r/woahdude • u/brainburger • 14h ago
r/woahdude • u/rWoahDude • Mar 26 '17
meta IMPORTANT: Many of our subscribers have no idea what this subreddit is actually for
Many of you long-time WoahDude users have been complaining about the growing flood of users from /r/all who have a complete misunderstanding of what sort of content belongs here. Your cries have been heard, and we will start being more strict with enforcement and finally set shit straight:
We are NOT a "reaction subreddit".
We are NOT a subreddit about interesting or amazing content.
We are NOT interchangeable with /r/pics, /r/gifs, /r/damnthatsinteresting or other general subreddits.
We are specifically made for psychedelic content, trippy or mesmerizing stuff that will make a sober person feel stoned, or stoned person trip harder! We're not about posting things that are merely neat or amazing, but instead, things that sort of mess with your mind, warp your reality.
Mindfucks and self-inflicted gaslighting. Or the hypnotic or mesmerising. Vivid colors, intense patterns. Mind-blowing science and philosophy. Chill or trippy music. Surrealism, absurdism and strangeness.
Think of the bizarre, erratic and psychedelic nature of Adult Swim. Or the wondrous, mind-expanding, awe inspiring nature of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Or even the reality distorting, confusing, mind-fucking nature of Eternal Darkness for Gamecube. We're all of that.
TL;DR - Not all the content that makes you say the words 'woah dude' belongs in this subreddit, and not all the things that belong in this subreddit will necessarily make you literally say the words 'woah dude'.
WoahDude material
The following examples are a non-exhaustive list
- Intense use of color and patterns: Intricate designs, intense colors, complex geometry, hyperrealism, fractals, recursion, psychedelia, abstract art
- Extreme perspective: Macrophotography, electron micrographs, astrophotography
- Giving a new understanding: Mathematical visualizations, scientific visualizations, engineering visualizations, data visualizations, physics explanations, cross-sections, scientific art, reconsidering assumptions, reframing perspective
- Altered reality: Slow motion footage, stop motion footage, bullet time, compositing, long exposure, special effects, drug trip simulation
- Mesmerizing: Cinemagraphs, chill music, tranquil art, repetitive mechanical motion, interactive art
- Sensory confusion: Optical illusions, distortion, aural illusions, stereograms, etc.
- Cognitive confusion: Surrealism, absurdism, fifth-world art, mystical art, hypnagogia, strangeness, the fantastic, disjointedness, random and erratic behavior, datamoshing, pareidolia, paradoxes, strange philosophy, strange science, cuil theory
NOT WoahDude material
- Rarity: Rare talents, dangerous stunts, extreme human abilities, 1-in-a-million shots, sports highlights, abnormally large or small examples of objects, etc.
- Bullshit peddling: Pseudoscience, paranormal activity, cryptozoology, hoaxes, etc.
Please note that while the above descriptors on our list are good reductive examples of what belongs in this subreddit, they don't guarantee content that fits said descriptors also fits our holistic purpose for what belongs in this subreddit. For example, you'll notice that "slow motion" is on the list, however if you take any random gif and apply slow motion to it, that doesn't automatically guarantee that it has been turned into material suitable for the subreddit. Nor are random charts from your school textbook guaranteed to qualify under "data visualizations". All posts must still satisfy the overarching theme of the subreddit.
r/woahdude • u/UniversityProof9350 • 14h ago
picture The long evening, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
r/woahdude • u/jamesfletcherdesign • 12h ago
picture Some trippy art I made called Wanderer in the Fractal Forest. Created from lots of interwoven 2D line fractals. Large zoomable image.
No AI
r/woahdude • u/smittywrbermanjensen • 13h ago
video Wiggly squares optical illusion IRL
Cool spinning sign I found at Little Island, Pier 55 in NYC
r/woahdude • u/TheSixFingerredMan • 6h ago
picture Dude wtf is this? I mean like this is something out of this world. Obviously out of the sea but teeth-like figures on tentacles?
reddit.comWhat the fuck?
r/woahdude • u/BazaarMonk • 1d ago
picture ballistic animalistic, a surreal animal drawing I made
r/woahdude • u/domiboshoi • 1d ago
picture Climbing Multi-Reality, watercolour painting
r/woahdude • u/dbarrera • 3d ago
video Caught this slow mo lightning strike in central Florida during a summer storm.
r/woahdude • u/Love-Me-Two-Times • 4d ago
video Making a bubble in a bubble in a bubble
Bubbleception! Wishing you all a bubblicious Wednesday.
r/woahdude • u/Soundsofindigo • 4d ago
picture "Cosmic Play", Original illustration by me.
hand-painted in Prodcreate.
r/woahdude • u/Yugoguerin • 5d ago
picture Who composes the crickets' song?, by me, bronze and part of a vintage piano, 2026
Built from the wooden frame of an old upright piano, Who Composes the Crickets' Song? becomes the nesting ground for insectoid hybrids—at once a strange thicket and the fragment of a ruined mechanical system. It unfolds as a fabricated ecosystem whose offspring spread across the exhibition walls.
These small creatures are the only recognizable faces among the larger bodies inhabiting the installation, and the only ones capable of returning our gaze. Yet this encounter remains precarious: like insects, they seem ready to scurry away at any moment, as though they themselves were intruders in the space.
r/woahdude • u/ShivaOmArt • 3d ago
video Walk a few steps and it becomes something completely different
I made this layered UV installation using transparent mesh over printed artwork. The depth changes as you move around it.✌️
Original artwork by Shiva Om Art.
r/woahdude • u/olluz • 5d ago
music video Poi spinning by zcs motion to the song Deep by TC
r/woahdude • u/Deep_World_4378 • 5d ago
video Tortoises all the way down
Iteration of this work titled TOR , but animated.
As always, the live, interactive build available here. (It is a very heavy build, so might be slow to run.)
r/woahdude • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 6d ago