Do you ever catch yourself aimlessly surfing the web, finding rabbit hole after rabbit hole before ending up somewhere so random that you hit that point where you tell yourself “enough”? This happens to me more often than naught. The internet for the most part is a strange place, but I’m very confident that I found the strangest corner of the internet yet. So, in the spirit of Halloween, I am taking you on a journey to a place on the web the embodies all the ugliness, nastiness, and scariest that the internet has to offer. No, I am not talking about my Instagram page; instead, we have to head on over to Reddit.
I’ve made my love for Reddit very well known in this blog. Whenever news breaks, I go to Reddit to see the discussion on a given topic. Hell, it has its own section in my weekly blog series that recaps the week. It’s way less toxic than that Luciferian political echo chamber that Twitter has become. The Reddit life isn’t for everyone though, it’s important as you lurk on different subreddits that you remember that 95% of everybody on that website is a giant fucking weirdo. But one thing that makes Reddit nice is its sense of community; there is a subreddit for everything. Nothing proves this more than the r/celebrityarmpits, which is, you guessed it, just pictures of various pictures of celebrity’s armpits.
Now you might ask yourself, “well I’m sure it’s one of those niche things where it boasts a couple hundred members and is mostly harmless, right?” And thinking that is fine, everyone has a kink, no matter how weird, but no, this community has SEVENTEEN THOUSAND MEMBERS.
I did the digging on this place so you don’t have to. I endured multiple weird looks on the bus by the people sitting next to me whilst their nosy eyes took a glance at my phone screen because their curiosity got the best of them, only to think they were sitting next to a man who belongs on a list. I sacrifice any potential public transport buddies for this stupid post. I wanted to do this blog for two reasons: if you’re repulsed, you deserve to know that this place exists, and if you’re into it, I did this to let you know this type of place exists (but you may be a serial killer). Before I show you the contents of this subreddit, I just want to give you, the reader, a chance to compose yourself and accept the fact that your life is about to change.
For those you don’t Reddit, what most people do when they discover a new subreddit is look at the most popular posts in the community. This is done to gauge what the subreddit is like, how active the community is, and usually shows you if you’d be interested in joining the sub. Here are the three most popular posts in r/celebrityarmpits, which I screenshotted for you so you don’t have to actually visit the sub. Let’s discuss each one.
So this is it, the number one post of this 17,700 member community. Pretty innocent gif, only to be SEXUALIZED BY THESE VILE HUMANS. And if you think I’m overreacting by calling these people vile, read these comments and tell me you wouldn’t arrest every single person in this subreddit.
Whilst researching this blog, this filth repulsed me. It just makes me sick in the pit of my stomach. I really do not understand how someone can sexualize armpits. If someone is secretly part of this sub wants to tell me and explain what about an armpit gets the juices flowing, please, enlighten me, I will not judge you.
The second most liked post in the history of this sub is this one right here:
This one makes more sense. I understand why this is an acclaimed gif in this community. Here is an actress that most people in our generation grew up on; of course her showing some skin and not dressing like a 52-year-old substitute teacher would garner some attention. That is until you read the comments of this post and realize why these people are gushing over her.
So the third most popular post is interesting; it talks about the anniversary of the subreddit and how all these people felt alone with their weird armpit obsession. It kinda gives you a look in the mind of these sickos.
I want these peoples’ brains studied when they die. For any normal person, they probably would have exited out of this website the second they ended up there. And I admit, there were times writing this that I just wanted to scrap the entire blog and pretend I never found this place. For whatever reason however, I just couldn’t stop, and I could easily mask it as “I’m doing this for content,” or “I’m doing my civic duty for the reader,” but the truth of the matter is I’m absolutely fascinated by these people. Every time I think I found the most repulsive thing I head to the next post and somehow it gets worse! The deeper I go in the depths of this place has made me feel like I’m trapped in a cocoon of horror that I cannot escape.
Yeah, on second thought, I’m going to look away and pretend this place doesn’t exist.
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