#42 - Reading The Weirdest Subreddits

Summary

Podcast Summary: Smosh Mouth #42 - Reading The Weirdest Subreddits

Episode Information:

• Title: Reading The Weirdest Subreddits
• Release Date: April 15, 2024
• Hosts: Shayne Topp (Shayne), Amanda Lehan-Canto (Amanda), and Olivia Suay (Guest)

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1. Introduction and Guest Appearance

The episode kicks off with Shayne and Amanda warmly welcoming their special guest, Olivia Suay. Olivia shares her recent media appearances, notably her role on the long-running show "Cops."

Notable Quote:

• Olivia Suay [00:25]: "I got on a huge show recurring."

Shayne and Amanda express their excitement about Olivia's achievements, highlighting her dedication and passion for her work.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [00:55]: "Not when you love it. It's not exhausting when work is your passion."

2. Olivia's Experience on "Cops"

The conversation delves into Olivia's experience filming "Cops," discussing the grueling schedule of shooting ten episodes a day and the camaraderie on set. They reminisce about Olivia's impeccable makeup and her newfound fame from the show.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [01:11]: "For those listening, Olivia's makeup today is on point."

Olivia humorously shares her hectic press schedule, including appearances on Crackle and "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."

3. The Harambe Moment on Reddit

A significant portion of the episode centers around a viral moment where Olivia didn't recognize the infamous gorilla Harambe, leading to widespread reactions on Reddit. This sparked a humorous yet insightful discussion about internet culture and the longevity of certain memes.

Notable Quotes:

• Amanda [02:12]: "Harambe, I genuinely didn't know."
• Shayne [02:34]: "I feel justified in calling these kids stupid because I remember in the 90s when that kid fell into the gorilla pit. I was like 7 years old."

They explore the differing incidents involving Harambe and another gorilla-related event from the 90s, highlighting how viral moments can transcend time and influence online communities.

4. Navigating Reddit and Its Communities

Shayne provides an overview of Reddit, describing it as a vast network of specialized communities (subreddits) catering to virtually every interest imaginable. He emphasizes the platform's anonymity and the diverse range of content it hosts.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [11:00]: "Reddit can be very different for everyone."

5. Spotlight on Weird Subreddits

The hosts dive into various quirky and unconventional subreddits, each with its unique charm and oddity. They explore both wholesome and toxic communities, sharing laughs and occasional concerns about the nature of some online spaces.

a. Life Pro Tips and Its Offshoots

They start with the popular subreddit r/LifeProTips, discussing practical advice for everyday life, and its humorous offshoot, r/UnethicalLifeProTips.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [20:01]: "Life Pro Tip. Never lend money if you wouldn't be comfortable considering it a gift."

b. Long Furbies

Shayne introduces r/LongFurbies, a subreddit dedicated to creatively modifying Furby toys into elongated, artistic sculptures.

Notable Quote:

• Olivia Suay [30:28]: "What is it? What's the first word?"
• Shayne [30:37]: "Look at that. Look at that. Wow."

c. Hydro Homies and Pocket Sand

They discuss r/HydroHomies, a community obsessed with water, and r/PocketSand, where members advocate keeping sand in pockets for self-defense.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [31:45]: "If someone is approaching aggressively, you can throw pocket sand in their eyes."

d. Mirrors for Sale and TV Too High

The conversation shifts to humorous observations on online marketplace photos in r/MirrorsForSale and the peculiar placements of TVs in homes featured on r/TVTooHigh.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [35:02]: "They take photos of it and then they share it with each other."

e. Awful Taste but Great Execution

They highlight r/AwfulTasteButGreatExecution, showcasing projects that may lack aesthetic appeal but demonstrate impressive craftsmanship.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [37:00]: "Snail shoes... they're stunning."

6. Toxic Subreddits: Roast Me and TrueRateMe

The hosts address more controversial subreddits like r/RoastMe and r/TrueRateMe, discussing the psychological impact of seeking and delivering harsh critiques in an anonymous environment.

Notable Quotes:

• Shayne [49:00]: "It's always insane. It's mind-blowing."
• Amanda [50:06]: "It feels like torture porn."

They express concern over the potential for emotional harm and the superficial nature of judging individuals solely based on appearances.

7. Unique and Absurd Subreddits

Further exploration brings up subreddits like r/gggg, where members can only post the letter "G," and r/AlzheimersGroup, which controversially recycles the same Garfield comic repeatedly.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [54:35]: "Everyone can only post the letter G."

8. NoFap Community Discussion

Towards the end, Shayne introduces the NoFap subreddit, a community focused on abstaining from masturbation to improve various aspects of life. They share a testimonial from a member who credits NoFap with significant personal transformation, though Amanda and Olivia express skepticism about the extreme claims made by some members.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [60:07]: "He discovered NoFap three years ago... and it changed his life."

Amanda supports individuals seeking self-improvement, while Olivia highlights concerns about unrealistic expectations and the potential for anxiety.

9. Hosts' Subreddit and Conclusion

The episode concludes with Shayne sharing insights about their own subreddit, r/smosh, which fosters a positive and supportive community. They reflect on the diversity and unpredictability of Reddit's content, emphasizing the platform's role in connecting people through shared interests, no matter how peculiar.

Notable Quote:

• Shayne [67:05]: "Love. Nice people just have conversations."

Olivia humorously agrees to join NoFap, and the hosts sign off with playful banter, reinforcing the episode's lighthearted yet insightful exploration of Reddit's weirdest subreddits.

Notable Quote:

• Olivia Suay [68:47]: "Olivia is officially chosen."

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Key Takeaways:

• Diversity of Reddit: The platform hosts an astonishing variety of communities, ranging from practical advice to the utterly bizarre.
• Impact of Anonymity: Reddit's anonymous nature fosters both creative expression and negative behaviors, such as harsh roasting.
• Personal Growth and Online Communities: Subreddits like NoFap illustrate how online communities can influence personal development, though not without controversy.
• Cultural Memes and Longevity: Viral moments like Harambe continue to resonate within online spaces, showcasing the enduring power of internet culture.

This episode of Smosh Mouth provides an entertaining journey through Reddit's most eccentric corners, blending humor with thoughtful commentary on the complexities of online communities.

Transcript

[Shane]

Welcome back to Smosh Mouth. I'm Shane.

[Amanda]

And I'm Amanda. And we have a very, very, very special guest with us today, Olivia Suay.

[Olivia Suay]

Hi, everyone. I'm here doing press because I. I mean, I don't know if you guys saw my Deadline or my Variety article.

[Shane]

Yeah, I heard about it. Yeah, I heard about it.

[Amanda]

Yeah. You got on a big show.

[Olivia Suay]

I got on a huge show reoccurring.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, the show is called cops.

[Amanda]

My dream, but I'll go.

[Olivia Suay]

You just wrapped the last season. Did you.

[Shane]

How long. How many episodes did you do?

[Olivia Suay]

I was in 20 out of 80 episodes.

[Shane]

That's crazy. So you really were repeating quite a bit.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, we're shooting about like 10 episodes a day.

[Shane]

That's exhausting.

[Amanda]

That's amazing.

[Olivia Suay]

Not when you love it. It's not exhausting when work is your passion.

[Shane]

What. What was. What was lunch like on those days?

[Olivia Suay]

Just like local 7 11, boiled eggs.

[Amanda]

Just roast beef sandwiches.

[Olivia Suay]

A lot of boiled eggs.

[Shane]

Wow.

[Olivia Suay]

And a lot of rock star energy.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Oh, that makes sense.

[Shane]

For those listening, Olivia's makeup today is. Is on point. I just want to say it's.

[Amanda]

It's in its pre stages.

[Olivia Suay]

No, it's at its final stage.

[Amanda]

Oh, it's at its final stage. All right, great. I think Cops has changed you.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm famous now, so.

[Shane]

Well, it's an honor to have you here.

[Amanda]

It's an honor.

[Shane]

Acclaimed performer Olivia Sway.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm doing after this. I'll be doing press at Crackle.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Olivia Suay]

And then I'm gonna do Fallon tonight.

[Shane]

Wow, that's.

[Amanda]

I don't know what any of those are. And that sounds awesome.

[Shane]

You're gonna fly to New York for Fallon.

[Amanda]

Oh, Fallon. Jimmy Fallon.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

I love that. It's just last name.

[Shane]

Gonna go there and do YouTube challenges.

[Olivia Suay]

Right. And then immediately I'm flying to Kensington Palace. You could probably get in, miss, I don't know, Harambe.

[Shane]

Yeah, let's talk about that.

[Amanda]

Yeah, let's talk about it.

[Shane]

That happened about a month ago.

[Amanda]

That happened about a month ago.

[Shane]

Pretty incredible. That was the. The. The Internet was taken by storm by you not knowing.

[Amanda]

Harambe, I genuinely didn't know. And friends from home was so. Your reaction was so genuine. Like that is you, like kind of laughing in a way of like, what? Uhuh. And then like getting immediately into action of like a plan. Do you know how much research I did after that episode of what happened? Of why it happened? Of where the kid is?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Where's the kid? Well, don't know.

[Shane]

Well, first of all, Because I wasn't expecting that conversation to come up when we talked about it. Yeah, I hadn't watched the video in like eight years. So when I was talking about it, I was just like, oh, yeah, the gorilla was looking at him. I did for that. Harambe did drag the kid around.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

So there was some justification there. But still, don't even get me started. It was insane to me. It was just insane that you just didn't know about it.

[Amanda]

I had no idea. And I asked my friend from home and she didn't know either and she was horrified. But my sister knew.

[Shane]

Of course. Your sister is a gamer. If you're online at all, you know about Harambe.

[Amanda]

How did you, how did you miss Harambe?

[Shane]

I also forgot, Olivia, you were mentioning this morning how you found out about Harambe.

[Olivia Suay]

It was a confusing time for me.

[Shane]

Okay, okay.

[Amanda]

Pre cops. Different.

[Olivia Suay]

I don't remember who I was.

[Shane]

Yeah, this is 2016.

[Olivia Suay]

Pre fame 2016.

[Shane]

This was 2016.

[Olivia Suay]

I've always liked.

[Shane]

You said that you found out about him.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, I was hearing people talk about Harambe. I didn't really know what was happening and people kept making jokes. And then I started actually understanding the scope of the story when, during the election, when people were writing Harambe on the.

[Shane]

He got the fourth most votes that year.

[Amanda]

I guess I didn't vote that year because, because I guess I missed that.

[Olivia Suay]

No, no, he's not on the ballot.

[Shane]

He wasn't on the ballot. He was a write in.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, it's a. Harambe is a male?

[Shane]

Yeah. Oh, he was a silverback gorilla.

[Amanda]

Yeah, he, he was a silverback gorilla.

[Olivia Suay]

And a silverback gorilla also could be female.

[Shane]

I don't, I don't think, I'm not a biologist, but I don't think so.

[Olivia Suay]

Stop.

[Amanda]

I, I, we're just YouTubers.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh my God. I thought, I thought the whole thing was sad that I thought people were like, oh, like Harambe just thought that kid was her child. No, am I talking about a different.

[Shane]

There was a different one back in the day, back in the 90s.

[Amanda]

Don't even get me going.

[Shane]

Back in the 90s, there was another kid who fell into a gorilla pit and a female gorilla came up and like prot. And took care of him and kept the other gorillas away.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes.

[Shane]

And then they were able to get the kid out. Yeah, see that, that also happened. Kids need to stop jumping into the gorilla pit.

[Amanda]

How did they even get in there? I, that, that's where my thought was, is like, how did that kid even get into the gorilla.

[Shane]

I feel justified, okay. People might hate me for this. I feel justified in calling these kids stupid because I remember in the 90s when that kid fell into the gorilla pit. I was like 7 years old. And I remember me at 7 being like, that kid's dumb. I'm 7 years old and I would never jump in a gorilla pit. I feel like you learn pretty early on in life that gorillas can kill you.

[Amanda]

Why would you ever want to go? What would cause you to go into.

[Shane]

But I also. I also know because I was also this type of thinker, and I still am. When you're standing there, a lot of those enclosures at the zoo are not blocking you from getting in. Yeah, you could hop in if you wanted, but it's. There's a gigantic, dangerous animal in there. So I would have the intrusive thought of, like, I could hop in there, but I'm obviously not going to do it.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

But twice now in the past 30 years, kids have jumped in the gorilla pit.

[Amanda]

Well, I got.

[Olivia Suay]

Stop.

[Amanda]

I've been getting a lot of messages that keep saying, dicks out for Harambe.

[Shane]

Yes. That was a big move.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. What is that?

[Amanda]

To really just.

[Shane]

It was just a meme. I think it started on Vine. Just like, dicks out for Harambe.

[Amanda]

Tits out for Harambe.

[Olivia Suay]

I would love to see some people get into, like, an aquarium.

[Shane]

Oh, that's also. Did that happened recently? Like a couple months ago. What? That happened at a bass pro shop? A guy jumped.

[Amanda]

That's not an aquarium.

[Shane]

It was a big, big, gigantic tank that. No, bass pro shops are gigantic. And he jumped in, like, the big fountain tank, naked. And then he leapt out of it and fell like it was like 15ft. He fell and. Oh, my God, got fucked up. And the cops show up and arrested him.

[Olivia Suay]

I've never been to a bass.

[Amanda]

Is this a trick?

[Shane]

I'm not lying to you.

[Olivia Suay]

This.

[Amanda]

Why did he want to go in naked?

[Shane]

I don't know. Either he was really drunk or he's had a mental breakdown.

[Amanda]

I'm a merman.

[Shane]

Guy jumped in fully naked into the tank at a bass pro shop. That happened this year.

[Amanda]

Did anyone. Did he.

[Olivia Suay]

We were there.

[Shane]

He jumped there. He jumped out, fell out very awkwardly, landed on his ass, probably broke some bones. And the cops showed up and just aggressively, aggressively arrest.

[Amanda]

The cops showed up.

[Shane]

Yep. It was probably going to be on Cops.

[Olivia Suay]

Well, I was the streaker.

[Amanda]

You were the naked man who fell clumsily on his ass after jumping into the fountain.

[Shane]

Oh, the fall was brutal. He. He Got out of the tank in the worst possible way.

[Amanda]

No. Do you want to know? A dream of mine is. So the aquarium in Boston. You can actually scuba dive in it.

[Shane]

That's cool.

[Amanda]

You can, like, be. And I've wanted to do it forever and have yet to do it.

[Shane]

Okay, well, let's make it happen.

[Olivia Suay]

Pretty cool, Buckles.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Okay.

[Shane]

You know that you could also scuba dive in the ocean.

[Amanda]

Yeah. And I can do that.

[Olivia Suay]

You can?

[Amanda]

Honestly, not in the aquarium. Can you imagine being underwater, seeing people and fish? I don't mean to be funny.

[Shane]

I genuinely just love that phrase. Like, can you imagine scuba diving and seeing people, like, and fish. And fish.

[Amanda]

I think I'm that dumb kid find going to the gorilla pit. Oh, boy.

[Shane]

Oh, my God. Anyways, but yeah, I think that's maybe where you got confused. Cause did you remember the one in the 90s? The gorilla in the 90s?

[Amanda]

No. Zero percent.

[Shane]

Oh, man. I love these gorilla stories when they happen. They're my people dot com.

[Amanda]

Where do I find these gorilla stories?

[Shane]

Oh, why is people.com not covering the guerilla stories?

[Amanda]

Because they're people.com. want a little bit of glamour?

[Shane]

You don't know people.com?

[Olivia Suay]

People magazine?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Why are you getting your news from People?

[Shane]

Valid question.

[Amanda]

Olivia, we cannot go down this road.

[Shane]

Amanda is on People.

[Amanda]

I've been validated. Yes.

[Olivia Suay]

You're kidding.

[Amanda]

I would love to be on it as a correspondent, but I'm not. I am just a.

[Shane]

She gave up being a news reporter years later.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, isn't that, like, a tabloid magazine?

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Correct. Yeah, but they're the top.

[Olivia Suay]

But you get your news from it?

[Amanda]

Yes, correct.

[Olivia Suay]

Why?

[Amanda]

Well, because they're incredible. They figured out that two whales were having sex and they were both men, and that was really cool. That was a really cool story.

[Shane]

So they are covering some animal stories?

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah. They love animals. But as long as it has, like, a positive, they're not people. That's true.

[Shane]

I never thought of it.

[Amanda]

I never thought of it like that. Wow, good thing you're on Cops because you just investigated so much truth.

[Olivia Suay]

I know.

[Amanda]

You just blew up my world. Wow, you really are on Cops, guys.

[Shane]

Whales are not people. I can't make fun of you too much, Amanda.

[Amanda]

Yes, you can.

[Shane]

No, because we're about to talk about today, what I do, where I get a lot of my news. Unfortunately.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

The theme of this episode that we haven't addressed yet is all about Reddit. Uh, we're talking about.

[Olivia Suay]

Yikes. What?

[Shane]

What was that?

[Olivia Suay]

Sorry.

[Shane]

Okay, so we know she had a moment. We know that. Amanda, you are not on. Not very online, but I do know.

[Amanda]

That the Harambe clip went on Reddit.

[Shane]

Oh, of course.

[Amanda]

And it was like, top on Reddit.

[Shane]

So before we get into talking about, I'm gonna talk about some of my favorite subreddits. Some weird subreddits, some of the weirdest subreddits there are. There is a subreddit called rfunny. Just funny stuff.

[Olivia Suay]

I've seen that.

[Shane]

And the clip of you not knowing Harambe got on there, and it's at like 60,000 upvotes, which is extreme for Reddit.

[Amanda]

Great.

[Shane]

My fame is you're famous on Reddit. Actually, I can't think of another time when Smosh made it onto the front page of Reddit besides Ian and Anthony's announcement.

[Amanda]

Wow.

[Shane]

Like, clips. Like funny clips of ours never make it onto Reddit.

[Amanda]

And I love the title. That's amazing. I love the title that said YouTuber finds out about major life event. Or like, major event.

[Shane]

Yeah, no, Yeah.

[Amanda]

A lot of people are sending me messages from home and they're basically saying, how did you not know about Harambe?

[Shane]

It is embarrassing.

[Olivia Suay]

Well, I have a question.

[Shane]

Yeah. What's up, Olivia?

[Olivia Suay]

Like, why does Reddit look like that?

[Shane]

What do you mean?

[Olivia Suay]

It is very confusing.

[Shane]

It is confusing at first. I agree. It's confusing at first. And then you start to.

[Olivia Suay]

Because I'm getting that confused with this other thing called Cora.

[Shane]

Cora. I don't think I know Cora.

[Olivia Suay]

Cora is like when you ask, like, should my feet look like this? And then there's like a bunch of people going like, yes.

[Shane]

Oh. Anyways, Reddit has those too.

[Olivia Suay]

How do you navigate Reddit?

[Amanda]

Like, ask Jeeves.com I love Jeeves.

[Shane]

The way I can describe Reddit in a way, I think Reddit is just a collection of a bunch of communities. It's just forums where you go to these different forums and you can post, make posts, and comment on other people's posts. There is a community for everything. So anything you're into true crime Webslist. Absolutely. There are probably a million true crime subreddits.

[Amanda]

Well, they, they.

[Shane]

And also probably subreddits. They get so specific. I guarantee you there's a Gypsy rose subreddit. Oh, 100%.

[Amanda]

Of course there is.

[Shane]

There's one for every crime that's ever been committed. There's one for every Golden State Killer.

[Amanda]

Two of the websleuths helped her out during the Golden State Killer. They were finding her.

[Shane]

Yeah. And I. I'M sure there was aspects of Reddit that are involved. There's, there's small things like if you're into making bread, there's bread it. Where it's a subreddit. Subreddit where people post the bread that they're making or ask questions about bread. Very specific things. There's fashion advice for men and women.

[Olivia Suay]

And you're just chatting with people.

[Shane]

Just post. They post questions.

[Olivia Suay]

Can you talk? Can you have a conversation?

[Shane]

Yeah. So if you post a question, then people can comment and then you can respond, then the whole conversation threads.

[Olivia Suay]

But everyone sees it though.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Can you have private messages?

[Shane]

I think there are private messages on Reddit. I don't private message anyone because I'm just a lurker. I don't, I've never lurks. I've never, I've never posted on Reddit. Me just read a bunch on Reddit.

[Olivia Suay]

Me neither.

[Shane]

But I think you can private message and then, but people have these public conversations. But an aspect of Reddit that people like is that it's anonymous, like it's, it's nobody.

[Amanda]

Don't know who are.

[Shane]

One of my favorite stories about Reddit back in 2016 also, did you.

[Amanda]

Big year.

[Olivia Suay]

Big Year.

[Shane]

Did you know the meme of Ken Bone?

[Olivia Suay]

Yes, Ken Bone. Red sweater guy.

[Shane]

Red sweater guy. Okay. So yeah, it's okay. This one's not as big as Harambe.

[Amanda]

No, I didn't know SNL did a parody, but. Oh, okay.

[Shane]

So there was one of the debates between Hillary and Donald Trump. There was a guy who asked a question. His name was Ken Bone. He was just this kind of like, he almost looked like a Pixar character. Just this kind of like sweet guy.

[Amanda]

Sounding familiar.

[Shane]

A red sweater, bald guy. And he asked a very, like, people were just like, oh, what a, what a great question for both candidates. This guy truly is an undecided voter and he's just a very open minded guy and people just kind of fell in love with him because he just had this like bone wholesome charm to him. Right. So he eventually posts. There's a subreddit called Ask me anything where people can go on there and be like, ask me anything. We should do one sometime. Yeah. He went and did an ama and he had a Reddit account that he used for this and he was like, hi, I'm Ken Bone, Ask me anything. So people are asking questions. It's very sweet. But then because he did this post, people were able to know, oh, this is Ken Bone's Reddit account. And they went back and looked at all of his previous posts, and then the whole facade of this wholesome, sweet guy comes down because he had commented on pregnant porn subreddits a lot.

[Amanda]

Oh, people love pregnant women.

[Shane]

And there was one quote. There was one quote specifically that I very much recall where there is a scene where two women are in a pool. And he commented, wow, two beautiful submarines. Now, that's not the way really. That's not what really tarnished him.

[Amanda]

Fun.

[Shane]

That's not what really tarnished him. He also had other comments on more serious shit that people were like, oh, so his whole wholesome thing. I don't want to get into that here, because I want to. But, like, it was just like his. His whole thing was, like, revealed.

[Amanda]

Is pregnant porn a real thing?

[Shane]

Yes.

[Amanda]

Do you watch it?

[Shane]

No, but I know of it because I truly knew of it because of Ken Bone.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, are they actually pregnant?

[Shane]

Yes, I think so. Yeah.

[Amanda]

Whoa, look, the submarine quote is kind of like.

[Shane]

Yeah, kind of funny.

[Amanda]

It's kind of fun.

[Shane]

It's kind of funny. That's not. I would say that's not what got him, like, canceled. He had some other comments. He had other posts and stuff. Same thing kind of happened with Simuliu from Shang Chi, that actor. He also had his Reddit account kind of revealed, and he had some, like, kind of like, edgy bro comments from, like, 10 years ago.

[Amanda]

Dude, Reddit. See, this is the thing with people. I can just be a literal lurker and, like, that's it. Whereas, like, Reddit. If you started to post, Shane, then you would have a trail.

[Shane]

Right?

[Olivia Suay]

You can post on people. Right.

[Shane]

But then you never reveal your Reddit account.

[Olivia Suay]

No, you can do, like, reviews on the bottom of the article.

[Amanda]

I can.

[Olivia Suay]

No, maybe you can't.

[Amanda]

I don't think I can because I have a lot of reviews, like, pent up, ready to go.

[Shane]

It sounds very similar to Reddit, but it doesn't.

[Amanda]

We don't. Pregnancy porn.

[Shane]

Reddit has everything. Like I said, there is. There is everything on Reddit. Everything.

[Olivia Suay]

It's scary.

[Shane]

And that includes. That includes porn.

[Olivia Suay]

There's porn on Reddit.

[Shane]

Yes, there is.

[Amanda]

Here's the thing I was listening to. I think I told you this. The people who created Reddit back in the day. Yeah, they. They started in college and it kind of. You know, how Reddit became the wild, wild West. They are actively trying to organize it. And I saw on our Harambe post that they made an announcement like, no hate speech or whatever. Like, they are actively trying to rein.

[Shane]

In the wild and it's a very. It's also a very controversial thing right now because they are trying to make it profitable for them. But what's great about Reddit is that it's like this free place for people. They. A big thing was that they banned third party apps.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

And. And that's big because there's a lot of people, you know, with disabilities where it makes it easier for them to access Reddit that they're getting rid of. Like, there's a lot of. A lot of stuff going on.

[Amanda]

How could they make money off of Reddit?

[Shane]

That's a good question. I don't know, but they're trying to figure out ways. But it also makes Reddit not as appealing in the process of doing it. And as we've seen with other apps over the years, it's often what kills them. That's what happened with vine back in the day was like they were trying to find ways to make it profitable and ended up collapsing.

[Amanda]

Just keep it free. But I will say it has gotten wild on Reddit. Yeah.

[Shane]

Oh, Reddit has.

[Olivia Suay]

It's always been wild.

[Shane]

Reddit has some absolutely toxic communities on it. I'll bring up. I'll bring up some Passport Bros. What's Passport Bros? Oh, that's. That's on Reddit stories. Yeah, you'll see it there. But I'll bring up some others in a little bit. So before I begin, let's hop into Reddit.

[Amanda]

Ew, this is so gross. This is. Fedoras are not your. No.

[Shane]

For those listening, I'm wearing a fedora and I think frankly, I look pretty good.

[Amanda]

No, no, no. It's a gray, light gray fedora. Like an IKEA couch with a satin black, like, extra. Like it just looks. No, no. You look like you're in the theater company from back in the day.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, no.

[Amanda]

And you're like, I got the lead again. Oh, God, I hate it so much.

[Shane]

It's giving a little Sinatra.

[Amanda]

It's not giving Sinatra at all.

[Olivia Suay]

It's Sinatra.

[Shane]

It's giving a little Neo.

[Olivia Suay]

O.

[Amanda]

Okay, fine, fine. You can take Neo. That's fine. You can have Neo. Wait, keep. Put it back on. Yes, There we go.

[Olivia Suay]

There we go. There's Neo.

[Amanda]

There's Neo.

[Shane]

Let's talk about Reddit. Okay. What if I. What if I started having to wear this for every Reddit stories?

[Amanda]

How.

[Shane]

How fast would views plummet, do you think?

[Amanda]

I think that they would go up.

[Shane]

Skyrocket.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Let's do it. I'll do it.

[Amanda]

You're who memed. At cowboy outfit.

[Shane]

I just don't know if. If the producers would let me do it. I feel like Kiana would also be.

[Amanda]

Like, I'll write Kiana a letter. It's fine.

[Shane]

We'll write Kiana a handwritten letter. Okay, so there's a bunch of subreddits here. I just threw a bunch on here. I'm gonna go through a bunch. Let's start with something very tame.

[Amanda]

Okay.

[Shane]

A very normal subreddit. I like this subreddit a lot. And it's just Life Pro tips. People post like pro tips that they're like, hey, this helped me in my life a ton.

[Olivia Suay]

That's so nice that people are out there doing that.

[Shane]

Yeah, there's a lot of also super wholesome Reddits.

[Olivia Suay]

That's so sweet.

[Amanda]

So when you. So it's gonna be. When it's a subreddit, it's like, that's a specific community. Different. Okay, got it.

[Shane]

So if you clicked on that community, you would go there and you would only see posts that are related to that. And if you curate your own Reddit account, you can have a homepage that's only the stuff you want to see.

[Amanda]

Oh.

[Shane]

So Reddit can be very different for everyone. Got it. Now, Life Pro tips. Here's. Here's a couple examples. Here's a post. Life Pro tip. Professional house cleaning is cheaper than you think and can relieve stress in your relationship. Depending on your lifestyle, twice a month may be enough to keep your living space clean enough. This can offload chore burden as well as the resentment burden in many relationships. Cleaning session can run between 80 to $150, depending on the size of space. Completely worth it in the long term.

[Amanda]

I 100% agree with that. I was just saying that it would be so nice to just have someone come in and help like once in a while.

[Shane]

That's a great. That's a Life Pro tip, right?

[Olivia Suay]

That's great.

[Shane]

If you want that or not. Another one. Life Pro Tip. Never lend money if you wouldn't be comfortable considering it a gift. There's always a very real chance you won't get it back, and you need to be okay with losing that sum.

[Amanda]

That is true.

[Shane]

That is true. And there's just. That's. Every day people are just posting Life Pro tips for each other and then they talk about it underneath. But those were two that I found, like, from this past week.

[Amanda]

I love that.

[Olivia Suay]

That's great.

[Shane]

And then there's always offshoots of every subreddit. So you have Life Pro Tips. Now you have unethical life pro tips. And I found a good one from this week. Unethical life pro tip. If you have to fart on an airplane, wait until they're serving the in flight meals and everyone is opening them up. People around you will just think the food smells a bit farty and they won't suspect you.

[Amanda]

What year is this? We don't get meals anymore.

[Shane]

In flight Meals if it's a long trip, international if it's like a five hour trip. You typically get an inflight meal.

[Olivia Suay]

That is, That's.

[Shane]

It's super smart, though. It's unethical. I mean, it's. It's not unethical. What are you gonna do?

[Amanda]

The moment the food opens, you just let one rip.

[Shane]

Okay. I feel like I can say this because I'm wearing a fedora. What are you gonna do on a plane? Hold your farts for five hours, go.

[Amanda]

To the bathroom, shut the door, go.

[Shane]

To the bathroom to fart.

[Amanda]

Fart and flush it. Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, you guys. This is a pro tip, though. You guys know when you're flushing the toilet in the bathroom, you should close the lid. No.

[Shane]

Oh, I close the lid when I flush.

[Olivia Suay]

What?

[Shane]

No, one of our. One of our.

[Amanda]

Why?

[Shane]

Cause it.

[Olivia Suay]

It sprays back at you. Especially in that.

[Amanda]

I've never experienced spray.

[Olivia Suay]

It's. You can't see it.

[Amanda]

I can't see the spray.

[Shane]

I've heard this. I don't. Yeah, I've heard that. It's like, it's good to close it before you close.

[Olivia Suay]

It's def. Like.

[Shane]

Yeah, well, one of toilets here doesn't have a lid, actually. I don't think.

[Olivia Suay]

But we're not on an airplane.

[Amanda]

We're not on the airplane. Yeah, he's never closed the lid because.

[Shane]

It'S turbulent and stuff.

[Olivia Suay]

Look at him. That and like the way it just like sucks it up. There's a lot of things that could.

[Shane]

Come out the toilets in, in. In Airplanes always scare me a little bit. Cause you press. You press it and it doesn't flush immediately. And then suddenly just like.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, yeah. And it just sucks.

[Amanda]

I always think when I have AirPods in that they're gonna fall in. Wait, I have to close the lid of airplane toilets?

[Olivia Suay]

Yes, you should.

[Amanda]

I've never once done that.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, that's okay. You're okay.

[Amanda]

It means I'm covered in shit.

[Shane]

I mean, just covered in shit.

[Olivia Suay]

It's disgusting.

[Amanda]

Think about it.

[Olivia Suay]

Well, that space is so tiny. It's just like particles floating around in there.

[Amanda]

Shane, do you cover do you. Do you close the lid? I don't trust you.

[Shane]

I also. I also, for some reason, I hate to use the bathroom on a plane. Me too. I try to. What? Well, I also like to sit next to the window. And I hate, like, inconveniencing other people. So if I sit next to the window and I don't want to make people get up.

[Amanda]

You're crazy, man.

[Olivia Suay]

Do you love taking them on airplane?

[Amanda]

I love using the bathroom. I have to go to the bathroom like, every hour.

[Shane]

I love the bathroom.

[Amanda]

I'm an aisle only. Are you kidding me? I have such long legs. When I sit for a long time, they ache.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

So I get up and I'm like, this is an adventure. And then I go to the bathroom and I come back and I have to sit in the aisle. Cause I get really claustrophobic. I don't like the window.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, yeah. I know that.

[Amanda]

But also, like, the window makes me feel very stressed out. Oh, I love the window.

[Olivia Suay]

I love the window because I like to lay my head in, like, the crevice.

[Shane]

I love to look at shit.

[Amanda]

So what if you have to really, really pee? You're not gonna inconvenience me.

[Shane]

I will if I have to really pee. Yeah. I'll get up and do it.

[Olivia Suay]

I prefer to pee in a cup, usually.

[Amanda]

That's awesome.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. Cause I hate entering a public bathroom.

[Amanda]

That's so exciting.

[Shane]

I really do hate public bathrooms.

[Olivia Suay]

Because if I go into one, I have to go home and take a full shower and wash my hair.

[Amanda]

But you don't touch your butt to the seat.

[Olivia Suay]

You just.

[Amanda]

No. You grip on for dear life and do a squat.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes, 100%.

[Shane]

I have to. I have to make contact. If I. If.

[Olivia Suay]

It's what? You have to. You have to sit.

[Shane]

If I. If. Unless I'm just going to use a urinal. Yeah, I have to.

[Olivia Suay]

You don't need to sit. You don't need to. I'm telling you, Shane, you can squat.

[Shane]

I can't.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes, you can.

[Shane]

I don't have the flexibility.

[Olivia Suay]

No, no, it's not about that. You can. You can squat.

[Amanda]

You can squat.

[Olivia Suay]

You can hold on to the walls.

[Shane]

I think I can.

[Amanda]

Gotta work on your flexibility. Also, one eye is in the dark right now.

[Shane]

I know. I'm mysterious.

[Amanda]

Okay. Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

It's really giving double indemnity.

[Shane]

Nice.

[Amanda]

Nice.

[Olivia Suay]

In a bad way.

[Shane]

There's also Shitty Life Pro Tips.

[Amanda]

Oh, I love that title.

[Shane]

This kind of connects to what we're talking about.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Shitty Pro tip. Wash your hands many times. In a row so you won't have to later.

[Amanda]

No, absolutely not.

[Olivia Suay]

Definitely don't do that.

[Amanda]

Literally doesn't make any sense.

[Shane]

Then it. Then it succeeded. It's a shitty life. Pro tip. Okay, another one in the. I think this is actually a good pro tip, but it's just shitty. In the event of a tornado or other such natural disaster, place wieners and. Or cheese slices in your pockets so the search dogs will find you first.

[Amanda]

Wait, that's actually amazing. But who has wieners and cheese sticks on the reg?

[Shane]

Have. Have wieners. Cheese sticks. Like, you know, if a major earthquake were to happen, quickly grab some wieners and put them in your pockets so that you're stuck under rubble. The search dogs are gonna find you because they want some.

[Amanda]

I love that pro tip. It's kind of dark, but I love it.

[Olivia Suay]

Okay, but where am I gonna get that.

[Amanda]

Store?

[Olivia Suay]

No, no, no, no. But, like, if it's happening right now.

[Amanda]

I can't always have a bath.

[Shane]

Well, yeah, you just need to. You need to probably have the wieners, like, on you at all times.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, this is like.

[Shane]

Just have a. Have a hot dog in your pocket always.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm glad.

[Shane]

Which is always good, because then if you get stranded somewhere, you have a little snack.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes. And hot dogs are so, like, cylindrical and slim.

[Shane]

Exactly. Yeah.

[Amanda]

But you could probably still see it through your pants. So.

[Olivia Suay]

You know what?

[Shane]

Why don't we just impress people?

[Amanda]

No, not for me. Not for me.

[Shane]

This guy does that.

[Amanda]

He just comes in with six wieners.

[Olivia Suay]

We're all like, ladies, I think I'm gonna just always keep a little Slim Jim in my pocket.

[Shane]

Smart.

[Olivia Suay]

I think it is smart. I think from this day on, right now, I'm telling you, I'm actually gonna go.

[Shane]

We're gonna hold you to that in the next. In a video. At some point, Olivia, I'm gonna just ask you if you have a Slim Jim in your pocket.

[Olivia Suay]

No, I.

[Shane]

If you don't, I'm gonna be disappointed.

[Olivia Suay]

Guys, I have a pair of jeans, right? There's two.

[Amanda]

That's good.

[Shane]

That's crazy.

[Olivia Suay]

I know. This part is crazier. There are two packets of Taco Bell hot sauce in my left pocket. It's been in there for seven months.

[Amanda]

That makes me sick.

[Shane]

Why? What?

[Amanda]

If you sit on it, it explodes.

[Shane]

Front pocket.

[Olivia Suay]

No, that's the exciting part. That is the exciting part, because it hasn't yet, and it will one day, but it hasn't, so that's exciting.

[Shane]

You want it to happen.

[Olivia Suay]

No, I don't want it to happen, but I just know that it could happen very soon because it's very wrinkly and it is very warm. It is in there. There's two.

[Amanda]

Please don't use them.

[Shane]

You're never gonna use them.

[Olivia Suay]

No, I think. I just love that it's in there. And I think in 20 years, I can look back and I can still. I'm like, wow, this is my two hot sauce packets from 2023.

[Amanda]

This is Olivia's adrenaline rush, I think.

[Olivia Suay]

So it's exciting.

[Amanda]

You know, it sounds exciting, but I feel like I would think about it all the time.

[Shane]

I would be always worried. Yeah, maybe. You like that? You like that? Is that why you don't sit on any seats?

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, you know what's interesting? Okay, so the thing is, those jeans are in my closet right now being pressed with a bunch of other pants. So it could be completely fucked.

[Amanda]

So that means you haven't washed your jeans in seven months.

[Olivia Suay]

I have a lot of jeans.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Olivia Suay]

I don't really need to wear that pair.

[Amanda]

Do you just love knowing that it's in there with hot sauce in it?

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Wow. I learned something new every day.

[Shane]

You know, we all.

[Olivia Suay]

It's like, things like that. Like, I'll keep spoons and packets of other sauces in my bag. I have a lot of stuff in my purse.

[Amanda]

That'S so interesting. I'm like the opposite. When I know it's in there, I'm like, I gotta. I gotta clean it out.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, no, no. I also have little candies in my purse that's over a year old and it's melting, actually.

[Shane]

I do believe this. Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. It's fun.

[Shane]

Hey, look, if it brings you joy, I can't hate it.

[Olivia Suay]

It's not necessarily joy. It's just.

[Amanda]

I think it's just something that she needs to do, like an old lady.

[Olivia Suay]

So Slim Jim, starting from today, I'm gonna Slim Jim.

[Shane]

Got it. This is great. You know what? There's weird things that bring us joy in life, and I think that brings us to some of our next subreddits. There's a subreddit called Bread Stapled to Trees.

[Amanda]

I don't like this on where people.

[Shane]

Staple bread to trees.

[Amanda]

Why?

[Shane]

They take photos of it and then they share it with each other.

[Amanda]

Why do we keep herding trees?

[Shane]

It's kind of like this.

[Olivia Suay]

And bread.

[Shane]

Take a look. That's the type of stuff we're looking at here.

[Olivia Suay]

That's a good slice of bread.

[Shane]

Yeah. Just people sticking bread to trees, having a good time.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, so birds can eat it.

[Shane]

Sure. I don't think that's their intention, but I actually, I don't know the full depth of this community. So maybe people can comment down below. You know, if they are part of this community, what the purpose is.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, why?

[Shane]

But they just staple bread to trees and they have fun with it. Another one that's similar and I really love this one. This is a community called long furbies.

[Olivia Suay]

What is it? What's the first word?

[Shane]

Long furbies. And people make long furbies and they're actually kind of incredible that people love to modify their furbies.

[Amanda]

Wait, how did they.

[Shane]

Look at that. Look at that. Wow.

[Olivia Suay]

That's beautiful.

[Shane]

They are artistry.

[Amanda]

Wait, I actually love that I was obsessed with furbies.

[Shane]

Long furbies is really incredible. That picture is gorgeous.

[Olivia Suay]

I know.

[Shane]

I love that. I know. No, she's the hands. I think she's serving.

[Olivia Suay]

She is serving and she know would be great.

[Amanda]

Is going to an art show where there's all long furbies everywhere.

[Olivia Suay]

Maybe they have that. I'm sure they have.

[Shane]

Yeah. For those listening, basically they take a furby head and they make it so that the furby is more of a snake or like a sandworm from Dune. That's really what these look like. The second furby we showed has arms like full on arms on a seat, sitting down, big ears. Some might say they're terrifying, but I.

[Amanda]

Think I love people.

[Shane]

People are so really fun.

[Amanda]

Fascinating and interesting.

[Shane]

No. And so many subreddits are very fun.

[Olivia Suay]

Not all people.

[Amanda]

True. You're on cops. You've seen a lot of bad people.

[Olivia Suay]

Mm.

[Shane]

Here's another good subreddit rpocket sand. Now this is a community of people who talk about the benefits of keeping a little bit of sand in your pocket at all times.

[Olivia Suay]

Sometimes I have that.

[Shane]

Yeah. So they have it there first for possibly self defense. So you have pocket sand for. If an attacker comes up to you, you got pocket sand, you throw it in their eyes. And that's what everyone on the subreddit talks about. They talk about keeping pocket sand on.

[Amanda]

A lot of sand.

[Shane]

Well, so here's a post from it had to actually use my pocket sand on someone. It was 8pm I was walking through a small forest in the middle of town. Since it was a shortcut from the track, I was practicing act practicing at a large man in a dark jacket and black beanie came up to me and asked for directions. Without hesitating, I told him where he needed to be. He then opens his jacket and shows me his pocket knife. You know the drill. He said with a slight creepy smile. As I'm reaching for my wallet, I realized I just came back from long jumping and there was a load of sand in my pockets from the pit we jump into. Also, I always reload there. Yeah, just a second. As I pretend to take out my wallet, I scoop up the leftover long jump sand. I withdraw it, pushing into his face, and yell, bam. Pocket sand, motherfucker. He shouts. Ah, my eyes. What the fuck, man? Then I took off, sprinting into the bushes.

[Olivia Suay]

Out.

[Shane]

Thank you, pocket sand. You saved my life.

[Olivia Suay]

Okay, come on.

[Amanda]

Is this real?

[Olivia Suay]

Is this real?

[Shane]

A man, a person posted this.

[Amanda]

If a man in a huge jacket and a beanie had a knife and was like, you know the drill. I wouldn't be like, haha. I reloaded and got my pocket sand. Like, I don't think my brain would go there. I'd go, you, here's my wallet. I don't know.

[Olivia Suay]

I would go, you know the drill. Stop, drop and roll.

[Shane]

I actually, Olivia, I think if you said that, I think you would confuse them enough that you might get away.

[Amanda]

They would walk away.

[Shane]

I think they would be like, you know what? Not today.

[Olivia Suay]

No, that's the thing. When things like that happen, you gotta like, out creep them, you know, like, you wanna see what's in my jacket? Haha. Nothing, bitch.

[Amanda]

I knew, I knew.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm naked in here.

[Amanda]

Olivia is the biggest creep at smosh. In the best way.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Amanda]

Wow. I need to get some pocket sand. I need to get pocket sand unarmed.

[Shane]

I know.

[Olivia Suay]

Well, what about pepper spray?

[Shane]

It's just the more efficient version of.

[Amanda]

Pocket personal pepper spray is, like, it's hard to carry around. You can't like, have it linked to your belt walking around town or like.

[Olivia Suay]

A water bottle and just. And. And like toss it at them like.

[Amanda]

You know the drill. You just slowly undo it and they.

[Olivia Suay]

You just give them the ALS Ice bucket challenge.

[Shane]

Oh, fuck. Just carry around a bucket of ice with you at all times.

[Amanda]

I like the pocket sand.

[Shane]

So there's also a subreddit called Mirrors for Sale, which is a subreddit I think you'll love, Amanda. So this subreddit is. It's not a place where you sell mirrors. This is where people post photos that they find mostly on Facebook, Marketplace. Whenever people are selling a mirror, they take a photo of the mirror and be like, I'm selling this mirror. And they forget that they are in the photo. Okay, so you have shit like this.

[Amanda]

Okay, I would love this. Does she have a cigarette in her mouth.

[Shane]

She's just sitting there with a cigarette. She does not realize she's in that photo. You also get.

[Amanda]

Wait, this is so.

[Shane]

You also get stuff like this.

[Amanda]

A part of. Can't handle that picture.

[Shane]

So I can't handle that picture.

[Amanda]

Do they not know how funny that is?

[Shane]

That first one, the ladies. A lady just does not realize she's being seen in the mirror of this, like, vanity. And she is. She is just. She's over, cigarette in her mouth, curled up in a blanket, just like, all right, let's sell this piece of shit. The other one's great because it's clearly the wife taking the photo, and the guy is holding the mirror, and he's. It makes him look like.

[Amanda]

That's his body.

[Shane]

That's his body. It's so funny.

[Amanda]

They need an Instagram account or TikTok account of these, because they have.

[Shane]

No, those are the two that I found that are really solid, but it's a lot of that.

[Amanda]

And what is it called again?

[Shane]

It's called Mirrors for Sale. There's a lot of very specific. Like, if you find things in real life, you post it here. Another one. I'll scroll down. So there's some other ones that are similar. One is called TV Too High, where if people in their house or if you're out somewhere and there's a TV that's just put up way too high, they. They put it there. So, for instance, a guy is like, this is my friend's house.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, my God, that's so.

[Shane]

And this TV is above the fireplace, nearly touching the ceiling.

[Olivia Suay]

Wait, but guys, go to that photo. Everything is too high in that house.

[Shane]

Oh, you're so right. You're so right. Everything. The shelves are really high.

[Olivia Suay]

Where are you gonna get that?

[Shane]

I know. Everything is really high in this house.

[Olivia Suay]

Look at this fake window.

[Shane]

I know. No, it's. It's disturbing. If you're listening, just imagine that everything is really high. There's another one that's clearly like, a DMV or something, and this TV is attached to the ceiling, and it's like a tiny tv. I'm like, who is that for?

[Amanda]

Do you guys remember airplanes? Like, when you were a kid? And the TVs would come down, like, really, really tiny, high up and so far away, and you only had one movie that you could watch.

[Shane]

Yeah. They'd be like, we're playing Last Holiday.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

Again. Oh, now we get to. I would argue this is one of my top three favorite subreddits of all Time. This one's called awful taste but great execution. This subreddit is gold. This is basically when you find things in life that poor taste, really weird. But man, did they execute. For instance, snail shoes. Look at these snail like, like wait, boots. They are. I don't know how to describe this. If you're listening, they are some high heeled. They're flesh colored, but like, they're stunning.

[Amanda]

Wait, they are stunning. You could be a snail for Halloween.

[Olivia Suay]

But that's really cool.

[Shane]

Perfectly executed. You also have this Furby tattoo.

[Amanda]

Is it farting hearts?

[Shane]

No, no, but that's like a, that's like a, you know, back, lower back tattoo.

[Amanda]

Lower back.

[Olivia Suay]

And also that Furby has a lower back tattoo.

[Shane]

I know, it's great stuff. So it's stuff like that and I love it.

[Olivia Suay]

What is it, what is it called?

[Shane]

Awful taste but great execution.

[Amanda]

Okay, you're kind of turning me on to subreddit.

[Shane]

Yeah, me too.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm really into this.

[Amanda]

Like, I always thought, I feel like, I always hear about like the weird stories that are kind of nasty.

[Shane]

Okay, about to get into that. There's another one that's similar to this and it's called. You'll like this. Cause you worked food industry. We want plates. And this is whenever people are at restaurants and they don't serve the food on a plate. You know how a lot of times they serve food in weird types of things and people get really tired of that. Here's a catering place where the salads are just out on a table.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, no, you're kidding.

[Shane]

No, just salads just out. And they must think it's like artistic.

[Amanda]

They think it's artistic and it looks.

[Shane]

This one I think is all right, but cotton candy served on the top of a statue head.

[Amanda]

How many statue heads do they need to bring out to each table?

[Shane]

But I've, I've been to restaurants where they do that, where it's like it's served on like a flat rock or something like that.

[Amanda]

Except I, I. Except for like a sushi boat. Then I'm like, I'll take a boat.

[Shane]

Yeah, but it's got to be. Still, there's got to be some convenience for me.

[Amanda]

I've never ordered a sushi boat.

[Shane]

I just, I never have either. But I like the idea of them.

[Amanda]

Me too.

[Olivia Suay]

Okay.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

Just because to me, those things are sitting on a shelf gathering dust and then you're like, let's throw the food on this sculpture.

[Shane]

I know, I know there's a. There's nothing to show, but there's a subreddit called Our Amish and there's no posts.

[Olivia Suay]

Is it smash spelled wrong?

[Shane]

That's really good.

[Amanda]

Brilliant. Because they don't use technology.

[Shane]

It's just Our Amish.

[Amanda]

That's amazing.

[Shane]

Here's another. This is actually the last. There's some more normal ones. There's our shower thoughts. People just post shower thoughts. Like, just. Just interesting things to think about. For instance, sweatpants were made for physical activity, but wearing them in public makes you seem lazy.

[Amanda]

That is a fact. It depends on the sweatpants. The loose one is lazy. The tight one is.

[Shane]

I think the vibe has changed.

[Amanda]

But you can't work out in sweatpants. That's the thing.

[Shane]

That used to be what people did.

[Olivia Suay]

I love sweatpants.

[Shane]

I think that was before.

[Amanda]

I don't. What? I do not like sweatpants.

[Olivia Suay]

I almost wore sweatpants today, but then I was like, I don't want to.

[Amanda]

You could have. We can't see the bottom of you. I know.

[Olivia Suay]

But then it's just more of like a mental thing. Like, am I really gonna be that comfortable?

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

Should I be that comfortable?

[Amanda]

I don't feel good in sweatpants.

[Shane]

I hate sweat.

[Amanda]

I feel what I hate in my house. I'd rather wear a long dress. Why?

[Shane]

I.

[Amanda]

What? I hate sweatpants.

[Shane]

I'm weird. I'm. I am. I think I'm weird. I don't love super soft fabric.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, my. What?

[Amanda]

You are weird.

[Olivia Suay]

You don't like comfort.

[Shane]

I like comfort, but I don't know. I don't love super, like. For instance. For instance. For instance, like, this sweatshirt that I wear all the time. It's terry cloth.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, it's.

[Shane]

I don't like. I don't like fleece. I love, like, terry cloth. I love, like.

[Amanda]

So you don't like warm comfort and love.

[Olivia Suay]

Also, I know this about Shane. He doesn't use a blanket.

[Shane]

Yeah, I've gotten. I've had to change that a little bit over the years.

[Amanda]

I'm sorry.

[Shane]

I love. I overheat, I think so. I like to often just lay on top of my duvet.

[Amanda]

So you just sleep flat out in, like, a towel.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Here's the thing. I want to be wrapped in linen or cotton 24 7.

[Olivia Suay]

I hate linen. I hate linen.

[Amanda]

Linen is my favorite thing for linen ever.

[Shane]

The in between. It's the in between. It's not too soft.

[Amanda]

I would wear it every.

[Olivia Suay]

I only wear linen in the summer.

[Amanda]

No, I literally want to pretend like I'm on a beach 24 7.

[Shane]

Oh, see, that's okay.

[Amanda]

You and me get it.

[Olivia Suay]

But, guys, it's not soft.

[Shane]

No, no, but it's great.

[Amanda]

It's breathable and it's loose and it always looks good.

[Olivia Suay]

So wear, like, silk.

[Amanda]

Silk looks great, but it shows off everything.

[Olivia Suay]

I cannot believe that you guys don't wear sweatpants. That's crazy.

[Shane]

I own sweatpants that I just never wear.

[Amanda]

I own.

[Olivia Suay]

Would you rather wear jeans over sweatpants?

[Amanda]

No. No, no.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

What about airports?

[Shane]

I wear. I wear jeans on airplanes. Yep.

[Amanda]

No, I do not wear jeans on airplanes. I wear linen or I wear spandex. Like. Like workout yoga pants. I'd rather wear those.

[Shane]

I wear. I wear jeans on planes all the time.

[Amanda]

Okay, well, that's crazy.

[Shane]

Well, this brings me into the next subreddit. There's a subreddit called the 10th Dentist. The 10th Dentist is a subreddit where people post unpopular opinions that they firmly believe in. You know, it's like 9 out of 10 dentists recommend this. So what's the deal with the 10th dentist?

[Amanda]

Wow. People are genius with titles.

[Shane]

So this is for really extreme unpopular opinions. I could probably post that. I'm like, I like wearing jeans on airplanes. And maybe. Here we go. Here's some. I never spit out my toothpaste, and I think doing so is gross. I know the complete opposite is true. Swallowing toothpaste isn't good for you, but I've just never been able to do it. For some reason, even being in the room with someone who spits it out makes me gag and dry. Heaven. I genuinely find it so disgusting and repulsive. I think I would throw up if I did it myself. Not sure why. Anyway, I've been swallowing toothpaste for my whole life, and I haven't had any problems. That.

[Amanda]

That actually makes me want to gag. That's disgusting.

[Shane]

Someone's been swallowing a lot of toothpaste.

[Amanda]

Spit and nastiness. And you're swallowing it like. Like all the nastiness you brush out of your teeth.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm swallowing it.

[Amanda]

That's so gross.

[Olivia Suay]

That's disgusting.

[Amanda]

Yeah, well, that's the worst part.

[Shane]

Here's another one. This one funny for us, since I'm getting into this, but someone posted Music is boring and not remotely entertaining. Just what the title says. I can never just listen to music. It's always so bland. And I just can't get any enjoyment or genuine emotion out of auditory artistry. Don't get me wrong, I've tried to listen to music. I've listened to so many different genres, and they're all so bland and I can't remember any of it. It all just turns into big mush. I always hear people critiquing music in media, video games, movies, etc. When for me it's always. It always fades into the background and never really offers much atmosphere on its own. I was actually genuinely surprised to see how some of these responses were. Honestly, I didn't think my opinions was that unpopular. And I'm pretty surprised to know how much music affects some people.

[Amanda]

That is a very unpopular.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

To me that means that that person I feel like, hasn't connected to like a deep part of themselves because music is. It's like composers like music in film, background noise. Like.

[Shane]

You know what makes me wonder though is remember we talked about this Hank Green, about how some people think in images. Some people think and don't think in images.

[Amanda]

That's true.

[Shane]

I just wonder if like some people, the way they. Their imagination works, just music just doesn't do.

[Amanda]

Yeah, maybe it's just not music.

[Shane]

I don't know.

[Amanda]

That's a. That's a tough one for me to get on board with, but okay.

[Shane]

This last one's insane. This last one's the craziest one.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh my God.

[Shane]

Dish soap tastes good and not fully rinsing your dishes makes the dish better. The taste of dish soap is good. I love it. I wouldn't like drink it, but I rarely rinse my dishes fully. I always let them dry while still covered in a lot of bubbles. When I make food later, it mixes with the soap and makes a small bit of suds that tastes like whatever food I'm eating. I also enjoy the suds in soup and drinks. It's never to the point where I have to have a head of foam like beer or whatever. Just some bubbles and visible suds. I have a few cups slash plates, forks I don't use often because I keep them fully rinsed for guests who don't share my love of soap.

[Amanda]

This guy single.

[Shane]

There's an edit. Honestly, after reading all the health concerns, I'm still going to eat it. It's one of the few things in life that I still enjoy, so I might as well go out with a bang. At number two, some people asked. So to answer, I like Orange dawn soap edit number three. I'd like to add proof a video of me eating something with suds, but I feel like that borders too close on urging others to try it, which I don't necessarily want to do considering it's unhealthy. Also, there's literally a show about people eating things they shouldn't. What's so hard to believe? We don't. We exist outside of TLC Edit number four. I appreciate the awards, guys, but don't spend money on me just cuz I eat soap.

[Amanda]

Holy God. This is a whole. So one of the last things in the world that he enjoys.

[Shane]

Yeah, I guess I used to eat.

[Olivia Suay]

Soap when I was a kid.

[Shane]

When you were a kid.

[Amanda]

Okay, tell, tell.

[Shane]

What kind of soap would you eat?

[Amanda]

Like when you were in trouble?

[Olivia Suay]

No, you know those, like round the socks, the soft whatever. What is it called? They're like this. And then you pump with the pump.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Soft soap.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. Like when we were washing our hands after recess to go to lunch, you'd go, I remember, like it was like, you know, this other kid also did it. We just like lick our hands like this.

[Shane]

Wow. So it's peer pressure.

[Olivia Suay]

Sort of. I did a lot of weird things in kindergarten.

[Shane]

You still do a lot of weird. I believe that you still keep hot sauce in one of your jean pockets and you refuse to take it out. So I don't know, you're still kind of there.

[Olivia Suay]

But yes, I'm worried because there's a lot of harmful chemicals in soap.

[Amanda]

Yeah. We need these soaps to clean the ducks who had the oil spill.

[Shane]

Yeah, we need to save it for that.

[Amanda]

I don't think I ever really ate soap.

[Olivia Suay]

But you must. When you're. When you're shampooing your hair, you don't go like, no, me neither.

[Amanda]

I thought you didn't shampoo.

[Shane]

Yeah, me neither.

[Olivia Suay]

I wash my hair.

[Amanda]

Oh, yeah, you wash your hair every day, but you don't use soap on your body.

[Olivia Suay]

I do. Okay.

[Amanda]

I do, but wow, sometimes I hit a nerve.

[Olivia Suay]

I mean, not everyone washes their legs.

[Amanda]

I must.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, you do.

[Amanda]

It's a whole journey.

[Olivia Suay]

You're different.

[Shane]

Oh, God.

[Olivia Suay]

Do you wash. You wash your. You don't.

[Shane]

I wash my legs every day. Yeah.

[Amanda]

And I wash the bottom of my feet.

[Shane]

Yeah. I put soap and I.

[Olivia Suay]

You put soap?

[Amanda]

I wash the bottom of my feet.

[Shane]

I don't. I'm sometimes bad about washing the bottom of my feet, but I wash the top of my feet when I do.

[Amanda]

Muay Thai, where you have. We're just without shoes or socks, on pads.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, see, that's sweaty.

[Shane]

That makes sense.

[Olivia Suay]

But I wash my feet every. If I'm. I'm a very clean person. Okay, I believe you.

[Shane]

You are a very. You're like.

[Amanda]

You're very clean.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, very clean. I just don't know about. Like, if you're shaving your legs, you're sort of exfoliating your legs.

[Shane]

I don't shave my legs, so I don't know. I can't.

[Olivia Suay]

And so you. So if I were you, I'd definitely have to get in there and scrub my legs.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

[Olivia Suay]

But for me, I'm shaving them and I dry brush.

[Shane]

But see, I also wear jeans, which are thick brush, and it protects me from the outside world.

[Amanda]

No, your jeans aren't protecting you, honey.

[Olivia Suay]

Your jeans are protecting you.

[Amanda]

Oh.

[Shane]

Okay, next subreddit. There's a subreddit called Rroast me. And people post photos of themselves with. And you have to have a conference. You have to have a piece of paper in front of you that says like, r Roast me. That you have to write so that people know it's really you. And you post a selfie of yourself and you post it on this subreddit and then people roast you.

[Amanda]

People love pain.

[Olivia Suay]

I hate that.

[Shane]

It's always insane. It's. It's mind blowing.

[Olivia Suay]

It's so sad.

[Amanda]

It feels like torture porn.

[Shane]

I hate that people are into it.

[Olivia Suay]

I was thinking about all the things people could say about me.

[Amanda]

Nothing. Because you're beautiful.

[Olivia Suay]

Thank you.

[Shane]

I'm not gonna. I. I found some posts. I'm not gonna show them here because I. I don't want to like, spread it. But look, I look at it sometimes and the roasts are insane.

[Olivia Suay]

Like, what? I have to look at them.

[Shane]

All right.

[Olivia Suay]

I have to.

[Shane]

I'll show you one and I'll just show you the top roast.

[Amanda]

Cause it's on Reddit. So she's beautiful.

[Shane]

That's the thing also. But these, these are redditors who find anything. So this, this, this woman, this 20 year old woman posted a photo of herself. She looks like Christina Rico saying, roast me. And the top comment says, I was always told I was going to end up like this if I held in a sneeze. Oh, my God.

[Amanda]

What is wrong with these people who just want to be roasted? I feel like they're in pain. Oh, my God.

[Shane]

I know, I know. There's a lot of. There is a lot.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. What else we got?

[Amanda]

Yeah, keep going. What else?

[Shane]

Find another one.

[Amanda]

We can't make sense of this. We just have to read the comments.

[Shane]

Here's another one that I have. So here's this guy, this guy posted on. On Reddit. He said, 26 year old finance, bro. Unro.

[Amanda]

26.

[Shane]

Unroastable. Try me. And someone said, did you Someone said, do you puff out your neck to intimidate predators? Now, this is rough. I. Look, I'm not condoning this. I'm not saying anything. I'm saying this is.

[Amanda]

We know this is your favorite Reddit.

[Shane]

No, it is not my favorite Reddit. I don't look at Roast Me that often. It ends up on the front page a lot, and I will check it out.

[Amanda]

These people actively put themselves out there to say roast.

[Shane]

What's tough about it is, you know, we do roasts a lot at Smosh, but because we know each other, we're able to roast, like, our personalities and, like, our lifestyles and, like, we know.

[Amanda]

What not to touch.

[Shane]

But I don't. I never love to do jokes about, like, physical appearance. No, the problem is, on Reddit, when you're posting a selfie of yourself, they don't know anything about you, so it's purely about how you look, which is so rough.

[Amanda]

Well, these people are putting out just a photo of them. They're not putting out what they do or anything. They. They're literally asking to be roasted.

[Shane]

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they. They actually are.

[Amanda]

It's.

[Shane]

I mean, it's fascinating.

[Amanda]

They probably.

[Shane]

I could never do it, get pleasure from it. It got floated around at one point years ago of like, oh, should we have one of us post on Reddit? And I actively, like, aggressively, was like, no, absolutely not. We should never post on that subreddit because it's just devastating. I feel devastated just watching other people go through it. I'm like, oh, my God. Of course there's a ton of comments, but I don't want to linger on that. There is another. I did want to bring up one Reddit, and this is a very toxic one. There is a subreddit called True Rate Me and True Rate Me, Rate Me. And there's a lot of subreddits where people post where it's like, am I this, like. Like, whatever? Like, rate my appearance, Rate me, You know, and it's really sad. So I'm like, don't ask the anonymous Internet.

[Amanda]

I think people have this need to, like, I don't know, feel pain.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm, like, getting anxiety.

[Shane]

Well, I also think people want affirmation or they want affirmation about their negative feelings, too. That's true. Rape Me, though, is toxic because, for one, it's very clearly a bunch of dudes, right? So it's a. It's a biased dude, but true. Rape Me. They're arguing that they are judging attractiveness based on objective, like, Factual things. And it's very clearly not. They're like, it's based on symmetry and all this science.

[Amanda]

It's just a picture. It's just a picture.

[Shane]

And people post a photo of themselves. And a lot of times the ones that always get high up and high upvoted are very attractive women post on there and you just have a bunch of dudes being like, you're a five and it's like they're getting out their ankle. I think they're getting a power trip from it.

[Amanda]

Oh, God.

[Shane]

And anytime dudes post like, and say like, oh, you're a 9 or a 10, they get their posts removed and the mods go, it's. You're no like rating too high.

[Amanda]

Like what to remove their post.

[Shane]

The mods.

[Amanda]

Who are the mods?

[Shane]

Moderators of the subreddit who are also just some dudes. Wait, no, it's. I. Look, if people want to come for me in the comments, I think it's extremely toxic, so.

[Olivia Suay]

Toxic.

[Amanda]

Question. The moderators of the subreddit. They're the moderators. All the subreddit.

[Shane]

No, no, Every subreddit gets moderators. And it's people who just volunteer. There's no. You don't get paid. It's just a volunteer thing that you're going to moderate that subreddit. So they are people who are also part of that community.

[Amanda]

Imagine being with a moderator. Oh my God, I had a tough.

[Shane]

Day that I had to take down Reddit. Reddit mods have a very specific stereotype to really, it's pretty much this.

[Amanda]

The fedora.

[Shane]

Yeah. But anyways, moving on from, from some of those, let's get into some weird ones. This is where people are just being weird. For instance, there's a. There's a subreddit called rgggg. Just three, four letter GS. And on that subreddit, everyone can only post the letter G. So it's just a bunch of posts with just GS. You can do uppercase or lowercase. Just GS. And it's surprisingly active. People are posting on there.

[Amanda]

Why go outside.

[Shane]

GS go outside. But they're having fun posting GS.

[Amanda]

Feel the sun on your back.

[Shane]

They're posting GS.

[Amanda]

You know, swim in. Swim in a body of water.

[Shane]

They're posting G's. Okay, there. Here's another subreddit. Once again, I am not condoning this. I'm just saying this is a subreddit that exists. Yes, there is a subreddit called Alzheimer's Group.

[Amanda]

Okay. Jesus Christ.

[Shane]

And on this subreddit.

[Amanda]

Jesus.

[Shane]

They only post the same Garfield comic over and over and over again. What? They post one Garfield comic? It's just. It's just a random Garfield comic. And so people post it and they go, I found this awesome Garfield comic. And then they. People just do that over and over and over again.

[Amanda]

This is so sad. Oh, Shane is struggling right now.

[Shane]

Just saying it's a subreddit that exists. There's a lot like it.

[Amanda]

This is so sad.

[Shane]

I know.

[Olivia Suay]

Sad.

[Shane]

I know.

[Amanda]

So do you think people with Alzheimer's are going on this subreddit?

[Shane]

No, no, no, no, no. It's just. It's unfortunately just a joke. Oh no. I think it may have started as a legitimate place to discuss Alzheimer's. And then here's the thing. Must have morphed into this.

[Amanda]

I think. I think joking about really serious things is okay because I think people need to figure out how to frickin handle it.

[Shane]

They're not.

[Amanda]

That is crazy.

[Shane]

The thing is, this is just one inside joke that just lingers for years. And I think that is funny. And there's a lot of subreddits like it. Right. Similar to our Amish. Right. That everyone agreed, like we're never going to post on our.

[Amanda]

That's funny, right?

[Shane]

Also funny. So there's a lot of stuff like that. There's just a lot of weird subreddits. There's another one. Dude, it's just insane. Here's another. Here's one. Before we started this podcast, Olivia, we were talking about ice.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes.

[Shane]

There's a subreddit called Hydro Homies. And on this subreddit, it's just a community of dudes, people in general, who love water and they just post photos of like they're. They're just dudes. Water bottles. I don't think it's just dudes.

[Amanda]

I love water.

[Shane]

I think it's anyone who likes water and they're just obsessed with water and so they're just like hydro homies. And they've loved to post like their containers of water. Like if you have a big jug of water, take a photo of it posted on Hydro Homies. It'll probably do really well. I love that people just love water. But there was a post I found and it was, which ice is best? Homies? And it's, you know, you got regular cubes, the spears, the rectangular spears, the pebbles, or large.

[Amanda]

I know you love this.

[Shane]

I'm a large cube, man.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, I'm a large.

[Amanda]

Wait, can I see again?

[Olivia Suay]

No, I like that.

[Amanda]

So here's you like small.

[Shane]

Like you'd like regular sized ice cubes.

[Olivia Suay]

What are we drinking? Water.

[Shane]

That's thing for water.

[Amanda]

Oh, for water. I was gonna say I love water for water.

[Shane]

I think it's. It's small cubes.

[Amanda]

Beer.

[Olivia Suay]

Small cubes.

[Amanda]

Spears, spear or cubes.

[Olivia Suay]

For water.

[Shane]

Yeah, I love water, dude.

[Olivia Suay]

I drink water.

[Shane]

I drink.

[Amanda]

So you don't drink water?

[Shane]

Drink water.

[Olivia Suay]

I drink.

[Shane]

Like you are not a hydro homie.

[Olivia Suay]

No, I drink water. I drink lemon water in the, in the morning and that's sort of. And that's it.

[Shane]

You don't drink water for the rest of the day.

[Amanda]

I drink like 10 to 12 cups of water a day.

[Shane]

I am chugging water.

[Amanda]

Me too. I love water. It's my favorite thing.

[Olivia Suay]

I don't drink a lot of water. Honey, I'm trying, I'm trying to do better.

[Amanda]

You need.

[Olivia Suay]

I know, I know. I need.

[Amanda]

If you get. If you get something that.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm gonna lose that.

[Amanda]

Okay, let's figure out a way to get you some water.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm kind of thirsty right now. I haven't had any water.

[Amanda]

Are you flying some water?

[Olivia Suay]

No, I don't need it right now. I'll probably wait like three hours.

[Amanda]

Three hours.

[Olivia Suay]

Probably wait until tonight.

[Shane]

Okay.

[Amanda]

My thirst takes over, which is why I have the aisle seat at airplanes because I pee a lot.

[Olivia Suay]

See, that's also. I don't really want to pee a lot.

[Amanda]

So you want to be a camel.

[Shane]

Wow. All right. There was a bunch of other Reddit's I wanted to get to, but running out of time here. I didn't even get to NoFap.

[Amanda]

Okay, get to it right now.

[Shane]

I. I'm wondering if I should save it for another episode. No. Okay, let's talk about it. Let's talk about nofap. Cuz it's.

[Amanda]

We definitely have to do another subreddit episode.

[Shane]

We?

[Amanda]

Absolutely.

[Shane]

There's a million more that I meant to get to and I didn't. Okay. So I feel it's important to talk about nofap because the Chosen, the character I play, the Chosen, it's a big part of his lore. Right. It was a joke I made the first time I appeared as the Chosen where I said I'm a member of nofap, and it just kind of kept going. But nofap is a very real subreddit and it has over a million members and it's been big for a long time. And it's not like a joke. These are people who truly, truly believe like, this is a life changing thing for them and I'm not gonna sit here and judge it. I like, this is what people are doing. Whatever. Now it's a lot of guy. It's. It's all guys. A lot of really young men who believe that no longer masturbating will change their life and make them like borderline, like it'll like give them powers or borderline, like not, not. It's not getting to a fantasy realm, but here. But just like, I will be smarter. I'll be, I'll be, have more energy. I'll be more confident. People will like me more. I will. A lot of them, almost all of them are like single guys who are having trouble in the dating scene and they believe that by no longer masturbating that will be their solution to eventually finding a girlfriend.

[Amanda]

Wait a second, I thought you had to masturbate. What A doctor.

[Shane]

Apparently, apparently you don't have to.

[Amanda]

What? I have heard men had to masturbate.

[Shane]

I. I've heard studies that apparently it is good for your prostate.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah, right.

[Shane]

Yeah, but look, so they believes if.

[Amanda]

They don't masturbate they're gonna gather all the nutrients and power inside of them and then when they find their lady, they're going to just.

[Shane]

That is what's funny is that I guess they believe sex is not gonna do the same thing.

[Olivia Suay]

I feel like they're gonna be all like, weird.

[Amanda]

They're gonna be like, sick. They're gonna find their lady and go, yeah.

[Olivia Suay]

And like.

[Shane]

But look here. I found a post here. 3 years of NOFAP. From a pathetic loser to a successful young man. Shut up, 27 year old male. Here. I discovered NoFap three years ago while browsing sexy pics on Reddit. Ironically, I know. And because of Curiosity, I opened NoFap, read a few stories and told myself, what have I got to lose? My life is already a shit show. And I started on that day. I was a lazy, pathetic loser with no job, no master degree, no girlfriend ever. Kiss less virgin. I was. I was masturbating three to four times a day and had lots of mental issues like anxiety, panic attacks and depression. After just one week of NoFAP, I felt a difference. I started walking outside and daily, daily taking care seemed easier. After about six months, found a well paid job, which I never believed I will ever get, but happened. This gave me a lot of confidence, energy, and I felt for the first time in my life, appreciated. After a few more months, I decided to start a master's degree Because I had so much energy and confidence that I could do it. And it wasn't easy, but I had to push. I had to push my limits. And it goes on.

[Amanda]

Like, sense. He just. If the amount of time it took for him to masturbate, he just stopped doing that and spent time ongoing living his life.

[Shane]

He gets on to, like, after about 500 days, decided it's time to take my driving license and get a car. And I succeeded. I wasn't anymore that afraid. I wasn't afraid of anything. And I didn't. I didn't fear everything like I used to. I gave up taking anxiety pills because I felt strong enough to fight on my own. Finished my master's this summer with maximum grades. And all because of NoFAP and motivation, which it gave to me.

[Amanda]

Wow. Good for him.

[Shane]

Now I think it's great. I have a theory on it, which is just that, like, this is. That was very extreme. Right. He's saying, like, he's doing it three to four times a day. He probably. It's just like, he probably, by getting some sense of control over his life.

[Amanda]

Yes.

[Shane]

Started to gain confidence and change. Yes.

[Amanda]

It's like when you stop drinking or go sober.

[Olivia Suay]

Exactly.

[Shane]

Yeah. It gives you, like, oh, I am focused. I am.

[Olivia Suay]

Yes.

[Shane]

But look, so that's why I'm not sitting here, like, shaming it.

[Amanda]

What does FAP stand for?

[Shane]

Yeah, masturbating. I don't know, like, what? That's just what they call it. I think it's so. I think it's a meme term. So, like, in a comic, if someone's. If someone's jacking off the sound things that they would write is like, fap. Fap. Fap. Fat.

[Amanda]

I love setting Shane up to explain something.

[Shane]

Yeah, it really sucks. Whoa.

[Amanda]

I love going, so what does FAP mean? Shane?

[Shane]

But it's. It's a really, like. It's a intense community. Like, they are. They firmly believe it.

[Amanda]

Hey, if they're freaking going out there and living their life to the fullest, I am in full support.

[Shane]

No, I really can't.

[Amanda]

But I don't think that mass stopping masturbating is good for you.

[Olivia Suay]

I'm worried that a million people are reading this and are like, if I stop doing this, I will get.

[Shane]

No, you can't.

[Olivia Suay]

Like, I'll get my master's degree. I'm like, no, that's not it.

[Amanda]

Well, yeah, get your master's degree, but also. Okay, so if a million people stopped masturbating, what would happen to the world?

[Olivia Suay]

No, I don't know. There just be, like, these people walking around.

[Amanda]

Like, people walking around.

[Olivia Suay]

I don't know. But then I also don't want to offend anyone because I know there are a lot of people in there. Like, if you're doing that, good for you.

[Shane]

Look, it's people's body. People are allowed to do or not do whatever they want with. I. Look, I'm not saying I think it's bad or good or anything. I think it's funny. That's ultimately what it comes down to is that I'm just like, I love that there's a community of a million dudes who are like, guys, we got to stop jacking off. We're going to. We're going to get stronger if we stop jacking off. That's, to me, is funny. And there are other. There's a million subreddits, right? Because there's another. There's other subreddits that are more, like, about stopping porn, like, about no longer looking at that. But then this takes it to the extreme of, like, don't ever. Don't ever jack off. And I'm like, I think it's funny. And that's why I said it as the Chosen. So I'm like, it's such a. Like, to me, it's. It's such a chosen thing of, like, no, I must focus.

[Amanda]

Yeah.

[Shane]

I will get stronger if I stop.

[Amanda]

Wow. Now I know that joke. You said it so much as the Chosen, I've been like, I don't know what that is. And now I know. Yeah, it's about masturbation.

[Shane]

Right. Lastly, the last subreddit I'll talk about is our Smosh. Oh, there. There is a subreddit. We have a subreddit.

[Amanda]

I think I knew this.

[Shane]

Got 50,000. 50,000 subscribers on it.

[Amanda]

God.

[Shane]

And look, they. They post a lot of stuff on there. There was a lot of appreciation posts when I was looking through for you, Amanda. People. People really like you.

[Amanda]

Whoa.

[Shane]

They love us playing Five Nights at Freddy's. Oh, they. There's, like, posts being like, guys, we need to go and like, all the. The five Nights at Freddy's videos to make sure we get more sweet. I know.

[Amanda]

That makes me so happy.

[Shane]

I found comparing us to. To. They were. They were. They were assigning dog breeds to all of us. They're like, what? Dog breeds are people.

[Amanda]

I need to hear this.

[Shane]

So Spencer Shih Tzu right there. Olivia Saluki. Cute.

[Olivia Suay]

That is kind of like me. My dog kind of looks like that.

[Amanda]

That is so you look at your hair. It's so cute.

[Shane]

Amanda. Belgian Turv. Terverin.

[Amanda]

Okay. Lassie.

[Shane]

Ian. Hecox. A Jag terrier. Very. That's fitting.

[Amanda]

Yeah, very fitting.

[Shane]

Trevor. Great Dane. I kind of see it. No, I think he's. I think I see more.

[Amanda]

I think he's a stand up poodle.

[Shane]

Interesting.

[Amanda]

Trevor's a stand up poodle, in my opinion.

[Shane]

Noah, A whippet.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah. Yes.

[Shane]

Tommy. A Borzoi.

[Olivia Suay]

Yep.

[Amanda]

Yes. Oh, my God.

[Olivia Suay]

These are very, very active.

[Amanda]

These are really good.

[Shane]

Chance, a Pharaoh Hound. Wow.

[Amanda]

100.

[Shane]

Yep. There it is. Arasha. An Afghan hound. That, that, that looks. That's. That's very fitting.

[Amanda]

Credible. Yeah.

[Shane]

Angela's. A bunch here. A bunch of little dogs. Yeah, you know, I see it. Yeah, a little bit.

[Amanda]

Yeah. No, I mean, she also has a Chihuahua, so I get it.

[Shane]

And then me, golden retriever.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

Oh, okay. How do you feel about that?

[Shane]

I feel good about that.

[Amanda]

Okay, good.

[Shane]

I don't mind it. There was another one where I think they, they. There was another post where they made me a bull terrier, which I was like. Like the target dog. I didn't see that.

[Amanda]

Absolutely.

[Olivia Suay]

You're like one of those little white furry dogs with the little gray, pink, little furry eyes. A little wet little mouth.

[Amanda]

Yeah, little wet little mouth. That's because you did that.

[Shane]

I did that character. But our subreddit is very. I like our subreddit. I look at it everywhere.

[Amanda]

It could be the target dog, but I feel like the target dog is like, hello, that's not you.

[Shane]

Yeah, yeah, No, I know the personality. I don't think you're a little golden retro. Cause the target dog is also the dog from Toy Story that, like chases him down.

[Amanda]

That's a nightmare.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, yeah.

[Amanda]

Wow. I have so many subreddits to check out. I need to see the mirror one.

[Shane]

Oh, yeah. Mirrors for Sale is great.

[Amanda]

That one's my favorite, I think.

[Shane]

But yeah, our subreddit's cool. You know, I'd say it's pretty much pretty positive. It's very nice.

[Olivia Suay]

Great.

[Shane]

Love. Nice people just have conversations.

[Amanda]

Yeah. It takes so much more effort to be mean. So much more energy.

[Olivia Suay]

You feel better when you're nice.

[Amanda]

You do.

[Shane]

Yeah.

[Amanda]

You really do.

[Shane]

And Reddit's a place that's got all of it. Like, it surely just got all of it.

[Amanda]

You with that fedora.

[Olivia Suay]

Thanks for sharing all these Reddit things there.

[Shane]

I shared it with you so you don't have to look at it yourself.

[Amanda]

What we're going to do. I look at it.

[Olivia Suay]

I have to look at it.

[Shane]

Good luck.

[Amanda]

Wait, we're going to find some weird ones and come back and show you.

[Shane]

Okay. Oh, we're going to actually go ahead, actually.

[Amanda]

Yeah. Olivia and I join.

[Olivia Suay]

I join nofap. I become a member.

[Shane]

Do it.

[Olivia Suay]

Actually change my life.

[Shane]

Do it. Okay. All right, you heard it here. Olivia is going to join nofap. Olivia's officially chosen.

[Amanda]

Yes, I'm the chosen and non cops.

[Shane]

Olivia, thanks for being here.

[Olivia Suay]

Oh, my gosh. Thank you. Oh, my. Wow. Looks like I'm running late to my next.

[Amanda]

She's famous now and she's on the clock and she's gonna be on call.

[Olivia Suay]

And I'm also a member of the NoFAP community, so just so busy. I'm.

[Shane]

Yeah, we got so busy.

[Olivia Suay]

I got a big moderator meetings coming up.

[Shane]

Yeah, that's how it works.

[Olivia Suay]

Yeah.

[Shane]

All right, well, thank you for listening, thank you for watching, and we will see you later.

[Amanda]

We'll see you later.

[Shane]

Goodbye.

[Amanda]

Goodbye. Smosh mouth. Smosh Mosh mouth.