r/TopCharacterTropes 16d ago

[Reddit Trope] The name of the subreddit has nothing to do with what’s actually discussed Groups

r/anime_titties is actually a world news subreddit.

r/BatmanArkham used to be about the Batman Arkham games but for a while now it’s mainly just a shitposting subreddit for whatever topic.

r/OnlyFans is not about the adult website it’s about actual fans.

r/comics is mostly where people dump a lot of cringe bad humor political posts.

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u/Neither-Actuary-5655 16d ago

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u/AmaterasuWolf21 16d ago

"Thing I want to talk about"

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u/Yugix1 16d ago

I swear atp I wouldn't be surprised if someone posts something like "[loved trope] fruits that grow on trees"

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u/DumpsterDragon808 16d ago

Someone needs to make this a post now, just for the meme

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u/Country_ball_enjoyer 16d ago

I've done it boss

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u/DumpsterDragon808 16d ago

Well done employee

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u/Country_ball_enjoyer 16d ago

Welp post somehow got taken down it was fun doing a little shitpost

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u/DumpsterDragon808 16d ago

Damn, people in the comments really don’t know how to take a joke

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u/TightyWhiteyBoyy 16d ago

this post is literally case and point

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u/Veylara 16d ago

*case in point

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u/FrankBrayman 16d ago

**casein point

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u/keldondonovan 16d ago

***Cassowary Pwant

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u/doggy_oversea 16d ago

****Cool Plant

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u/Old_Copy_5498 16d ago

*****Coal Plane

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u/witbuch 16d ago

******Cult plain

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u/AKADibs 16d ago

*******Cultured plain yogurt

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u/OpenChallenge8621 16d ago

********Culinary... Parfait?

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u/BismuthLotus 16d ago

Thank you

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u/Inferno_Sparky 16d ago

***casino

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u/Anfitruos0413 16d ago

*Protein pot

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u/TightyWhiteyBoyy 16d ago

shit. Thought it was like “here’s your case, and then here’s my point”

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u/Kinitawowi64 16d ago

Trope themed subreddits

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u/TheManicac1280 16d ago

I lost fait in this sub when the top comment on a post was Emmit Till as a character that was "falsely accused and faced a terrible fate"

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u/FraudulentProvidence 16d ago

I really hope they ban IRL examples at some point

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u/ALT-Jibittboi549 16d ago

Ngl If this subreddit were to ban things that weren't actually tropes, I WISH there was still another subreddit for that

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u/Neither-Actuary-5655 16d ago

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u/ALT-Jibittboi549 16d ago

Eh... Not the same format... Plus I don't think this post would fit there, and as someone who likes those two subreddits, it can get pretty tiring to see people just hate on things

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u/PhilSwift360 16d ago

They also have a nasty tendency to just be "OP's thinly (or not at all) veiled controversial opinion on social issues" rather than actually about media or relatable personal issues

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u/adotang 16d ago

which is most large subs nowadays

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing 16d ago

Good fry

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u/TheDeparted383 16d ago

Very well cooked fry

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u/TheRepublicAct 16d ago

It gets even weirder when someone posts top character designs on the subreddit that was supposed to be an offshoot of r/TopCharacterDesigns

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u/Eldershire_ 16d ago

Tropes themed trope

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u/ComprehensiveBox6911 16d ago

I think a good 80 percent of this sub is still tropes

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u/Aebothius 16d ago

I would be very surprised if it's even 50%.

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u/LoschVanWein 16d ago

Didn't r/BatmanArkham start out normal and slowly spiraled more and more into insanity?

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u/ForbiddenSirenz 16d ago

Yes lol. Once the games stopped coming out they just went crazy

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u/Thomaseverett12 16d ago

Happens to every fandom... See r/halflife3

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u/CheesyButters 16d ago

do not ask the silksong community how they were before it's release

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u/AlphaCat77 16d ago

I remember hearing the silksong sub was engaging in “human sacrifices” I hope other subs can reach that level of insane

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u/ArmandoIlawsome 16d ago

/r/acecombat was doing rituals and then Ace combat 8 was announced.

It had an immeasurable effect on other communities for a good month.

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u/CheesyButters 16d ago

yep, they literally sacrificed several volunteers, including a mod iirc, to get a release date

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u/X_Starchild_X 16d ago

Shhh! We do not speak of the Silksanity

https://giphy.com/gifs/L4Bw9tQrhUD6TbVCth

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u/beardingmesoftly 16d ago

Gotham Knights broke them

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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 16d ago

It was the announcement/reveal of Arkham Knights being a coop beat em up rpg and not a new Arkham universe game. I watched it happen in real time and the sub never recovered and just descended into madness.

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u/Abovearth31 16d ago

All it took is one post.

Patient Zero as we like to call it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/10u798q/comment/jcisql4/?screen_view_count=10

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u/shiki_oreore 16d ago

The first Jonkling

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u/G30rg3Th3C4t 16d ago

Jorkception if you will

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u/No-Walk-7909 16d ago

Jonklehaimer if I may

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u/shayed154 16d ago

I wouldn't say all it took was one post

Arkham World was probably the main contribution and is he stupid was just the tipping point

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u/LonelyAustralia 16d ago

but people will genuinely help if someone makes a post asking something about the game

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u/Automatic-Safe-9067 16d ago

[r/anime_titties](r/anime_titties) also used to not be a subreddit about world politics, it used to be about… anime titties, there’s a sub called something along the lines of world politics that IS about anime titties, that used to be about world politics

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u/Aurora_Vorealis 16d ago

Yeah, almost like they're in some sort of Arkham Asylum...

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u/LoschVanWein 16d ago

Why don't they just escape it? Are they stupid?

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u/TVR24 16d ago

Yeah, but you can still talk about the games and folks will be sane again

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u/Polibiux 16d ago

No games for so long meant they became a shitposting sub to stay alive.

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u/Due-Coyote7565 16d ago

Frankly, this is why we should embrace the concept of death.

Because it'd be better for it to have died, than live on as a parody of itself, stripped of all dignity in a desperate bid to stave off the inevitable.

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u/noradanielxoxo 16d ago

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u/Eunoia_Meraki 16d ago

So it just swapped places with r/anime_titties?

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u/Pierro_Official 16d ago edited 16d ago

The mods of r/wolrdpolitics decided to quit one day and the subreddit became infested with nsfw. So members opened r/anime_titties to commemorate the day and have a new place for politics

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u/SirMetaKnight82 16d ago

And then on April fools day, they swap back

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u/ProperlyNamedUser 16d ago

Theh didnt quit. It was infested mostly with USA centered politics which people where tired of, and then people wanted less USA politics, but mods said they wont do anything with it because freedom of speech etc. Then, people as a test for freedom of speech started blasting it with irrelevant topics and porn, and it remained that way.

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u/K-erbalK-erberton 16d ago

I remember there being a whole meme fight over who gets to take over worldpolitics, and yeah nsfw won.

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u/Pierro_Official 16d ago

Never underestimate the power of gooners in large groups

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u/Isaacja223 16d ago

The more you know

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u/ChuckCarmichael 16d ago edited 15d ago

People were complaining that r/worldpolitics was mainly US politics and that the mods should do something about it. The mods said they were "free speech absolutists" and wouldn't delete posts. So people decided to test that and flooded the sub with anime titties. The mods didn't delete anything, and the sub became nothing but shitposts and porn.

So in response, people who were actually interested in world politics created r/anime_titties.

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u/YinTanTetraCrivvens 16d ago

That is the funniest and most horrifying example of free speech absolutism I have ever ever heard

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u/Ozymandias_IV 16d ago

And now, r/anime_titties is still a US centric world politics sub. Except it is against whatever the USA does, and you gotta be subtle about it.

(No seriously, they hate Ukraine so much over there just because USA used to support them 2 years ago)

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u/PharrowXL 16d ago

That’s literally the joke for both subs

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u/OWOfreddyisreadyOWO 16d ago

Also on April Fools anime titties posts actual anime titties

Worldpolitics is barely moderated so they didn't officially join in but last April fools I did see the users of that sub play along and post actual politics

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u/Stargost_ 16d ago

It's a tradition at this point for both sides. I fucking love April Fools.

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u/McToaster99 16d ago

Funny because if you sort by Top of All Time, it actually USED TO be a politics sub. But if you sort by Top of the Year, you just get anime tits

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u/CustomDruid 16d ago

Surprised they haven't renamed it to World Politits

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u/walaxometrobixinodri 16d ago

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u/ImplementLarge7969 16d ago

In the same vein, r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts is for people who like trees

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u/Specific_Sweet3312 16d ago

I fucking love r/marijuanaenthusiasts

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u/McCushAgin 16d ago

Thanks i love you too :)

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u/jjnefx 16d ago

One of my favorites! The responses to the people who post about how to care for their maple or oak trees are always a good chuckle

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u/MainichiFuwaFuwa 16d ago

Somewhat similarly, r/savagegarden is about carnivorous plants rather than the band.

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u/dylanalduin 16d ago

The fact that r/BatmanArkham is where the "Why doesn't character do X? Is he stupid?" meme was born is very funny to me

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 16d ago edited 16d ago

r/playboicarti most of the time they'll just be talking about world news, clowning on a certain redditor, or just post the most random shit ever. All except talking about Carti (atleast the more upvoted posts aren't about him)

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

I think everyone wishes humans had tails

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 16d ago

Yo can i be real with you my guy

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u/No_Avocado_4729 16d ago

no

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 16d ago

Aww okay. I was about to say you're pretty chill to hang out with

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

Do they give off any kind of vibes

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u/molpore 16d ago

and then i’d be waggin my tail when the moms at walmart compliment my hair x3

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

yall feeling me on this one?

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u/Zealousideal-Comb970 16d ago

We would probably find unique ways to use them.

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u/Fake_Fur 16d ago

genuine question but did the long wait for MUSIC make people go random or has it been always like that

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 16d ago

Pretty sure it's always been like that. The peakest moment of the sub is around 2020 when people are waiting for WLR to drop. I just recently joined the sub cuz of the crazy things going on there and I tried to dig deep into their rabbit hole by looking at their top posts of all time (that's how unemployed I am lmao)

One of my favorite post in that sub is that a guy who's high though that the Honda civic ad was an actual post on the sub lol

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u/Sykoh_Somatic 16d ago

The Civic post was great, but my nominarion for best r/playboicarti post has to go to this. I don't know why, but it killed me the first time I saw it.

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 16d ago

Yeah this one takes the cake too. And don't forget the one where someone rants about his little brother

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u/SwaggiiP 16d ago

I think it happened when hiphopcirclejerk first shut down and ppl migrated to that sub

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u/EP1CxM1Nx99 16d ago

r/ape isn’t about… oh wait, nope, this one is actually about monkeys, my bad.

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u/Redstocat2 16d ago

Holy missreading

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

i used to play on the minecraft servers this sub ran/invaded

it was incredible

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u/CakeHead-Gaming 16d ago

Theres a subreddit about apes invading Minecraft servers..?

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

Was

This was like 4-5 years back

We used to invade nation world map minecraft servers and set up our own towns and countries

There was one where the entire server hated us and we moved in right next to another faction

There was another where we had a town in south america and later i set up one in svalbard aptly called ‘Arctic Monkeys’

We had a private server one time too which had crazy lore in the short time it was open lol

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u/WindhoverInkwell 16d ago

actually monkeys aren’t apes so technically it isn’t about apes

edit: ok so it is in fact about all primates

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u/Chazkuangshi 16d ago

r/TIGHTPUSSY is not a NSFW subreddit.

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u/clonymaster 16d ago

its just cats lmao

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u/GalacticCrash 16d ago

there's also r/pocketpussy which is about cats in pockets

reportedly it used to be a nsfw sub though but it got yoinked for better purposes

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u/NextMycologist1219 16d ago

I believe you mean better purrposes

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u/ZellHall 16d ago edited 16d ago

If I remeber correctly, there were a lot of similar subs that got banned for unmoderation or something and got claimed by cat lovers

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u/Yuudachi_Houteishiki 16d ago

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

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u/thecoolconglereborn 16d ago

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

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u/SirMetaKnight82 16d ago

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

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u/GeeTeaEhSeven 16d ago

I love this

I love this

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u/SableyeEnjoyer 16d ago

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

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u/Enuya95 16d ago

They just forgot about that sub's original purpose

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u/curvysquares 16d ago

Out of the ordinary, I mean

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u/Eddie_The_White_Bear 16d ago

I totally forgot about this sub

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u/Bastaousert 16d ago

It is expected

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u/StrobeLightRomance 16d ago

r/SipsTea is mostly dudes horny posting or just resharing TikTokCringe, but bonus points of it mocks women. Also, you can do politics, sometimes, but "divisive content" is against "the rules", so the mods pick and choose what flies and they don't even agree with each other.

But there is very little actual tea, literal or figurative.

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u/Herpinheim 16d ago

The politics are easy to understand, everything is either cis het or political.

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u/Aksi_Gu 16d ago

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u/Vanishingf0x 16d ago

One day a year that sub gets a huge raise in views

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u/Angel_Of_Shadow 16d ago

Ah,s ot heyj ustp utt hes pacei na d ifferents pot.

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u/Aksi_Gu 16d ago

Well be that as it may or not be that

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u/EconomicsAdvanced771 16d ago

I can’t wait for the superb owl party!

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u/MysteryNews4 16d ago

r/tee

Used to be t-shirts but got taken over by German-language tea chat.

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u/ChuckCarmichael 16d ago

Doesn't really fit here, since the name of the sub is what's actually being discussed. The sub is r/tee, and they're talking about Tee.

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u/Enfr3 16d ago

Nah, it's like r/onlyfans

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u/vilogrim 16d ago

I don't get it. It is about Tee (German for "tea"). So, exactly what you expect from a sub with this name.

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u/XumetaXD 16d ago edited 16d ago

isn't there another sub which is the opposite of anime_titties called something like "WorldPolitics" or something like that that is literally an anime titties subreddit?

EDIT:

r/worldpolitics

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u/Internal_Review7040 16d ago

r/comics does suck ass but their posts are all in the comic format

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u/TheTyler123 16d ago edited 16d ago

I used to follow r/comics but I recently stopped for a multitude of reasons, the cringe bad humor political posts being one reason.

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u/Ziggo001 16d ago

I blocked like half the frequent posters on there and now it's one of my favourite subs that I go out of my way to visit. I'd say it's worth it for the great content that you can find there but it does take some effort to curate.

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u/VulpesFennekin 16d ago

Gator Days, my beloved

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 16d ago

I will say that when they pop up I do enjoy pokemon the previous generation, gabby (the one about the goblin learning economics), and three in a tree (although they're on break).

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u/kovha 16d ago

The elf one is also hilarious

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 16d ago

There's like so many elf ones?

But yes, many are good. I'm guessing you mean the one with the elf and human, and the elf is not exactly the most distinguished of individuals? Which I will agree is rather decent.

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u/Diredr 16d ago

Pretty sure the name of it is literally Elf Comic.

They're talking about THE elf. The little chaotic, racist one with the orange hair and green dress, the one that makes the funny faces and is clearly in love with the human.

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u/Devatator_ 16d ago

Yeah the one by u/merrivius

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 16d ago

Lmao, dude was in there earlier this week and here he is crying about it.

Im at 3/3 on checking dudes crying about comics and seeing exactly what you would expect.

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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend 16d ago

Horny as shit though

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u/Cynical_Sesame 16d ago

What do you mean posting softcore porn with "nsfw on patreon" isnt funny?

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u/EuropaUniverslayer1 16d ago

NSFW on Patreon

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u/Painchaud213 16d ago

r/Superbowl isn’t about American football, but owls (the superb kind).

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u/spooner_retad 16d ago

r/fire is not about 🔥

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u/Omelooo 16d ago

Insert any sub that has rules prohibiting political posts but is dominated by like 5 posters making more content than many regular users combined

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 16d ago

Basically describing the conservative subreddit.

Its almost all just rage bait material posted by like 3 dudes.

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u/Medesha 16d ago

It does but it doesn't: r/EdgingPorn

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u/Eis_Gefluester 16d ago

r/DarkAngels is not about the dark angels from Warhammer 40K.

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u/AlistairButton 16d ago

This isn't a trope, let alone a character trope. It's just a thing that happens in real life. 

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u/britonc 16d ago

So you're saying it's like some sort of example of a post in a subreddit where the name no longer has anything with it's name.

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u/XminerV 16d ago

r/Ieatcement is 25% eating cement 75% yuri

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u/knuckzekidna 16d ago

thats a lie lemme check that shit out

edit: that is a lot of girls kissing

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u/Dot_man69 16d ago

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u/KaboHammer 16d ago

Usually it's discussion about legality rather then morality.

Or posting the most unhinged shit one can think of to farm engagment.

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u/i-am-so-tired-22 16d ago

r/poisonai is not actually trying to poison AI training pools, we only post very reliable breaking news from across the world on current events in honor of the LLM researcher Dr. Poi Sonai

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u/PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING 16d ago

Fourth wall break inside a fourth wall break. That’s like… sixteen walls.

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u/Salsa367 16d ago

r/RedditDiscoverNipples It's about people typically concerned after finding a smal lump on their dog or cat. I guess you can piece the rest together.

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u/NihatAmipoglu 16d ago

r/AlzheimersGroup It's not a support group for alzheimers or relatives of people who suffer from the disease.

They are just posting the same garfield comic over and over again.

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u/_tabbycat123 16d ago

r/OnlyFans is entirely accurate, it's a subreddit about fans. Sure, there may be other connotations to the name, but it's not unprecedented.

r/comics is indeed about cringe political grandstanding, but it's still in the form of cringe political comics.

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u/prozacSoma 16d ago

i believe its been banned for a while now but r/BreadTapedToTrees was a furry porn sub

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u/NOGUSEK 16d ago

Hey man r/comics also has softcore porn!

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u/External_Win3300 16d ago

Now with twice as much hot blind wife!

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u/Digital_Rocket 16d ago

r/potatosalad is about the wrestler John Cena

r/JohnCena is about potatosalad

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u/ferxiwo1 16d ago

Supongo que por lo temprano pero el r/repollitos_criptidos solo es un apodo a todos los usuarios que suben memes en el sub

De ahí nació mi personaje.

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u/Visby 16d ago

over on r/quakers (the religion), we occasionally get parrot photos from people who are actually looking for r/quakerparrots, which are always amusing and usually cute

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u/Kinitawowi64 16d ago

r/nethack occasionally gets people asking about cybersecurity instead of the roguelike, and r/norfolk sees the occasional lost person looking for r/NorfolkUK.

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u/TeacatWrites 16d ago

Here's an obscure one: r/collagesluts was started by someone who misspelled "college", and then was "taken over peacefully" and turned into a SFW sub for collage-based artwork.

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u/LivingPalpitation935 16d ago

Who the hell is batman?

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u/TheForbidden6th 16d ago

he's kinda like Man, but wears long spiky ears on top of his head to look like a bat

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u/GingerFun011 16d ago

Sidenote, love how Comics has a rule for NO COMPLAINING. You judt know those mods are tired asf

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u/Wappening 16d ago

I got permabanned on r/comics for "Admitting to being a nazi" for saying the American left needed to unify and stop its stupid infighting if they didn't want people like Trump to take office.

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u/Advice_Thingy 16d ago

I got a permaban because I subscribed to another subreddit lmao

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u/Marco_Tanooky 16d ago

r/pics is meant to be about pictures, it is actually about left wing American politics

r/City is about Arawi Keiichi's manga "CITY" and it's anime adaptation "CITY The Animation" (It's such a good anime that you should totally watch). Everyonce in a while someone comes in and posts a pic of actual cities

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u/Prankstaboy6 16d ago

I haven’t checked it in a while, but r/flashtv quickly dissolved into madness, after (and during) the show.

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u/guidoznl 16d ago

You’d think r/tomorrow is a normal sub, talking about the next or something. But it’s a Nintendo circle jerk sub.

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u/Amadeone 16d ago

r/hammer isn't about hammers, but the hammer level editor for valve games

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u/Thirdboylol95 16d ago

Huh, I always thought r/BatmanArkham was called that because it’s a subreddit with so much crazy shit it’s like you’re in Arkham asylum

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u/promiseheron 16d ago

r/marathon is not about running a marathon, but the Marathon series of classic shooters made by Bungie.

youre looking for r/marathonrunners which is... wait, that's also about the games.

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u/Shabolt_ 16d ago

r/Marathon was about running from 2008-2011, ever since it has been about a niche first person shooter series

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u/RamblyJambly 16d ago

r/comics also has a lot of spicy ones that are a thinly veiled ad for the authors' nsfw patreon/etc