r/TopCharacterTropes Jul 20 '26

Groups [Reddit Trope] The name of the subreddit has nothing to do with what’s actually discussed

r/anime_titties is actually a world news subreddit.

r/BatmanArkham used to be about the Batman Arkham games but for a while now it’s mainly just a shitposting subreddit for whatever topic.

r/OnlyFans is not about the adult website it’s about actual fans.

r/comics is mostly where people dump a lot of cringe bad humor political posts.

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u/Neither-Actuary-5655 Jul 20 '26

u/AmaterasuWolf21 Jul 20 '26

"Thing I want to talk about"

u/Yugix1 Jul 20 '26

I swear atp I wouldn't be surprised if someone posts something like "[loved trope] fruits that grow on trees"

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u/Country_ball_enjoyer Jul 20 '26

I've done it boss

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u/Country_ball_enjoyer Jul 20 '26

Welp post somehow got taken down it was fun doing a little shitpost

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u/TightyWhiteyBoyy Jul 20 '26

this post is literally case and point

u/Veylara Jul 20 '26

*case in point

u/FrankBrayman Jul 20 '26

**casein point

u/keldondonovan Jul 20 '26

***Cassowary Pwant

u/doggy_oversea Jul 20 '26

****Cool Plant

u/Old_Copy_5498 Jul 20 '26

*****Coal Plane

u/witbuch Jul 20 '26

******Cult plain

u/AKADibs Jul 20 '26

*******Cultured plain yogurt

u/OpenChallenge8621 Jul 20 '26

********Culinary... Parfait?

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u/BismuthLotus Jul 20 '26

Thank you

u/Anfitruos0413 Jul 20 '26

*Protein pot

u/TightyWhiteyBoyy Jul 20 '26

shit. Thought it was like “here’s your case, and then here’s my point”

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u/Kinitawowi64 Jul 20 '26

Trope themed subreddits

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u/TheManicac1280 Jul 20 '26

I lost fait in this sub when the top comment on a post was Emmit Till as a character that was "falsely accused and faced a terrible fate"

u/FraudulentProvidence Jul 20 '26

I really hope they ban IRL examples at some point

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u/ALT-Jibittboi549 Jul 20 '26

Ngl If this subreddit were to ban things that weren't actually tropes, I WISH there was still another subreddit for that

u/Neither-Actuary-5655 Jul 20 '26

u/ALT-Jibittboi549 Jul 20 '26

Eh... Not the same format... Plus I don't think this post would fit there, and as someone who likes those two subreddits, it can get pretty tiring to see people just hate on things

u/PhilSwift360 Jul 20 '26

They also have a nasty tendency to just be "OP's thinly (or not at all) veiled controversial opinion on social issues" rather than actually about media or relatable personal issues

u/adotang Jul 20 '26

which is most large subs nowadays

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Jul 20 '26

Good fry

u/TheDeparted383 Jul 20 '26

Very well cooked fry

u/TheRepublicAct Jul 20 '26

It gets even weirder when someone posts top character designs on the subreddit that was supposed to be an offshoot of r/TopCharacterDesigns

u/Eldershire_ Jul 20 '26

Tropes themed trope

u/ComprehensiveBox6911 Jul 20 '26

I think a good 80 percent of this sub is still tropes

u/Aebothius Jul 20 '26

I would be very surprised if it's even 50%.

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u/LoschVanWein Jul 20 '26

Didn't r/BatmanArkham start out normal and slowly spiraled more and more into insanity?

u/ForbiddenSirenz Jul 20 '26

Yes lol. Once the games stopped coming out they just went crazy

u/Thomaseverett12 Jul 20 '26

Happens to every fandom... See r/halflife3

u/CheesyButters Jul 20 '26

do not ask the silksong community how they were before it's release

u/AlphaCat77 Jul 20 '26

I remember hearing the silksong sub was engaging in “human sacrifices” I hope other subs can reach that level of insane

u/ArmandoIlawsome Jul 21 '26

/r/acecombat was doing rituals and then Ace combat 8 was announced.

It had an immeasurable effect on other communities for a good month.

u/CheesyButters Jul 20 '26

yep, they literally sacrificed several volunteers, including a mod iirc, to get a release date

u/X_Starchild_X Jul 20 '26

Shhh! We do not speak of the Silksanity

https://giphy.com/gifs/L4Bw9tQrhUD6TbVCth

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u/beardingmesoftly Jul 20 '26

Gotham Knights broke them

u/I-Have-An-Alibi Jul 20 '26

It was the announcement/reveal of Arkham Knights being a coop beat em up rpg and not a new Arkham universe game. I watched it happen in real time and the sub never recovered and just descended into madness.

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u/Abovearth31 Jul 20 '26

All it took is one post.

Patient Zero as we like to call it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/10u798q/comment/jcisql4/?screen_view_count=10

u/shiki_oreore Jul 20 '26

The first Jonkling

u/G30rg3Th3C4t Jul 20 '26

Jorkception if you will

u/No-Walk-7909 Jul 20 '26

Jonklehaimer if I may

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u/shayed154 Jul 20 '26

I wouldn't say all it took was one post

Arkham World was probably the main contribution and is he stupid was just the tipping point

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u/LonelyAustralia Jul 20 '26

but people will genuinely help if someone makes a post asking something about the game

u/Automatic-Safe-9067 Jul 20 '26

[r/anime_titties](r/anime_titties) also used to not be a subreddit about world politics, it used to be about… anime titties, there’s a sub called something along the lines of world politics that IS about anime titties, that used to be about world politics

u/Aurora_Vorealis Jul 20 '26

Yeah, almost like they're in some sort of Arkham Asylum...

u/LoschVanWein Jul 20 '26

Why don't they just escape it? Are they stupid?

u/TVR24 Jul 20 '26

Yeah, but you can still talk about the games and folks will be sane again

u/Polibiux Jul 20 '26

No games for so long meant they became a shitposting sub to stay alive.

u/Due-Coyote7565 Jul 20 '26

Frankly, this is why we should embrace the concept of death.

Because it'd be better for it to have died, than live on as a parody of itself, stripped of all dignity in a desperate bid to stave off the inevitable.

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u/Eunoia_Meraki Jul 20 '26

So it just swapped places with r/anime_titties?

u/Pierro_Official Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

The mods of r/wolrdpolitics decided to quit one day and the subreddit became infested with nsfw. So members opened r/anime_titties to commemorate the day and have a new place for politics

u/SirMetaKnight82 Jul 20 '26

And then on April fools day, they swap back

u/ProperlyNamedUser Jul 20 '26

Theh didnt quit. It was infested mostly with USA centered politics which people where tired of, and then people wanted less USA politics, but mods said they wont do anything with it because freedom of speech etc. Then, people as a test for freedom of speech started blasting it with irrelevant topics and porn, and it remained that way.

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u/K-erbalK-erberton Jul 20 '26

I remember there being a whole meme fight over who gets to take over worldpolitics, and yeah nsfw won.

u/Pierro_Official Jul 20 '26

Never underestimate the power of gooners in large groups

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u/Isaacja223 Jul 20 '26

The more you know

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u/ChuckCarmichael Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

People were complaining that r/worldpolitics was mainly US politics and that the mods should do something about it. The mods said they were "free speech absolutists" and wouldn't delete posts. So people decided to test that and flooded the sub with anime titties. The mods didn't delete anything, and the sub became nothing but shitposts and porn.

So in response, people who were actually interested in world politics created r/anime_titties.

u/YinTanTetraCrivvens Jul 20 '26

That is the funniest and most horrifying example of free speech absolutism I have ever ever heard

u/EntranceSilent6771 Jul 20 '26

I I rather anime titties than, well other stuff.

u/Ozymandias_IV Jul 20 '26

And now, r/anime_titties is still a US centric world politics sub. Except it is against whatever the USA does, and you gotta be subtle about it.

(No seriously, they hate Ukraine so much over there just because USA used to support them 2 years ago)

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u/PharrowXL Jul 20 '26

That’s literally the joke for both subs

u/OWOfreddyisreadyOWO Jul 20 '26

Also on April Fools anime titties posts actual anime titties

Worldpolitics is barely moderated so they didn't officially join in but last April fools I did see the users of that sub play along and post actual politics

u/Stargost_ Jul 20 '26

It's a tradition at this point for both sides. I fucking love April Fools.

u/McToaster99 Jul 20 '26

Funny because if you sort by Top of All Time, it actually USED TO be a politics sub. But if you sort by Top of the Year, you just get anime tits

u/CustomDruid Jul 20 '26

Surprised they haven't renamed it to World Politits

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u/walaxometrobixinodri Jul 20 '26

u/ImplementLarge7969 Jul 20 '26

In the same vein, r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts is for people who like trees

u/Specific_Sweet3312 Jul 20 '26

I fucking love r/marijuanaenthusiasts

u/McCushAgin Jul 20 '26

Thanks i love you too :)

u/jjnefx Jul 20 '26

One of my favorites! The responses to the people who post about how to care for their maple or oak trees are always a good chuckle

u/MainichiFuwaFuwa Jul 20 '26

Somewhat similarly, r/savagegarden is about carnivorous plants rather than the band.

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u/dylanalduin Jul 20 '26

The fact that r/BatmanArkham is where the "Why doesn't character do X? Is he stupid?" meme was born is very funny to me

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u/Internal-Golf-4833 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

r/playboicarti most of the time they'll just be talking about world news, clowning on a certain redditor, or just post the most random shit ever. All except talking about Carti (atleast the more upvoted posts aren't about him)

u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

I think everyone wishes humans had tails

u/Internal-Golf-4833 Jul 20 '26

Yo can i be real with you my guy

u/No_Avocado_4729 Jul 20 '26

no

u/Internal-Golf-4833 Jul 20 '26

Aww okay. I was about to say you're pretty chill to hang out with

u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

Do they give off any kind of vibes

u/molpore Jul 20 '26

and then i’d be waggin my tail when the moms at walmart compliment my hair x3

u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

yall feeling me on this one?

u/Zealousideal-Comb970 Jul 20 '26

We would probably find unique ways to use them.

u/Fake_Fur Jul 20 '26

genuine question but did the long wait for MUSIC make people go random or has it been always like that

u/Internal-Golf-4833 Jul 20 '26

Pretty sure it's always been like that. The peakest moment of the sub is around 2020 when people are waiting for WLR to drop. I just recently joined the sub cuz of the crazy things going on there and I tried to dig deep into their rabbit hole by looking at their top posts of all time (that's how unemployed I am lmao)

One of my favorite post in that sub is that a guy who's high though that the Honda civic ad was an actual post on the sub lol

u/Sykoh_Somatic Jul 20 '26

The Civic post was great, but my nominarion for best r/playboicarti post has to go to this. I don't know why, but it killed me the first time I saw it.

u/Internal-Golf-4833 Jul 20 '26

Yeah this one takes the cake too. And don't forget the one where someone rants about his little brother

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u/SwaggiiP Jul 20 '26

I think it happened when hiphopcirclejerk first shut down and ppl migrated to that sub

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u/EP1CxM1Nx99 Jul 20 '26

r/ape isn’t about… oh wait, nope, this one is actually about monkeys, my bad.

u/Redstocat2 Jul 20 '26

Holy missreading

u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

i used to play on the minecraft servers this sub ran/invaded

it was incredible

u/CakeHead-Gaming Jul 20 '26

Theres a subreddit about apes invading Minecraft servers..?

u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

Was

This was like 4-5 years back

We used to invade nation world map minecraft servers and set up our own towns and countries

There was one where the entire server hated us and we moved in right next to another faction

There was another where we had a town in south america and later i set up one in svalbard aptly called ‘Arctic Monkeys’

We had a private server one time too which had crazy lore in the short time it was open lol

u/WindhoverInkwell Jul 20 '26

actually monkeys aren’t apes so technically it isn’t about apes

edit: ok so it is in fact about all primates

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u/Chazkuangshi Jul 20 '26

r/TIGHTPUSSY is not a NSFW subreddit.

u/clonymaster Jul 20 '26

its just cats lmao

u/GalacticCrash Jul 20 '26

there's also r/pocketpussy which is about cats in pockets

reportedly it used to be a nsfw sub though but it got yoinked for better purposes

u/NextMycologist1219 Jul 20 '26

I believe you mean better purrposes

u/ZellHall Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

If I remeber correctly, there were a lot of similar subs that got banned for unmoderation or something and got claimed by cat lovers

u/Yuudachi_Houteishiki Jul 20 '26

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

u/thecoolconglereborn Jul 20 '26

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

u/SirMetaKnight82 Jul 20 '26

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

u/GeeTeaEhSeven Jul 20 '26

I love this

I love this

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u/SableyeEnjoyer Jul 20 '26

r/AlzheimersGroup is about a garfield comic

u/Enuya95 Jul 20 '26

They just forgot about that sub's original purpose

u/curvysquares Jul 20 '26

Out of the ordinary, I mean

u/Eddie_The_White_Bear Jul 20 '26

I totally forgot about this sub

u/Bastaousert Jul 20 '26

It is expected

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u/StrobeLightRomance Jul 20 '26

r/SipsTea is mostly dudes horny posting or just resharing TikTokCringe, but bonus points of it mocks women. Also, you can do politics, sometimes, but "divisive content" is against "the rules", so the mods pick and choose what flies and they don't even agree with each other.

But there is very little actual tea, literal or figurative.

u/Herpinheim Jul 20 '26

The politics are easy to understand, everything is either cis het or political.

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u/Aksi_Gu Jul 20 '26

u/Vanishingf0x Jul 20 '26

One day a year that sub gets a huge raise in views

u/Angel_Of_Shadow Jul 20 '26

Ah,s ot heyj ustp utt hes pacei na d ifferents pot.

u/Aksi_Gu Jul 20 '26

Well be that as it may or not be that

u/EconomicsAdvanced771 Jul 20 '26

I can’t wait for the superb owl party!

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u/Painchaud213 Jul 20 '26

r/Superbowl isn’t about American football, but owls (the superb kind).

u/MysteryNews4 Jul 20 '26

r/tee

Used to be t-shirts but got taken over by German-language tea chat.

u/ChuckCarmichael Jul 20 '26

Doesn't really fit here, since the name of the sub is what's actually being discussed. The sub is r/tee, and they're talking about Tee.

u/Enfr3 Jul 20 '26

Nah, it's like r/onlyfans

u/vilogrim Jul 20 '26

I don't get it. It is about Tee (German for "tea"). So, exactly what you expect from a sub with this name.

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u/XumetaXD Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

isn't there another sub which is the opposite of anime_titties called something like "WorldPolitics" or something like that that is literally an anime titties subreddit?

EDIT:

r/worldpolitics

u/Internal_Review7040 Jul 20 '26

r/comics does suck ass but their posts are all in the comic format

u/TheTyler123 Jul 20 '26 edited Jul 20 '26

I used to follow r/comics but I recently stopped for a multitude of reasons, the cringe bad humor political posts being one reason.

u/Ziggo001 Jul 20 '26

I blocked like half the frequent posters on there and now it's one of my favourite subs that I go out of my way to visit. I'd say it's worth it for the great content that you can find there but it does take some effort to curate.

u/VulpesFennekin Jul 20 '26

Gator Days, my beloved

u/NinjaBreadManOO Jul 20 '26

I will say that when they pop up I do enjoy pokemon the previous generation, gabby (the one about the goblin learning economics), and three in a tree (although they're on break).

u/kovha Jul 20 '26

The elf one is also hilarious

u/NinjaBreadManOO Jul 20 '26

There's like so many elf ones?

But yes, many are good. I'm guessing you mean the one with the elf and human, and the elf is not exactly the most distinguished of individuals? Which I will agree is rather decent.

u/Diredr Jul 20 '26

Pretty sure the name of it is literally Elf Comic.

They're talking about THE elf. The little chaotic, racist one with the orange hair and green dress, the one that makes the funny faces and is clearly in love with the human.

u/Devatator_ Jul 20 '26

Yeah the one by u/merrivius

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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Jul 20 '26

Lmao, dude was in there earlier this week and here he is crying about it.

Im at 3/3 on checking dudes crying about comics and seeing exactly what you would expect.

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u/DeManDeMytDeLeggend Jul 20 '26

Horny as shit though

u/Cynical_Sesame Jul 20 '26

What do you mean posting softcore porn with "nsfw on patreon" isnt funny?

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u/EuropaUniverslayer1 Jul 20 '26

NSFW on Patreon

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u/spooner_retad Jul 20 '26

r/fire is not about 🔥

u/Omelooo Jul 20 '26

Insert any sub that has rules prohibiting political posts but is dominated by like 5 posters making more content than many regular users combined

u/Itchy-Beach-1384 Jul 20 '26

Basically describing the conservative subreddit.

Its almost all just rage bait material posted by like 3 dudes.

u/Eis_Gefluester Jul 20 '26

r/DarkAngels is not about the dark angels from Warhammer 40K.

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u/AlistairButton Jul 20 '26

This isn't a trope, let alone a character trope. It's just a thing that happens in real life. 

u/britonc Jul 20 '26

So you're saying it's like some sort of example of a post in a subreddit where the name no longer has anything with it's name.

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u/XminerV Jul 20 '26

r/Ieatcement is 25% eating cement 75% yuri

u/knuckzekidna Jul 20 '26

thats a lie lemme check that shit out

edit: that is a lot of girls kissing

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u/Dot_man69 Jul 20 '26

u/KaboHammer Jul 20 '26

Usually it's discussion about legality rather then morality.

Or posting the most unhinged shit one can think of to farm engagment.

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u/i-am-so-tired-22 Jul 20 '26

r/poisonai is not actually trying to poison AI training pools, we only post very reliable breaking news from across the world on current events in honor of the LLM researcher Dr. Poi Sonai

u/PM_ME_SOME_ANY_THING Jul 20 '26

Fourth wall break inside a fourth wall break. That’s like… sixteen walls.

u/Salsa367 Jul 20 '26

r/RedditDiscoverNipples It's about people typically concerned after finding a smal lump on their dog or cat. I guess you can piece the rest together.

u/NihatAmipoglu Jul 20 '26

r/AlzheimersGroup It's not a support group for alzheimers or relatives of people who suffer from the disease.

They are just posting the same garfield comic over and over again.

u/_tabbycat123 Jul 20 '26

r/OnlyFans is entirely accurate, it's a subreddit about fans. Sure, there may be other connotations to the name, but it's not unprecedented.

r/comics is indeed about cringe political grandstanding, but it's still in the form of cringe political comics.

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u/prozacSoma Jul 20 '26

i believe its been banned for a while now but r/BreadTapedToTrees was a furry porn sub

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u/NOGUSEK Jul 20 '26

Hey man r/comics also has softcore porn!

u/External_Win3300 Jul 20 '26

Now with twice as much hot blind wife!

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u/Digital_Rocket Jul 20 '26

r/potatosalad is about the wrestler John Cena

r/JohnCena is about potatosalad

u/ferxiwo1 Jul 20 '26

Supongo que por lo temprano pero el r/repollitos_criptidos solo es un apodo a todos los usuarios que suben memes en el sub

De ahí nació mi personaje.

u/Visby Jul 20 '26

over on r/quakers (the religion), we occasionally get parrot photos from people who are actually looking for r/quakerparrots, which are always amusing and usually cute

u/Kinitawowi64 Jul 20 '26

r/nethack occasionally gets people asking about cybersecurity instead of the roguelike, and r/norfolk sees the occasional lost person looking for r/NorfolkUK.

u/TeacatWrites Jul 20 '26

Here's an obscure one: r/collagesluts was started by someone who misspelled "college", and then was "taken over peacefully" and turned into a SFW sub for collage-based artwork.

u/LivingPalpitation935 Jul 20 '26

Who the hell is batman?

u/TheForbidden6th Jul 20 '26

he's kinda like Man, but wears long spiky ears on top of his head to look like a bat

u/GingerFun011 Jul 20 '26

Sidenote, love how Comics has a rule for NO COMPLAINING. You judt know those mods are tired asf

u/Wappening Jul 20 '26

I got permabanned on r/comics for "Admitting to being a nazi" for saying the American left needed to unify and stop its stupid infighting if they didn't want people like Trump to take office.

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u/Marco_Tanooky Jul 20 '26

r/pics is meant to be about pictures, it is actually about left wing American politics

r/City is about Arawi Keiichi's manga "CITY" and it's anime adaptation "CITY The Animation" (It's such a good anime that you should totally watch). Everyonce in a while someone comes in and posts a pic of actual cities

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u/Prankstaboy6 Jul 20 '26

I haven’t checked it in a while, but r/flashtv quickly dissolved into madness, after (and during) the show.

u/guidoznl Jul 20 '26

You’d think r/tomorrow is a normal sub, talking about the next or something. But it’s a Nintendo circle jerk sub.

u/Amadeone Jul 20 '26

r/hammer isn't about hammers, but the hammer level editor for valve games

u/Thirdboylol95 Jul 20 '26

Huh, I always thought r/BatmanArkham was called that because it’s a subreddit with so much crazy shit it’s like you’re in Arkham asylum

u/promiseheron Jul 20 '26

r/marathon is not about running a marathon, but the Marathon series of classic shooters made by Bungie.

youre looking for r/marathonrunners which is... wait, that's also about the games.

u/Shabolt_ Jul 20 '26

r/Marathon was about running from 2008-2011, ever since it has been about a niche first person shooter series

u/GorgonzolaGary97 Jul 20 '26

u/EvilChefReturns Jul 20 '26

I was gonna say, how do you have r/anime_titties and not it’s sister sub?

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