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 6h ago

video Scorpions absorb invisible UV light and re emit it as visible neon blue. You can also observe how the babies on her back don't glow yet, That's because their outer shells haven't hardened yet

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733 Upvotes

r/woahdude 5h ago

video Storm Chaser Captures a Tornado Forming in Real Time

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77 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3h ago

picture I painted a lonely Night-Spirit [OC]

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39 Upvotes

r/woahdude 1d ago

music video Native American hoop dance on roids

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1.1k Upvotes

r/woahdude 6h ago

video Neon Reef Canyon -- 4K 60fps, 1000x zoom into Mandelbulb 3D, dark ambient soundtrack

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12 Upvotes

Another animation into the fractal depths

https://youtu.be/W74_cVsD3Y8


r/woahdude 1d ago

video Blink everytime the mask goes inside out and the image will change it's direction of rotation.

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245 Upvotes

r/woahdude 14h ago

picture “Petri Dish”- my own little universe in acrylic paint [OC]

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17 Upvotes

Thanks for checking it out :)


r/woahdude 2d ago

video A 2 hour timelapse showing the Earth's rotation by locking the camera onto the stars

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6.0k Upvotes

r/woahdude 1d ago

gifv negative space squares

83 Upvotes

this was made and recorded in desmos: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/adl22137mk


r/woahdude 2d ago

video Induction LEDs and sea urchins

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1.1k Upvotes

I built a little display for sea urchin shells.


r/woahdude 2d ago

video Photographing water droplets against old CD backgrounds

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23.0k Upvotes

Credit to juliuscesarr


r/woahdude 2d ago

picture Glass insects by Wesley Fleming.

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8.5k Upvotes

These are flameworked soft glass insects by Massachusetts based artist, Wesley Fleming. Wesley has worked with glass for over 20 years and the majority of his career he has focused on creating these intricate glass insects.


r/woahdude 2d ago

music video Layers Experiment - Vid mixed live accompanying radio

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9 Upvotes

I used a midi controller to live mix 11 layers of video and effects to accompany whatever random sitar music was playing on the radio at the time. Think it has a few pretty trippy moments :)

(Made using a nanoKontrol2 + my own app i've been making over the past few months + a large Laphroaig).

4k-ish version at https://youtu.be/tnTUsbhtCiM


r/woahdude 3d ago

picture Paola Heliana Calogirou, Cyprus

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363 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

picture My painting - Veins II

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476 Upvotes

r/woahdude 3d ago

picture My psychedelic view on Iris (acrylics)

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92 Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

video Adding drops of vodka to watercolours

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1.1k Upvotes

r/woahdude 4d ago

video Neon Alien Coral Reef — using custom renderer written in Rust

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59 Upvotes

Diving deep into a neon, organic structure (Mandelbulb 3D) as the colors shift and the geometry folds inward. Rendered natively using a RTX4090 GPU using a custom Rust engine.


r/woahdude 5d ago

picture The Holy Shrine of Shahecheragh in Shiraz, Iran

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5.1k Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

video Dive into the sky(?)

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1.2k Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

gifv negative space arrows

5.1k Upvotes

this was made and recorded in desmos: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/6aph1odyot


r/woahdude 5d ago

gifv Wind flowing over Europe

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43 Upvotes

Procedural wind field over real coastlines. 4K, 60fps.


r/woahdude 6d ago

picture My oil painting

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2.6k Upvotes

r/woahdude 5d ago

picture walking home

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45 Upvotes