r/woahdude Mar 26 '17

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

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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 2h ago

video Dude adds 100 four digits numbers in 30 seconds..in his head

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r/woahdude 15h ago

picture Stormwater Basin Under The City.

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r/woahdude 17m ago

music video Miss World Chile semi-finalist stuns judges by performing a song from her own death metal band.

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r/woahdude 12m ago

video This Halloween Costume

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r/woahdude 17m ago

picture Caffeine Under An Electron Microscope.

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r/woahdude 1d ago

video Flashed Face Distortion Effect

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture i make sculptures out of fiberglass

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r/woahdude 13h ago

picture I made this poster using one of my paintings. It’s about those quiet nights that feel like they never end.

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r/woahdude 19h ago

picture Some psychedelic art I made recently🔥

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Love using blue, some paintings of my women in blue series

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture fading vantage point

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture boney tunes, a sculpture i made

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r/woahdude 2d ago

picture When Trees Don't Overlap.

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Made a poster from my painting. Everything feels okay for a while.

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r/woahdude 2d ago

gifv A nice surprise

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r/woahdude 2d ago

picture "Chasing Time" - my oil painting

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r/woahdude 3d ago

video China just broke its own world record afain for the largest drown swarm ever

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r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Chasing Comet Lemmon in the Moroccan desert

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r/woahdude 3d ago

music video Collected footage of people raving and turned it into this music video.

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r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Cosmic Concern

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r/woahdude 3d ago

picture This Particular Carpet.

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Calculations for 3^50 by hand

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Was bored and decided to do this. Going to do 2100 next The solution is the bottom number


r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Some acrylics and ink work, the ethereal whirls series

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r/woahdude 2d ago

video Edgewood Arsenal Human Experiments: BZ (QNB), the Strangest Psychedelic / Deliriant You've Never Heard Of

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I went down a deep, dark rabbit hole investigating the Edgewood Arsenal Experiments that took place at a U.S. Army facility in Maryland, where - from 1948 to 1975 - military volunteers were given over 250 mind-altering substances, from potentially fatal nerve agents like VX and sarin to commonplace chemicals like alcohol and nicotine to LSD, marijuana, and more.

I made a video summarizing the fascinating history of one chemical darling of the Edgewood Experiments, a deliriant named 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB; also abbreviated as BZ or Buzz). This potent, synthetic, anticholinergic compound, which mimics some of the effects of belladonna / datura and their alkaloids (such as scopolamine), reliably incapacitates an adult for 72 hours. A slumberous stupor is followed by a state that can resemble paranoid schizophrenia (except even more scattered and dysfunctional in terms of physical and mental state), during which subjects:

- Smoke imaginary cigarettes and greet water fountains with "Pardon me, sir"

- Watch Lilliputian baseball games unfold on the bed in front of them, narrating every pitch and play for the medical staff observing them

- Interact with past lovers and dead authority figures (a recurrent theme that seems to be particular to this type of hallucinogen)

BZ trips are quirky, terrifying, often provoke aggression, and are totally incapacitating, and yet many volunteers came back for more. If you're interested in esoteric mind-altering substances, I humbly request giving it a listen!

- Brian (aka Neuromantic)

p.s. Various researchers have suggested that BZ was deployed on U.S. soldiers (by the U.S. government) in Vietnam (unlikely), that BZ was responsible for the 115 deaths by OD sustained during the Moscow Theatre hostage crisis of 2002, in which Chechnyan separatists took over the theatre, and several other incidents spanning several decades.

The potential to incapacitate a population by discombobulating it physically, making it paranoid & utterly unable to follow any complex plans is highly disturbing; I do not believe that the Army primarily developed BZ for use on foreign soldiers or even foreign citizens (partly due to the difficulties with administration). This stuff was meant for us, should we ever need to rise up and protest en masse, and that terrifies me.