50 Times People Encountered Such ‘Power Moves’ Online, They Had To Immortalize It By Sharing Them On This Online Group (New Pics)
Wacky. Off-the-hook. Sarcastic. Bizarre to the point of making us giggle so hard we had to excuse ourselves and go outside to calm down. These are all apt descriptions for the r/madlads subreddit, an online community of 1.7 million members and a handful of fun-loving, energetic, and irony-adoring moderators.
Created way back in 2015, the subreddit is a place for some of the most impressive(ly mundane) ‘power moves’ ever to grace the digital landscape of the internet. Here, the madlads of the net celebrate genuinely jaw-dropping ‘power moves’ while gently poking fun at folks celebrating how awesome they are while they're actually doing nothing much out of the ordinary. A place of contrasts? Definitely. A place where some members don’t understand irony and what the sub is actually about? For sure.
Check out the best recent ‘power moves,’ and remember to upvote your fave pics as you scroll down, dear Pandas. In the mood for some more madlad weirdness? We’ve got you covered! Take a peek at our earlier post about the community right here once you’re done enjoying this list.
Meanwhile, be sure to scroll down for Bored Panda's exclusive interviews with social media experts Ariane Sherine from the UK and Mike Sington from LA. We had a chat about why people want to become famous online, how to compete with other content creators, and how to stand out on social media.
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Writer, content creator, and media expert Ariane told Bored Panda that people need attention, approval, and love. "It’s a human need to want approval from others, and there are far more people available to provide approval online than in real life," she explained why so many individuals want to go viral and make a splash online.
"Online validation is also there forever for everyone to witness. It’s a rare person who is completely impervious to the thrall of millions of strangers liking what they do—it’s exciting and boosts your self-esteem."
Media expert Mike, from LA, sees people's desire for fame online as a way to massage one's ego. "Trying to go viral and get recognition online is really mostly about ego. Everyone wants recognition, everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame, and getting it online is a relatively easy way to do it, all from the comfort of your home," he told Bored Panda.
Old People Always Know The Workarounds
I Don't Know Who Oliver Is But I Like His Gaul
According to Ariane, there are definitely more content creators now than ever, but that doesn't mean that all of their content is going to be especially strong. "If you’re an exceptional creator you’ll still stand out," she said that quality content tends to get noticed in the sea of information. "Of course, the more followers you have, the more chance there is that people are going to see, like, and share your content, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to break through."
For her, the two main things that help creators stand out online are the quality of the content creator's work and how prolific they are. "Post content daily if you can, but don’t compromise on quality as a result," she told Bored Panda that consistency and quality are very important.
Madlad Returned The Car After Stealing It. Then Yelled At The Owner For Bad Parenting
Well that's chaotic good in human form. Just imagine the convo between the thief and the kid on the way back. 'Oh heck no, no, nope we're going back I'm not a kidnapper. Who leaves their kid in the car?!'
We Got A Twofer Today, Folks
Bought The 4th Of July M&ms Specifically To Do This
"Speed is key if you produce topical/reactive content. But again, it’s better not to post than to post something substandard. Creating and maintaining an online presence does take work and effort, but it’s a really fun thing to do. If it feels like work, you’re doing it wrong!"
From Mike's perspective, it's very difficult to stand out online. "Anyone can create content, but you’re competing against literally tens of millions of users to create memorable content. It takes a lot of work, and can easily become what feels like a second job," he warned that internet fame can be very time-consuming.
*insert Your Spiderman Meme Here*
Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?
Now That’s Going Out With Style!
"To stand out online, what you post has to be carefully crafted. Quality content stands out online. Think it through carefully, ask yourself, 'Is what I’m posting memorable, inspirational, informative, funny, will it make people think, or feel good, or start a conversation?' If it doesn’t meet any of those benchmarks, it’s probably not going to stand out and go viral. There’s a lot of junk out there, it takes effort to rise above it," he said.
Previously, a few of the moderators helping run r/madlads spoke to Bored Panda and we got a feel for the (sometimes overwhelming) energy that the entire team has. They definitely love having fun, enjoy proper banter, and are living proof that the pen is mightier than the sword.
For instance, moderator u/RalphiesBoogers gave us an interview under the condition that we call them the greatest mod that Reddit has ever known.
However, some moderators believe that the r/madlads subreddit was “completely ruined” after legendary YouTuber PewDiePie, Felix Kjellberg, uploaded a video about the community.
This Sneaky "Put Pocketer" Probably Made That Womans Whole Week
Dad Just Had To Point That Out
College more proud of Justin than his dad. And excuse me, a degree in Mechanical Engineering is worthy of praise! You go, Justin
Madlad 1 Pretends She Doesn't Know Harvard. Madlad 2 Intentionally Angers Tesla Owners
"We got flooded with his meme-spewing preteen fan army who are incapable of understanding that 'madlad' is ironic,” redditor u/steveofftheinternet told us that a subreddit that was purely ironic was ‘invaded’ by a lot of new members who completely misunderstood what the group was all about.
“Mad-laddery is when you do something incredibly mundane, such as making spaghetti, sweeping the hallway, or being a Bored Panda writer, and then acting like it's the craziest thing ever,” moderator u/N8theGr8 gave a few examples of what the original intent of the subreddit was. However, the culture of the sub changed after the group went viral online.
Mad Lad Walks Into Fire Station, Asks If He Can Go Into The Fire Truck, And It Works
Memes Twitter Destroys Mark
Always Give 110 Percent!
According to u/N8theGr, r/madlads was created in response to an image of "a guy putting a pan or something on his head and everyone else being like whaaaaaaaaat.” That’s all you really need to know about the roots of the community. Deeply steeped in irony. So sarcastic, you can practically feel it through the screen.
"I don't know if I want to encourage too many madlads, since the last time we got too popular some impressionable kid put sugar on their already Frosted Flakes, and it was chaos,” the moderator suggested that too much popularity on the internet isn’t always a good thing. Quality members might be better than having a ton of random followers in some cases.
He Actually F**king Did It
My Goose Is Cooked Or My Goose Has Flown The Coop?
I Dont Know What To Title This
The photoshopping is extra creepy considering that editing the photo involves staring at the parts they deemed inappropriate.
Almost all dress-coding arises from inherently creepy policing of women's bodies. The one year my school tried to get all the faculty to enforce dress code stringently, they told the male faculty "It'll only be weird at the beginning - if everyone does it, it'll feel normal." One, no it won't. It's creepy for adult men to be policing teen women's bodies. And two, normalizing that creepiness is *a bad thing* and not only shouldn't happen it 100% should not be a f*****g *GOAL* set by administration. The vast majority of faculty threw a Lana Kane "Noooope" at them and ignored the directive.
Load More Replies...Nothing is wrong with women's breasts! People need to stop demonizing them!
I made a drawing of naked mermaids and they were beautiful but the entire class laughed 🥲
Load More Replies...Nothing like shaming young women's bodies at exactly the time in their lives when those bodies change almost daily, causing a lot of self-consciousness already. One day you're a kid, the next weird things are happening to your body and mind, and the one after that sleazy old men sexualize the hell out of you – and blame you for that!
Why don't we just make cardboard boxes a clothing item while we're at it? Like, an actual human-sized box with just a hole for your head. Maybe on wheels to get around. Then everyone is completely covered and no bodily shapes can be seen anymore, at all.
Back in the day(1974 oh god I’m so old) all of us ladies where draped in a piece of black velvet. Collar bones on down & arms out of sight. And yes, it was a public school. The yearbook is a freak show
Load More Replies...So let me get this straight, some creepy older man (most probably) stared at potentially underage girls for an extended period to see what parts turned him on, so he could cover them via photoshop? What the f**k kinda sick perversion is that?! Fire that man!
Most yearbooks are edited at the highschool by the yearbook staff,so it was probably a couple of 18 yr old boys and their friends creeping on a bunch of the girls In his class.
Load More Replies...I feel pretty bad for the young lady in the lower left. That edit took her from looking adorable, to looking like she was recruiting for a cult.
I was photoshopped in the yearbook, but not because of cleavage or anything (I had a graduation gown on). My left eye was slightly closed and hair was sticking out. Thanks Mrs. H.
She photoshopped my best friend too because her lace was showing.
Load More Replies...Girl who graduated a year before me dropped her gown and streaked with "NO WAR" painted on her. She had money for a lawyer and sued to keep her diploma. Since there was no rule against full nudity she got away with it and kept her diploma. The rules were very different next year.
Why is America so ... i do not know the correct word... puritan? shy? backward? Even in catholic Poland no one is behaving this way.
F*CK*D up is the words you’re looking for. Going down hill fast, thanks to maga’s & politicans. I am truly glad to be old.
Load More Replies...Yep I am not tryna be braggy but I do have large thighs and bum, so when I wear shorts they always ride up, biker shorts, everything. I always made sure to pull them down so my a*s wasn't hanging out tho. A female teacher fully yelled at me many days in front of the whole class for wearing biker shorts, but I'd see girls in basically bras have no issues at all. I started just wearing hoodies and sweats, she then told me I should take more pride in my appearance, I got kicked out after saying something like "Jesus Christ woman wtf do you want from me"
For my picture day earlier this year someone in my class wore a v-neck shirt. This one lady (she does the front desk stuff) was like “ that shirt is a little low, bend down and let me see “. The girl was like excuse me??? 🤦🏻♀️
I remember I had my shirt photoshopped back in my senior class photo. It was turned into a weird blobby mess all swirled and stuff. The shirt was just plain black tee with Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, and Pikachu on the front.
So I was once on fieldwork in a little town in Spain, at the end of the day me and my fellow students would chill out in our bathing suits at the river. But with temperatures soaring over 40 Celsius we'd easily head into town like that as well. So after a week the major of the town told us to not leave the campsite in bikinis anymore (the guys were fine), the women of the town had been complaining.... after that the men in town started their late afternoon walks along the river.... Either way are we sure the above is a patriarchy problem??
You make a very good point! The photoshopping was done because of "dress code", and men aren't the only people on the school board or committee that writes dress codes. I know a lot of women who make comments about the clothing young women wear, and it's pure jealousy, at least in some part. It could very easily have been a woman at the school who made this happen.
Load More Replies...Well thank all that is good and holy her shoulders were covered! That would have been WAY too much! Wait... The supreme court will start allowing states to dictate how we dress now, too.
Not even a chance that this isn’t a first step. Handmaidens don’t look so impossible anymore.
Load More Replies...Haha and you know the petiphile principal took copies of them before the photo shop
Went to daughter's graduation this summer - the most revealing outfit was a beautifully made up gay guy with décolletage and stonking heels. Most applause of the ceremony.
I remember my male teacher getting down on one knee to measure my skirt with a ruler and make sure it wasn’t more than three inches above my knee. Only now am I putting together how gross it is for a grown man to get on the floor to examine a teen’s skirt.
SHOULDERS?! Are men such victorian plebs we must tablecloth the table legs again?! Dear Gods men, keep it in your trousers
You think it's the men who want you covered up and not the aging women jealous of your youth? Sure, blame the patriarchy.
My gosh, someone should put out an announcement, females have breasts! Damn
Some one on yearbook staff heard about guys wanking to the photos.
Y'all need to just realize this is how protective parents think and always will. No there isn't going to be some great awakening where all of a sudden high school girls will be able to let their tits hang out. That being said it is too far to go and edit in modesty lmao.
Who is running this s**t in Florida? Think Vacationers need to pull all their money out of Fla. Go elsewhere. Crazy bastards
Bored Panda wanted to know where the line is between something madladdish and something that clearly isn’t.
"Contrary to popular belief, it's not an actual physical line like the International Date Line or that line you dance on when line dancing. It's also not a picket line, as those individuals who are fighting the bourgeois against the exploitation of labor under a system of capital are not to be dismissed as mere mad lads, but compatriots in the fight against our chains of oppression. It's also not rickrolling, since that joke is like 30 years old," the moderators had fun misinterpreting the question and showing off their banter skills.
Madlads Convinces Anti-Vaxxers To Cover Themselves In Mustard
🤦♀️ You know, at least the dinosaurs had the asteroid excuse for extinction. We...we are just going to stupid our way there.
Glow In The Dark Condom Review By Sadlad
Gotta Keep The Customer Happy All The Time
“For the most part, we just try to manipulate the price of GME. The main point of this subreddit really is to manipulate the NYSE and various other currency markets. The majority of our posts are code for market movements. We decisively curate and control the information here in order to send clear market signals that our followers use as predictors. I understand your skepticism, but that's how it works,” mod u/RalphiesBoogers joked that the main goal of r/madlads is to manipulate the stock market for financial gain.
This Guy Out Thought It All
His Maths Is Blowing My Mind
Madlad Wins Gold In The Olympics... In Cosplay
They added, jokingly, “The other mods will say what they're paid to say. Just to be clear though, everything I said is true.”
Mod u/RalphiesBoogers stressed that the term madlad itself is very open to being misinterpreted by the public.
“It's about people who take something very mild and comment on social media as though it is not. However, most of the users here are like 12 so they think it's all about being actually wacky or being a first-world anarchist or something,” they said that the art of recognizing irony has been lost (or never learned in the first place) by many.
You Might Want To Pull The String To Make Sure There’s No Secret Compartments
Kid From West-Berlin Messes With Border Guards
I Guess Finding Outdoor Seating Is No Longer A Problem!
“Truly, this misconception plagues the subreddit in ways that have cost the dow several hundred points this past week. r/madlads isn't about being mad. It's about taking way too much excitement in mildness or mundane things, and also driving Dogecoin to the moon,” the moderator quipped.
Madlad Goes Full Scooby Doo And Robs His Own Store
And he would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling, underpaid, overworked kids!
Ice Cream Company Doesn’t Care About Nutrition
Madlad Creates Company For Extra Credit
According to the mod, more people now than ever want fame and love, and attention online. “I see everyone, everywhere, screaming for attention and trying to stand out all the time endlessly, and careers being constantly pursued to become the next wacky social media star,” they told Bored Panda.
A Former White House Intern With No Chill
Lewinsky scandal is a shameful chapter in our nation's history. A powerful man had a relationship with a subordinate and that woman has been s**t-shamed and mocked since. I made jokes too about her, but I was too young to realize what my elders were doing and why it was wrong.
Madlad Tries To Take Woman's Final Dollar
Madlad Lives In Aol's Hq For Months While Working On His Own Startup!
Ah the gossip in that place as they all discuss who he is then decide he works in a different department.
Madlass Steals Declaration Of Independence Because She's Vaccinated
This Reminds Me Of The Why Are You In Jail Meme
He Must Not Get Embarrassed Easily
Madlad Makes Sure Everyone Looks At The Secret
Ksi Being A Madlad And Serving The Community Well
Imagine Playing Geo Guesser In This Guy's Town
Finally Some Quality Youtube Ads
Full Credit Given, Of Course
Publicly Calling Out A Company You Worked With For Being A Hypocritical S**t
Yeah right, Disney totally didn't almost can Owl House because it was too gay for the Boomers
Chuck Yeager, First Man To Break The Sound Barrier (Who Unfortunately Passed Last Year), Responds To Question About Ufos
Showing Respect To A Deceased Friend
Madlad S**ts On A Company Ad And Gets Hired To Remake Their Ad
https://www.reddit.com/user/Crypto-Hedgehog/comments/nmi1xn/hello_fellow_apes_uthemaloneranger_thought_our/
Madlad Still Looking For The Link 6 Years Down The Line
Dictionary.com Responds To A Person Who Is Using The Stan Lee Account For Promotion
Man Listened To The Weeknd On A Weekday
Classic Bait And Switch..!
Madlad Orders Every Protein Possible And Eats It All
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What's with the madlad/madlass in this post? Are they turning Scottish or Geordie??
What's with the madlad/madlass in this post? Are they turning Scottish or Geordie??