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.

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— U.S. Attorney DC (@USAO_DC) February 3, 2025

Our boi Scot narrating this cuck saga

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autodrama: returning jobs to dramneurodivergents. Ping HeyMoon if there are any problems or you have a suggestion

!animalposters !cats

Enter Betyes - 104 bets

Enter Betno - 125 bets

Enter Betplease stop posting - 6 bets

I will give a SIX HUNDRED (600) marseydollar bounty to the first person who sends me the inevitable news article.

If nobody has sent me the article within a month, I will spend SEVEN (7) minutes searching for the article on Google news. If I do not find it then, the bet resolves NO.

!remindme 1 month "site:nytimes suicide"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025

Closed.

@Aisha tried out smoking five spice and brown sugar duck breasts for dinner

turned out dericious. Am trying to figure out a plan for the leftovers for tomorrow.

!meatshit

The past two nights I've been stuck around liberals that have stared into the abyss for too long. They claim that scared idiots like conservatives like simple answers. Yet the simple answer they cling to for their election lose is that America is racist and sexist.

Never mind the fact that compared to Biden, Kamala got 6 million less votes. Trump only went up by 3 million votes compared to his last presidential rub. The fact of the matter is no one liked her. She has a history of being unpopular.

They say that Trump is holding onto power so he doesn't go to prison. That makes zero sense because he could give himself a blanket pardon just like Biden gave his family.

I really wish these people weren't in so many of my social circles. I need to find ways to meet more regular people

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-readies-new-1-bln-arms-sale-israel-wsj-reports-2025-02-03/

700m of bombs and 30m of armored bulldozers made by Caterpillar

Like for real nafo presence died by a lot after USAID stoped Jfl

It also stops with trans while I was referring to Transactions 💀💀

LMAOOOOOO YE cooking random people on IG 😭😭

— Ye Streams (@kanyestreams1) February 4, 2025

Anyone who has IG can you go see what else hes up to.

!thotpatrollers

!tmz

M27 from the UK and following what is going on in your fricking country.

Rent free

Btw if you're a 27 year old male in this country and STILL haven't chudded out, transition immediately

I hope you Trump voters are happy.

Immigration - He promised to lower immigration. You do realise that the majority of your illegal immigrants come into the US by plane on Visas and over stay their welcome?

Heh I bet nobody at ICE has figured that one out

no wait no you can't take those Dreamers from their homes and fly them back to Colombia nooooo defund ICE

Price of groceries - He promised to lower groceries. Has that happened? Has it frick. Its fricking risen.

How would this cute twink know exactly why does he care so much about american 'groceries' when a loaf of bread here is like 3 hours wages

Elon Musk - He has put the world riches man in charge of a joke of an government agency. I would say he is a much bigger threat than the Chinese are with Tiktok.

>elon mask bad for amerika!! mach wors than china!

DEI - You realise that we fricking need diversity? To bring a varying range of perspectives into areas.

Unless those perspectives happen to come from white men

If all people working in an agency are of one race, gender and economical upbringing, chances are they are going to come to a very similar conclusion on a lot of matters.

So what you're saying is diversity encourages conflict? interesting...

Honestly frick your country. All you are doing is isolating yourself.

Isolating themselves from....? A backwater communist shithole island?

Forgot about fricking Ukraine. What happened to Trump ending the war almost as soon as he stepped foot in the White House? Hasn't fricking materialised has it?

yeah chuds what happened to this thing I just made up in my own head. Bet you feel silly now

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I'm American and I have voted against Trump every chance I got. I don't know what to do. I voted, I tried to instill in everyone around me the danger he poses to our country only to be ignored

Hmm, I condescendingly hectored and lectured everyone about trump and it didn't work... What am I doing wrong?

I called those stupid government official phone lines to express my concerns. I did everything I reasonably could and now I'm stuck here growing more and more terrified every day, and with every new executive order that gets released. I'm trapped in a nightmare and I can't wake up.

When is Trump Derangement Syndrome going on the DSM-5? Like holy shit chuds were never this bad about Biden, were they?

Rebel. We have before

I wonder how our Brave Resistance Leader feels about Jan 6th

Bingo. We may be stuck with them as our government but those poor bastards are stuck with me as a proud dissenter.

I am a proud dissenter I... larp as a witch and cast spells against Immigration Enforcement

Look at my Resistance dawg we ain't ever escaping the Trumpreich

I'm embarrassed and disgusted to be an American.

shouldn't you be anyway?

I'm also from the UK, but older. I don't quite understand what benefit to the US is going to gain from having a President with the mental age of seven

This user spends his entire waking life neurodivergentally typing paragraphs about cats

Hey there. What you have to realize is that in general, MAGAts lack empathy.

Empathy mentioned, deploying heatmaps!

!g*mers @kaamrev