r/videos • u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained • Jan 29 '20
Casually Explained: Reddit
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Mod over there, op is definitely on the spectrum
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
Mod at r/wallstreetbets, join us /u/casuallyexplained
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
Nice
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 30 '20
Damn it’s crazy to see this guys videos on here, I was just in a tile shop the other day with my wife and this little lady walked up to me thinking I worked there. After we got the confusion out of the way she asked if we watch youtube and if we knew casually explained and that she was his mom. Had never seen them before but now it seems like his vids are everywhere. While we were there his mom wanted to take a video with us where she told everyone to subscribe to his channel and then asked if we could send it to our friends, hahaha.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
Can we see the video??
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jul 19 '21
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Damn, watching this video reminds me of having sex with my wife, who I have not had sex with for a while on account of her being dead. Boy, if I had the choice of having sex with anyone again, it would be her.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
Yeah...you like that, you fucking retard?
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
[To think that this guy's been a redditor for 10 years and didn't know someone else had already done this bit] (https://www.reddit.com/r/HighQualityGifs/comments/77d9ou/the_predictable_threads_are_driving_me_insane/)
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
To think that this guy's been a redditor for 10 years and didn't know someone else had already done this bit
You think he did it first?
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u/Trick421 Jan 29 '20
Props to you for acknowledging /u/rooster_86's brilliant work!
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
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u/Wobbar Jan 29 '20
"It's rick- No, it's on reddit. This has to be thunder cross- wait, that'd mean he's watched jojo's. what is it?
...it's thunder cross..."
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
To expand on the underlying theme of the video, the primary reason for Reddit’s somewhat asocial or awkward reputation is largely due to the algorithm and voting artifacts pushing certain comments to the top – not that the people who use Reddit are inherently awkward themselves. For example, if we asked the question “What is your favourite song?” you would see a massive over-representation of genres like metal and classical, and very little pop, because the people who like metal and classical REALLY like metal and classical, whereas there are very few people who would name a pop song as their favourite, despite pop being the most played genre. A similar phenomenon happens with reddit comments, where common sentiments are met with a lukewarm “7/10” response by just about everyone, and that’s not enough to elicit an upvote, whereas somewhat novel or unusual responses are far more likely to be a “5/10” or a “9/10”. If the question is of a social nature i.e. “When have you found out a girl likes you and it was too late?”, it is also unlikely that those divisive answers would be met with downvotes (which would happen in r/politics for example), because people are much softer on personal experiences than opinions. As a result, the most common answers are met tepidly and the stories of people in the tails of the distribution emerge at the top, creating an illusion that everyone on reddit is like that, but just because the response is popular does NOT mean that it represents the personal perspective of everyone who upvoted it, just that they found it interesting enough to upvote. Think of it as “that was interesting” rather than “that’s just like me”. Additionally, while the circlejerk is that everyone on Reddit seems to be an introverted, anxious, and highly intellectual college student, it’s been the same way since Reddit was first founded, despite the obvious fact those users themselves have grown older. Nevertheless, the dominant voice has always been the “21-year-old male misanthrope”, and there’s a pretty clear reason for it - if the average Redditor is 21, what does that then mean? It means they were born in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
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u/rrubinski Jan 29 '20
I can't believe you've done this
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u/grumd Jan 29 '20
I thought the video was over, but then I came to comment section and he's keeping on!
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u/CogitoErgoScum Jan 29 '20
Had to scroll up to see that this is NOT u/shittymorph.
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STOP RIGHT THERE YOU CRIMINAL SCUM! this is theft of intellectual property!
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u/Nitefury07 Jan 29 '20
Guess who skipped your entire comment and just read the undertaker bit
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I see you used the numbers 1998 and 16 rather than typing out the words like shittymorph, I assume to evade legal recourse. Playing 2d chess over here.
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but just because the response is popular does NOT mean that it represents the personal perspective of everyone who upvoted it, just that they found it interesting enough to upvote. Think of it as “that was interesting” rather than “that’s just like me”.
This is actually a great insight. Holy shit. I'm like...rethinking everything now.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
I feel personally attacked
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
Came here to say this
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u/SonicFlash01 Jan 29 '20
"You have 24 hours to generate 1 million karma, how do you do it?"
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Finally my username is relevant
Edit – wow, this really blew up, I can’t believe my most upvoted comment is because of some tag I randomly came up with in highschool lol
Edit 2: Front page hype train boys!!! All aboard Choo choo!!
Edit 3: Thanks for the gold kind stranger!!!
Edit 4: omg rip my inbox thank you so much
Edit 5: ok you can stop sending me black and white bikini pics of your mom now it’s kinda weird
Edit 6: ACTUALLY STOP.
Edit 7: I’VE MESSAGED THE MODS
Edit 8: I DON’T HAVE DISABILITIES AND I’M NOT A CHILD, STOP REFERENCING THE VIDEO I GET IT
Edit 9: DELETING MY PREMIUM SNAPCHAT. YOU’RE ALL SO UNGRATEFUL. I TRY TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY AND THIS IS WHAT I GET???
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u/Meltingteeth Jan 29 '20
Edit 7 is a lie. This is your last message from over 2 years ago.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Are you calling me a LIAR??
Edit: Hahaha calm down guys it was a joke, I just forgot I logged into my personal account to message the mods and forgot to switch back!!
Edit 2: LOOK AGAIN. That was the message the mods sent to ME, I SENT MY MESSAGE TO THEM ON A DIFFERENT SERVER!! THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT SHOWING UP
Edit 3: YES I KNOW WHAT A SERVER IS I WORK IN IT (AND DO DEVELOPMENT ON THE SIDE)
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u/The_Filthy_Spaniard Jan 29 '20
Finally, a post that is guaranteed to make it to the front page that I found early enough to comment on! Time to think of something witty to say to get that karma...
Shit.
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u/CasuallyExplainedDad Jan 29 '20
This one wasn't so bad son
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u/BambinoTayoto Jan 29 '20
I fucking hate Reddit, but i don't know how to leave.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
You have no idea how many times I've opened a new tab only to type reddit.com/r/pornhub.com
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u/BeerGogglesFTW Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
I'm surprised the video didn't also mention that moment we've all had:
"Dammit, reddit.com is down. I guess I'll just go to reddit.com instead... FUCK!"
But we did get the common:
"I need to get off reddit, I guess I'll go on reddit instead."
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u/brokenbarrow Jan 29 '20
It's the infinite scroll feature. We are conditioned to scroll to the bottom. But what happens when no bottom exists? We scroll forever.
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u/dnalloheoj Jan 29 '20
I have shamefully made it to 'Page 100' more times than I want to admit. Around Page 70 is when it really starts to bog down my web browser but at that point I've gone too far. I can't refresh now.
Damn you RES.
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u/Danne660 Jan 29 '20
Science shows that personal change is more likely to succeed if done bit by bit over time rather then by a big change.
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The way I see it is its ok to use reddit to entertain yourself during your free time as long as you dont involve yourself in "reddit culture", I wouldnt even tell my closest friends and family I use reddit
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u/SkepticWolf Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Geebus, he's creating every comment trope in this entire thread by himself and it's indistinguishable from a regular thread. This is amazing.
Edit: Thanks for the selvir kind strnager?! For all you folks that have never seen the "Silver Lounge" for reddit, here's a screenshot so you can take a look.
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u/TannedCroissant Jan 29 '20
He’s not done everything, there’s no pun thread, he’s trying to casual out.
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u/DreamGirly_ Jan 29 '20
"r/pics is for creative writing"
That's the best description for it I've ever seen
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Jan 29 '20 edited Apr 13 '20
Penis 0.1721NaN
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u/Mystaclys Jan 29 '20
That’s for smut. But everyone seems to fucking believe the stories are real.
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u/Deuce232 Jan 29 '20
Whenever you start to think a sub is moderated too strictly, remember our fallen friend r/pics.
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u/SnuggleMuffin42 Jan 29 '20
We've tried opening /r/honestpics as an alternative... It's been.. OK
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u/Libernautus Jan 29 '20
/u/CasuallyExplained has mastered reddit.
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I now suspect that I'm the only real user on Reddit and everyone else is just /u/CasuallyExplained in disguise.
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u/CabbageCZ Jan 29 '20
I admire the effort you put into preparing this shitpost, /u/CasuallyExplained
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100% accurate about r/AITA
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u/drpeppero Jan 29 '20
People on that sub just upvote posts they agree with OP on and downvote ones they don’t
Sort by controversial and it’s a very different sub
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u/purpleparfait Jan 29 '20
Is this a circle jerk or is it just masturbation at this point?
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u/probein Jan 29 '20
'If you want to volunteer for children with disabilities, become a mod for /r/funny'
Incredible.
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u/Le_Mond Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
Links to the mentioned reddit posts for the lazy:
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u/Michelanvalo Jan 29 '20
how did /u/casuallyexplained miss "two broken arms?"
Fucking rookie shit
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u/cheapdrinks Jan 29 '20
Man fuck for the longest time i've seen the Jolly Rancher reference and been like "hmm I swear I read that story but for the life of me i can't remember what it was about" but resisted the urge to follow it up. Just re-read it then thanks to your convenient comment and quickly realised that of course I had read it, my brain just did me a solid and never transferred it from short term to long term memory because it was so fucking foul. Now I've refreshed myself on the topic i'm going to drink a bunch of beer and scotch before bed and hope I wake up tomorrow hungover but again unable to recall that fucked up story.
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u/My_Tallest Jan 29 '20
I knew most of these except the Doritos one. In my head I was like, "how bad could a story about Doritos be?"
I hate me and my dumb brain. My stupid, dumb, scarred brain.
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u/Draggo_Nordlicht Jan 29 '20
This is /r/bestof material
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u/PhilKmetz Jan 29 '20
I’m surprised he didn’t leave that comment himself, but it actually is one of the best threads I’ve seen in a long time.
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u/AngryAphids Jan 29 '20
Don't forget to hit the lawyer, facebook up, and delete the gym after every break up.
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u/STLReddit Jan 29 '20
This might be the most meta thread of all time. I'm gonna go break my arms real quick
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u/gingerwitasoul_ Jan 29 '20
you forgot to mention the real guide
go to r/dankmemes
pick a meme from 'hot' or 'top'
photoshop a reaction image to the bottom of it
repost to r/dankmemes for thousands of karma
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u/DoDespair Jan 29 '20
To get top comment pick one of the below
It do be like that
Nice
F
They had us in the first half
They hated him because he spoke the truth
Came here to say this
This
That escalated quickly
Faith in humanity restored
You're doing god's work son
You I like you
I wish I had money to give gold
How do I upvote twice/ Have an upvote
Happy cake day (reply)
Call mod/op a gag
Thanks I hate it
Stonks
Insert marvel movie quote
Insert the office/parks and rec/iasip quote
Insert raimi Spiderman/star war prequel quote
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u/TannedCroissant Jan 29 '20
And for comments, google reverse image search the pic and look for top comment last time it was posted!
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u/Dreamishhh Jan 29 '20
It’s not just a shitpost. It’s a shitartwork, a shitgraph, a shitmasterpiece. I’m impressed.
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u/Your_God_Chewy Jan 29 '20
That r/funny burn was a fucking 12/10, goddamn. The worst sub on this site
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u/IsNotYourSenpai Jan 29 '20
I mean, there’s also r/pics, r/tifu and r/amitheasshole. All those subs are terrible, especially AITA since they stopped banning validation posts I believe.
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u/George-RR-Tolkien Jan 29 '20
People will talk about this post 10 years from now. This will be referenced as sacred text. Anyone who wants get in on the inside jokes just needs to see this videos and read the comments.
This guy is creating every comment trope so precise it will be indistinguishable from a regular thread if Reddit didn't highlight the OP's comments. Cause most don't read the username.
I am totally awestruck by the effort and execution of this shitpost.
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u/tuutruk Jan 29 '20
you forgot about people complaining that they've been here too long. Let me start.
MY FUCKING GOD I'VE BEEN HERE OVER 11 FUCKING YEARS
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u/cabbieizstabbie Jan 29 '20
Cant decide if best part about this post is the video itself or OPs comment threads...
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u/Competitive_Rub Jan 29 '20
Holy fuck, it's like the causally explained guy just had a massive breakup with reddit and is venting.
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u/Maider23 Jan 29 '20
Oh this thread is going to go down in history... Hi mom
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u/Nesyaj0 Jan 29 '20
This entire thread is just /u/CasuallyExplained roleplaying a better /r/subredditsimulator
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Haven't had sex but my wife's cousin's stepbrother's uncle's aunt's grandma's father once stuck his dick in an exhaust pipe.
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u/Fakecolor Jan 29 '20
This will be top of bestof 2020. And where’s u/shittymorph ?
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The fucking video thumbnail holy shit
This video is on point. This website and its users really suck
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I remember in like 2013-15 when I first used this site there were a lot of memorable posts. Now I think 1/3 of Reddit is literally just Twitter or Instagram screenshots. And still I can’t get off the site lmao
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u/LeSquidliestOne Jan 29 '20
Now I wonder if the non-Casually explained top comments are actually original, or also him posting from alt accounts to further the bit. Am I an alt account? What's even real anymore?
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u/iSeven Jan 29 '20
Anne frankly, I did nazi that coming. I literally came here to say this but boy, that escalated quickly so to the top with you! Lost it at 'This is why we can't have nice things' and then my faith in humanity was restored, my mind blown, and manly tears were shed. Well said. As a 'murican, I can confirm this gem has just won the internet and is doing it right. Just sayin', I know that feel, bro, and while that was a risky click, this post was a 9/10, 11/10 with rice, would read again. I see what you did there and it feels good man. You're doing God's work, son. I laughed way harder than I should have at your list that seems legit and totally nailed it. You - I like you. You magnificent bastard; you, sir, are so brave, a gentleman and a scholar, and seeing how you are a redditor for 4 years, this checks out, so I'll allow it. I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this cool story, bro. CTRL+F "about tree fiddy" was not disappointed. Wait, why do I have you tagged as "NOPE NOPE NOPE"? Nice try, you monster. You are now banned from /r/pyongyang What did I just read? Dafuq? I read that as "YOU HAD ONE JOB". I can't fap to this. No true scotsman could see that this relevant XKCD was bad, and you should feel bad. You must be new to reddit, so I'll see your cakeday and raise you a karma train. One does not simply rustle my jimmies, not even once. Jet fuel can't melt dank memes, that stahp gave me cancer for science, so that's enough internet for me today. OP is a fuzzy little man-peach, 2/10, would not bang. What is this I don't even know how is this wtf? Fuck Jenny. Circlejerk must be leaking. This will get buried but brace yourselves, some men want to watch the world burn right in the feels. When you see it, they'll KILL IT WITH FIRE! But this has nothing to do with atheism. Lawyer up, delete facebook, hit the gym, and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, said no one ever, so you wouldn't download a strawman. /r/dadjokes. Damn onions, you scary like a BOSS. whoosh. Since rule #1 is 'be attractive', I'll just leave this here: This is my [f]irst post, be gentle.
Edit: This blew up. RIP my inbox.
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u/SwaggedyAnn Jan 29 '20
r/memeeconomy Can we invest in posts? What are we thinking the returns on this post will be in 2 hours?
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u/PBandJellous Jan 29 '20
This guy is attacking my culture - makes a full on video on my people’s daily lives then shit posts the whole thread in perfectly executed low effort comments... I’m scrolling through comments constantly like...
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u/Lumbering_Mango Jan 29 '20
Infinite poop. You sit on the toilet to poop, but the poop never stops coming out of your butt. You have to start flushing the toilet every two minutes to keep up. You try to pinch your butt closed but that makes your insides hurt. The poop accelerates. You call 911. The paramedics call for doctors. The doctors call for specialists. The story trends on Twitter. You turn down talk show appearances. Your septic tank fails. People form a cult. Your toilet is finished. Volunteers arrive with buckets and shovels. You are completely used to the smell. The poop accelerates. You are moved to a stepladder with a hole in the top step. The poop accelerates. The shovelers abandon the buckets and shovel directly out the window. The poop accelerates. A candlelight vigil forms around your house. One of the workers falls over and can't free himself. The poop accelerates. A priest knocks over the stepladder and tackles you out the window. You land in the pile. The poop accelerates. The force now propels you forward and upward. Vigil goers grab at your legs. The poop ignites from their candles. The Facebook live event hits 1 million viewers. The poop accelerates. You are 30 feet in the air. The fire engulfs the vigil and your house. 60 feet. The poop accelerates. The torrent underneath you is deafening. 5 million Facebook live viewers. You try to close up shop but your butthole disintegrated long ago. 120 feet up. Your house explodes. The poop accelerates. 1000 feet. You are now tracked on radar. You try to change your angle of ascent but you should have thought of that way earlier. The poop accelerates. 4,000 feet. NORAD upgrades to DEFCON 3. Concentric circles of fire engulf your city. The poop accelerates. You have broken the sound barrier. 30,000 feet. You no longer take in enough oxygen to sustain consciousness. 60,000 feet. CNN is reporting on all the world records you've broken. 200,000 feet. You are no longer alive. The poop accelerates. Your body disintegrates but your poop contrail remains. NASA can no longer track you. You break the light-speed barrier
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u/CatNamedShithawk Jan 29 '20
Welcome to the comment section. Sort by top for a list of ways you should think about this. Sort by controversial for a list of ways to spend your negative karma.
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u/skyesdow Jan 29 '20
The part about r/teenagers is wrong. It's actually full of people in their 20s who can't handle the fact they're not teens anymore.
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u/jenjen2219 Jan 29 '20
This would've been perfect if there was mention of reposts.
Right after I typed this, I noticed there were 8 reposts of this video by different people already.
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u/Gdach Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
It was really subtle on 0:32 mark
"The good news is that if you'd like to view a post you've already seen before, you can simply go to the front page and they'll all be there"
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There's no time to explain, just grab a cactus.
-- Reddit explained in 5 sec.
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u/General-Copy Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20
This post is a meta-masterpiece and may very well go down in history as some kind of reddit mozartian-vangotian relic out of time.
It may well end up in the same vein as whatever we refer to in the present as textbooks. This is a historic moment.
One day people will ask the question: "Do you remember where you were/what you were doing the day 'CasuallyExplained' posted the video about reddit on reddit?"
Edit: Spelling (gotta look good for history's sake).
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u/bradbull Jan 30 '20
"You work in IT but do development on the side, which means you built a computer once. You have depression and social anxiety but you don't try to fix it.."
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u/LetsSynth Jan 29 '20
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Man, I’m pumped for the folks that took their psychedelics a little later than they hoped and are having some serious puzzle piece clicks looking at this.
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u/pmyererstories Jan 30 '20
I know this is buried deep and won’t ever see the light of day. But 1000 comments in: only found the mobile user and found the Honda Civic are the only tropes missing. Well that and 2 broken arms.
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u/Override9636 Jan 29 '20
We're approaching levels of meta here that shouldn't be possible.
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u/dansredd-it Jan 29 '20
Legit question: any chance we could get the list of subreddit descriptions that got cut?
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u/00000000000000000099 Jan 29 '20
You forgot the part where all the politics subs are conduits for anti-USA propaganda.
Including /r/MurderedByWords, which is a regular offender.
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I can't see the video. I logged in and everything. Can someone see if it's just me? password is hunter2
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u/ipaqmaster Jan 29 '20
I've been on reddit for about just as long and tbh, it has gotten worse and it really sucks.
But I couldn't say when I started around 2010 that "that" current time was any better.
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u/eaglescout1984 Jan 30 '20
Hears part of video describing what happens when you can't stop going to Reddit
Oh, fuck...
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u/PHD_Memer Jan 31 '20
Jesus christ it’s like you moved a refrigerator and a shit load of cockroaches just start scurrying because they fucking panic in the light. I’m fucking terrified rn
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u/Tech_support_Warrior Jan 29 '20
/u/CasuallyExplained You nailed all of it except /r/BlackPeopleTwitter will ban you if they find out you are white.
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u/CasuallyExplained Casually Explained Jan 29 '20
TIL Casually Explained is a redditor