NSFL
Read at your own risk, some of these are truly repulsive.
- The Jolly Rancher Story (NSFW)
- The Cumbox (NSFW)
- Colby the Dog (NSFW)
- The Swamps of Dagobah (NSFW)
- Probably Nonsexual and Silly (NSFW)
- A Man and His Coconut (NSFW)
- The Doritos Story (NSFW)
Greatest Hits
- Don’t Ask How I Took This Picture
- Streetlamp Le Moose (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5)
- Grand Prix Richmond Crackstyle (NSFW)
- Today You, Tomorrow Me
- President Barack Obama AMA
- Because China
- Guy Actually Does Save Homeless Girl
- Origins of Cuil Theory
- A Wild Sketch Appears vs. Shitty Watercolor
- The Matrix is Reddit
- Colonel Chris Hadfield Talks to Reddit from Space
- Reddit Gets Classy
- France is Bacon
- Shower To Go, 2AM Chili, and 2AM ICE CHILI SHOWER
- The Perfect Pancake
- Ryan’s Rules to Success
- OP Literally Eats a Dick (NSFW)
- This Guy’s Dead Wife (NSFW)
- Shipwrecks
Funny
- The Poop Knife
- Guy Who Thinks His Sister is Hot (NSFW)
- Guy Who Pretended Not to Know What a Potato is
- Geraffes Are So Dumb
- The Saga of Kevin
- Guy Pooped His Pants at Work (NSFW)
- You Like That, You Fucking Retard? (NSFW)
- Guy Hates His Job
- Cat Facts
- A Day in the Life of a Moderator
- DarqWolff’s Intellect
- Guy Blasts Porn to Support Friend (NSFW)
- Homemade Electric Chair (NSFW)
- Reasons My Wife is Crying
- Reddit Turned Spanish
- Some Music During Sex (NSFW)
- Make Mark Zuckerberg Look More Human-like
Drama
- The /r/lgbt Mod Meltdown
- Quickmeme Banned Reddit-Wide
- DOXGATE, AKA Doxtober
- Reddit Bans Jailbait, Redditors React (NSFW)
History
- Reddit’s First Ever Post
- Reddit’s First Ever Comment
- The Great Digg Migration
- The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight
- We Did it Reddit, Boston Bombing Disaster
- Gold Rush of 2013
- The Fappening (NSFW)
- The Button
- Confession Bear Murderer (NSFW)
- The Fall of /u/Unidan
Honorable Mentions
- Pictures of Ian Sleeping, epic but not sure how to archive this.
- Origins of the Banana for Scale, images appear lost.
- Guy’s Grandpa Dies, a Photo is Found, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The “Broken Arms” AMA (NSFL), all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The Woody Harrelson AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- The Jose Canseco AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- Guy with Two Dicks AMA, all in comments, too messy to catalog.
- His Name is Robert Paulson, 22,685 comments over 6 years.
Purposely Omitted
- The “ask a rapist” thread. No thanks.
(Last updated 7/10/23, still very incomplete)
Can we also get an archive of amazing posts? The one post about grief from U/GSnow comes to mind. Here’s a link to the post
Absolutely. That was a great read btw.
I’m glad you enjoyed it. :)
Thank you for all the work you put into the archive. I really appreciate it.
Most welcome!
Thank you for this labor of love
Welcome!
Thank you!!
There’s a few where the classic post is a reply. I’m not sure what the best way to format those would be but it would be great to have them be consistent. So here’s an example, though the joke has been done to death, the orginal should be archived.
- Source: /r/AskReddit
- Posted: Nov 10 2016
- Author: PreOpTransCentaur
- Topic: You can have sex with one real person from all of human history - who is your ultimate lay?
phil8248 (17.9k points): I'd like to have sex one more time with my wife who passed away from cancer 9 years ago. My body yearns for hers. The ultimate downside to finding "the one" is she may die young and leave you wanting. somethingobscur (27.7k points): I also choose this guy's dead wife.
I like it.
Oh my gosh, I love this! Are you taking suggestions? I am not sure what the post title was so I am not positive you don’t have it on here already, but 10/10 with rice.
Suggestions are great and appreciated. I’ll check out 10/10 with rice.
This is awesome. I was so worried about losing some classics like these.
Incredible collection! Makes me want to dig into “saved” bank to see if I have anything similar.
Thank you for being an excellent internet historian / steward of internet history. Any thoughts on saving this content outside of reddit? Either on an image based platform or something else?
Thank you!
I think an image platform would be best for longevity’s sake. I’ve leaned toward the Lemmy-localized text/quotations format over the images format to try and keep things as screen reader accessible as possible. For all I know the software may have advanced to the point that it can parse text in images, it’s just an old habit and I guess they do die hard.
I’d still like to go back and take screenshots to attach to the relevant text posts, I think, as well as getting some of the sagas under “honorary mentions” archived as images (I’m not seeing another way to do it for a lot of them; they’re mostly comment chains scattered pretty wildly that need a lot of context to make sense of).
Anyway I’m rambling. Thanks again, and hope you got a kick out of reading some of the classics!
Edit: If you find anything in your “saved” bank I’d love to give it a read.
Ah, so many… gems in this list. Best of luck! I’d help more than an upvote, but I’m somewhat new-ish to Reddit, only joined in 2020.
Thank you!
Thank you for your work! May I help?
Electric Chair: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/8uen0t/comment/e1fcy3r/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Gay Swans: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3txkhp/my_wife_cries_at_absolutely_anything_i_mean/
Reddit went spanish: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cq1q2/help_reddit_turned_spanish_and_i_cannot_undo_it/
Music during sex is weird: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/x35iu6/tifu_my_20f_girlfriend_of_two_years_told_me_the/
Got them, thank you! I’d never seen the music during sex one and it destroyed me. It just got weirder and weirder.