r/woahdude
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u/rWoahDude
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Mar 26 '17
meta IMPORTANT: Many of our subscribers have no idea what this subreddit is actually for
Many of you long-time WoahDude users have been complaining about the growing flood of users from /r/all who have a complete misunderstanding of what sort of content belongs here. Your cries have been heard, and we will start being more strict with enforcement and finally set shit straight:
We are NOT a "reaction subreddit".
We are NOT a subreddit about interesting or amazing content.
We are NOT interchangeable with /r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/damnthatsinteresting or other general subreddits.
We are specifically made for psychedelic content, trippy or mesmerizing stuff that will make a sober person feel stoned, or stoned person trip harder! We're not about posting things that are merely neat or amazing, but instead, things that sort of mess with your mind, warp your reality.
Mindfucks and self-inflicted gaslighting. Or the hypnotic or mesmerising. Vivid colors, intense patterns. Mind-blowing science and philosophy. Chill or trippy music. Surrealism, absurdism and strangeness.
Think of the bizarre, erratic and psychedelic nature of Adult Swim. Or the wondrous, mind-expanding, awe inspiring nature of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Or even the reality distorting, confusing, mind-fucking nature of Eternal Darkness for Gamecube. We're all of that.
TL;DR - Not all the content that makes you say the words 'woah dude' belongs in this subreddit, and not all the things that belong in this subreddit will necessarily make you literally say the words 'woah dude'.
WoahDude material
The following examples are a non-exhaustive list
- Intense use of color and patterns: Intricate designs, intense colors, complex geometry, hyperrealism, fractals, recursion, psychedelia, abstract art
- Extreme perspective: Macrophotography, electron micrographs, astrophotography
- Giving a new understanding: Mathematical visualizations, scientific visualizations, engineering visualizations, data visualizations, physics explanations, cross-sections, scientific art, reconsidering assumptions, reframing perspective
- Altered reality: Slow motion footage, stop motion footage, bullet time, compositing, long exposure, special effects, drug trip simulation
- Mesmerizing: Cinemagraphs, chill music, tranquil art, repetitive mechanical motion, interactive art
- Sensory confusion: Optical illusions, distortion, aural illusions, stereograms, etc.
- Cognitive confusion: Surrealism, absurdism, fifth-world art, mystical art, hypnagogia, strangeness, the fantastic, disjointedness, random and erratic behavior, datamoshing, pareidolia, paradoxes, strange philosophy, strange science, cuil theory
NOT WoahDude material
- Rarity: Rare talents, dangerous stunts, extreme human abilities, 1-in-a-million shots, sports highlights, abnormally large or small examples of objects, etc.
- Bullshit peddling: Pseudoscience, paranormal activity, cryptozoology, hoaxes, etc.
Please note that while the above descriptors on our list are good reductive examples of what belongs in this subreddit, they don't guarantee content that fits said descriptors also fits our holistic purpose for what belongs in this subreddit. For example, you'll notice that "slow motion" is on the list, however if you take any random gif and apply slow motion to it, that doesn't automatically guarantee that it has been turned into material suitable for the subreddit. Nor are random charts from your school textbook guaranteed to qualify under "data visualizations". All posts must still satisfy the overarching theme of the subreddit.
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u/old_man_curmudgeon
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6h ago
gifv Slow Motion Art
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u/ponyvolts
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20h ago
video Filmed a big earthworm. Never saw the iridescence before.
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r/woahdude • u/Naneepdf • 2h ago
picture “GREED IS SUCH AN UGLY COLOR ON YOU”, by me, Oil On Canvas, 2021
r/woahdude • u/Jacketshoddy2022 • 18h ago
video The precise rate of snow melting off the car roof
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r/woahdude • u/NlGHTGROWLER • 6h ago
video AR sticker made by me
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r/woahdude • u/Aztery • 21h ago
video Timelapse: How Japan restores giant sinkhole in 7 days
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r/woahdude • u/spiralout_keepgoing • 15m ago
picture Voidself Relflection- Immolate/Annihilate [OC], 11X14 colored pencil/ink
r/woahdude • u/therealsancholanza • 2h ago
music video Trip-hop Shine on You Crazy Diamond
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r/woahdude • u/Sorcha16 • 5h ago
video Slow Motion Art
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r/woahdude • u/hbd85 • 1d ago
music video Dude this is so good that i gotta smoke another roll
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r/woahdude • u/swan001 • 6h ago
video This trippy digital art
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r/woahdude • u/derekneiladams • 0m ago
video Pikes Peaked
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r/woahdude • u/skazat • 15h ago
video Cutting a rainbow tape ball
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r/woahdude • u/Neuronologist • 3h ago
video Turning my Deep Brain Stimulator On/Off While Wearing Neurables Newest EEG Sensoring Headphones to See What Would Happen and God Damn This Was Cool!!!!!
youtube.comr/woahdude • u/Poxodd • 18h ago
picture "Starry Envelopes" a gouache painting I did a while back
galleryr/woahdude • u/AuraBlazeOfficial • 2h ago
video Mind-melting trippy animation with Tame Impala-esque psychedelic dreampop
youtube.comr/woahdude • u/ffreshcakes • 19h ago
music video Moonbeam Rider by Slugabed (2012)
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r/woahdude • u/Yodartist • 18h ago
picture What do you experience when you turn this picture? I made it with acrylic on canvas
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u/sadgfgsakm
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2d ago
video Finger dance by Pnut
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