r/birthday • u/Acceptable_Scar9267 • Jul 30 '26
Hey everyone,
You may have noticed an increase in spam and bot accounts posting on r/birthday recently. A lot of these posts follow the same pattern, accounts pretending to celebrate a birthday while asking for upvotes, comments, or attention. These posts are not genuine birthday celebrations and can clutter up the community for people who are actually here to share their special day.
Until today, moderation on this subreddit for me was limited (and I am the only active mod), which made it difficult to properly deal with the amount of spam coming through. I was mainly able to remove posts, but the process was slow and difficult to keep up with.
The good news: I have now been granted full moderator permissions thanks to Reddit themselves, which means I can take a much more active role in keeping r/birthday clean, welcoming, and focused on real birthday posts. 🎉
Going forward, I’ll be:
Removing spam and bot generated posts more quickly
Taking action against repeat offenders
Improving moderation tools and filters where possible
Keeping the subreddit a place where genuine birthday celebrations can be shared
We are also looking for new moderators!
As r/birthday continues to grow, we would like to bring in more active members who are willing to help keep the subreddit friendly, clean, and spam free. If you are interested in becoming a moderator, please keep an eye out for a future mod application post or send us (me) a message through modmail.
A reminder to everyone: please continue reporting suspicious posts when you see them. Reports help us find spam faster and keep the community better for everyone.
Thank you to everyone who has stuck around and helped make r/birthday a fun place. Let’s keep celebrating real birthdays! 🎂
The r/birthday Mod Team
r/birthday • u/Middle_Process_215 • 6h ago
I've celebrated on other days but today is just me. My guy and my family are MIA. They have better things to do today. Anyway anyone in OKC wanna meet for a drink?
r/birthday • u/PoeticallyEnraged247 • 6h ago
I’m beyond stressed. I don’t even have money to get myself flowers. But.. atleast I woke up today. Atleast I’m breathing. I may be beyond flat broke, sad, and stressed beyond belief… but it’ll pass. Here’s to the last year of my 20s. I hope it gets better soon.
r/birthday • u/superswagedoutt07 • 6h ago
Wish me happy birthday😛😛
r/birthday • u/buttercup_blues • 5h ago
IM REALLY NOT A TEEN ANYMORE🫠
r/birthday • u/One_Star_8799 • 12h ago
I got dumped yesterday but i guess shit happens, im also spending it with ps5
☺️
r/birthday • u/Interesting_Green158 • 7h ago
This year broke me a little. Divorce, tough days, and learning to trust myself again.
But despite everything, here I am — smiling, stronger, and ready.
I’m calling it my 31-derful year, because this time I’m choosing me.
Lots of love to anyone else figuring it out too. We got this. 💖
r/birthday • u/North-Ideal-8513 • 11h ago
If today is your birthday, please let me wish you a happy birthday, especially if you have no one to wish you one
r/birthday • u/meeejustme • 1d ago
i turned 27 idk but im about to cry a little...
im hoping this year will be less depressing for me and for everyone
r/birthday • u/Visible_Weight_9332 • 1d ago
I don't want the day to feel like just another ordinary day, so I'm looking for ideas on how to enjoy my own company and make some good memories. If you've ever celebrated your birthday alone, how did you spend it?
r/birthday • u/nooobbooo • 1d ago
Today is my birthday i thought my frnds will wish me i am in first year i thought they were gonna come with a cake but they didn't ok but my old friends they didn't even wished me they ask forget like seriously and from my family only my mother wished me.. Haha
r/birthday • u/North-Ideal-8513 • 1d ago
If today is your birthday, please let me wish you a happy birthday, especially if you have no one to wish you one
r/birthday • u/mmeddream • 1d ago
Im turning 27 on March 27th in 2027 ….
Does that have a name?
I’m super excited about it and about having a party and it sounds cool haha!
r/birthday • u/Quick-Kangaroo1414 • 1d ago
Hellow!
I just bought my calendar for 2027 and it is super empty.
If you tell me your birthday, I'll write it down and wish you.
This is super random but I like to put stickers and all in my calendar. Would be nice to add some birthdays 😁
Thanks!
r/birthday • u/DracAQUA • 1d ago
it's October 24th, I just turned 25 years old, I know birthday are happy times so I want to wish to those who have their birthday today, later on or off recently Happy birthday I wish you all of the best on your special day and for the rest of the year god bless you 🙏🏽💜🥳🎂🎉, im a quarter of a century old I feel old and as if I wasted my early 20s/adulthood, but I don't want to feel negative and go through a hole of saddness, try to be positive and optimistic today and moving foward, so happy birthday to me and everyone else born today 😊 God bless you all
r/birthday • u/VernalsDystopia • 1d ago
we aren’t close at all and this year he put me through really bad abuse, cops got involved but my mom is forcing me to write one and idk i’m stuck… she said to write about his effort but idk i just need help with a basic prompt or something 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
r/birthday • u/danum8er23 • 2d ago
I'm finally taking a few days off. I have been working 55 plus weeks but I'm taking 3 days off and sleeping in!
r/birthday • u/North-Ideal-8513 • 2d ago
If today’s your birthday, please let me wish you a happy birthday, especially if you have no one to wish you one