History Memes / Reddit

** Don't forget the numerous [[VideoGame/AmongUs crewmates]] scattered everywhere around the canvas, often hidden in inconspicuous places or mixed in with shading.

* Swamps of Dagobah [[labelnote:Explanation''' (Warning: NSFW)''']]Yet ''another'' poster on [=r/AskReddit=] worked as a nurse and recounted the tale of the time that a morbidly obese patient came in with a perirectal abscess that needed to be lanced (likely due to extensive intravenous drug usage). The abscess was ''far'' larger than any of them knew (having ''tunneled'' into the patient's abdomen), and one incision literally flooded the room with untold amounts of pus, feces, blood, and rotten tissue that splattered all over the staff. The entire section of the hospital reeked from the stench, and the entire suite was quarantined for several days just to get the smell out after it had been cleaned. The incident made the grizzled ex-Army surgeon utter the only complaint that OP had ever heard from them: [[{{Understatement}} "That was bad."]] The name is a reference to the swamp planet Yoda lives on in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.[[/labelnote]]

* Cylinder [[labelnote:Explanation]]A poster of [=r/AskReddit=] asked for advice on how to remove a "Cylinder" inserted in a mini M&M tube without damaging said cylinder inside. The details he gave made it ''extremely'' obvious that the "cylinder" was his penis, but [[ImplausibleDeniability he was very insistent on referring to it only as "a cylinder"]]. It ended up with him ending up in the hospital.[[/labelnote]]

* "In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence." [[labelnote:Explanation]]An infamous comment from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism /r/atheism]], from a teenager who thought he was being smart. Immediately exploded and mutated into "euphoria" being short-hand for neckbeardism, ''especially'' militant antitheism.[[/labelnote]]

* Wholesome awards/Who the fuck gave this a Wholesome award?! [[labelnote:Explanation]]When awards were introduced to Reddit, one of the free ones was the Wholesome award. This being the internet, said award found more use on things that...''[[NauseaFuel aren't]]'' [[NotSafeForWork very wholesome]], to say the least.[[/labelnote]]

* Poop Knife [[labelnote:Explanation]]A person went to their friend's house and used the bathroom, and asked for his poop knife. He had no idea what he was talking about.

* The cumbox [[labelnote:Explanation '''(Warning: NSFW)''']] A poster on [=r/AskReddit=] revealed that every time he masturbated, he ejaculated into a shoebox. It smelled "atrocious", and he desperately tried to get rid of it by burning it. However, the box was so damp from his semen that it just sizzled and made the smell much worse. Even worse, an update to the post revealed that, due to the poster moving to a damper apartment, there was now ''mold'' growing on it. Oh, and the poster added pictures of it, too.[[/labelnote]]
* Jolly Ranchers [[labelnote:Explanation '''(Warning: NSFW)''']]Another poster on [=r/AskReddit=] knew someone with a long-distance girlfriend who flew to visit him in college. The person being referenced apparently decided to perform cunnilingus on his girlfriend like he had many times before, but she smelled awful and tasted worse this time, so he popped a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to try and cover up the taste. He deposited the candy in her by accident and quickly retrieved it before biting into it, only to immediately vomit after it exploded in his mouth. Turns out that it was actually a ''gonorrhea nodule'' the size of a Jolly Rancher, as she had cheated on him months prior, and now the poor boyfriend had an unfaithful girlfriend, a mouth full of infected pus, ''and'' gonorrhea of the mouth plus any number of other things.[[/labelnote]]

* Coconuts [[labelnote:Explanation '''(Warning: NSFW)''']]A poster on [=r/TodayIFuckedUp=] recalled how they [[{{Squick}} masturbated with a coconut for a week]] until they discovered during one of their "sessions" that it was ''filled with maggots,'' since they never bothered to dispose of the coconut. [[SchmuckBait This led to a bunch of people who didn't learn anything from this story to try this themselves]], which went about as well as you'd expect - mostly {{Groin Attack}}s.[[/labelnote]]

* And Timmy fucking died. [[labelnote:Explanation]]"Timmy" is a recurring character in poems by u/Poem_for_your_sprog, and whenever he appears, the last line of the poem is always "...and Timmy fucking died". [[/labelnote]]

* We got bamboozled! [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Redditor made a self-post in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/me_irl /r/me_irl]] stating that if their post got 10 000 upvotes within two days, they would get a tattoo of the day's #1 post on their ass. They then posted a reminder of this promise the next day. After it was over, with the required score comfortably reached, they made another post proudly proclaiming that they had no intention of getting the tattoo and that Reddit had been bamboozled. This resulted in the word "bamboozle" becoming the JustForFun/{{Egregious}} of Reddit for a while.[[/labelnote]]

* Pride and accomplishment [[labelnote:Explanation]] The [[https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/seriously_i_paid_80_to_have_vader_locked/dppum98/ most downvoted comment in Reddit history]] was when Creator/ElectronicArts used these words to justify the lootboxes in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017''. [[/labelnote]]

* I also choose this guy's dead wife. [[labelnote:Explanation]]A thread asking users what person from history they would have sex with received a heartfelt answer from a widower about how much he missed his late wife. And then came this reply, which has been quoted and snowcloned countless times.[[/labelnote]]

*** IM ALREADY IN TOO DEEP DAMN IT. I HAVE NO CHOICE HERE WE GOOOOOOOOO [[labelnote:Explanation]]u/Allmightyexodia posts this when going through some switcharoos. He has several followers - some persisted, whilst others were lost to the rabbit hole.[[/labelnote]]

* "Bae caught me ________ ." [[labelnote:Explanation]] Used to jokingly mock someone who claims that somebody else did something that ''they'' clearly did; bonus points if they claim that it was their significant other, in an effort to make their relationship look cuter than it actually is. It's a reference to [[http://i.imgur.com/572tYr6.jpg this]] famous post on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/funny /r/funny]], mocking a woman who tries to pretend that her boyfriend [[SleepCute took a picture of her as she was falling asleep]]--even though [[BlatantLies her hand can be clearly seen holding a camera in the mirror behind her]].[[/labelnote]]

* "[[http://www.inquisitr.com/3379836/is-donald-trump-a-major-donor-to-nambla-exploring-the-origins-of-the-bizarre-viral-hoax/ But what about the $500 million that Trump donated to NAMBLA?]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A running joke in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/politics /r/politics]] satirizing Republican candidate UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's unprecedented refusal to release his tax returns. It's a ManyQuestionsFallacy akin to "When did you stop beating your wife?"--since we can't see his tax returns, how do we know that he didn't give millions to a pedophilic organization? The meme transcended Reddit and ended up on numerous news sites, even making [[http://www.snopes.com/trump-did-not-donate-to-nambla/ to Snopes]].[[/labelnote]]

* Hatred for Music/KanyeWest - usually directed at his ego, behavior, and/or music - was popular on frontpage subreddits, usually accompanied with South Park's "fishsticks" joke (wherein a delusional, angry Kanye believes a "fishsticks/fishdicks" joke that became popular in-universe means [[InsaneTrollLogic he is a gay fish, because everything is about him]]). Enough angry music fans (mainly from [[https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads /r/hiphopheads]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration/ /r/lewronggeneration]], the latter dedicated to [[NostalgiaFilter combating "music [x] decades ago was SO much better than today's music]] posts) started counter-hate posts mocking the "fishsticks" joke and asking if that person's taste in music includes "someone who's innovated and reinvented rap". Metaposts mocking both circlejerks pop up with gusto, as a result.

* Arkhamposting [[labelnote:Explanation]] The lack of new content from the popular VideoGame/BatmanArkham franchise resulted in posters posting or commenting references to popular posts from the subreddit or quotes from the games.[[/labelnote]]

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe/comments/4ecnf5/hey_its_nikki_blonsky_from_hairspray/ "Hey it's Nikki Blonsky from Hairspray"]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In both [[https://www.reddit.com/r/sadcringe /r/SadCringe]] and [=/r/CringeAnarchy=], posts about Nikki Blonsky's Twitter posts of her telling celebs she was in the [[Film/{{Hairspray}} 2007 Hairspray movie]] has gone a bit memetic, to the point that one user asks someone in the board to make her the face of the former's sub already because of this.[[/labelnote]]

* Hi Karin! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Whenever talks of the ChurchOfHappyology crop up, expect someone to post this since Leah Remini of ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'' fame outed a member named Karin who'd always read ''anything'' on Reddit related to said church.[[/labelnote]]

* The cumbox [[labelnote:Explanation]] A poster on [=r/AskReddit=] revealed that every time he masturbated, he ejaculated into a shoebox. It smelled "atrocious", and he desperately tried to get rid of it by burning it. However, the box was so damp from his semen that it just sizzled and made the smell much worse. Even worse, an update to the post revealed that, due to the poster moving to a damper apartment, there was now ''mold'' growing on it. Oh, and the poster added pictures of it, too.[[/labelnote]]
* Jolly Ranchers [[labelnote:Explanation ]]Another poster on [=r/AskReddit=] knew someone with a long-distance girlfriend who flew to visit him in college. The person being referenced apparently decided to perform cunnilingus on his girlfriend like he had many times before, but she smelled awful and tasted worse this time, so he popped a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to try and cover up the taste. He deposited the candy in her by accident and quickly retrieved it before biting into it, only to immediately vomit after it exploded in his mouth. Turns out that it was actually a ''gonorrhea nodule'' the size of a Jolly Rancher, as she had cheated on him months prior, and now the poor boyfriend had an unfaithful girlfriend, a mouth full of infected pus, ''and'' gonorrhea of the mouth plus any number of other things.[[/labelnote]]
* Doritos [[labelnote:Explanation]]Yet another poster on [=r/AskReddit=] had a family friend who worked at a convalescent home that housed people with mental disabilities. In particular, a morbidly obese female patient had a specific mental disorder that made her think [[ExtremeOmnivore literally everything was food]]. One day, another patient told the worker that the woman had stolen his Doritos, so they went to her room to retrieve the chips. They found the lady there, lying on her bed naked, dipping the chips into an almost gelatinous discharge from her vagina, and then eating them while smiling as the discharge dripped down her chin.[[/labelnote]]
* Swamps of Dagobah [[labelnote:Explanation]]Yet ''another'' poster on [=r/AskReddit=] worked as a nurse and recounted the tale of the time that a morbidly obese patient came in with a perirectal abscess that needed to be lanced (likely due to extensive intravenous drug usage). The abscess was ''far'' larger than any of them knew (having ''tunneled'' into the patient's abdomen), and one incision literally flooded the room with untold amounts of pus, feces, blood, and rotten tissue that splattered all over the staff. The entire section of the hospital reeked from the stench, and the entire suite was quarantined for several days just to get the smell out after it had been cleaned. The incident made the grizzled ex-Army surgeon utter the only complaint that OP had ever heard from them: [[{{Understatement}} "That was bad."]] The name is a reference to the swamp planet Yoda lives on in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.[[/labelnote]]
* Coconuts [[labelnote:Explanation]]A poster on [=r/TodayIFuckedUp=] recalled how they [[{{Squick}} masturbated with a coconut for a week]] until they discovered during one of their "sessions" that it was ''filled with maggots,'' since they never bothered to dispose of the coconut. [[SchmuckBait This led to a bunch of people who didn't learn anything from this story to try this themselves]], which went about as well as you'd expect - mostly {{Groin Attack}}s.[[/labelnote]]

* [=WaterGuy12=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]On July 30th, 2017, a user named [=Waterguy12 posted on me_irl=] and said that his internet would go out until the 14th, requesting that people tag him in every good meme they see. This became incredibly popular, and people tagged him in almost every post on the subreddit (some even tagged him on posts in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughInternet /r/EnoughInternet]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice and]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMorals /r/NoMorals]]), resulting in him getting over '''''60,000 tags''''' when he returned. This also spawned multiple imitations (Like [=Fireguy12=] as a SitcomArchNemesis), and even his own subreddit. Even as he returned, people still tag him in posts as of his writing.[[/labelnote]]

* The Lock Award [[labelnote:Explanation]] An ironic term for when a post gets locked from new comments for being controversial.

* Arkhamposting [[labelnote:Explanation]] The lack of new content from the popular VideoGame/BatmanArkham franchise resulted in posters posting or commenting references to popular posts from the subreddit or quotes from the games.

* Swamps of Dagobah [[labelnote:Explanation]]Yet ''another'' poster on [=r/AskReddit=] worked as a nurse and recounted the tale of the time that a morbidly obese patient came in with a perirectal abscess that needed to be lanced (likely due to extensive intravenous drug usage). The abscess was ''far'' larger than any of them knew (having ''tunneled'' into the patient's abdomen), and one incision literally flooded the room with untold amounts of pus, feces, blood, and rotten tissue that splattered all over the staff. The entire section of the hospital reeked from the stench, and the entire suite was quarantined for several days just to get the smell out after it had been cleaned. The incident made the grizzled ex-Army surgeon utter the only complaint that OP had ever heard from them: [[{{Understatement}} "That was bad."]][[/labelnote]]

* Pride and accomplishment [[labelnote:Explanation]] The most downvoted comment in Reddit history was when Creator/ElectronicArts used these words to justify the lootboxes in ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017''. [[/labelnote]]

* Cylinder [[labelnote:Explanation]]A poster of [=r/AskReddit=] asked for advice on how to remove a [[PhallicWeapon "Cylinder"]] inserted in a mini M&M tube without damaging said cylinder inside. It ended up with him ending up in the hospital.[[/labelnote]]

* Cumbox / Jolly Ranchers / Doritos / Swamps of Dagobah / Coconuts / Cylinder / DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS / etc. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Each of these are references to stories depicting something of extremely disgusting nature that long-time Redditors are familiar with.[[/labelnote]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The context for each story is as follows]] (NSFW/NSFL, get BrainBleach ready):
** [[labelnote:Cumbox]] A poster on [=r/AskReddit=] revealed that every time he masturbated, he ejaculated into a shoebox. It smelled "atrocious", and he desperately tried to get rid of it by burning it. However, the box was so damp from his semen that it just sizzled and made the smell much worse. Even worse, an update to the post revealed that, due to the poster moving to a damper apartment, there was now ''mold'' growing on it. Oh, and the poster added pictures of it, too.[[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:Jolly Ranchers]]Another poster on [=r/AskReddit=] knew someone with a long-distance girlfriend who flew to visit him in college. The person being referenced apparently decided to perform cunnilingus on his girlfriend like he had many times before, but she smelled awful and tasted worse this time, so he popped a Jolly Rancher in his mouth to try and cover up the taste. He deposited the candy in her by accident and quickly retrieved it before biting into it, only to immediately vomit after it exploded in his mouth. Turns out that it was actually a ''gonorrhea nodule'' the size of a Jolly Rancher, as she had cheated on him months prior, and now the poor boyfriend had an unfaithful girlfriend, a mouth full of infected pus, ''and'' gonorrhea of the mouth plus any number of other things.[[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:Doritos]]Yet another poster on [=r/AskReddit=] had a family friend who worked at a convalescent home that housed people with mental disabilities. In particular, a morbidly obese female patient had a specific mental disorder that made her think [[ExtremeOmnivore literally everything was food]]. One day, another patient told the worker that the woman had stolen his Doritos, so they went to her room to retrieve the chips. They found the lady there, lying on her bed naked, dipping the chips into an almost gelatinous discharge from her vagina, and then eating them while smiling as the discharge dripped down her chin.[[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:Swamps of Dagobah]]Yet ''another'' poster on [=r/AskReddit=] worked as a nurse and recounted the tale of the time that a morbidly obese patient came in with a perirectal abscess that needed to be lanced (likely due to extensive intravenous drug usage). The abscess was ''far'' larger than any of them knew (having ''tunneled'' into the patient's abdomen), and one incision literally flooded the room with untold amounts of pus, feces, blood, and rotten tissue that splattered all over the staff. The entire section of the hospital reeked from the stench, and the entire suite was quarantined for several days just to get the smell out after it had been cleaned. The incident made the grizzled ex-Army surgeon utter the only complaint that OP had ever heard from them: [[{{Understatement}} "That was bad."]][[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:Coconuts]]A poster on [=r/TodayIFuckedUp=] recalled how they [[{{Squick}} masturbated with a coconut for a week]] until they discovered during one of their "sessions" that it was ''filled with maggots,'' since they never bothered to dispose of the coconut. [[SchmuckBait This led to a bunch of people who didn't learn anything from this story to try this themselves]], which went about as well as you'd expect - mostly {{Groin Attack}}s.[[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:Cylinder]]A poster of [=r/AskReddit=] asked for advice on how to remove a [[PhallicWeapon "Cylinder"]] inserted in a mini M&M tube without damaging said cylinder inside. It ended up with him ending up in the hospital.[[/labelnote]]
** [[labelnote:DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS]]A poster on [=r/legaladvice=] was accused of drunkenly sexually harassing a woman while at a hotel for a work event in a way that was so egregious that the hotel threw his ''entire company'' out and made them PersonaNonGrata. The poster could see the writing on the wall, but wanted to know if there was even a shred of a chance that they could potentially walk away from this with their job still there, and the poster's emphasis of how they were a Director of Operations (in all-caps) making $125,000/yr (which, as many commenters pointed out, was well below market average for that position, indicating that they either worked for a very small company or were in an isolated geographic area) and enormous sense of entitlement and total lack of any sense of responsibility earned the unanimous ire of the commenters. In a follow-up post, they revealed that they were fired after the hotel had presented surveillance footage to the company, and were going to lie to their wife about the circumstances of their departure. Some time later, a poster who appeared to be their wife showed up in r/relationships asking how to handle the impending divorce with their son, and in the comments, she detailed exactly what they picked up on surveillance: her husband had cornered the woman in a swimming pool while ''very obviously masturbating through his swimsuit.''[[/labelnote]]

* Cumbox / Jolly Ranchers / Doritos / Swamps of Dagobah / Coconuts / DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS / etc. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Each of these are references to stories depicting something of extremely disgusting nature that long-time Redditors are familiar with.[[/labelnote]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The context for each story is as follows]] (NSFW/NSFL, get BrainBleach ready):

* COLBY 20xx! [[labelnote:Explanation]]A reference to a four-thread story made by a father whose son molested a dog named hobby with a hairbrush. Replace "20xx" with the current year.[[/labelnote]]

* Cumbox / Jolly Ranchers / Doritos / Swamps of Dagobah / Coconuts / etc. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Each of these are references to stories depicting something of extremely disgusting nature that long-time Redditors are familiar with.[[/labelnote]] [[DontExplainTheJoke The context for each story is as follows]] (NSFW/NSFL, get BrainBleach ready):

* Broken arms [[labelnote:Explanation '''(Warning: NSFW)''']]A reference to an AMA of a man who as a teenager lost the use of his arms (contrary to what the meme says, he did not ''break'' them) and was frustrated because he couldn't masturbate. His mom "helped" him, and they eventually [[ParentalIncest had sex.]] In general, this meme is bound to crop up on threads discussing broken arms, parental infest, and incidents or news articles that feature them.[[/labelnote]]

* Broken arms [[labelnote:Explanation '''(Warning: NSFW)''']]A reference to an AMA of a man who as a teenager lost the use of his arms (contrary to what the meme says, he did not ''break'' them) and was frustrated because he couldn't masturbate. His mom "helped" him, and they eventually [[ParentalIncest had sex.]] In general, this meme is bound to crop up on threads discussing broken arms, and incidents or news articles that feature them.[[/labelnote]]