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The front page of reddit can be a cruel mistress My wife and I had one of our wedding pictures take the number one spot on /r/all one day -- There was some rat
by sharkweek 13y ago
The front page of reddit can be a cruel mistress
My wife and I had one of our wedding pictures take the number one spot on /r/all one day -- There was some rather embarrassing text super-imposed on it that said "Oh you think married women still give BJs" (google Condescending Wife to find it).
Despite some of the comments in the thread being pretty mean, my wife and I took it in stride, we're both internet people, we get it; we thought it was pretty funny all things considered --
The awkward part of all of this though, was this picture was EVERYWHERE for about a day. All over Facebook, Tumblr, etc. So countless friends and family inevitably saw it. I got a call from my concerned father, asking me if everything was ok and if I had seen what the internet had been saying about me and my wife. I explained to him that we didn't really mind and we left it there as explaining reddit to him would have been near impossible. But it was just a really surreal experience. We got dozens of texts and emails that day all asking if we had seen the picture.
The best part of the the internet's short term memory is how quickly this image found it's way into obscurity; to be completely forgotten. No ill harm to my wife's nor my reputation.
- adambard 13y agoI shaved half of my hair and half of my beard so that I'd have an interesting driver's license, and posted the photos on Reddit. So I can't really complain about someone else appropriating my image. But it did get big in a way I didn't expect. My mother found out when she went to yahoo.com to log into her email and I was on the front page. My father-in-law was watching the local news and saw me giving an interview. Two years later, I can bring out my driver's license at parties and people remember it. But they don't remember me, just the photo, so no harm done. (And happily, my domain has enough precidence on google to at least appear first for searches of my name). On the upside, if I ever meet Greg Proops or Ellen DeGeneres in person we'll have something in common to talk about.
- hackula1 13y agoWow, I had never seen that before. That is one epic driver's license.
- yannk 13y agolink: http://1079ishot.com/man-shaves-half-his-head-beard-for-dmv-photo/ http://1079ishot.com/man-shaves-half-his-head-beard-for-dmv-...
- gcanyon 13y agoThe eyebrows show a lack of commitment, my friend ;-)
- StavrosK 13y agoThat's a very yin/yang cut.
- seanalltogether 13y agoThe nice thing about memes though is it rarely has anything to do with the people in the photo, and more about what kind of universal message the photo can convey. I believe the scumbag steve guy discusses this since he went through a lot of emotions over his photo being so popular. Nobody who makes these memes is thinking of him personally, but rather of the character that can be extracted from the photo.
- djhworld 13y agoA few months ago someone posted a photo of a young lady sporting facial hair. Predictably the reddit hivemind were pointing and laughing until the lady in question saw her photo was plastered online and decided to reply to the OP, explaining she was a Sikh and her beliefs dictated that her hair was sacred (I think) The OP grovelled and apologised for posting the photo without her permission, but still, I think that was one of reddits lowest points
- gcanyon 13y agoI have to say, if you can make her laugh that hard, you will have a long and happy marriage.