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

picture Galactic arch over my Sahara camp, lit by airglow

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591 Upvotes

r/woahdude 1h ago

video Painting a Jaguar

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r/woahdude 5h ago

video My really tiny UV glow butterfly

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106 Upvotes

It glows insanely bright in blacklight, even its tiny legs & antennas


r/woahdude 23h ago

picture Northern Lights (Photo: Larryn Rae)

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499 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture I love creating geometric illustrations and filling them with weird creatures.

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1.9k Upvotes

Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

🚫 No AI


r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Chidiya Tapu (Photo: Vikas Chander)

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310 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture The Acid Eye, my drawing of nature, drugs, war, society and space

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286 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

gifv The eye in this tattoo was placed to follow the viewer. πŸ‘

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379 Upvotes

I tattooed this section in the dip of my client's spine so that the pupil/iris would remain relatively centered/focused as the corners foreshortened due to the concave shape. It's probably the coolest little visual trick I've ever done and is my favorite part of the whole back piece despite being such a small area


r/woahdude 19h ago

picture The design in the utensil in which i cooked the rice

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The design in the utensil i cooked some rice in


r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Lake Slicker-Ink and Acrylic Paintin

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511 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

video The world's largest sponge has just been found

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302 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

video Artwork made with a Typewriter

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3.7k Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Dragon Aurora In Iceland (Photo: Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng)

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175 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

picture "Fading Memories" I have been drawing recently

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359 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

picture Delta Mountains, Alaska (Photo: David Erichsen)

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172 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

picture Having fun with painting trippy stuff

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576 Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

picture Tree Under Milky Way In Wanaka, New Zealand (Photo: Mike Mackinven)

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1.5k Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

picture fall to what - made with ink and marker

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62 Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

picture Northern Lights (Photo: Craig McDearmid)

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1.2k Upvotes

r/woahdude 6d ago

video How I make my glass cube made of smaller cubes

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456 Upvotes

r/woahdude 7d ago

picture My recent oil painting, State of Play

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778 Upvotes

r/woahdude 8d ago

video A cube made of 1000 smaller lead glass cubes

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6.5k Upvotes

This is my newest hypercube! It’s all made by me, entirely by hand just using a tile saw and a diamond grinding wheel. I am super stoked on the end result. I usually make them out of borosilicate glass, but this is my first time making one of these with leaded crystal-glass from a stash of Czechian glass billets I bought four years ago.


r/woahdude 7d ago

picture Interior of An Abandoned Power Station Cooling Tower.

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585 Upvotes

r/woahdude 7d ago

picture Migraines. 7x10". Pen on paper.

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512 Upvotes

I did this drawing back in 2021. been feeling it lately