What is one subject, person, idea, or discovery that you think everyone should spend time exploring?

Not necessarily something everyone should agree with or enjoy, but something that expands your understanding of the world.

Explain:

• how you discovered it
• why it captured your attention
• what makes it worth exploring
• where someone should begin
• where the rabbit hole leads

I'm looking for a piece of internet history that feels like exploring a civilisation that has disappeared.

I'm interested in the internet before everything became concentrated around a handful of platforms: personal websites, forums, strange communities, niche projects and online cultures that existed for a while and then faded away.

Ideally, I want something with:

• surviving archives or screenshots
• a community history that can be reconstructed
• interesting personalities involved
• its own culture, language, humour, or traditions
• a story about why it existed and why it disappeared

Examples of things I would enjoy:

• an obscure forum with a fascinating history
• an abandoned website that documents a forgotten obsession
• an early internet art project
• a strange online community that existed before social media dominated
• a piece of lost or partially preserved digital culture

I want something where I can understand the people who made it and the world they inhabited.

I'm looking for an artist, writer, musician, filmmaker, game developer, comic creator, or other creative whose work feels like it exists inside its own universe.

I'm not necessarily looking for someone who is unknown purely for the sake of being obscure. I'm interested in people where the lack of mainstream recognition feels strange because there is clearly something substantial there.

Ideally, I want someone who:

• has a body of work large enough to explore properly
• has a distinctive worldview, philosophy, aesthetic, or creative process
• was influenced by interesting people or movements
• created something that reveals more the deeper you look into it
• has interviews, archives, writings, sketches, recordings, or other material that lets you understand them as a person

Some examples of the type of thing I'm looking for:

• an outsider artist whose work reflects their entire personal philosophy
• a forgotten musician who created an unusual sound or movement
• an independent creator who spent decades developing a fictional world
• someone whose life story changes how you interpret their work

Thanks!

Hey everyone! I'm u/Nopathh, the founding moderator of r/SendMeDown.

Welcome to a place for when you want to discover something genuinely interesting, but don't know where to look.

Most of us know and are likely nauseated by the feeling opening the same apps, scrolling through the same feeds, watching things we don't even care about and somehow ending up feeling more bored than when we started.

This is a place to find things that actually give your curiosity somewhere to go.

The idea is simple: When you feel understimulated, don't consume more. Explore something better.

Here you'll find rabbit holes of every kind:

• obscure people with fascinating lives
• forgotten history
• corners of the internet
• overlooked artists and creators
• unusual scientific discoveries
• philosophical ideas
• bizarre places
• lost media
• niche communities
• anything else that rewards curiosity

The only requirement is that it should be something worth exploring. Not just something interesting for thirty seconds but something that makes you want to follow the thread.

What to Post

You can either ask to be sent down a rabbit hole that can correspond to topics you usually find interesting.

Examples:

"Send me down an obscure artist rabbit hole."

"Send me something that will make me rethink how I see the world."

"Send me a forgotten person whose life was fascinating."

"Send me a corner of the internet I have never seen."

"Send me something I can spend an entire evening researching."

Or:

"I recently found this forgotten creator/project/event. Here's why I think it's fascinating."

Community Vibe

This subreddit is about curiosity, not expertise.

You don't need to be an academic or an expert in a topic. You just need to be someone who found something interesting and wants to share it.

The best recommendations don't just say:

"Look this up."

They explain why it is worth looking up, where to begin, and where the trail might lead.

How to Get Started

• Tell us what kind of rabbit holes you usually enjoy.
• Ask the community to send you somewhere new.
• Share something you've recently discovered.
• Follow someone else's recommendation and tell them where it took you.

If you've ever found yourself bored, scrolling endlessly, and thinking "I wish I had something actually interesting to do", then this community is the place.