What Are The Worst Subreddits That Reddit Still Hasn't Banned?

What are the worst subreddits that Reddit still hasn't banned?

Reddit is a social news aggregation platform that came into being in 2005. Ever since its creation, millions of users have created their own subreddits where they share their interests in the form of posts, pictures, or videos.

Registered members of Reddit can vote up or down for a post depending on their likes and dislikes. As of 2020, about 52 daily active users of the website have been recorded. With an audience this vast, the platform is loaded with tons of fun, informative, scary, and scientific stuff.

With millions of users and followers, and even greater figures of posts, any platform can face difficulty in scrutinizing the content. This has led to several accounts sharing the kind of posts that must have been censored long back but are still somehow active.

The number of dislike votes for a post can also discourage the sharing of such content, however, that is not enough to take them down from the website.

The article is dedicated to subreddits that must be removed to minimize the disturbing content floating freely through the internet.

Subreddits that must have been banned a long time ago:

1. Reddit fifty-fifty:

Fifty-Fifty is a subreddit that tricks its users into playing a game. It gives them two, very blurry images. One of them is a pleasant scene of maybe a puppy or a landscape, whereas the other one has some absolutely disturbing content. It is more like gambling. You choose one of them and are destined to see whatever is stored for you. People have claimed to have witnessed explicit content such as a man being eaten by an animal, a person lying on the operation table with their head open, and so on. Such games must never be played as the content can scar you for a long time. Younger minds can be affected even more severely

2. Humanoid encounters:

This subreddit contains content where people share their experience of having encountered humanoid species. Now the truth behind the stories has to be sought for, but such kind of content can play with a person’s psychic abilities and put them into a state of constant fear and anxiety. Children must especially abstain from watching this kind of content

3. R/crime scene:

Who likes to watch real-life crime scenes that are accompanied by pictures of blood, flesh, and severed body parts? Absolutely no one. Or maybe the criminals. Whatever it may be, such pictures must not roam freely on the internet. Imagine the trauma it may cast onto the minds of children, the weak-spirited, or the teenagers. Such images can also produce a sense of violence in a person. How do these images even get leaked out? And that too for laymen to share over the internet?

4. Bad vibes:

Like the subreddits mentioned above aren’t emitting bad vibes already, huh? It is dedicated to stuff that is supposed to deliberately give people badly, evil vibes by sharing creepy and bizarre content. Now, why would you want to adorn your day with bad vibes? It contains posts that are psychologically disturbing, just like scenes from psychedelic games. A big no to this subreddit if you wish to carry out your day peacefully

5. Let’s not meet:

Speaking of creepy encounters, here comes another subreddit that shares real spooky encounter stories. Now there is nothing wrong with learning about strange encounters, as they give you a lesson for the future, however, the content is not suitable for all age groups. You never know what your child has been hearing or watching that can damage their ability to socialize peacefully in the future

6. ChipChan:

This subreddit is dedicated to the story of a woman who has shared posts of her sleeping in strange, ultra-flexible, positions. A picture of her sleeping in an absurd position freaked out the public thinking that the girl was dead. Later, she gained popularity with it. However, the story she associates with herself is true, creepy, and sad. She claims that a man who has kept her captive has installed webcams in her ankle bone and beneath one of her eyebrows to control and watch her. Whether this is a publicity stunt, or the woman needs help in real, Reddit must take some serious action here

The banned subreddit:

One can’t come across a darker and more disturbing subreddit than this one. It hosts content belonging to the theme, ‘watch people die.’ Now no one in their complete senses would want to watch anyone die in front of their eyes. Why do people even share such content? And who the heck watches it? Well, thankfully, the Reddit community had identified and banned the subreddit as it violated the rules of the platform

To conclude:

It is mandatory for the community members of Reddit to vote down such content and to stop following their producers. Content gets fame and encouragement from the audience. Hence, no audience means no content. However, that alone is not enough. The website must check into the stuff people are sharing on the platform. It should first let the post pass through various security tests before it goes on air.

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3. Best Subreddits 2021: 21 Best Subreddits To Follow For Best Reddit Experience (This article published on Medium)

I hope this helps.