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AKineticTypographer: Reddit’s Next Big Comment-Reply Novelty Account
Reddit novelty accounts that illustrate comments are a genre, we’ve pointed that out. Today’s account, AKineticTypographer, has posted six kinetic-typography GIFs in twelve hours, each one featuring a...
View ArticleReddit Thread: What’s the Stupidest Thing a Guy Did to Impress You?
Stupid romantic gestures are something of a hot topic lately. There was the guy who faked his own death to propose to his girlfriend, and the guy who almost died trying to mail himself to her. While...
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The Six Best Stand-up Comedy Quotes From the New /r/standupshots Subreddit
I’m not sure who is watching all the video out there, because it’s not Redditors or Tumblr users. Both sites heavily favor pictures. They watch TV by reading captions on pictures. And now they listen...
View ArticleGIFs With Sound
There’s a site called GIFSound where you match up sound to GIFs duh. Then there’s a year-old subreddit dedicated to the best matches. Then there are these two videos collecting the very best ones from...
View ArticleNew Favorite Subreddit: /r/ComeOnAndSlam
Early last week a co-worker sent me a video of PSY’s “Gangnam Style” mashed up with the Space Jam theme song. The two tracks work together eerily well, and the result is a song that leaves you...
View ArticleNicholas Kristof tells Reddit his specific plan for fighting a horse-sized duck
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, came to Reddit for an AMA interview to promote his new book/documentary “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” User...
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Did Chet Haze have a Reddit account, deny it and then delete (most of) it?
This morning I woke up to a flutter of emails. As a self-identified Tom Hanks fan, Stan and aficionado, my friends and web colleagues know to IMMEDIATELY send me anything Hanks is involved in....
View ArticleReddit’s no-masturbation support group takes not fapping very seriously
The other day I was reading Nick’s post about probable masturbation euphemisms on the goal-tracking app Lift. The gist of the post is that some folks on the no-masturbation subreddit r/nofap created a...
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How the fuck is there more than one zombie? The first zombie gets infected and then tries to eat their first meal… and fails? Always? Why didn’t he eat the first person completely? Or at least to...
View ArticleReddit thread: “What modification would you make to the human body?”
Who hasn’t wanted to change something about their bodies? Be taller, thinner, more flight-capable? Redditor AreYouGoingToTapThat was considering the possibilities, and posed the following question to...
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Rick Santorum’s website uses a picture of 4chan creator Moot
That’s him sandwiched by Santorum (heh): Which is really just a great set-up for this exchange on Reddit’s /r/4chan: Im_why_Waldos_hiding: Rick Santorum has b/tard’s lurking in the ranks. No wonder he...
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Today I Fucked Up: A subreddit where fuckups are winners
I sent a text to the wrong person. I accidentally hit the car next to me in the parking lot at the grocery store. I threw a baseball through my neighbor’s window. In short, today I fucked up. As far as...
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New favorite subreddit: /r/GamePhysics
I’m not a gamer. My favorite game growing up was Kid Icarus. But I am a connoisseur of absurdist humor, and that’s why I love /r/gamephysics. The subreddit bills itself as “a subreddit for game physics...
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COMIC: Reddit’s hunt for Bozarking
Bozarking was a mysterious Reddit user known for his elaborate sexual fantasies. This is his story.
View ArticleReddit’s “How angry have you gotten at an inanimate object?” thread makes you...
My phone has taken to closing out certain apps when I’m in the middle of using them. The other day I was trying to send a short text to a friend, and the window kept closing before I could hit ‘Send’....
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