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Lately, an Instagram celebrity named Lil' Miquela (pronounced Lil MiQuaaludes) has been in the news quite a bit, and for good reason. Lil' Miquela, despite her insanely lifelike language, posture, and perspective, is not real. Not like "Timmy Thick sociological study" not real, but computer generated not real. Despite this, she's become a fashion icon, Instagram celebrity, advocate, and...

There's been a lot of hate towards Kanye over the past few weeks, and for good reason. If you take what he's saying at face value, he  announced two new records a few weeks ago, then immediately became an outspoken supporter of Donald J, evidently thinks slavery is a choice, and has generally just caused a broadly annoying stir. However over the past week, Internet sleuths have started tying toget...

This was a big week for emotionally disturbed, incel-leaning serial killers. First, some cheeto-fingered Canadian who tried to start his virgin revolution up in Toronto, but instead just sold his private parts to the most dangerous people in the Canadian prison system, the equivalent to jaywalkers in the United States. However, a much bigger story broke on Reddit as a 30 year manhunt came to a clo...

With all the suin' going on these days, it's a great time to be a lawyer. But not everyone has the Skrilla to afford the services of the greats legal minds of today, ie the Texas Law Hawk. Fortunately, r/legaladvice is a great resource for those of us who feel like we could be embroiled in a precarious legal situation, without a clear path out. Or, in our case, a great sub to investigate true stor...

Welcome back, us. We've been away for a few weeks, but we're back and ready to fall into a deep, legal, opiate-induced euphoria with all of you sweet listeners. As is well documented on this podcast, we here at DYR (and when I say we, I mean u/dogboobes) have a certain fascination with strange substances, particularly if they help numb the waking reality of this alien simulation we call life. This...

Obviously we all know that everything is a lie and the world is an alien hologram that we're making decisions in against our will, but this week pretty much removed any reasonable doubt. Not only did Cambridge Analytica's involvement in the 2016 elections prove to all of us that we're basically just human excel spreadsheets, but the world's most confusing and alluring low-bro Internet personality,...

Now that u/itsyerdad is over his chest cold, we finally get to do the episode we've been teasing for the better half of the month, r/fragsplits. Somewhat like the Reddit Secret Santa, r/fragsplits turns the digital world of Reddit physical by creating a community where different users buy super expensive niche perfumes, then send tiny 10ml to 25ml bottles to "splitees" eager to try these...

If you've been listening to DYR for a while, then you know that we (and when I say we I mean u/dogboobes) can be pretty anxious people. It permeates our every day existence, and in our increasingly wtf times (r/PeakAmerica), anxiety is is about as omnipresent as hillary4prison on 4chan. Fortunately for you, there's a virtually troll-free subreddit, aptly named r/anxiety, where you can temporarily...

Hey guys, it's episode 69 (r/im14andthisisfunny), which means it's time for us to finally explore a topic from Reddit's wonderful web of NSFW subs. So, this week, we voluntarily destroy our childhoods while simultaneously testing our sexual proclivities for anthropomorphic inanimate objects, with r/Rule34. What's Rule 34? Great question. Probably the most famous of Reddit's semi-formal rules of th...

Last week, one of Reddit's newest and most exciting new subs got banned. RIP r/deepfakes, the once home to an Internet-wide attempt to put Nicolas Cage in every movie ever made, turned into every 15-35 year-old dude's treasure trove to their favorite celebrity's fake convincing fake porn leak. Initially, it was just a rogue computing sub where savvy AI enthusiasts could learn how to use Google's T...

Hey guys, we're a few days late posting this pod because I (itsyerdad) is Montreal for the week, which is totally lame because Canada is a super rude and disorganized country. PSYCH, Canada rules. But that's a great example of the kind of thing you'd find on r/unpopularopinions. It's not a place designed exclusively for contrarian thoughts, but is a perfect sub for you to let those insecure though...

For some reason, 66 episodes in, we're just not doing r/showerthoughts. But you know what, because r/showerthoughts is such a damn goldmine of beautiful brain nuggets, it also probably won't be the last time we do r/showerthoughts either. If you're an Internet novice, and unfamiliar with a shower thought, it's basically that tiny momentary epiphany that wanders into your brain when you're doing so...

Sometimes, you just gotta get something off your chest. Maybe it's something that's been eating at your soul ever since you were a teen. Maybe it's so embarrassing and pathetic that you've been trying to keep it submerged in your deep self-conscious hoping that your brain would finally disregard it. Or maybe your family is literally the only household in the world with a poop knife. Whatever the c...

Remember the early 2000s when all the coolest kids wore Chad Muska's weed concealing éS shoes, Tony Hawk's pro skater taught every teenager how to break their ankles trying to do a Christ Air, and Blink 182 was the world's (or maybe just the midwest's) most important band? Well 2/3 of us certainly do. Now, almost 20 years removed from the year that Blink 182's Enema of the State invited a whole ge...

Hey guys, it's 2018. As people who used to buy weed on the Internet in 2010 become bicoin bajillionaires overnight, and Ohio's finest boy Logan Paul goes on a ridiculous romp through Japan in the most Ohio way possible, we wanted to start the year off with a sub to help shed a light on the ethically ambiguous nature of modern America - r/moraldilemmas. So, is it more moral for Logan Paul to make a...

It's a sad Friday afternoon dear listeners. Not only are people on r/imgoingtohellforthis ruining the plot for the new Star Wars (seriously - don't get close to that sub if you aren't prepared to be blindsided with a spoiler), but Net Neutrality is we know it is dead thanks to Ajit Pai's smug, meme-factory of a face. This week we discuss our friend and intern u/hoefauxsho's sub-suggestion r/jfkfil...

AI operated subreddits are a special breed on Reddit. Without human intervention, we lurkers can see clearly that people are the dumbest, and we all continue to make the same strange mistakes over and over again. This is particularly apparent on r/fiveyearsagoonreddit and r/tenyearsagoonreddit, where you can simply see what kind of posts were happening at that exact time five and ten years ago res...

Milk with extra pulp. Porn parodies of documentaries. An airhorn designed to look exactly like a Febreze can so that you know when visitors poop. Are these crazy ideas, or are they just awesome ideas? In this week's episode we discuss this vaguely philosophical idea as we read some of our favorite posts from r/crazyideas. Plus, we move into u/myfreeday's new garage, u/itsyerdad and u/dogboobes pod...

Holy smokes Reddit piled on EA this week. First of all, a congratulations is certainly in order, since EA's official apology became the most downvoted post in Reddit history. Good work guys. Why? Because EA is greedy and their highly anticipated new game, Battlefront II, is basically predicated entirely on microtransactions. However, if you take the the wisdom of r/beermoney to heart, then you may...

This week marked another pivotal moment in Reddit's ongoing battle against hate subreddits when it it decided to ban everyone's favorite virgin-filled future serial killer sub, r/incels. However, the story if incels (involuntary celibates) feels more like a true perversion of innocence than your typically slanderous community of fedora donners. Before Chad crushed their souls into fine Cheeto-dust...

If you've been following American politics, or literally anything else in the entire world, then you've certainly heard the name Robert Mueller by now. This week marked an interesting turn in the annoying but endlessly captivating web of conspiracies with the indictment of three guys very close the Trump campaign. For those less interested in getting your trousers fluffed with outrage, and more in...

Everyone knows a Mike or Michaela. You know, that guy at the office who drinks decaf coffee and repeatedly reminds you of the wingnut medical backing behind his opions that caffeine will give you crohn's. Or that girl who always gives you extra work even though you and her are on the same career level. Or, that dude who tells your boss that he got a contusion on his foot from the hot spa stones yo...

Hey listeners, you know a real snoozer of a book? I'm talking like a real bottle of lithium on a long drive through Nebraska kind of snoozer. You guessed it - the friggen Bible. Fortunately for us though, the good people at r/thebizzible have taken it upon themselves to translate all those boring pre-emoji words into the contemporary cadence we all need to make sense of what it's actually saying....

For 2/3 of the Did You Reddit? crew, October is a special, nostalgic time reminiscent of steroid fueled home runs, hot dog entrées, and dreams of world series glory followed by childhood clinical depression. The MLB playoffs are here, so we invited our good friend Beau Abbott from Baseball Card Vandals to join us on the pod to discuss America's favorite pastime, r/baseball, both in the modern era...

Is stealing a universally reprehensible behavior, or is there a real art to knowing how get the copper out of someone's AC unit without them knowing? Is the National Shoplifting League going to eclipse the NFL as the next great American sport, or do teenagers just have too much time on their hands. Will u/itsyerdad be recruited to join the cast of Ocean's 11 because of his cunning Whole Foods &quo...