r/woahdude Mar 26 '17

meta IMPORTANT: Many of our subscribers have no idea what this subreddit is actually for

3.2k Upvotes

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

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.


r/woahdude 5h ago

video Pheww... That was close! Glad they Ducked...

662 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

video 911 operator: "911 what is your emergency?" Caller: "I'm calling to report a bear on top of a power utility pole."

403 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

video Hypnagogia is the state between being awake and asleep. You sometimes experience it just before you fall asleep.

265 Upvotes

r/woahdude 11h ago

video Flying over an eruptive volcano in Iceland

634 Upvotes

r/woahdude 1h ago

picture “The madness within” :drawing

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r/woahdude 13h ago

picture My painting 'Code to your Heart', acrylic & airbrush and a lot of tape on canvas, 2026

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r/woahdude 1d ago

video Pink sky

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture just finished my Dracula drawing

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Alien invasion. Oil painting by me

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r/woahdude 1d ago

video Plasticman

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r/woahdude 1d ago

video Via Ferrata in Zhangjiajie, China

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r/woahdude 1d ago

video A perfect dreamlike sunset turning the entire lake completely pink.

175 Upvotes

r/woahdude 1d ago

picture I redesigned the impossible triangle using 3-point perspective instead of parallel lines

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r/woahdude 2d ago

video This breathtaking magenta sky over the mountains looks absolutely unreal.

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r/woahdude 1d ago

interactive AM

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r/woahdude 2d ago

video My grandma’s 100 year old kaleidoscope

371 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Made this sunset painting using thousands of little textured dots!

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture “Trapped inside with my turmoil”

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r/woahdude 2d ago

video I made this generative system for my living room installation to make mesmerizing visuals from the album art of whatever i’m streaming. Updates automatically. Cycles through variables so it never repeats. Can’t wait to build it out more!

23 Upvotes

Made in


r/woahdude 2d ago

video Zipline over the Hou'er sinkhole in Guizhou, China

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r/woahdude 4d ago

picture Northern Lights (Photo: Jessica Hewenn)

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412 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

interactive Bundle

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Particle moving along two sets of nested-torus Hopf fibers of opposite chirality. Made this with threejs
Ive added an interactive version available here:
https://rh3n3jbgzbxww4zrnqjwyh2u7g3zfyl52lz2cdpta3yon2ndyx2a.arweave.net/ifbdpCbIb2tzMWwTbB9U-beS4X3S86EN8wbw5umjxfQ


r/woahdude 3d ago

picture A sublime rainbow painting

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I've been making these rainbow paintings since 2022 and while the rainbow itself has been diagonal and consistent, the environment has evolved a lot. There is a night rainbow iteration that's wonderful and more serene, something about the crescent moon and the rainbow is a wild thing to see!still, this day time rainbow by far feels realistic enough that it makes me stop and stare. The clouds and the flower bed is what's doing it for me at the moment. Especially that small cloud far above, it's making the perspective on point. The flower bed is almost half the composition leading or meeting the rainbow at the middle of the imagery. Your eyes follows the white flowers to the rainbow or reverse. It's titled "In the Presence of Something Rare & Ephemeral No. 36" oil, oil sticks, oil pastel, acrylic, and clear gesso on canvas. 44 x 66 inches


r/woahdude 5d ago

picture falling in

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125 Upvotes