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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
Reddit has been around since 2005[1]; positively ancient by internet standards. During that time, like all subcultures it has developed its own legendary stories that get referenced from time to time. You may come across the odd mention of (for example) Broken Arms[2] (no. Just no.) or the Swamps of Dagobah[3] (ew. Just ew.) and should you ask for more details, your bewilderment will, more often than not, turn to an unholy mixture of revulsion that you asked with the driving compulsion to know more.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/vj1p48/17_years_young/
2: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/reddit-broken-arms-story
3: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kp3wq/best-reddit-stories-swamps-of-dagobah
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there, as you will see in the following woeful collections. Be warned, some of these require a strong stomach, and some links from all of these lists will be NSFW.
The internet in general finds Reddit to be a great source of content, and many blog sites will have lists of essential Reddit posts[9] too. Google (or your favourite alternative) and YouTube will be your friends here.
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2ik5s2/what_are_the_legends_of_reddit_everyone_here/
9: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-top-rated-reddit-posts-time/
In 2022, some new Redditors began getting notifications that say "Dive into Reddit lore”. The admin team are slowly rolling out guides to Reddit events and history[10], and new Redditors who have opted in to Push Notifications will apparently receive a series of text-based notifications that welcome them to Reddit and show them the ropes more. As I say in the introduction to this encyclopaedia, I’m always of the belief that having more resources is better than less, so even with these new initiatives I’ll keep updating allllll theeeeese woooorrrrds to the best of my unpaid ability.
10: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ripui0/comment/hoyvr4f/
Reddit also do an end-of-year recap[11] which looks back on the notable events of the year gone by.
11: https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-recap-2021
In a stunning piece of *Reddit’s trying to modernise vs. Reddit’s memes will never die,* the 2022 announcement that admin were sunsetting many of the official subreddits in favour of one new (but old) one called r/reddit was entitled “test post please ignore”[12].
12: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/sphocx/test_post_please_ignore/
This was a deliberate callback to the first truly popular post on Reddit[13], which was posted in 2009 in r/pics, *without a picture*. Because Redditors will Reddit, the entire community rallied to reject OP’s request to ignore the post, and “test post please ignore” became the most upvoted post on Reddit for the next 2 years with an incredible 26,750 upvotes. Incidentally, OP was the first Redditor to reach 100,000 karma[14].
13: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please_ignore/
There are many subreddits that compile “Best Of…” lists where it’s possible to find the things that future Reddit historians might talk about. Here’s just a few:
15: https://www.reddit.com/r/all/top/
16: https://www.reddit.com/best/
17: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhhhxvp/
18: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hh94n0u/
19: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/icqc7py/
20: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/ifpej8f/
21: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu337p/
22: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu356i/
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