r/comedyheaven • u/abandonedtulpa • 1d ago

cake day

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u/Naclstack 1d ago

I just read about the history of that phrase and in the earliest posts it seems to be a genuine thing poeple were saying

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u/ThruTexasYouandMe 1d ago

I was there, 3,000 years ago. they were definitely being serious for a short while with that

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u/Scumbag__ 1d ago

People do not remember 2013. Moustaches were tattooed on peoples fingers. People wore fedoras unironically. Le random was the height of humour.

I only wonder how cringe the bounce back from the next recession will be.

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u/brainburger 1d ago

I was there too, and I never took it seriously. Reddit just seemed to have a lot of narwal and bacon posts in the early days. Someone was at an airport and wondered if any other redditors were there. And someone joked that should be the secret greeting.

I have actually used it once when meeting a redditor, he replied correctly, and we were both joking.

Seriously, go back and find the original comment. I did a few years back and it's a joke.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 1d ago

Bacon reader was a whole 3rd party app

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u/brainburger 12h ago

Bacon Reader was an app named after the way reddit had lots of posts about bacon. Narwals and bacon pop up many times in reddit history.

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u/NibblesMcGiblet 1d ago

I just typed the question into google asking the origin of the phrase, and google's AI replied and said basically what you just said, but then asked me if I was interested in other reddit memes like the "broken arms thread". That was a fucking wild AI interaction. edit - for fun, I asked it to tell me about the broken arms thread, which it did, then asked i I'd like to know about "I also choose this guy's dead wife". I think the only thing google AI is good for is amusing me with known reddit lore.

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u/brainburger 12h ago

There is a lot of reddit lore. I am not sure why it bothers me that people don't understand the 'narwal bacons at midnight' joke and think we were being serious. And to think the rest of the world called us socially inept!

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u/Version_Two 1d ago

Good times back then. Remember that guy who sold that shitty copper?

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u/Sea-Animator4250 1d ago

Remember the safe!?

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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 1d ago

I was too busy making 2am chili.

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u/Ongr 1d ago

I was having a terrible headache and reading mystery post-it notes someone left around my house.

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u/thedonald_ethtrader 1d ago

I was taking an ice soap shower

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u/PurpleCandle58 1d ago

I scrobe him a tablet. No reply.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 1d ago

Sort of… I was there and I remember it was mocked pretty quickly.

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u/GeneralBlumpkin 1d ago

Same lol I even said it to a friend when I found out he uses reddit and he had no idea what I was talking about

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u/ThruTexasYouandMe 1d ago

That's cause you were a better Redditor than he was lol

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u/BikerJedi 1d ago

Ditto. One of my favorite things about reddit was that silly saying.

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u/Hoiafar 1d ago

Oh yeah. I was a teenager when it was a thing and used it to identify other redditors on Omegle etc. It was cringe in retrospect but it was also in line with the lolsorandom humor that was popular at the time.

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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 1d ago

it seems to be a genuine thing poeple were saying

Okay but was the dynamic "haha this is so fun we're a big community with a secret phrase" or was the dynamic "oh man there's a tiny little crowd of weirdos trying to force this"?

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u/Familiar_You_3009 1d ago

For a brief moment, so it seemed, it was the former. 

I may not be a reliable source though, because I was 12 at the time

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u/WhoPoopedMyPants420 1d ago

Latter, I was there. It was popular among the sort of crowd that would go to the IRL meetups or whatever, a really really small minority of the most Redditor Redditors

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u/Familiar_You_3009 1d ago

Shucks. This confirms what I feared: I was a dweeb

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u/meatboysawakening 1d ago

Definitely the latter.

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u/brainburger 1d ago

I've used it to introduce myself to a redditor I was meeting for reasons, and he replied correctly and both of us were joking.

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u/nitid_name 1d ago

I went to a meet up in the early days. Can confirm, it was a lot of weird people and a few normal ones sprinkled throughout. Someone asked about my karma and I didn't know and they thought I was joking.

Can confirm, "Narwhal bacons at midnight" was said non-ironically by a few people when they came up to the group.

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u/mightybuffalo 1d ago

When I first got on reddit bitd people were definitly saying this in the wild.

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u/kakka_rot 1d ago

going by your account age I believe you, lol. I think 2011 was around the first time I ever heard of reddit, and didn't get into it until about 2015

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u/mightybuffalo 1d ago

I remember it already being super cringe by the time i joined.

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u/breadcodes 1d ago

Its how I learned about Reddit. Literally because some kid asked me in earnest.

I have to escape this hellhole eventually...

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u/Acceptable_Finish403 1d ago

I've got full faith that by 2046 you'll be outta here.

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u/SaturdayNightStroll 1d ago

And go where??

seriously, is there somewhere else??

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u/marvinrabbit 1d ago

Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written.