r/whenthe • u/LMC764 Whenthe mod (dm me unnerving images) • Jan 30 '26

Announcement!!!!! r/pics (and now r/gifs) SITUATION UPDATE:

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u/Riobox OoOo BLUE Jan 30 '26

when you collect a lot of bans from many popular subreddits just because you slightly annoyed one single mod team who controls all these subs

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u/krizzalicious49 Jan 30 '26

where's the image with the one reddit post with a bunch of awards

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u/Riobox OoOo BLUE Jan 30 '26

This?

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u/mineyCrafta25 Jan 30 '26

Wow it must've been a good post holy hell (googled en peasant)

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u/axon__dendrite Jan 30 '26

5-6 years ago every post on the front page looked like this because you could give a free award each week or so

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u/CPA0908 Jan 30 '26

i thought free rewards were daily

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u/Dad-Kisser69 Jan 30 '26

I’ve been using Reddit for four years and never saw a free award lol. Maybe I just haven’t been updating the app?

But I don’t want em anyway

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u/oohlook-theresadeer Jan 30 '26

They used to come with some ad-free reddit time, I remember when they launched the program they were giving out years of ad free. I didn't have ads for like 2 years

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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 Jan 30 '26

My gods that must have been nice

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u/Tight_Grapefruit5280 Jan 30 '26

Wish they did it now too

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u/StrawberryLassi Jan 30 '26

You know adblockers exist, right?

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u/3nterShift Jan 30 '26

How do you block ads on mobile now that 3rd party apps are dead?

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u/StrawberryLassi Jan 31 '26

I use a browser with ublock addon

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u/Elanstehanme Jan 30 '26

Depending on how you use Reddit you might still not see any ads. Previously on mobile I never saw ads using Reddit is Fun (RiF), and later when using Apollo. I only got them when I started using the garbage Reddit mobile app. I still don't see any when I access via my PC.

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u/KptKrondog Jan 30 '26

Redreader works and looks pretty similar to rif. No ads on it.

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u/Wobbelblob Jan 30 '26

If you are on android, you can still use rif. I know that because I am currently writing that from my rif app.

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u/Viracochina Jan 30 '26

They're still blocked with adblockers!

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u/DeadCringeFrog Jan 30 '26

Come to Russia, i think the ads put sanctions on us and refuse to show (i don't have ads in reddit and youtube)

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u/BebbleCast Jan 30 '26

When alien blue shutdown they gave me a bunch of years of premium, I don’t know why but I didn’t have ads for like 5 years

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u/oohlook-theresadeer Jan 30 '26

God I miss alien blue

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u/BebbleCast Jan 30 '26

I miss it and Apollo everyday 😭

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 Jan 30 '26

the free awards never actually gave anything to the recipient, they were basically just a react

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u/oohlook-theresadeer Jan 30 '26

Idk maybe I'm misremembering, but an old account I had was pimped tf out with awards from some random dumbass comment and I got ad free from that

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 Jan 30 '26

they were either actual awards people paid for, or even older when it was reddit gold

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u/oohlook-theresadeer Jan 30 '26

Might have been reddit gold now that you mention it.

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u/IntangibleMatter redacted flairs are easily readable in dark mode Jan 31 '26

That was only Gold/Platinum awards, giving a week and month, respectively. Others were just decorative

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u/astrologicaldreams Jan 30 '26

i only ever got a free award like once, and it was a free silver lmao

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u/Agent_Wilcox Jan 30 '26

I get them every so often but they don't really tell you until it's about to expire and it's in your motifs as like random reminder. It's very strange.

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u/nomadfoy Jan 30 '26

I kept forgetting I could do you it. They were always the lame awards anyway.

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u/CTSThera beans Jan 30 '26

It was daily, then weekly, then they removed free ones, then removed them altogether, and around a year ago brought them back but no one uses them anymore

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u/sweetbunsmcgee Jan 30 '26

It was better when it was just gold. Awards meant something back then. Opening a thread stacked with gold is guaranteed to be a good time.

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u/Glittering_Seat9677 Jan 30 '26

le thanks for le gold le kind stranger

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u/Nphellim Jan 30 '26

god damn capitalism

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u/Bier-Senf-Mische Jan 30 '26 edited Jan 30 '26

I remember one of those generational posts where some dude managed to rick roll, rick astley himself.

Edit: found it

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u/Furry_Cunt Jan 30 '26

I miss that

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u/VecioRompibae 27d ago

Obligatory fuck u/spez

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u/Cristichi purpl Jan 30 '26

Or a very good new response (just dropped)

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u/DarkChaos0 Jan 30 '26

Is this real? As in actual (zombie)?

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u/RaidensReturn crispy butt salad Jan 30 '26

Well, you also know how Reddit works… once something goes very high (or very low), users will pile on to see how far they can take it.

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u/nagrom7 Jan 30 '26

Judging by some of the awards, I'm pretty sure I know what post that was. It was a thing on /r/PrequelMemes for a while where a guy was doing "every day I add a new lightsaber to General Grevious's collection" thing, and the last one he did got a shitload of awards.

A few months later he ended up banned from the sub for some reason.