NSFL
Read at your own risk, some of these are truly repulsive.
- The Jolly Rancher Story (NSFW)
- The Cumbox (NSFW)
- Colby the Dog (NSFW)
- The Swamps of Dagobah (NSFW)
- Probably Nonsexual and Silly (NSFW)
- A Man and His Coconut (NSFW)
- The Doritos Story (NSFW)
Greatest Hits
- Don’t Ask How I Took This Picture
- Streetlamp Le Moose (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
- Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle (NSFW)
- Today You, Tomorrow Me
- President Barack Obama AMA
- Because China
- Guy Actually Does Save Homeless Girl
- Origins of Cuil Theory
- A Wild Sketch Appears vs. Shitty Watercolor
- The Matrix is Reddit
- Colonel Chris Hadfield Talks to Reddit from Space
- Reddit Gets Classy
- France is Bacon
- Shower To Go, 2AM Chili, and 2AM ICE CHILI SHOWER
- The Perfect Pancake
- Ryan’s Rules to Success
- OP Literally Eats a Dick (NSFW)
- This Guy’s Dead Wife (NSFW)
- Shipwrecks
Funny
- The Poop Knife
- Guy Who Thinks His Sister is Hot (NSFW)
- Guy Who Pretended Not to Know What a Potato is
- Geraffes Are So Dumb
- The Saga of Kevin
- Guy Pooped His Pants at Work (NSFW)
- You Like That, You Fucking Retard? (NSFW)
- Guy Hates His Job
- Cat Facts
- A Day in the Life of a Moderator
- DarqWolff’s Intellect
- Guy Blasts Porn to Support Friend (NSFW)
- Homemade Electric Chair (NSFW)
- Reasons My Wife is Crying
- Reddit Turned Spanish
- Some Music During Sex (NSFW)
- Make Mark Zuckerberg Look More Human-like
Drama
- The /r/lgbt Mod Meltdown
- Quickmeme Banned Reddit-Wide
- DOXGATE, AKA Doxtober
- Reddit Bans Jailbait, Redditors React (NSFW)
History
- Reddit’s First Ever Post
- Reddit’s First Ever Comment
- The Great Digg Migration
- The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
- We Did it Reddit, Boston Bombing Disaster
- Gold Rush of 2013
- The Fappening (NSFW)
- The Button
- Confession Bear Murderer (NSFW)
- The Fall of /u/Unidan
Honorable Mentions
- Pictures of Ian Sleeping, epic but not sure how to archive this.
- Origins of the Banana for Scale, images appear lost.
- Guy’s Grandpa Dies, a Photo is Found, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The “Broken Arms” AMA (NSFL), all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The Woody Harrelson AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The Jose Canseco AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- Guy with Two Dicks AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- His Name is Robert Paulson, 22,685 comments over 6 years.
Purposely Omitted
- The “ask a rapist” thread. No thanks.
(Last updated 7/10/23, still very incomplete)
Incredible collection! Makes me want to dig into “saved” bank to see if I have anything similar.
Thank you for being an excellent internet historian / steward of internet history. Any thoughts on saving this content outside of reddit? Either on an image based platform or something else?
Thank you!
I think an image platform would be best for longevity’s sake. I’ve leaned toward the Lemmy-localized text/quotations format over the images format to try and keep things as screen reader accessible as possible. For all I know the software may have advanced to the point that it can parse text in images, it’s just an old habit and I guess they do die hard.
I’d still like to go back and take screenshots to attach to the relevant text posts, I think, as well as getting some of the sagas under “honorary mentions” archived as images (I’m not seeing another way to do it for a lot of them; they’re mostly comment chains scattered pretty wildly that need a lot of context to make sense of).
Anyway I’m rambling. Thanks again, and hope you got a kick out of reading some of the classics!
Edit: If you find anything in your “saved” bank I’d love to give it a read.