I've lately felt the need to make a few posts looking back on the days when Reddit wasn't completely lame and normie-fied, and this seemed like a good place to start. This occurred back in the days of 2015, ten years ago now, before Reddit would go on to become completely buckbroken by Trump's victory and G*mergate, thus ushering in the soulless website that is modern Reddit. The drama sub was in its infancy, culture wars and Tiktok hadn't ruined online discouse, it was a simpler time.

Back around the end of 2014, a subreddit would appear by name of 'April30th2015' with a sidebar message and post from user '20141220' explaining that he had mysteriously time traveled in his sleep back to the year of 2014 and felt the need to warn everyone of the impending solar flare disaster on April 30th, 2015 that would effectively plunge the world into chaos. Note: I had difficulty finding the original post as the sub OP eventually deleted their account but most of the sub's other posts are still readily available. The sidebar reads:

At 0250 UTC on Friday 1 May 2015 (which is late on Thursday, April 30th in the US) the power goes out throughout the world due to a solar storm on the level of the Carrington event of 1859 (though most people won't know the cause for several months): the power has gone out and there's no more running water or food deliveries ... and it will be this way for many years to come.

Within a the short period of time leading up to April, the sub amassed a decent amount of attention and as expected, reactions were very mixed.

Most immediately suspected it was a larp and reacted accordingly, quickly developing a meme culture around it and shitposting about the coming 'skeleton apocalypse'.

If the power goes out, people will say 430 blaze it instead of 420 blaze it because they will need to light candles

MRW the power goes out

April 29th be like...

BREAKING: Time Traveler has brought back photographs of the world after the power outage. Warfare and banditry become comonplace.

But this is Reddit and inevitably, some would take the bait.

Realscienceguydude comes to explain to us why time travel is impossible:

Why all of this is Bullsh*t

And 2015 Reddit responds as 2015 Reddit does:

Another brave skeptic steps forward:

Why This Can't Be True

And of course, some would play into the larp to the ridicule of most of the users.

Preparing

The OP would eventually gain his own cabal of edgelords playing along in every post

Horrible... very horrible things await this poor planet

April 30th is not what you think it is. And it's exactly what you think it is. It is probably the end of Humanity as we know it.

I did it, but I couldn't stop them. Their plans have only been delayed for a year.

However, the reactions that would attract the most attention would be the ones genuinely panicking under the conviction that societal collapse was upon us.

I'm legit kind of freaked out about this, someone tell me why I shouldn't be, please.

This guy is a fricking butthole

Gullible person with anxiety here, is this roleplaying?!?!

Is this real?! D:

Now in the days leading up to April 30th, the larp would start to amp up: 20141220 would prophesize that a Malaysian Airlines planes set to take off the morning after April 30th would crash. Reactions were, again, mixed but largely skeptical but this wasn't enough to stop one user from rising up to the occasion.

20151220, you are terrorist and a fear monger. You either release a public message saying that this is a load of bullshit, or I and countless others will report you to authorities. Who's with me?

He'd go on to argue in a now deleted post about his valiant efforts to stop this terrorist.

Now, after rumbleshit had supposedly contacted the authorities over this, 20141220 would abruptly delete his account and a gloating thread would follow.

HE DELETED HIS ACCOUNT

With the bulk of his gloating occurring here

But that wouldn't be the end of this as new accounts stepped in to push the larp.

I am 20141220, and I do not live in Greater London

Many would argue in the comments section about whether he was the legitimate 20141220 or not, but a new account would soon appear. The user SaveTheSpyCrabs would step forward with a post announcing he was 20141220 and this had merely been an epic troll.

He never broke character, *I never broke character.

He'd go on to try to argue some sort of proof in the comments but users remained skeptical. April 30th of 2015 soon approached and to no one's surprise, nothing happened. Users responded accordingly.

GET FRICKED C*NT

SpyCrabs himself would show up to shitpost and try to revitalize the edgelords.

I can't keep hiding.

But this time around, Reddit users weren't biting.

SaveTheSpycrabs most recent post is just him roleplaying.

The subreddit would die a slow death as users got tired of skeleton posting and many moved on to other pastures. Nonetheless, this sub is one of the last remaining vestiges of what Reddit was like in a time not wrecked with culture wars slap fighting.

top post, 39yo family space, not a male living space, 39yo with SUPREME shit is cringe tier, sterile fish bowl house looks like a porn set

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1imc79f/39_married_with_kids/

pretty decent tbh

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1iltsct/33m_first_time_living_solo/

what do all these guys do for a living?

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1imbd4r/35m_uncut_straight_married_but_wife_rolls_both/

anime stuffed animals? It's fricking over bro

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1ipcmbq/24_night_shift_mechanic_my_first_apartment_after/

needs a foid to decorate it tier

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1imabam/24m_just_bought_my_first_house/

what is it with redditors and all their alcohol?

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1indimz/took_your_advice_update_solo_31m_not_gay/

marioshit, it's over

https://old.reddit.com/r/malelivingspace/comments/1in7818/27_not_gay/

Whenvever I log on the chat seems to be filled with indoctrinated teen Americans/bots regurgitating far-right propaganda from social media; why is this not moderated?

A lot of what is said would be classed as incitement to racial hatred which is a criminal act so I find it strange this is allowed on a public chat. This isn't Twitter and I find it a bit disgusting the developers don't prevent their game being used as an indoctrination tool for the far-right.

Mechabellum is a moderately entertaining auto battler created by a small Chinese developer. There is a "global chat" that anyone can talk in and it's a completely unmoderated free for all, so as you'd expect it's basically an Xbox Live lobby from 2006. Almost everyone just ignores it. This causes occasionally sneed on the subreddit.

Contact pic.twitter.com/3JZfzcmcYI

— Frasier Payne (@MeinGottNiles) February 21, 2025

Woman sues fertility clinic for implanting wrong embryo — forcing her to hand over baby five months after giving birth

A devastated Georgia woman is suing a fertility clinic for implanting the wrong embryo inside her, resulting in the baby being "ripped away" from her five months after she gave birth and bonded with the child.

Krystena Murray, from Savannah, underwent in vitro fertilization two years ago and only discovered the fertility clinic's "reckless" mistake after she delivered a healthy baby boy in December 2023.

Murray and her sperm donor are both white .

She said she "knew something was very wrong" when the child was born because she delivered a "dark-skinned, African American baby," according to the lawsuit.

!medicine !r-slurs !biology !chuds !foidmoment

OP

Top comments all point out that reddit intellectuals were tricked

It's like they don't even care that the GOOD guy got punched!

Redditors seem to not understand that anti-fa means they can't be fascist. Did the conditioning break?

It's like they don't even know the Paradox of Tolerance! It's actually a moral imperative to attack people who disagree with weapons!

Jannies are catching strays

Self-defense enjoyers coming out

Bob Dylan- Times are a changin.mp3

The only 2 black kids in history that did something wrong and deserved to be executed on the spot are mentioned

1: Elon Musk, Trump Inauguration

2: Calvin Robinson, at a "Summit" event

3: Steve Bannon, CPAC

4: Eduardo Verástegui, CPAC

5: Tom Hill, CEO of ESI Construction, CPAC

Thanks suckers!

In case you missed Elon’s 14 flags tweet, here’s what you need to know:

He is involved in a system of communication with white supremacists and he’s not even giving dog-whistles anymore. The 14 word slogan posted at 11:14pm among white supremacists:

"We must secure the… pic.twitter.com/jneCtXkPQB

— Greg J Stoker (@gregjstoker) February 17, 2025

!g*mers !superheroes !nooticers !asians

Female rapper Dank Demoss proves that she can fit in a small SUV and plans to use this video as evidence in court against Lyft after filing a lawsuit against them
pic.twitter.com/GXsgN4TSfb

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) February 14, 2025

CASE CLOSED

Ok now try to put her in a small sedan like the Lyft driver had

— AJ Kanto (@aj_kanto) February 14, 2025

The SUV: pic.twitter.com/uXN81tzprL

— Prince Debit 🇨🇲 (@MainEventChris_) February 15, 2025

the car after she got in 😭 pic.twitter.com/rRbDkrurlK

— boogie 🐸 (@iBoogie247) February 15, 2025

the car had to lock in

— Ggt (@Ggt1526682) February 16, 2025

The Lyft driver said : pic.twitter.com/hCsdSKJHmo

— Kingflaymes (@wavu_is_active) February 14, 2025

This is because the creature was mentioned to be a prehistoric marsupial . Yes I'm saying he shoved them inside his pouch. You're welcome.

Important movie

!badgemaxxers most of you know the drill.

Banners are my favorite part of the site's aesthetic. And you are all beholden to my special interests. So you make banners around a particular r-slurred theme and you get badges. We've previously done like 20+ of these and they are a big part of why the site looks so very cool.

THEME: FAST FOOD

Rapid fire starter concepts off the top of my head to get the ol' noggin joggin:

• Make it look like an advertisement

• Make it look like a job posting

• Make it look like it's announcing a new special

• Pick an actual fast food location and theme it around there with their address and shit

• Make it sexual

• Make it GAY

• Make it gross

REQUIREMENTS

• Submit the banners here: https://rdrama.net/submit/banners

• 1920x192 dimensions (under 2mb filesize if animated)

• Must say rDrama or rDrama.net somewhere

• Doesn't have to use a mascot (marsey/capy/carp/platy/zombiewolf/dk) but strongly recommended

• No low effort.

WHAT YOU GET

1 BANNER

You're hired! Welcome to the team!

2 BANNERS

Moving on up in the world to the envy of pizzashills everywhere, you've made Assistant Manager. Congratulations!

3+ BANNERS

I don't even know where you can go from here. Nowhere I think. You're the big boss now making the big bucks. Well done.

Ok that's all back to work bye x