When you make an account, you auto-subscribe to the current defaults. For a long time /r/wtf was a default sub. Its pretty much murder and disfigurement porn. S

When you make an account, you auto-subscribe to the current defaults. For a long time /r/wtf was a default sub. Its pretty much murder and disfigurement porn. She's probably still seeing that. I believe /r/wtf's tenure as a default tied it with a period of a lot of new traffic, so lots of people still see /r/wtf in their feed. Whoever decided to move /r/wtf into the defaults back then was crazy. I have a thick skin and have seen more than my share of awful things on the internet, but a lot of that content is challenging even for me, especially anything involving injured, abused, or even dead children. I can't imagine what its like for someone not already exposed to that.