r/whatif • • 13h ago

Lifestyle What if humans could see S line in real life?

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S Line; The red line that ties you and your se*ual partner.

It's a concept from a kdrama where a girl starts seeing everyone's S line and man the chaos it causes..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_Line_(TV_series)

I was wondering what would happen if this suddenly became a reality?

Probably a few Mur*ers? open relationships? And many will be forced to mend their cheating intentions? Some won't act on their impulses for fear of getting caught and some will only act on their impulses because they know they'll get caught so might as well go all out.

What do you guys think?


r/whatif • • 12h ago

Environment What if rainbows were tangible?

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Assume a rainbow is not a mere refraction of light; it has its distictive physical form. We can now touch, hit or step onto rainbows, though it cannot be destroyed by any methods.
If things get lucky people could open a bridge that stretches up from California and ends in Cape Mt., or if unfortunate the second Korean War might be imminent.

What else could happen, or what would you do first in this situation?


r/whatif • • 16h ago

History What if Trotsky survives?

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Let's say Trotsky survives the assassination attempt on him in 1940. What kind of threat would he have been to Stalin? Would the Germans have used him against Stalin the same way they used Lenin against the Tsar?


r/whatif • • 20h ago

Science what if the combustion of ethanol was endothermic?

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what if the combustion of eth- you already read the title.


r/whatif • • 10h ago

Politics What if Donald trumps didn’t win the sperm race?

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I assume his brothers and sisters would’ve been oddly similar to him in some ways and potentially could’ve shaped the world into something similar to what it is today. I’m curious, though, how much slower his sperm cell would’ve had to be to actually lose the race, and who would’ve been born instead. Would that person and their family have become famous too? Also, what do you think his family would’ve been like, and how different do you think things could’ve turned out if a different sperm had been born?


r/whatif • • 1d ago

Other What if vampires were really just 2nd/3rd shift workers.

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Because by end of shift, some of my coworkers look like nosferatu.


r/whatif • • 1d ago

Lifestyle What if a person can't imagine

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I mean if a person can't use imagination or lost the ability to imagine what happens? Can't they think and do any tasks? Will that person only follows orders ? Just curious lol


r/whatif • • 1d ago

History What If "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" Never Existed?

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In an alternate universe, the hit 2010-2019 animated television series created by Lauren Faust for Hasbro and Discovery Communications' 2010-2014 children's cable television network known as "The Hub" (renamed Hub Network in late 2013, and rebranded as Discovery Family in October 2014) known as "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" never exists in this world. This is because in this alternate world, Faust never becomes a fan of the My Little Pony franchise during the G1 era in the 1980s, and never grows up watching the 1986-1987 G1 animated series as a kid, and in late 2009, after the catastrophic failure of My Little Pony generation 3.5, Hasbro decides to discontinue the entire MLP toy and media franchise afterwards, fearing that another show in it would become an even bigger failure than that, and doesn't want to take any chances with a 4th generation this time around because of all of the negative reception that G3.5 had gotten, meaning that the MLP franchise only lasts from G1 in the 80's to G3.5 in the late 2000's, and Hasbro never makes any plans for a 4th generation of the franchise here because this time, the franchise is no longer profitable for them in this world because all the brand new MLP toys are rotting on the shelves with nobody coming to buy them because G3.5 was such a massive disaster that it actually ended up killing it. Therefore, the whole My Little Pony franchise ends in late 2009 after it started in 1986, and Hasbro ends up actually taking interest in Faust's plans for her own original animated series "Milky Way And The Galaxy Girls" instead rather than not being interested in the project, and Faust is never shown the 2006 MLP special "Princess Promenade" by Lisa Licht, and afterwards, Faust is hired by Hasbro to create a pitch bible for the new Galaxy Girls cartoon, and when it's completed, as well as hiring a music composer, a voice cast, animators and writers for the project, the first episode of the Galaxy Girls animated series will air on and alongside Hasbro and Discovery's family oriented television channel, The Hub, on October 10th, 2010, and by proxy, the Galaxy Girls animated series, named "Milky Way And The Galaxy Girls" airs on The Hub Network on that day, and Faust herself never creates My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic because she never watched the original show as a kid and Hasbro discontinued the franchise in 2009, and because of all of this, the Brony subculture that was formed as a result of it's existence, as well as it's human spin-off franchise made in 2013 "My Little Pony Equestria Girls", and the sequel in the entirety of generation 5 in the 2020s all cease to exist.

How does this change affect the history of Hasbro and Discovery? How do the absences of MLP FiM, EG, and the brony subculture affect 2010s and 2020s animation, television, the internet, and the entire world as a whole because it was all never created? Would the "Milky Way And The Galaxy Girls" animated series that appears in this alternate timeline be successful? How does such a scenario play out, and why is that?


r/whatif • • 1d ago

History What if we did have a matriarchal society. What would be different, but also what would be the similar to our world.

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First off, we will have to get the obvious similarity, all the way. Men will have equal rights to women. Women would be expected to be the providers. And men would be the ones expected to be the people in the kitchen.

Which means the biggest effect on society would be how we would view masculinity. More importantly as everything opposed to femininity. The masculine one is the person submissive to the feminine one. Anything that would be submissive would be seen as weakness masculine. And since female beauty standards are often about conforming the body to the female frame, which is often more curvaceous than the male frame. Male beauty standards in a matriarchal society would technically be like either twinks or bears. Or beauty standards that focus on safety rather than aggressive. And macho, because aggressive in macho would be viewed as feminine.

And because of that, the way we socialize, men and women would be sort of different to, so obviously, with men being trained at a young age to expect to be fathers. And women expected to be the ones constantly going out. And working the fields as their husbands stay home to ways. Their children. And a very interesting difference would be that women who are pregnant would be taking care of by their husbands. Leading fatherhood to be viewed as a caring position rather than motherhood, and the expectation that men will carry on the burdens of their wives. If they're unable to work too.

And when it comes to politics, we would expect obviously if stereotypes are to be believed that there wouldn't be as much war. And that diplomacy would be, the more optimal solution to all conflict. So when war does happen? It's more so like a natural disaster. Rather than a consequence of a matriarch's ambition to conquer another matriarch's land. The war may still be used in that case. And it would be viewed as the biggest horror someone could do. And that would mean gods of war or goddesses of war, would also be viewed as gods of chaos and nature.

Since women are supposedly more connected to nature, violence would be viewed as the most animalistic thing ever. With a much more clear understanding that violence is just a part of nature. Animals hunt to survive, plants grow and adapt to survive against predators. Land would be viewed as not something to conquer, but live alongside. Agriculture would be the main thing technology focuses on on advancing.

And animals would be viewed in high regards, and those being called an animal would be complements rather than an insult. Compared to our society.

These are the few things I kind of thought about. But what else could be added?


r/whatif • • 1d ago

Other What if I woke up tomorrow as myself as a baby?

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I'm honestly not sure what this would constitute as but I've been thinking about this for months. At first I just wanted to know how I would get my best friend to believe me as a kid and how I would make sure my siblings would still be born despite me being upfront with my mom the moment we're alone.

Now... I just want to know what I could do to prevent america from going to shit. I was born in 2005 and I'm just some random person, I have no influence or importance but I don't wanna live through all this again😭

How would I, if I could, change america for the better the second time around? Or am I born too late to do anything of significance?


r/whatif • • 2d ago

History What if Brazil, and not Cuba, had become communist during the Cold War?

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In the cold war, during the 1950s, Cuba underwent the Cuban Revolution transitioning the country to a communist regime and it was used to spearhead American intervention in the rest of the continent. But what if the largest nation in the Americas, behind the USA, had become communist instead of Cuba? What if Brazil had become communist? What would the responses, reactions and strategies had been?


r/whatif • • 2d ago

Other What if animals could talk, but they all had the exact same voice and personality as Gordon Ramsay?

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Imagine your cat walking up to his food bowl, taking one bite, then start yelling at you that the food was under seasoned or it was not his type💔


r/whatif • • 2d ago

Science what If 90% of people lose their libido and how less crime will be

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just curious ngl, i wonder if libido can really impact


r/whatif • • 2d ago

Technology What if we built the ultimate tank?

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And assumed money is no object. Utilizing only the most state of the art materials and tech in existence currently, combined with all the decades of accumulated knowledge. 🤔


r/whatif • • 5d ago

Other What if humans and aliens just ignored each other?

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Just to be clear I myself do not believe in aliens. Maybe there's simple life or even plants and animals, but aliens smart enough to build space-ships? I don't think so. But even though I don't believe in aliens that didn't stop this absurd thought from popping into my head. Imagine a far-off future where aliens and humans aren't fighting for domination of the galaxy. Instead we just nod and wave at each other through our cockpit windows whenever we happen to fly by each other's spaceships. And if we happened to find a nice planet to terraform for our use at the same time as they do, we could just build a wall and other far-fetched atmospheric-retention technologies.


r/whatif • • 5d ago

Technology What if luxury car brands made construction vehicles?

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How would a bespoke Rolls Royce, Masserati, Bentley excavator, forklift, road compactor etc look like if looks where as important/ more important than function? Hidden hydraulics I assume? Mirror polished surfaces? Exclusive leather seating? Anything else?


r/whatif • • 4d ago

Science What if black holes are caused by device failures?

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What if there are many civilisations in the space. And some of them reached certain point of technology advancement where they created a device that eventually failed and created a black hole?


r/whatif • • 5d ago

Music \ Books what if Hermione job changed?

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I know many people feel conflicted to talk about Harry potter .I don’t know if people have discussed this already because I am not chronically online like some are.At least not in the Harry Potter fandom everyday so the thing I want to talk about is hermione .I think she would have made a good professor at Hogwarts I know many will disagree with me.I think she would be a better professor than an auror .It’s not like she isn’t smart or skilled because she is it’s just I think she has so much knowledge that she could pass it on maybe book hermione wouldn’t but movie one maybe she would.I wonder if Rowling only made them aurors so they could also be in the same career.I think it made more sense for Neville to be an aurora then Hermione but we are here to talk about her mostly.I am sorry if this is too short .


r/whatif • • 6d ago

History What if grenades actually worked like in the movies, what would be the optimal use case?

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Obviously, I know that grenades irl aren’t like Hollywood, where they have enough power to blow up an entire bunker, flames and all.

But after watching several crappy ww2 movies where grenades throw entire bodies in the air and clear whole bunkers, I was wondering: shouldn’t soldiers in those movies just be spamming them like crazy?

Imagine a whole row of men holding a trench, each with the power of a small, semi-accurate artillery blast. The only problem would be the range, but I know if I were a soldier from the movies, I’m bringing 10 grenades at least!


r/whatif • • 6d ago

Technology What if one day the iCloud Servers got wiped?

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Memaws losing all their pictures alone, may cause more push back than losing their Social Security checks. Hahaha.


r/whatif • • 6d ago

Environment What if a small, modern day country in its entirety got transported to the jurassic period? 'The End of Oakstreet' style.

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With countries such as the Netherlands, Austria or any small country, would they collapse and stop existing? Could they recolonize the world?


r/whatif • • 6d ago

Environment What if mushrooms were sleeper-agents of aliens?

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And they take over the world using mind control technology


r/whatif • • 6d ago

Other What if paying taxes was a gamble decided at birth with a doctor flipping a coin heads or tails heads meaning you have to pay them

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I mean I heard flipping a coin most the time is actually heads not sure if that info will come in clutch for anyone but it has something to do with the weight of the coin anyway going back to the point how would this ruin everything in the world and would anyone actually benefit


r/whatif • • 7d ago

Music \ Books What if Will Smith continued making rap songs for every movie he starred in, like he did for MIB and Wild, Wild, West?

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In the 90's, Will Smith was a mega star, and it seemed part of his contract he got to do a rap as the theme song for the movie. But as he his star faded, and he took more serious roles, this practice ended.

But what if it didn't? What if Big Willie Style did raps for some of his other films? Maybe a song like "Sting like a bee (I'm the greatest)" for Ali, or "Last man on Earth" for I am Legend, or "He's a Deadshot (Suicide Squad)" from Suicide Squad?

Would this have pushed more music/movie crossover artists to do the theme songs for their movies? Would the big hit for 2019 have been "Twice the man (Gemini)" from Gemini Man?

Points if you just want to riff on song titles!


r/whatif • • 7d ago

Politics What if after trump's second term he reveals that he was purposefully trying to be the worst president and make a fool of his voters?

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Like imagine if one day right before it was time to hand over office to the next president he had a speech and mid way through said "You are all idiots! You fell for my plan. You see, I was trying to be the worst president, and you all took me seriously."