert/

(A question from my wife, who was very excited when I told her about this project) What’s the largest flock you’ve seen on the sub? Or in person?

u/FillsYourNiche I'm not sure sub-wize, probably around 30 or so. In person is a little different. I (FillsYourNiche) am an ecologist. I studied shorebirds and grassland birds for my state's Fish & Wildlife and Audubon Society. I was at the beach going to work and in a parkinglot I saw around 60-70 American and Fish crows together, likely waiting for food scraps from beach goers. It was a busy day in July. They also come together in very large numbers to roost in the Fall and Winter every evening.

Any general tips for attracting crows for someone who’s looking to build a crow feeder?

u/FillsYourNiche Speaking as a scientist, in an ideal world I would say don't feed wildlife. Let them do their natural business. But, I know that just isn't realistic, so my best advice is 1. make sure you are feeding your corws (and other birds) healthy foods, low in sodium, no sugar, and not processed. Crows love eggs, dogfood, unsalted nuts, etc. We have a post in the sub explaining more. 2. Routine! Crows love routine. They will forage in the same places at teh same time of day, so if you set up a feeding situation, the same time, every day, they will eventually come across it. You might need a lot of patience.

What’s moderating the sub like?

u/FillsYourNiche It's a great community! Everyone is really invested in the welfare of the Corvids, supportive of each other, and just in love with this family of birds. It's an easy sub to moderate as we tend to have very few troublemakers. It's a fan sub for Corvids without the controvercy of most fan subs.

Are there periods of particularly increased interest in the sub, or is growth pretty steady year round?

u/FillsYourNiche We are fairly steady. We get a boost here and there if a crow or raven video goes wild on Reddit's front page and someone recommends the sub, but otherwise engagement is pretty even.

Is there anything else you’d like people to know?

u/FillsYourNiche Corvids are exciting, easy to love, and a joy to watch, but they are not pets. Please do not keep crows as pets and if you find an injured crow contact your local wildlife rehab facility. Crows and ravens especially are very social animals and keeping them in your home can be a traumatic experience for them. It also stunts their mental growth, they need to be with their own species. So pelase enjoy them from a distance and in your yard!

That’s a wealth of information for a bunch of wonderful birds. If you like it, check out /r/crowbro for more.

u/jettasarebadmkay dedicates this post to my wife, who’s a big crow enthusiast and whose birthday is today.

####/r/crazystairs

69,585 people tripping up steps for 14 years!

Look at these rollercoaster-esque stairs in Germany, or this wooden staircase spiral in London. What do they have in common? You might be thinking "wow, these stairs are wild! Maybe I'd go as far as to say these stairs are crazy!". Well, I'm so sick and twisted that those are just normal stairs to me... But you're right! These are crazy stairs, and /r/crazystairs is the subreddit to find dangerous, abandoned, or otherwise aesthetically interesting stairs just like those. In case you need some Led Zeppelin to appreciate the posts, the subreddit's sidebar also sports an official /r/crazystairs soundtrack.

On desktop old Reddit, each post is given a 'NSFW' mark. How are these NSFW? You may think it's because these sculptures are sexy works of art, but you're only half-right because NSFW actually stands for Not Safe For Walking! Look at these dangerous-looking steps, or this rock-induced deathtrap! I'm sure walking on many of the stairs here are wonderfully entertaining, but as that last post title says I can feel myself getting severely injured just looking at them. /r/crazystairs also has stairs that are interesting or useful in some way. For example, these stairs aren't safe for walking, but they are safe for disabled budgies to hop on! They're SFDBTHO! I'll end on that cute note, so if you only check out one post check out that last one. Budgies are seriously cute.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/crazystairs:

1. Saw this going around. Does this count? (3267 upvotes, 52 comments)
2. my crazy stairs (234 upvotes, 26 comments)
3. Do stairs for fish count? (2181 upvotes, 21 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/Rococo

149 subscribers, a community for 9 months!

Rococo, with its cheerful style and lush decoration, is a fascinating topic to explore in a subreddit. This artistic movement, which flourished in the 18th century, is known for its grace, humor and a focus on pleasure and entertainment, moving away from the solemnity of the Baroque.

Rococo fans can delight in sharing works, discussing its most influential artists, and immersing themselves in the rich history and unique characteristics that define this artistic period. In this sub you can find art, fashion, history, architecture and literature. Make yourself at home and have fun discussing the decadent, frivolous, and exquisite Rococo era.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/Rococo:

1. The Liechtenstein city palace in Vienna, Austria. Combines baroque stucco ceilings with opulent Rococo Revival interiors (16 upvotes, 1 comment)
2. I had an opportunity to view Boucher's "Lovers in a Park" (1758) in-person while undergoing restoration, plus another amazing rococo painting. (19 upvotes, 3 comments)
3. The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) in Steingaden, Germany (17 upvotes, 1 comment)

Guest-written by /u/cesarth15

/r/tires

16992 drivers looking for or dispensing tire advice for 4 years

It wasn't my favorite job, but the most interesing job I've had was when I worked at a Firestone tire shop for nearly a year during the Covid pandemic. I learned a lot from it. (Mostly that I don't want to work on other people's cars for a living, but I digress.) When I needed to get tires for both my cars this year, I thought about my experiences there, and then wondered if there was a community for tire advice on Reddit. Turns out that yes, there is: /r/tires. The user base is made of a combination of people asking for tire advice, such as brand recommendations, or if the object in their tire is repairable, as well as people who work in shops showing the bizarre things that show up in their shops. (Believe me, I know how weird it can get.)

I asked the moderators of /r/tires about what goes on in the sub.

What’s the weirdest tire-related thing that’s been posted on the sub? I worked at a tire shop for about 9 months and never saw anything particularly weird, but I have heard stories from both people I worked with and elsewhere.

r/tires People who ask whether they can drive thousands of miles with their tires even though it is clear that the tires are severely worn out and that they are putting themselves and other road users in danger of death are lately the weirdest-relately tire thing that‘s been posted on our sub.

When someone asks for a tire recommendation, which brands are the most popular? Which ones are people generally told to avoid?

r/tires What we have observed is that expensive brands such as Michelin, Continental etc. are recommended by the majority of our community and that no-name brands are avoided.

How often do you have to enforce Reddit rules and/or sub rules on posts? Seems like a pretty straightforward sub but I know sometimes you occasionally get someone acting out of line.

r/tires We can proudly say that our community adheres to all the rules in an exemplary manner. Of course, it rarely happens that someone makes an obvious post where he/she is trolling, but as already mentioned, this is only very rarely the case.

Anything else you want to suggest or let people know?

r/tires Yes, we appeal to everyone who goes on the road to check their tires and vehicle regularly so as not to endanger themselves and other road users.

And with that, that's /r/tires for you. See you round. (Ha! Round! Get it? It's a pun! ...yeah, that was awful.)

u/jettasarebadmkay posted this from inside a Discount Tire.

####/r/cookingforbeginners

1,774,263 potential chefs cooking up a storm for 9 years!

Some people don't have the opportunity to learn how to cook when they're younger, and many don't find that this valuable skill comes easy to them. That's where /r/cookingforbeginnings comes in. In the nine years since we last featured the subreddit as part of Cooking Week, it has grown from 15,438 subscribers to an impressive 1,774,263! Which is great, because it is the place on Reddit for people to learn how to cook.

Whether you consider yourself competent in the kitchen or need the help, it provides useful tips as well as possible inspiration for your next meal: such as these great vegan entrees, this vegan cauliflower fried rice, or even this vegan Korean lunch (Can you tell I'm a little biased?). Other threads I've found helpful/interesting include:

• What do you add to plain rice so it's not so boring?

• How many hours a week do you spend on meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking?

• How do I convince myself I wont burn the house down when I cook?

• What is the best way to improve canned tomato soup?

• Why are garlic cloves so massive in every recipe video?

Those are just some examples of the answered questions on this subreddit - so if you're into helpful advice, easy recipes, and a community of people looking to teach or learn about cooking, give /r/cookingforbeginners a visit.

Written by /u/verifypassword__ ☮️❤️

####/r/LiveFromNewYork

482,087 readers living in a van down by the river for 13 years!

Saturday Night Live is a show that needs no introduction - for nearly 50 years, this live sketch comedy show has been providing late-night entertainment for millions. SNL has starred celebrities ranging from Robin Williams to Bruce Willis, and provided the world with big names like Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, and Eddie Murphy.

As a non-American, throughout my life I had always heard about the show but never got around to checking it out, until a few months ago. /r/LiveFromNewYork helped me to discover its most iconic and hilarious moments, such as the Norm Macdonald-featuring classic Cobras & Panthers, Debbie Downer, and Papyrus (with Ryan Gosling). In the case of the Papyrus sketch, I remember watching it on YouTube when it came out and not realising it was from the show, which was true for a lot of things. Until recently, I hadn't realised Wayne's World or The Blues Brothers came from SNL, or known how countless actors/comedians/writers got their start on the show, or indeed clocked that the iconic Lonely Island sketches such as The Shooting AKA Dear Sister were SNL Digital Shorts.

As the show approaches its 50th anniversary next year, there's plenty to get excited about in the SNL world, including the currently-filming 'SNL 1975' movie chronicling the birth of the show. In the mean time, there's tonight's episode with guests Kristen Wiig & Raye, as well as Ryan Gosling hosting next week! To learn more about the subreddit, I interviewed two mods of /r/LiveFromNewYork, /u/IvyGold and /u/Blackninga666:

1. How did you come to join the subreddit?

/u/IvyGold This requires a little backstory. My main modding gig is r/olympics, where I acquired and honed my only mod superpower: sticky management. A few seasons ago, I noticed that r/LiveFromNewYork's sticky management was atrocious if not nonexistent. So I msg'd the mods offering to help out. A year later, they modded me out of the blue and here we are. I like to think that our sticky game is now world-class.

/u/Blackninga666 I joined the subreddit and mostly lurked around COVID times, when I really started to get more solidly into the show, it was a nice way to see people celebrating older sketches and filling in the gaps I hadn't found on YouTube myself.

2. Tell us about your community!

/u/Blackninga666 I'd describe the community as a group of grown up theater kids celebrating (what I'd argue is) the strongest source of main-stream sketch comedy.

/u/IvyGold It's what it purports to be: a place to talk about Saturday Night Live. What strikes me about it is how deftly it can change character: during the season, we'll be talking live about about an episode, then spending a few days regurgitating our thoughts. What's truly remarkable about it is what happens during the extended in-season breaks and even over the summer: people are constantly highlighting old sketches and segments that I either neither saw or hadn't seen in years. It's so much fun!

3. When did you first start watching SNL, and why do you like it so much?

/u/IvyGold I've been watching SNL since high school. I've waxed and waned on it, but it's always been a important fixture in my life.

/u/Blackninga666 I had seen a handful of sketches growing up - but the first episode I watched live was Christmas 2019 with Eddie Murphy - it was an excellent episode and it got me to watch the clips on YouTube more religiously as they came out, and then the episodes in full.

4. Amongst the thousands of them, do you think you could pick a favourite sketch?

/u/Blackninga666 It's the first Haunted Elevator, hands down - it's not even a little bit close. I own a Pumpkin Suit now and it's my default halloween costume - it's just a perfect sketch.

/u/IvyGold After much deliberation, I settled on Chris Farley's signature sketch: Matt Foley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8

(BTW keep your eye on Christina Applegate: everybody else there was accustomed to Farley's antics, but not her -- yet she never fully broke.)

5. Do you have any favourite subreddit posts?

/u/IvyGold I'm always happiest in-season reading our Sketch Sorting Sunday posts, where people rate and discuss a new night's sketches and segments. Off-season: the more esoteric, the better!

6. Anything else you’d like to add?

/u/IvyGold This is one of the nicest subreddits in all of Reddit. If you find yourself watching an episode live, take the live thread out for a spin; afterwards, give Sketch Sorting Sunday a go. I think I inherited an unusually good sorting algorithm -- every day, there's always something new and funny to laugh about!

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/LiveFromNewYork:

1. David Spade doing his Michael J. Fox in front of him (1991) (11,302 upvotes, 208 comments)
2. Sydney Sweeney's goodbye segment last night (1623 upvotes, 381 comments)
3. The Californians breaking character compilation (3689 upvotes, 85 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__ ☮️❤️

/r/RetailNostalgia

1730 dead retail enthusiasts reminiscing for 9 years

Some of my fondest childhood memories are from a department store called Bradlees, which closed locally when I was about 10 (which would be the mid 90s, for those of you who don’t know me), and then entirely just after the turn of the century. Back then, before Amazon was even a glimmer in Jeff Bezos’ eye, and Walmart was still building its national empire, there were plenty of stores out there whose names are now mostly lost to the sands of time. Ames. Montgomery Ward. CompUSA. Hechinger. I’m sure many of you could rattle off more names of stores gone by. If that interests you, there’s a community for you here on Reddit: /r/RetailNostalgia.

As the sub’s name implies, /r/RetailNostalgia gives you a glimpse into the past, with ads for old stores (and older versions of extant stores), history lessons, and remnants of buildings still standing. While many of the old names disappeared for various reasons (the story of Phar-Mor is wild), others were merely bought out and live on as part of a larger company. Other companies live on through their spinoff brands: TJ Maxx and BJ’s Wholesale Club are descendants of the defunct department store Zayre, while the Carmax used car dealership chain was created by, of all companies, the electronics store Circuit City. There are also posts about dead malls, another fascination of mine. I love digging into the sub and seeing store names I remember, forgot about, or have never even heard of. Also, check out the old Walmart and Home Depot ads! It’s like being a kid again, in a weird way.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be on /r/RetailNostalgia.

u/jettasarebadmkay wonders if anyone else on this sub remembers Thalhimers.

####/r/ImaginaryBehemoths

209,743 behemoths attacking for 10 years!

Part of the Imaginary Network Expanded, a network of art-sharing subreddits, /r/ImaginaryBehemoths is a subreddit dedicated to paintings and drawings featuring behemoths. Behemoths are giant creatures that dwell on land, and the term has been through many interpretations and iterations. It originates from the Book of Job, where they're described as having bones that are "tubes of bronze" and "limbs like bars of iron". Biblically, behemoths are described as being so powerful that only God can defeat them. Pretty spooky stuff.

Of course this has meant that "behemoth" has become a byword for anything of monstrous size and power, and /r/ImaginaryBehemoths is an example of how creative and talented artists can portray these giant creatures. It's impressive to see how they bring these monsters to life. For a taste of what you can find on /r/ImaginaryBehemoths, these are some of my favourite posts:

1. WW1 Britain artillery by Vol Prokh
2. Godzilla vs Evangelion by しおん (@shionnn_k)
3. "Yet, need a thousand years more." by OHA

To learn more about the subreddit, I reached out to founding mod of /r/ImaginaryBehemoths, /u/Lol33ta:

1. How did you come to join/create the subreddit?

/u/Lol33ta I adopted /r/ImaginaryBehemoths nearly 10 years ago, after first discovering the larger Imaginary Network and becoming slightly obsessed.

2. Tell us about your community!

/u/Lol33ta /r/ImaginaryBehemoths collects art featuring giant land-dwelling creatures of all sorts. We are one sub in a network of art sharing subreddits ranging from broad in subject to very specific. It is our goal to share, inspire, discuss and appreciate art while maintaining artist credit and source links.

3. What are your favourite types of behemoths that get posted?

/u/Lol33ta My favorite sort of behemoths are massive god-like creatures vs tiny foreground people. I also like behemoth graveyards because they almost always get me thinking, "What could have happened here?"

4. Do you have any specific favourite subreddit posts?

/u/Lol33ta Giant Slayer Village by Panjoool & Mummy by Quentin Mabille are a couple of my favorite "behemoth graveyard" type pieces.

5. Anything else you’d like to add?

/u/Lol33ta For art featuring giant water and air-dwelling creatures, /r/ImaginaryLeviathans is for you. If you prefer your creatures even larger, check out /r/ImaginaryWorldEaters.

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/GameCollecting

278,266 gamers collecting video games for 13 years!

There's so many things you can collect: stamps, vinyl, bottle caps, coins. Whether it's to gain knowledge of a particular subject, appreciate the beauty of what you've collected, share and chat with fellow collectors, or just to relax, there's many reasons to collect all sorts of stuff. I'm a big stuff collector myself - I love me some shelves decorated with media and little knick-knacks - and one of my favourite bits of stuff to collect is video games!

There are many reasons that video game collecting appeals to me: the beautiful box art, cool cases, the many varieties of both games and consoles, but beyond all those reasons - it's cool because I get to play a bunch of games! As someone born in the 2000s whose first game console was a Wii, it's particularly fun for me to go back and experience older games the same way previous generations did on their original hardware. Emulation is great and all, but nothing beats playing a game with its original controller for me.

/r/GameCollecting is a community of collectors of video games - newcomers and veterans of the hobby collecting both new and old games. There's many types of things and niches that people collect - Switch games, PlayStation 2 Greatest Hits releases, Sonic the Hedgehog games, or even 2,706 copies of the Burger King Xbox 360 Game "Sneak King" (???). There's also lots of great collections and gaming setups on the subreddit, as well as many hauls. If you're interested in discussing the hobby, are interested in news, special editions, re-releases, sales, and coupons, or just want to share your collection or haul, then look no further than /r/GameCollecting.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/GameCollecting:

1. Parents are in a Trip in Mexico, I asked them to send me pictures of any video games they find, here are some of the pics they sent so far (3064 upvotes, 582 comments)
2. Facebook Market Haul. (380 upvotes, 28 comments)
3. My friend got this from work. All this was going to be tossed in the trash. (864 upvotes, 91 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__ ☮️❤️

/r/Shittypokestops

31199 disgruntled Pokemon Go players trying to see how dirty of a title they can get away with for 7 years

Remember Pokemon Go? Well, despite Niantic’s best efforts, it’s still out there. If you’ve never played it, it’s Pokemon but on a map of the real world. You catch Pokemon with balls, battle other trainers (and raid bosses) at gyms, and after battles you heal your Pokemon. One of the ways to replenish your items is by going to a PokeStop, which can be found at various points of interest: churches, parks, playgrounds, murals. There are numerous criteria (that are often ignored) as to what can be a PokeStop, but that’s not what today’s Subreddit of the Day is about. No, we’re here to discuss the PokeStop Hall of Shame (or fame): /r/shittypokestops. It says a lot that this is the only Pokemon Go-related sub I’ve remained subscribed to long after otherwise severing ties with the game.

A lot of the funniest posts were found in the first year of the sub. Niantic’s previous game, Ingress, serves as the base engine for Pokemon Go, and its user base is more, uh, adult than Go’s. It therefore reflects in those early posts that a lot of them were just humorous names for normal things. Over the years the dirtiest names were changed into ones that were more age-appropriate, particularly after the Niantic Wayfarer program began growing and more and more Pokemon Go players became involved in the process. (I won’t get into that here. That’s a whole can of worms I’m not interested in opening again.) But, there are lots of early gems to see. What else have we got?

-We’ve got…fish.

-Sometimes the sub takes the “shitty” part of its name literally.

-Well, there’s this.

-Target balls. So. Many. Target balls.

-I guess this isn’t so bad, but the Canadian goose is considered a pest in my country, so yeah.

Yeah, so that’s a tour of /r/Shittypokestops. See you at Target, I guess.

u/jettasarebadmkay should probably transfer some more shinies to Home while it’s on his mind

####/r/Karaoke

12,118 Singers singing their favorite songs for 15 Years!

Those of you who have read my posts in the past know that I do love music in my heart and soul. Specifically, we've seen posts about Music Recommendations, TWRP, The Protomen (hey, that seems familiar), and Sing Karaoke (Now Smule) in the past, so it's no surprise that I love music in almost all forms. I've made mention to it in the past, but I'm also something an amateur karaoke creator myself. So, who better to bring you up to speed on everyone's favorite past time, karaoke.
^(Read: making your friend's ears bleed because you can't sing.)

For that, we have /r/Karaoke, not only there to give you a place to post your own karaoke covers, but to help you create your own live karaoke setup, no matter the size, budget, or technical knowledge. Not only that, but you can also see people give their respects to the father of karaoke himself, Shigechi Negishi.

Now, /r/Karaoke isn't just all technical hoo-hah, and people asking where to find the best places to go sing. While the tech side of things does take a prominent role in the subreddit, there are also those curious about getting into the creation of things. As a member of the DiveBar karaoke community, I do my best to help people find a community of like-minded individuals to help teach these new folks how to get started. In fact, DiveBar has helped many a karaoke creator, including Lemmy Caution, who recently had his 3300 video YouTube channel terminated due to copyright strikes from an artist (who will remain nameless). In solidarity, members of /r/Karaoke including user /u/TooBreezy (Breezy's Studio Karaoke) posted about the tragedy, hoping to get the attention of the folks over at YouTube. (As of this date, unfortunately, to no avail.)

And that's the beauty of /r/Karaoke, it's literally just a group of people like you, like me, who literally just want to share the love of music. It's people like /u/verifypassword__, /r/ConalFisher, /r/KiIroywasHere, /u/jettasarebadmkay. You too can be a part of it all! It doesn't take much, just the will to have some fun, and the budget to go as big as you want. Or, if you want to be like me and literally just put the tracks out there, all you need is a computer and we'll teach you the rest.

That's the end of Music Week! Thanks to all the writers (listed above) and subreddits who participated, and in case you missed them, these were the subreddits featured this week:

Monday - /r/edmproduction
Tuesday - /r/AtmosphericDnB
Wednesday - /r/thebeachboys
Thursday - /r/Woodkid
Friday - /r/Chiptunes
Saturday - /r/Protomen

-RR (RichterRicochet)

#"We have control. We keep you safe. We are your hope.
#We have control. We keep you safe. We are your hope."

####/r/Protomen

5,152 of The Dead waiting for a hero for 12 Years!

The chants continued to play over the loudspeaker as the robot known only as Megaman races east through the city towards the fortress of the man who murdered his brother, Protoman. These chants play, to quell the humans of this city, to prevent any potential uprising... Not minutes earlier, Megaman was being told the story of his fallen brother. But, Megaman could stand to hear no more when he knew his father would not avenge his fallen son.

This is how the synopsis of the first 4 tracks of the first titular album of The Protomen. A vastly different retelling of the tale of Megaman, one in a dystopian future, with no bright outlook to be had. As Music Week continues, I want to help spread the word about this fantastic group of people who have been rocking in the background for the past two decades.

The Protomen themselves have been around for approximately 20 years, putting out that first album in 2005, and when the band started gaining traction 7 years later, /r/Protomen was born. The subreddit has been waiting in anticipation for the last nearly 15 years for the release of Act III of the Megaman saga, taking place after the original album, so the rumor goes. Of course, if they can't get news about the full album, they'll praise the new songs that the band has been playing live. And when they're not begging for the release of Act 3, they're meming the previous 2 albums.

Years earlier, a man known as Thomas Light had a dream. He had a dream to make life easier for humanity. He wanted to use his knowledge to prevent what had happened to him in his childhood. He lost his father to the grueling work of manual labor. So he learned how to build with steel, he learned how to make it move. Along his career, he came across Albert Wily; and they became fast friends and partners. Though, Wily had far more ambitious goals, not to push humanity higher to greatness, but to save them from themselves... to control them. And so, Wily reprogrammed one of Thomas's machines...

So began Act II, a far departure from the Industrial Rock of the original album, now opening to this contemporary rock opera flair. Act II: The Father of Death was a prequel to the first album, explaining the story of Dr. Light, the creator of Protoman and Megaman. Now, without spoiling the story, this story is equally as dark and does not end up signalling a bright future (though, if you'd listened to The Protomen first, you'd know that). If ever you get the chance while listening to these tracks, and you want to know the full story, with notes by the original artists, check lyric sites like Genius. You'll find scattered Lyric Notes, which essentially read like a small novella. Piece them together at your own leisure.

In the Protomen subreddit, people still talk about Act II to this day, often comparing to the self-titled album. Some preferred the original, others preferred the pre-sequel, and everyone else still complains about Act III not being out after 15 years.

But it's coming, oh it's-a coming. This City Made Us, after all.

So, as we're starting to wind down Music Week, take some time and go experience one of the best takes on Megaman you'll ever hear. If you want to listen to the story as released, fine. If you want to listen to the story in chronological order? I gotchu homie. If you just want a damn good band to listen to, check out the entire discography.

-RichterRicochet (RR)

/r/Chiptunes

41,645 chipsters for 15 years!

You know what I love? Pirating shit. It's incredible. I get all these cool games and software and it doesn't even cost me anything! And some guy on /r/piracy posted a meme once saying it's always morally correct so I feel no sense of wrongdoing whatsoever with it!

But my favourite part isn't the free shit... Well I mean it is but for the purposes of this feature, it's the keygen software. For the uninformed, when you buy software it tends to require a license key, usually in the form of a serial code (or these days a constant online connection to a licensing server without which you can't use the software even if you did buy it because capitalism was a mistake). So Scene releases will have an executable in them that generates you a key and/or modified program files. It's pretty nifty stuff, and it's often accompanied with cool graphics and a particular Old Computer Program aesthetic. And there has been a tradition spanning many decades now that these keygens are loaded with just the most banging mod tracker chiptunes imaginable.

I'm not going to try and explain all the expansive history and details of tracker music, becuase 1. i aint know shit, and 2. There's an incredible, must-watch video documentary about it already that you should absolutely watch. It's a truly fascinating subculture that's been thriving for nearly 50 years of computer history. For anyone who saw my /r/edmproduction feature a few day's back (which I know i none of you because nobody reads the posts on this sub), you may have perhaps been intimidated by the complexity of it all. DAWs, synthesizers, MIDI devices, VSTs, it's too much, for both the brain and the wallet. But Chiptune ain't about that life, you only need a computer and some free software (my recommendation #notanad) and you're cruisin'.

Chiptune is, in my mind, the epitome of musical resourcefulness. It is a genre that does an awful lot with very little, and can use nothing but simple synth waves on old 80's hardware to create incredible pieces of music. It's simple enough conceptually to be accessible to anyone, but there's enough depth that people can create masterpieces out of those same tools. You have definitely heard Chiptune music before, it includes (perhaps retroactively) basically every piece of 8-bit and 16-bit music out there. Simple stuff like the Super Mario theme or Tetris theme that use the rudimentary NES sound chip, or really cool pieces like the Chrono Trigger or DK Country soundtracks with their fancy samples and MIDI-compatible hardware. Video games are certainly where Chiptune has made its most lasting impressions and even in modern games you'll still hear chiptune-inspired tracks frequently.

But it's not all video game OSTs and cracked software, no, there are many talented artists still keeping the art going strong. And if you're interested in delving into the world of Chiptune, as a listener or creator, /r/Chiptunes is the place to visit! It's filled with Chiptune enthusiasts and composers alike discussing the art form, recommending music and posting their own original chiptunes. While most chiptune artists these days are using PCs with emulated software, you still see some madmen running old hardware setups and other insane builds.

As with any good online subculture worth its salt, Chiptune as a culture isn't localised to one place on the web, but rather split across innumerable forums and independent websites that haven't been updated in decades and probably all hate eachother. Which is how the internet should be, really. There's nothing I hate more than discovering that the hub for discussion on some really cool niche hobby is a single opaque Discord server. Fuck I hate Discord. But I digress. From the simple tracker databases like modarchive.org to incomprehensable injoke-laden forums ripped straight from 2007 like my beloved BotB (never change), there's loads and loads to explore. And if you're looking to check this stuff out, I'd highly recommend going to /r/Chiptunes and exploring all the cool creations people have made over the years!

And just for fun, here are some of my favourite chiptune tracks:

• Mind of a Dreamer, by BeaT - I like my melodic stuff, and this track delivers.

• The Title Screen theme from the NES game Solstice - I have no idea what this game is. Who made it? Why did they go so fucking hard on this song?

• Rolling Down The Street, In My Katamari, by Fearofdark - One of those videos that the algorithm just blew up one time and now it's probably one of, if not the most well-known modern tracker tune. And it's deserving of that mantra because it's a banger.

^(Written by /u/ConalFisher, writer)

####/r/Woodkid

1,539 listeners for 11 years

Happy music week everyone! Today I'd like to feature the small subreddit of one of my personal favorite musical artists - Woodkid.

Yoann Lemoine, known professionally as Woodkid, is a music video director and singer-songwriter. He has directed the music videos for big names such as Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Lana Del Ray. As a chamber pop musician (a term I only just learned while researching), he released his debut album "The Golden Age", which includes many songs that were later used in trailers and sountracks of other forms of media. There was even a collection of menswear from Dior that was inspired by his work!

I like so many others, were introduced to Woodkid's music through the Assassin's Creed: Revelations trailer, which uses the dramatic horns of his song Iron to great effect. Eventually I listened to the rest of the album, falling in love with his style of music. (Conquest of Spaces is my personal favorite off that album)

But it was his second album, announced a long seven years later, that drove me to his subreddit - not because I was excited about the new music...but because Woodkid was doing something weird.

While teasing his new album, he was also posting on social media about some mining company called "Adaptive Minerals". Searching online for this company led you to a LinkedIn page for the company, which had apparently suffered an "incident" and was halting their business for the time being. Then you could really go down the rabbit hole and access the company's intramail system by finding an employee's Facebook account and logging in using his credentials. From there you could gain some more insight into what this disastrous incident was, until it was revealed with the music video for Woodkid's new song Goliath.

Unfortunately, not much of this ARG remains today. But I'd highly recommend checking out the artist's portfolio outlining their design process in helping Woodkid create this new interesting world. There's also this blogpost that a fan made if you're more interested in the actual story of the ARG.

To this day, Woodkid keeps producing fantastic music. Whether it be dramatic songs for shows like Arcane, or contemporary artistic pieces like Euclidian Pulses, he'll always be at the forefront of his art.

Written by /u/KiIroywasHere

####/r/thebeachboys

25,096 Ding Dangs ding and a-ding donging for 12 years!

Welcome back to Music Week! Today I'll be taking the opportunity to talk about my favourite band at the moment - the Beach Boys - and their requisite subreddit, /r/thebeachboys. Normally I'd say something like "this is a band that needs no introduction", but I think they do. More than just the surf rock and Kokomo-soft-rock that live on in the public consciousness, the Beach Boys are one of the most ambitious and musically interesting bands of their era. While their music endures, much of their early stuff is dismissed as simplistic without acknowledgement of how musically complex it is, and much of their 1967-1973 output and beyond is unknown entirely.

Like many, I got into the Beach Boys through their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Unappreciated upon release and once languishing in obscurity, Pet Sounds is now widely regarded as one of the greatest records of all time. Needless to say, if you haven't already, give it a listen. On /r/thebeachboys, /u/skullman8942 has been doing 'Best/Worst/Most Underrated tracks' for each Beach Boys album, for which (by an overwhelming majority) the subreddit members voted to abstain from picking a single worst track on the album.

That 'Best/Worst/Most Underrated tracks' post is also useful to use to appreciate their pre-Pet Sounds material if you're unfamiliar with it. From the downbeat teary ballads Lonely Sea and In My Room, to the increasingly complex production on Please Let Me Wonder and Don't Worry Baby, there is so much to love across their first ten albums. Now is also a great time to start following the best/worst posts as they advance beyond The SMiLE Sessions and start to cover some criminally underrated albums, such as Friends and Sunflower.

On top of being great if you're a fan of the group, /r/thebeachboys has one of the best and most wholesome music communities I've seen on Reddit. It's also home to all types of posts about the beach fellas, such as posts showing old photoshoots like this 1967 Brian Wilson one, memes, discussions such as "If the Beach Boys ever broke up in the past, what wouldve been the most likely moment?", and other types of posts like these highlights from Brian Wilson's 2015 /r/IAmA AMA. Just yesterday saw the news (yep, there's still Beach Boys news!) of a new Beach Boys documentary coming to Disney+ in May, which generated some great discussion (and also content for /r/beachboyscirclejerk). Sometimes, /r/beachboyscirclejerk leaks into the main subreddit and you get posts like 'Is the song I Got Plenty O' Nuttin about Brian’s Pet Sounds semen retention regime?'.

To end on a non-ejaculatory note, I'd like to share a wholesome post and its sentiment - 'I love this band & all of you'! As the post's author, /u/safe5k, says: "It’s great to be a part of a community with a shared love for this wonderful music. That’s all I really wanted to say! Sail on."

Written by /u/verifypassword__ ☮️❤️ Add some music to your day!

/r/AtmosphericDnB

5286 junglists immersed in the soundscapes for 12 years

Throughout all the kinds of electronic music I’ve listened to in my time, the genre that’s stayed with me the most is drum & bass, or DnB for short. It’s a diverse genre, with tempo and general breakbeat style being its main threads. From there you’ve got all kinds of styles: dancefloor anthems, jazzy grooves, heavy sounds, and so much more. It’s a particular style of DnB that is the focus of today’s featured sub, /r/AtmosphericDnB. As the name implies, the music within has an atmospheric vibe to it. And I don’t mean that in a weather-related way. I mean lush, immersive, deep tunes that take you on a sonic journey. While l’ve been generally into drum & bass for over a decade now, and have listened to many songs that can be categorized as atmospheric in that time frame, it didn’t really resonate with me until 2023, when I bought the album The Depths Of Space by California-based Englishman ASC. Ever since then, I’ve been hooked, searching for songs that fit that sound both from modern times and its 90s heyday. In that quest I found /r/AtmosphericDnB, along with many fantastic songs.

Sub founder u/visiondj answered a few questions for me and provided some more information.

Posts that get the most activity here often involve music from what many consider to be a "Golden Era" of Drum & Bass and Jungle music, which would be the mid through late 90's. This would especially be true here for any posts related to the old Good Looking / Looking Good record labels and their affiliated labels like Ascendant Grooves, Earth and 720 Degrees. Good Looking Records was started by LTJ Bukem in the early 90's and featured some of the best artists making this style of music at that time. Many of those artists are considered to have helped pioneer and shape the Atmospheric sound. Artists like Blu Mar Ten, Seba, Aural Imbalance, Blame, PFM, Source Direct, Big Bud, Pariah, Artemis, Photek, Alaska, Invisible Man, KMC, LTJ Bukem himself and several others. When I started this community 12 years ago, the very first post was LTJ Bukem's 1992 track Demon's Theme.

There were other labels from that era like Moving Shadow, Reinforced, Timeless, Creative Source and Legend Records, and artists like Aquasky, Omni Trio, JMJ & Richie, Foul Play, Skanna, Futurebound, Q-Project, Funky Technicians, Voyager and Flytronix also making top Atmospheric DnB / Jungle, and they have been represented here as well. The list is quite extensive really. Something that we tried to establish here in the beginning was adding the release year to our posts. With most other users doing the same, I believe it has made our community a good resource for anybody wanting to learn more about this style of music from the early years up through the modern era. Simply searching for a year (1996, 1997, etc...) should pull up a good number of posts and a representation of the sound at that time.

Despite the love here for the classic vintage releases, we still aim to feature modern producers actively pushing this sound forward. Modern releases and names that people might not instantly recognize don't usually get as much traction. An exception to that lately is the prolific artist ASC and his record label Spatial that he started in 2022, which he describes as a label "strictly about the mid 90's vibes of breakbeats, luscious pads, heavy 808 bass, and a sensible tempo of about 160bpm".

While the sub has traffic from across the world, like the drum & bass genre in general, according to u/visiondj the main user base for /r/AtmosphericDnB is from Europe, primarily from the UK, the genre’s homeland. With that said, fans and artists alike span the globe: there’s the USA’s Jamie Myerson, a.k.a. JLM Productions, Finland’s Mineral, Japan’s Makoto, Sweden’s Seba, and many more.

With all that, that’s a journey through /r/AtmosphericDnB. See you there.

u/jettasarebadmkay doesn’t have a witty byline this time. Sorry.

/r/edmproduction

753,506 beatmakers for 13 years!

Welcome to SrotD's Music Week! For those new to our page, we like to sometimes take a week just to focus on a certain topic and explore some of the cool communities built around it on Reddit. This week (from the 25th until the 31st March) we will be highlighting some of the coolest music subs on the site that we think are worth you taking a look at! The world of music is vast and full of innumerable niches and subcultures, and we could not possibly cover every facet of the art. But I hope that regardless of your music taste you'll discover some cool new tunes on this journey with us!

We're going to kick off this week with a look at, well, a slightly out-of-the-box music sub. I'm a classical music dude. Yes, I'm ashamed. I've always enjoyed composing music and writing things in general, and I've even featured subs such as /r/composer and /r/musictheory here in the past. But a big issue with writing classical music is that, well, you gotta get people to play the stuff you write. It's a pain, it gets expensive, it requires networking and socialising and all sorts of things that us Reddit Mods just don't like.

I've recently been getting more into production, going from writing music that would theoretically sound good to producing audio that actually, yknow, sounds good. Before turning to the dark side I was a big electronic music man. There's just something about a guy talking nonsense about an autobahn over and over in a sultry German accent that hits the spot for me. And in undertaking this journey through the strange and scary world of music production, I have found /r/edmproduction to be a vastly helpful and informative community!

/r/edmproduction is a community filled with people passionate about the creation of EDM - Electronic Dance Music. If you're not up to date on your music genres, EDM is basically music created using electronic instruments and/or technology. Like rock, hiphop, and jazz before it, it's really just a million subgenres in a trenchcoat, and as a result /r/edmproduction is a melting pot of ideas and workflows and all kinds of cool stuff.

If you're like me and have no idea how a DAW works or what sidechain compression or LFO's are, have no worries because there's a wealth of information and discussion on all aspects of the production process here. Explanatory guides and resources on the fundamentals, discussions on workflow and practical music writing advice (something that most music courses tend to miss, methinks). And if all that is too much for you, then you can also just find guides for complete and utter beginners outlining every single thing you need to start out. Sometimes that's just the mood to be fair.

If you like music, but have never tried writing any, you should give it a shot. It can be daunting, it can be frustrating, it can be downright embarrassing listening to something you made and hearing the imperfections. But there are few greater feelings of satisfaction one can achieve than the feeling you get from having something you yourself created in front of you, whether it be a painting, woodworking project, or a 45-second electronic drum & bass loop. And if the latter is more your style, then I'd highly suggest taking a look through /r/edmproduction and consider joining in!

^(Written by /u/ConalFisher, writer)

/r/neapolitanpizza/

21,961 subscribers for 4 years!

Disclaimer: I am writing this post about 6 weeks into a low-carb 1500kcal/day diet. I have not touched a pizza in months. This post is a coping mechanism.

Pizza is good. It's great, in fact. It's one of the most popular foods in the world, and for good reason. When you think of, or consume, a pizza, it is most likely of the New York Style. It's a classic. It needs no introduction.

But us pizza acolytes mustn't be so narrow-minded as to limit ourself to only that one kind of bread-cheese-sauce-topping combination, for there are innumerable types to try. Detroit style (my personal favourite pizza). Chicago deep dish (I'm a deep dish apologist fight me), and many many more! But We must pay our respects to the OG of the pizza family, the humble, but ever delectable, Neapolitan Pizza.

A brief history from someone not qualified to discuss pizza history (but who is very hungry): Back in the long long ago the modern styles of pizza weren't feasible. The cheese was too sad and gloopy. The high moisture limited the amount you could put on a pizza without it becoming a big ol' blob of goo. When industrialisation and a booming dairy industry popped up in the USA they brought with them the magics of Low Moisture Mozzarella, electric mixers, and really good flour mills, collectively causing a pizza Renaissance across the continent as cities rushed to fit as much cheese and gluten in their pans as physically possible. But back in the Old Country they had more refined tastes, and their solutions was simple and had been solved decades ago: Just don't use all that much cheese, and hand mix the dough like God intended.

Pizza history over. Pizza experts, free to completely eviscerate me in the comments because I gathered all of that from a glance at a few Wikipedia pages. Anyways, Neapolitan pizza is characterised by its distinctive crust, raised edges, and relative lack of cheese compared to the New York style. From personal experience I find it a much more... Refined experience than the standard pizza. Not to disparage the NY style of course, I can absolutely crush one of those in a truly shameful fashion. But there's something about the combination of simple ingredients in (relatively) moderate amounts that makes the Neapolitan style a distinct, nearly minimalist pizza experience. 10/10 would recommend if you have the chance to try some.

If you're looking to learn more about this type of pizza, or just want to gawk at some glorious pies, /r/neapolitanpizza is the place for you! It's filled with discussions on the Neapolitan Pizza, recipes, food science. And, of course, many many many many nice pizza photos.

What more do you need said? Go check it out!

I'm hungry now. Gonna go eat celery and almonds in sadness. My dear reader, please go get a slice with your favourite topping for me. You deserve it!

^(Written by /u/ConalFisher, writer)

####/r/SkyPorn

299,958 users gazing at the sky for 12 years!

Why does the sky not fall? Atlas was forced to hold it up as punishment, of course! How does that huge fire ball travel across the sky? Obviously the good god Ra does that! What do those chemical trails left by aircraft engines actually contain? No comment. As well as being used by the elites to turn frogs gay, the sky is also a beautiful work of art, as proven by the users of /r/SkyPorn! Stop your gooning for one second, because despite the "porn" in its name, this subreddit is completely safe for work.

Part of the SFW Porn network, this subreddit came during a time in Reddit's history when calling your subreddit ___Porn was the hip thing I guess. Most of the time I don't mind this antiquated naming convention because the actual content is so good, but when you end up with a subreddit called /r/AnimalPorn, then I think you've gone too far. I'm just glad this subreddit didn't end up as /r/SubredditPorn.

As for the content of the subreddit, it's a visual subreddit, so check the links below and have a look for yourself. But if you must be told in words, well, picture this: fifty billion rainbows and the sun is setting and the moon is setting also and you're there in a gazebo, and then God descends from heaven and he gives you a million dollars. Take that feeling and put it into a picture. This is that picture. And /r/SkyPorn is full of pictures just like that.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/SkyPorn:

1. Good Morning Jamaica. (366 upvotes, 6 comments)
2. Fire Sky, Texas (240 upvotes, 6 comments)
3. Aurora 📍Estonia (OC) (205 upvotes, 3 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/BreadStapledToTrees

329,297 people stapling bread to trees for 7 years!

Just based on the name, you might second-guess what the /r/BreadStapledToTrees subreddit is about. "Bread stapled to trees" - could it be a reference to a TV show? Is it something /r/trees related? Surely it can't be just what it sounds like it is, right? Nope, /r/BreadStapledToTrees is about... bread, being stapled to trees.

Here's a step-by-step guide:

First: procure a baguette, focaccia, multigrain, rye, ciabatta, sourdough, whole wheat, brioche, whatever type of bread you want. Next: find an oak, willow, coconut, magnolia, sycamore, walnut, redwood, birch, whatever type of tree you desire. Then, acquire a staple. (And a stapler.) Those are the ingredients needed to create a masterpiece fitting of /r/BreadStapledToTrees. On March 22nd 2024, /r/BreadStapledToTrees turned seven years old. So as a birthday treat, go check it out, or even create your own.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/BreadStapledToTrees:

1. It’s finally out! The movie we snuck a slice into is available now! (4014 upvotes, 65 comments)
2. Mmmm (1202 upvotes, 83 comments)
3. This is the 6th year I’ve stapled bread to trees on Christmas Eve (3182 upvotes, 82 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/blurrypicturesofcats

176,579 cat lovers taking blurry pics for 7 years!

I love cats

Blurry cats!

:D

fuzzy felines

I found the /r/blurrypicturesofcats subreddit just a couple days ago and it made me really happy! Look at this guy, running from the evidence. Look at this quirky fellow! This guy is kinda scary. (>_>) If your cat (especially if they're ginger) is a particularly active guy, it's difficult to capture a good clear shot of them unless they're sleeping. Luckily, capturing a cat mid-move is the best way of capturing its essence. A blurry cat is a cat's soul! Here's some more to prove my point:

Cute :3

Crazy!

Woah

Written by /u/verifypassword__ ☮️❤️

####/r/MapsWithoutNZ

116,842 Redditors searching for Middle Earth for 8 years!

/r/MapsWithoutNZ is a subreddit for, get this, maps without New Zealand. "New Zealand? What's that?!" I definitely hear you all ask. Let me answer that. It is a land of Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Dragons, and Hobbits. Or it's a land filled with kiwifruit. One of those is probably true, Google isn't giving me a good answer.

Whatever this "New Zealand" is, it's often left out of maps. This is so widespread it even has its own Wikipedia page. Look at how long that second paragraph detailing where NZ has been omitted is: IKEA stores, board games Pandemic and Risk, the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit, at the United Nations Office at Geneva, on the Daily Mail, Forbes, Mashable, and on the logo of the Flat Earth Society. That last one surprises me the most, Flat Earthers are known for their impeccable deeply scientific knowledge of geography.

/r/MapsWithoutNZ has also been featured on Subreddit of the Day before! That's right, when it was only 9 months old and had only 1,472 members, /r/MapsWithoutNZ was SROTD on July 7th 2016. I'd send New Zealand a physical reward to commemorate this double-feature, but I wouldn't know where to send it to. As part of that first feature, MapsWithoutNZ founder /u/whangadude was asked about the founding of the subreddit:

#Mind telling me a little about how this sub got started?

/u/whangadude Sure. Well I started /r/mapswithoutNZ simply because I was surprised to find no such sub already existed. Maps of the world omitting New Zealand is a common problem, I can remember it being pointed out when I was a kid. When people on Reddit would talk about there being a sub for everything and yet this idea or meme had no subreddit of its own I decided to be the Patriotic Kiwi and create a subreddit for this problem.

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/MapsWithoutNZ:

1. The more you look, the worse it gets (327 upvotes, 62 comments)
2. i'm glad nz isn't there (1014 upvotes, 18 comments)
3. map of bikini bottom (57 upvotes, 4 comments)

Written by /u/verifypassword__

####/r/UtterlyUniquePhotos

46,689 people checking out the weird and wonderful for 3 months!

Utterly Unique Photos! Or, to be a thesaurus nerd: photographs that completely and without qualification are absolutely unlike anything else. /r/UtterlyUniquePhotos is a subreddit that, I'm sure you can gather, collects and shares photos that are one-of-a-kind.

The majority of posts on here are of a historical variety (of course, you wouldn't post a modern easily replicable picture, that'd be /r/notinteresting) - for example, 50s French children playing with a toy guillotine, which makes for a wonderfully macabre image. For something earlier and lighter in tone, here's an early-1940s James Dean in front of his childhood home in Fairmount, Indiana. For the nerds, these are polaroids from behind the scenes of Return of the Jedi. And for those who are more historically-minded, President JFK passing through Hammersmith in 1962. Someone should tell that guy to stop riding around in an open limousine.

As a Beatles fan, I like the amount of Beatles content on this subreddit too. It makes sense that four guys who were some of the most photographed people on Earth make for a lot of unique photos, which include but are not limited to:

• Adam Ant’s mum Betty used to clean for Paul McCartney in London and young Stuart Goddard (as he was known) walked Paul’s dog Martha.
• Paul McCartney, London, 1978 by photographer Linda McCartney
• From the Sgt. Pepper album cover shoot – here’s the unused Hitler cutout, 1967
• John Lennon, George Harrison and Julian Lennon posing for Henry Grossman, 1965.
• George Harrison and Stevie Nicks, 1978.
• Ringo Starr and Raquel Welch : 1969 Photographed by Terry O'Neill (this pic goes so hard)

Anyway, enough about those four insect guys! To learn more about the subreddit, I talked to its founder, /u/dannydutch1:

1. How did you come to join the subreddit?

/u/dannydutch1 The subreddit was actually set up by myself as somewhere that I could share images that I found unique and interesting. I found there were rather a lot of hurdles and requirements when posting to more established subreddits, so I thought I'd set up my own.

2. What's your favourite type of photo on the subreddit?

/u/dannydutch1 The images I enjoy on the subreddits have more of a historical leaning, but this is due to me being thoroughly interested in this area.

3. Anything else you’d like to add?

/u/dannydutch1 I also run two further subreddits: /r/UtterlyBizarre & /r/UtterlyInteresting

Here is a taste of what you can find on /r/UtterlyUniquePhotos:

1. Jerry Stiller with son Ben in 1979 (6884 upvotes, 142 comments)
2. Odd photo I took coming home late one night (787 upvotes, 33 comments)
3. Ringo Starr and George Harrison dancing with their mothers after the movie premiere A Hard Day Night. Hotel Dorchester, 1964. (2930 upvotes, 42 comments)

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