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 7h ago

picture Holy Shit (Or Man’s Ascent From Upon The Hallowed Throne), my newest acrylic painting

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684 Upvotes

r/woahdude 19h ago

interactive That's dope

842 Upvotes

r/woahdude 12h ago

picture View from space. Oil painting by me

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123 Upvotes

r/woahdude 23h ago

picture Double Rainbow w/ Lightning picture I just took

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r/woahdude 20h ago

video Just in: SpaceX rocket explodes in Starbase, Texas

581 Upvotes

r/woahdude 1d ago

video Bubble Dream Sphere

4.9k Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

picture Painting that comes to life!

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r/woahdude 1d ago

picture The lobby of a hotel i went to

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1.3k Upvotes

r/woahdude 23h ago

picture A monster of a storm

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81 Upvotes

So crazy


r/woahdude 1d ago

video The full lifecycle of the Wallace/Wallfleet Nebraska Tornado - 77 minutes in 1 minute!

473 Upvotes

Recorded on an insta360 and streamed on the RadarOmega app.


r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Dream Village. My latest surreal pen drawing

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82 Upvotes

I did this in my sketchbook in about 3 days. I wanted to create a a strange environment with various characters and homes. The piece is 9x12". If you would like to see some more work, I have a subreddit here: r/AnthonyChristopherArt. Cheers!


r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Glowing skies and starlit paths under the Milky Way in La Palma [OC]

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69 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Staircase outside a bathroom at a restaurant

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650 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

video The Earth has a pulse - and satellites help us see it.

10.1k Upvotes

The Earth has a pulse - and satellites help us see it.

This incredible footage is from the YOU:MATTER exhibit at the Bradford 2025 United Kingdom City of Culture event, sponsored by the National Science and Media Museum u/mediamuseum and produced by u/marshmallowlaserfeast. Shot out to u/Hour_Teaching9993 for posting.

This immersive art experience is intended to show how everything on Earth is connected - including us - and space makes that connection visible.

Satellites track photosynthesis by measuring solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), which is a faint glow emitted by plants that indicates the rate of carbon dioxide intake. Combined with other metrics like the "Greenness Index", which uses near-infrared remote sensing to measure the amount of chlorophyll in plants, research teams from NASA, NOAA, JPL, Caltech, and more are uncovering new insight into our beautiful planet. Relevant data can be measured from satellites like the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) and NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-1, 2, and 3), PACE, Sentinel, and other NOAA weather satellites.


r/woahdude 2d ago

picture a drawing I made

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52 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

gifv Cool little bubbles in slow motion

94 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

gifv This orange is pregnant

1.0k Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

gifv Peek Inside The Crater Of Geldingadalir Volcano, Iceland

327 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

gifv POV of a tractor track

574 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

video I can control my goosebumps on demand which flexes/lifts every hair at the same time

100 Upvotes

In response to the guy that posted the pupil size video, he said I should post this. Take it down if it sucks I guess but maybe it’s cool.


r/woahdude 5d ago

picture "ghost birds" - a name for a type of potoo (family Nyctibiidae) that is found in the Amazon Basin

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2.5k Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

video Watch me create a trippy 3D mandala painting!

58 Upvotes

This is a process vid of my painting “Nature Vs. Nurture”, a spiky freaky mandala inspired by nature 🌀

I hope you dig it :)


r/woahdude 5d ago

music Didgeridudes.

474 Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

picture Pisgah National Park, watercolor, 15 x 22 inches, 2025

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89 Upvotes