What's up guys, this is the Reddit Iceberg. It starts at the top with more commonplace
information and as we procceed further down the chart, we'll go over more obscure information
and lesser known hypothetical theories. So let's get into it.
Reddit is social news website and forum where content is sociall curated and promoted by
site members voting. On reddit there are particular forums dedicated
to particular topics. There are any number of different subreddits over a variety of
subjects. This could be considered your account's score
on redit. It equals the amount of upvotes against your downvotes for the contributions
you make on the site. This is the subdomain used to find your subreddit
of choice. r/funny for instance. This is the subdomain used to find your subreddit
of choice. r/funny for instance. Bots are programs that can monitor posts,
comments, and other user's actions and autonomously respond to them. One popular type of bot can
be used to remind you when
a post has become a year old from
that point. This is reddit's alien mascot. It can take
on any costume or theme and can be seen in a variety of different ways.
This is the older reddit layout on the desktop computer. It's no longer the default layout
but it is still accessible. Redditors can give others awards as a way
to recognize and react to their contributions. Posts and comments that have been awarded
are sometimes highlighted and the recipients of these awards receive special perks like
ad-free browsing and access to exclusive subreddits. This is reddit's live broadcasting service.
You can customize your own snoo, making a unique avatar that represents you and your
account identity. This is just a simple direct message used
as a chat service. This is in reference to how it got it's namesake.
Having read it on reddit. This is what appears when a user has deleted
their account If a user has removed a post from reddit,
this is what will appear. Users that have reddit premium gain access
to the exclusive subreddit known as r/lounge. This is a site that allows users to upload
images. Redditors will often link to imgur pages to share content.
This is short for what's new? It's the reason why the snoo has its name.
in one momentous occasion, Rick Astley, the iconic rick roller himself posted on reddit
with a newly discovered photo. Amid the sea of responses for the entertainer, u/theMalleableDuck
was able to post this. The following response was the real rick astley throwing up the emoji,
admitting to the world that he had been rick rolled himself. This even went on to be covered
in Time Magazine on top of enormous kudos and positive reception from the reddit community.
Mascots are the representative for subreddits. Typically themed around the topic or subject
at hand. Unlike awards that are given by redditors
to redditors, trophies are more prestigious awards that are bestowed to users from reddit
themselves. For example, a user may earn a 'translator' trophy for excellent language
translations through a subreddit. Or they could be awarded the 'white hat' trophy for
spotting a bug on the site and reporting it. This user is actually one of the founders
of reddit who was involved in a bit of site-wide drama some time back.
Much like certain organizations and families, reddit has a secret santa service between
its users. This notorious meme image originated on Reddit.
This in in reference to the short duration after a post's initial publishing where the
vote counter is not revealed. This is the paid reddit service in which you
unlock ad free service among a few other additional features and perks.
There was a scene where reddit identified someone as te boston bomber. Unfortunately
it was a misidentification. In response to this, several redditors said this infamous
phrase that has since become a meme. The color of the reddit upvote button was
in hot debate for a while as many said it was red, and many said it was orange. When
analyzed further, this redditor found out it's about as close as it gets to a neutral
orange and red mix. It is in fact orangered. This massive april fools day event allowed
users to color a public 1000 x 1000 grid. You could only choose one of 16 colors and
you were limited to coloring one pixel every 5 to 10 minutes. Naturally communities worked
together to leave their mark on the piece. It lasted for 72 hours and had a tremendous
amount of organization worldwide. This is what the final image ended up as.
Many subreddits are privated on invitation access only. Some of them even require certain
things, like r/CenturyClub that requires 100,000 link or comment require which takes time.
This was a meme post on reddit where a user details his upbringing where the user and
their family had particular large bowel movements and required a knife to cut them into flushable
sizes. The user goes on to account a story of being at a friend's house and embrassing
themselves by requesting his poop knife to which others laughed as nobody knew what it
was. The orange reddit logo was changed to be black
in support of the BLM movement. This is just in reference to reddit's april
fools day events where they'll host various games and events like r/place that we covered
earlier. If you link your xbox or player unknown battleground
accounts to your reddit account, you unlocked a trophy.
This was notorious coder on reddit who became reknowned for helping a lot of people throughout
the site. It was eventually discovered that the person had allegedly kidnapped a child.
This is Reddit's date of birth. This is the name of a junk or spam account
that is used solely to post or engage without tying it to the user's main account.
This is in reference to this image that continuously resurfaces throughout reddit where a man is
painting himself. When someone makes a comment or post involving
two subjects, someone will intentionally mistake which of the two subjects the rest of the
sentence is in reference to. This is known as the old reddit switcharoo and it even has
its own subreddit. This was a subreddit similar to r/place but
instead of pixels, users could draw pictures on a giant canvas. This had multiple seasons
and it was done in partnership with adobe. These are trophies that were only obtainable
during specific events like old april fools day jokes that may never be able to be aquired
again. This user was replying to a thread on a video
game in unintelligible english. After 2 requests for clarification the user replied with over
4000 comments all having some variation of their repeated phrase. Many of the comments
also led to strange unexplained images as well. There was a massive investigation into
the user. After a sizable amount of research, people came to the conclusion that the user
had chronic fatigue syndrome and was simply trying to cope with various narcotics and
pharmaceuticals. Digg was essentially reddit before reddit.
It offered many of the same features and elements. However one day they implemented a site wide
redesign. Users of the site were very unhappy with the redesign and became vocal about it.
The site developers failed to change or fix the issues and users began flooding Digg with
links to reddit. This was the start of a massive shift over to Reddit and was the catalyst
for its growth and popularity. on r/askreddit, someone made a thread asking
redditors, if they could sleep with any woman, who would it be. One mournful redditor commented
saying it would be his wife who passed 9 years earlier. And naturally the internet being
the internet, someone replied "I also choose that guy's dead wife"
This was the very first post on reddit. It wasn't anything special, it just linked to
it's namesake. But it has gone down in history either way.
This was just a conspiracy for an apocalypse on this date. It quickly took on meme status.
This is in reference to lake city quiet pills, which was an image host site that hosted amateur
nude photos. But hidden in the code of the site was hidden messages. This was discovered
after someone made a post about their friend passing away, mentioning the website in passing.
This evolved into a large conspiracy involving a number of hidden messages and aliases of
people involved in the operation. Certain subreddits are deemed as hosting illegal
or highly controversial content and discussion. Some of them end up getting shut down by reddit,
banning them from the site. This is a website that allows people to find
removed posts and comments. This user accounts of his past on r/relationship_advice.
He details his wife cheating on him. Unfortunately after the divorce, the wife murdered their
two kids and tried to take her own life afterwards. This
was the name of one of the co-founders of reddit.
He downloaded a bunch of academic journals and articles with the intention of freely
distributing them across the web to educate themselves. Obviously publishers didn't approve
of this so he was arrested and convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison. Before he
could be taken to serve his sentense in 2013, he took his own life.
Ironically, u/fifth was the fourth account to be created on reddit and u/fourth was the
fifth account to be created. This is a common expression heard throughout
the site where users will say this phrase with their home location, sending greetings
from their foreign land. This was an alternate reality game or ARG
where a user told a story throughout reddit. Other redditors took it upon themselves to
create a subreddit dedicated to the user and deciphering through and piecing together the
user's posts to understand the deeper meaning to the story he was slowly revealing.
Though Reddit was not created until 2005, This was apparently the date that the idea
for reddit had come about. This was the name of the man that reddit misidentified
as the boston bomber that was referenced in the 'we did it reddit' entry listed earlier.
The CEO of reddit naturally has special privelages, one of them being the ability to edit people's
comments. There have been several events of significance where Spez has gone on record
to admit and apologize for these actions for various reasons.
This is a banned subreddit that featured questionnable or suggestive photos of underage girls.
This was an ARG that was done through a series of posts on r/AMA where users of fame or success
will typically answer questions redditors have for them. There have been a number of
posts from redditors claiming to be possessed by magical animals in effort to take over
the world.
This is the name of a user and subreddit that featured posts of seemingly random characters
in an empty subreddit for almost a year before anybody noticed. Soon the subreddit gained
popularity and attempts to solve what people were discovering to be puzzles. Eventually
the user did an AMA within his own coded language and the crafty redditors who developed a tool
to translate. The creator said that the meaning behind it all would be revealed when it was
discovered. He also said that only one puzzle had been solved and nobody even noticed. Eventually
there was an announcement post that declared the event was over. The subreddit went private
and it's more or less bene left to speculation for its true purpose now. Most people seem
to think it was a number station or a recruitment tool like cicada 3301.
When reddit was launched, it didn't include the ability to comment or create your own
subreddits. This is the famous slogan for reddit. It given
to reddit by an investor of the company. It was given to it because of its vast library
of information. When someone makes a post linking to content
that's already been shared on the site, it's called a repost. This is the primary method
people use to farm upvotes and karma. When someone posts something that they've
found from another subreddit, they will often designate it as a cross post to credit the
original redditor that shared it. this is an acronym for not safe for work.
It's used to warn other redditors that the content may not be appropriate for all settings.
This was a piece of media, an old film shown on Nickelodeon during a halloween special.
It was said to be so startling that they never aired it again and locked it away. When requested,
redditors basically said that it was gone forever. But u/JamesofN reached deep into
his vault and was able to find the requested what was thought to be lost media.