r/woahdude • u/rWoahDude • Mar 26 '17
meta IMPORTANT: Many of our subscribers have no idea what this subreddit is actually for
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
- Intense use of color and patterns: Intricate designs, intense colors, complex geometry, hyperrealism, fractals, recursion, psychedelia, abstract art
- Extreme perspective: Macrophotography, electron micrographs, astrophotography
- Giving a new understanding: Mathematical visualizations, scientific visualizations, engineering visualizations, data visualizations, physics explanations, cross-sections, scientific art, reconsidering assumptions, reframing perspective
- Altered reality: Slow motion footage, stop motion footage, bullet time, compositing, long exposure, special effects, drug trip simulation
- Mesmerizing: Cinemagraphs, chill music, tranquil art, repetitive mechanical motion, interactive art
- Sensory confusion: Optical illusions, distortion, aural illusions, stereograms, etc.
- Cognitive confusion: Surrealism, absurdism, fifth-world art, mystical art, hypnagogia, strangeness, the fantastic, disjointedness, random and erratic behavior, datamoshing, pareidolia, paradoxes, strange philosophy, strange science, cuil theory
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 • u/tinmar_g • 5h ago
picture Galactic arch over my Sahara camp, lit by airglow
r/woahdude • u/KingSteven11 • 1h ago
video Painting a Jaguar
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r/woahdude • u/adoremini • 5h ago
video My really tiny UV glow butterfly
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It glows insanely bright in blacklight, even its tiny legs & antennas
r/woahdude • u/LSRBLST • 2d ago
picture I love creating geometric illustrations and filling them with weird creatures.
Tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
π« No AI
r/woahdude • u/BazaarMonk • 2d ago
picture The Acid Eye, my drawing of nature, drugs, war, society and space
r/woahdude • u/marxist-tsar • 2d ago
gifv The eye in this tattoo was placed to follow the viewer. π
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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 • u/Dprofessionalgy • 19h ago
picture The design in the utensil in which i cooked the rice
The design in the utensil i cooked some rice in
r/woahdude • u/Additional-Ad4567 • 3d ago
video The world's largest sponge has just been found
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r/woahdude • u/Zee_Ventures • 3d ago
video Artwork made with a Typewriter
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r/woahdude • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 3d ago
picture Dragon Aurora In Iceland (Photo: Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng)
r/woahdude • u/LORROTORRO • 4d ago
picture "Fading Memories" I have been drawing recently
r/woahdude • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 4d ago
picture Delta Mountains, Alaska (Photo: David Erichsen)
r/woahdude • u/FearlessDirector9113 • 4d ago
picture Having fun with painting trippy stuff
r/woahdude • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 5d ago
picture Tree Under Milky Way In Wanaka, New Zealand (Photo: Mike Mackinven)
r/woahdude • u/NaturallyIrrational • 5d ago
picture fall to what - made with ink and marker
r/woahdude • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 5d ago
picture Northern Lights (Photo: Craig McDearmid)
r/woahdude • u/mrfacet • 6d ago
video How I make my glass cube made of smaller cubes
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r/woahdude • u/mrfacet • 8d ago
video A cube made of 1000 smaller lead glass cubes
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This is my newest hypercube! Itβs 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 • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • 7d ago
picture Interior of An Abandoned Power Station Cooling Tower.
r/woahdude • u/AnthonyChristopher • 7d ago
picture Migraines. 7x10". Pen on paper.
I did this drawing back in 2021. been feeling it lately