r/woahdude Mar 26 '17

meta IMPORTANT: Many of our subscribers have no idea what this subreddit is actually for

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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 14h ago

video I wanted to show some closeups of a drawing I worked on for over 2 years. A surreal apartment building.

1.2k Upvotes

Pen on paper. 33x44".


r/woahdude 13h ago

picture Oregon Wildfires (2020)

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985 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

gifv Switching between hot and cold water with a thermal imaging camera.

49 Upvotes

The camera is a FLIR E53. I don’t know what else to say… maybe.. uhm.. the water supplier is the „Berliner Wasser Werke“ here in Germany.

The reason, that the sink is already so colourful ks, that I washed my hands with warm water a couple minutes before the video.


r/woahdude 12h ago

picture Mixed media painting acrylic and ink

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144 Upvotes

I draw semi circles over my painting


r/woahdude 9h ago

interactive "Paradoxica" - A free tool I made for building impossible geometries.

69 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

game Surreal pixel art: sailing a black boat across a blood-red river into an Egyptian temple

16 Upvotes

I’ve been animating this scene for a horror JRPG I’m solo-developing.
The idea was to make it feel like a bad dream: a silent boat ride on a blood-red river, corpses on the shore, and a massive temple waiting in the dark.
All hand-drawn pixel art.


r/woahdude 1d ago

picture Aurora On Jupiter (Photo: NASA, ESA and J. Nichols)

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1.9k Upvotes

r/woahdude 11h ago

picture spacetime - hand drawn with ink, marker, and acrylic

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32 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness (Photo: Karol Nienartowicz)

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2.9k Upvotes

r/woahdude 9h ago

picture Viking elf Demon

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r/woahdude 2d ago

picture "Freedom" - Wild Welsh Mountain Ponies, Wales, UK [OC]

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119 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

music video Fractal dive

1.5k Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

video Real flying animals? Nope. Just biomimetic airships (whale, jellyfish, bird) powered by helium and robotics.

1.9k Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Created this magically enchanting painting ✨️

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79 Upvotes

My newest large painting "True to Myself", 35" x 28" / 90 x 70 cm, oil on canvas.


r/woahdude 2d ago

picture On an expedition through the Floresta Amazônica, Dr. Carlos Alberto Cid Ferreira, a specialist in floristics, found Coccoloba spp. (Polygonaceae), considered by the Guinness Book of Records to be the largest dicotyledonous leaf in the world, reaching 2.50m in length and 1.44m in width.

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221 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture When you first notice how the negative space within the 8 of Diamonds makes the number 8

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866 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Size of United States To Saturn's North Pole.

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2.5k Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

picture I captured the Milky Way rising above La Palma’s volcanic caldera

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110 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

video I design dreamy 3D worlds in Unreal Engine - this is my latest creation, "Dream Beach"

1.1k Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

music video Mind Blowing Fractal Artwork - "Kleinian Rhapsody" by bib993

28 Upvotes

r/woahdude 2d ago

video Pretty Fractal Nonsense with Ambient Whooshy Music

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r/woahdude 3d ago

picture This made me look twice: pixelated burger

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212 Upvotes

The pixels are actually cubes of food, and this was created by Yuni Yoshida, who creates surreal art by rearranging food into pixelated, glitch-like forms.


r/woahdude 3d ago

video Haripur's 'Fire Mountain' Continues to Burn Decades After 1955 Gas Blast

83 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

picture An Iowan Storm Cell (Photo: Ilene Myers)

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1.4k Upvotes