- [Matt] Oh man, if you thought the internet
was a weird place before, yeah, keep watching.
These are the 10 strangest subreddit communities
that actually exist.
Number 10 is Enlightened Birdmen.
Enlightened Birdmen is an extremely weird subreddit
where members of the bird species go
to post Birdman propaganda
and perform bird calls with their peers.
Created on February 25th, 2013,
the best part about the subreddit
is that these so-called Birdmen are in an imaginary war
with the members of a rival subreddit, Mad Mudmen.
They fight for enlightenment
and occasionally invade each other's subreddits
with posts about hostage taking or false alliances.
The Birdmen have recruited more than 43,500 members,
vastly outnumbering the 7,800-plus Mudmen.
A typical post will be written in all caps,
contain bird calls like caw, scraw, or scree,
and will involve militaristic-style subject matter.
The rules include lines like, "Respect the All-Father,"
"Destroy disobedient humans,"
and, "Defend the hilltops at all costs."
This bizarre subreddit can be lots of fun,
whether you're with them or against them.
Number nine is Where Did the Soda Go?
On October 22nd, 2012, a goofy infomercial gif
was posted to Reddit's /r/funny and sparked a discussion
about taking clips of clumsy infomercial actors
out of context.
One example was a man badly faking an accident
with his food tray and dumping his snacks
and soda all over himself.
User NHFVX notice that the soda on the tray
seemed to vanish, prompting him to ask,
"Where did the soda go?"
Thus began the subreddit
of contextually inaccurate infomercial clips,
Where Did the Soda Go?
Currently, it has more than 463,000 subscribers
and is filled with gifs depicting how bad
infomercial actors are at life.
The best posts on the page are the clips
that fit perfectly with their new, more absurd contexts.
For example, an elderly man
accidentally dropping his cane down the stairs
in an infomercial becomes, "The cane must die."
As long as there are infomercials with bad actors,
there will be new material in this truly odd group.
Number eight is Water Flows over the Milk Jug
at Just the Right Angle to Create a Bubble.
This subreddit has an unnecessarily long and confusing name
and involves something that is mildly interesting,
yet that mild interest has gained the attention
of more than 5,400 subscribers since the page's creation
on January 28th, 2015.
Despite what the title suggests,
Water Bubbles posts aren't exclusive
to those created over milk jugs.
All interesting homemade or public fountain
bubble images and videos are accepted.
The group's main intention
is to simply appreciate water physics
and how cool it is when you're doing dishes
and you accidentally discover
that you made a watery force field
by holding a spoon under the tap.
The extra long and messy acronym name has caused issues
for the group, with members forgetting what it means
and wondering why they keep seeing
water flow posts on their homepage.
Number seven is Monks Looking at Beer.
Established on April 24th, 2015,
the 23,800-plus community members
of the subreddit Monks Looking at Beer
have taken it upon themselves
to document the amazingly frequent occurrences
in art and reality of monastery monks
who examine their alcoholic beverages.
The most common appearances seem to be in old paintings
of brown robe-clad monks
taking great pleasure in viewing their ales,
with no modern smartphones or tablets
to steal their attention otherwise.
As the rules of the subreddit state,
pictures of broken mugs or spilled beer
must be tagged as unsafe for viewing.
The use of all caps, memes,
and rude language won't fly here,
much like an actual monastery,
and will earn you a warning if used.
Listening to medieval era monastery chants
while browsing is encouraged,
since it lends more authenticity
to the monk watching beer watching experience.
Number six is Trees Sucking at Things.
Not to be confused with Trees Sucking on Things,
Trees Sucking at Things
is a fairly self-explanatory subreddit
consisting of image posts of different trees
which suck at being or doing certain things.
Attributing blame to a tree
might be a difficult thing in reality,
but the 33,500-plus members of this tree shaming community
have found many creative ways
of drawing attention to their failures.
Since its creation on July 18th, 2012,
Trees Sucking at Things will allow photographs of trees
as well as photoshopped images of trees.
Some posts involve trees that suck
based on where or how they've grown,
while lots of other posts involve odd growths
on their trunks which look like human anatomy
and lead to them being blamed for human-like inadequacies.
If you thought trees could do no harm,
check out Trees Sucking at Things,
the community for disrespecting
nature's apparently worst plant-based life form.
Number five is Cucumbers Scaring Cats.
Cucumbers Scaring Cats is the subreddit
dedicated to sharing gifs and video clips
of cats getting startled or intimidated
by garden variety cucumbers.
It isn't exactly common knowledge
that cats find cucumbers unpredictable and threatening.
But weirdly enough, it's common enough
that there's a large subreddit community
built around the topic.
With upwards of 30,600 members,
tons of dark green gourd-fearing scaredy-cats
have been shared on the site
since the subreddit's creation on July 17th, 2015.
The strangely hilarious posts usually involve
people testing the theory by placing a whole cucumber
on the ground behind their cat
while it's eating or distracted.
The reactions range from uneasiness
to full-on jump scares and fleeing in terror,
which make you briefly question
the ethics of the experiment.
If you're a cat owner and have cucumbers in stock,
try combining the two and recording it.
You might just have comedy gold.
Number four is GGGGG.
This subreddit that has five Gs
is filled with nothing but the letter G.
All of the posts involve photographs of the letter G
or edited images and gifs of where Gs are generally used.
There are no visible rules on the subreddit,
but it seems obvious that any posts
with letters other than G or that link to something
that doesn't involve the letter G are removed.
Since its birth on January 24th, 2010,
the GGGGG community has grown
and currently has over 19,000 members.
Some of the all-time posts involve editing clips
of Wheel of Fortune where the contestant only requests Gs
and the board reveals a bunch of Gs
and comic panels where speech bubble dialogue
is changed to lines of, you guessed it, Gs.
The odd part about this subreddit
is that there are no real reason for their obsession
with the letter G.
They just find joy in typing it out
and noticing it in the world.
It's best not to try to understand it.
You just gotta go with it.
Number three is OOER.
OOER, created on October 12th, 2011,
is a subreddit with the most annoyingly difficult,
confusing, and ugly layout that you've ever seen.
Navigating the page is nearly impossible,
with images, text, and backgrounds
seemingly blending together in a soup
of colored comic sans chaos and the words,
"Oh man, I am not good with computer, please help,"
appearing everywhere.
Moving your sock cursor around makes things even worse,
since scrolling over links causes them
to grow 20 times their size.
The community has over 33,000 members
who have impressively managed to somehow find
and click the subscribe button without making it disappear
under oversized text boxes.
OOER's posted content doesn't make much sense either
and usually revolves around general incompetence,
lots of broken English spelling, and glitchy visuals.
The astounding brokenness of this page
is what draws people in and repels others.
Number two is Totally Not Robots.
This robotic subreddit community
does an excellent job of acting out what it would be like
if androids started to use social media
or if the internet bots chatted to each other
in online forums.
Totally Not Robots has over 114,800 human members to date,
all of whom write posts and comments
in an overly formal and unnatural way.
They like posting memes about their favorite things,
like breathing in and out,
alternating right and left leg movements
in order to reach a destination,
and eating food for sustenance.
The page is also home to janky
and awkward versions of trending memes,
as well as gifs of people making
unintentionally robotic motions in public or on TV.
If you ever want to initiate your laugh sequence,
try Totally Not Robots, the subreddit for human people.
And number one is Fifth World Problems.
If you're big on internet browsing,
you've probably heard of First World Problems,
the humorous meme for lame issues
that people living in privileged countries take for granted.
There's a subreddit for those memes
and there's a subreddit for Second World Problems,
which take on a Soviet, Russian, or Eastern European theme.
This trend continues into the Third World
and even Fourth World group that talks about issues
as members of a primitive human tribe.
It seems that the increase in levels
creates a bigger disconnect from the problems of reality,
and that really shows in Fifth World Problems,
the subreddit where a horribly crafted mascot named Zalthor
is hailed as the new god.
The problems posted here make little to no sense
and they've been that way since the group's creation
on April 25th, 2011.
The subreddit's 65,800-plus member community
seem to take the perspective of intergalactic lifeforms,
which is bonkers.
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