With 30 million unique visitors and close to 2 billion page views a month, it’s safe to say a lot happens on the link-sharing and discussion site Reddit every day. There are more than 90,000 sections on the site; a single discussion alone can sometimes attract more than 10,000 comments.
How can anyone keep track of it all? Our daily Reddit digest highlights the most interesting or important discussions from around the site—every morning.
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The invention of the week: A tool to see just how NSFW a search phrase is, using Google’s safe search filtering algorithm. Figure out just how much porn will appear in your next google image search—before you search. (/r/geek)
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An Indian redditor explains why the first world problems meme is ethnocentric, condescending, and insulting. (/r/bestof)
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Should sarcasm have its own font or, more accurately, typographic emphasis? In speech, sarcasm is often represented with a change in tone. The Sarcastic Font movement says the same should go for type: Sarcastic comments should lean to the left. A lot of redditors say this ruins the effect of sarcasm. (/r/todayilearned).
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Two weeks ago redditor hihi_birdie posted about how her 8:30 a.m. physics lab made her lusty. When someone else in the lab noticed the post, the two became instant Reddit celebrities. Reddit HQ even offered to pay for a date. Now the saga has come to a close: hihi_birdie says they’ll just stay friends. Some redditors think the whole thing stinks of utter faux-celebrity silliness. (/r/AskReddit)
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In the U.S., a “curious” vocal pattern has crept into daily speech, most prominently among white women. It’s called the “vocal fry,” a kind of croaking at the very lowest end of speech registers. In an /r/science thread, redditors collect a half dozen or so examples of the pattern. One well known example includes podcaster Grammar Girl. But be forewarned: Once you can recognize the vocal fry, you’ll never go back. It’s annoying. And if you live in the U.S., you’ll start hearing it everywhere. (/r/science)
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Reddit’s favorite comedian, Louis C.K., is doing an AMA today around 12:30 p.m. (EST). If you’ve got a question, make sure to stretch your fingers and drink a few cups of coffee so you can get your question in a few milliseconds after the thread opens, as we’re guessing this AMA will be kind of popular. (/r/IAmA)
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What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen walking through the woods? I saw some some funny looking trees once. Apparently redditors walk through some far more interesting woods than I do. (/r/AskReddit )
