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Eureka! The idea just pops into your mind, and it seriously feels like the best thing that happened today. For a brief moment, you ask yourself what could go wrong, but nobody was born with a degree in risk management.
One doesn’t need a study to state that 99% percent of those ideas are dumb. And that means you are left to deal with the consequences. Luckily, there’s a place to learn what not to do, known as the subreddit r/Whatcouldgowrong.
It teaches you a valuable lesson, which is basically that if there’s any chance the thing can go wrong, it most likely will. Spare yourself from post-What-could-go-wrong misery just like 3.9 million wise members of the group.
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#1
What Could Go Wrong If I Complain To Costco
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#2
What Could Go Wrong If I Dump My Boat Illegally
#3
What Could Go Wrong If You Cuss At Your Boss On Facebook
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Always check who can read your posts. Such mistakes have caused a lot of drama.
Bored Panda reached out to redditor u/Peanutbuttered, who is the creator of the internet-famous subreddit r/whatcouldgowrong, to find out more about their community. The redditor told us that after their friends introduced them to Reddit many years ago, they loved the concept of different subreddit communities allowing you to customize the content you wanted to see.
“I sat there thinking about ideas for a subreddit—at this time, it had seemed like every category had been thought of already. I thought it would be funny to make a content community where the only things submitted were just gifs of bad ideas with unfavorable outcomes.” u/Peanutbuttered clicked the button to make it go public, and the rest is history.
#4
What Could Go Wrong If I Park In That Space "For The Umpteenth Time"
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
A skilled scaffolding crew takes minutes to built this while an unskilled man could take hours to dismantle it.
#5
What Could Go Wrong If I Threaten To Shoot Up A Supermarket
#6
What Could Go Wrong If You Park Your Car In A Non-Parking Zone At The Supermarket
The community now has 4.0m members and gets submissions every day, but the creator of r/whatcouldgowrong said that it’s not up to them to approve the posts. “Reddit works by community voting, but we along with our content robots remove anything that doesn’t meet the rules,” they explained.
As r/whatcouldgowrong began to evolve, Reddit included it in a collection of popular subreddits where they “revamped the idea behind 'default communities,'” explained the creator. They said that since then, r/whatcouldgowrong “started to show up on the home page more often, which brought in more people.”
“The content is all pretty much the same, but the people participating in the discussion section of each post is no longer WCGW subscribers, but a combination of subscribers and general people from the rest of Reddit,” explained u/Peanutbuttered.
#7
What Could Go Wrong If I Decide To Let My White Dog Out After I Mow My Lawn
#8
What Could Go Wrong If You Burn 3.3 Tons Of Weed In A Residential Area
#9
What Could Go Wrong If I Just Feed This One Monkey
The creator of the community also said that their favorite submission is the one where “a guy is rolling down a hill in a shopping cart, and what happens is about what you’d expect. This is my favorite post because it inspired me to create the page.”
Even though u/Peanutbuttered is aware that their subreddit is for quick entertainment, it still provides a lesson to learn. “My hope is that people who are thinking of attempting a stupid stunt will rethink their decision or maybe recall a post they saw on /r/whatcouldgowrong. Then they’ll think, 'maybe I should not do this,'” the redditor said.
In fact, u/Peanutbuttered concluded that in a perfect world, r/whatcouldgowrong wouldn’t exist “because people would know what is smart to attempt and what isn’t.” But since that’s not the case, at least, they hope the subreddit can help to prevent an injury or save a life.
#10
What Could Go Wrong If You Use A Walmart Bag When Bleaching Your Hair
#11
What Could Go Wrong If You Keep Your Feet On The Dashboard And Get Into A Car Crash
#12
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear A Click Pen In My Hair
#13
What Could Go Wrong If I Put A Heavy Casket In My Trunk Without Securing It
#14
What Could Go Wrong If You Hoard
Violet brown 5 years ago
in the other picture, they broke my bones, in this picture they broke my heart😢
#15
What Could Go Wrong If I Post My Pic With A Full Map Of The Prison Behind Me (2 Days Later, A Terrorist Group Attacked And Freed Everyone There—happened In Nangarhar, Afghanistan)
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
True story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920#:~:text=More%20than%20470%20inmates%20at,Sarposa%20jail%20were%20Taliban%20insurgents.
#16
What Could Go Wrong If I Open My Restaurant Against State Orders
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Losing the liquor license sound like a death sentence to a restaurant.
#17
What Could Go Wrong If I Don't Strap Down The Boat
UncleRussian 5 years ago
I feel like this should be the equivalent of running the red light and his boat licence should be revoked
#18
What Could Go Wrong If I Leave The Car Window Down In Bear Country
#19
What Could Go Wrong If I Hide Things In The Oven
#20
What Could Go Wrong If You Have A Giant Blood Sticker On The Car
#21
What Could Go Wrong If My Dumb Neighbor Put Hot Charcoal From His Grill Into A Trashcan
#22
What Could Go Wrong If I Try To Eat An Octopus Alive
#23
What Could Go Wrong If I Carry An Unsecured Cargo
#24
What Could Go Wrong If You Throw Away Mix With Yeast In It
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 5 years ago
Reminds me of when I worked for Pizza Hut in high school and threw out 55 gallons of over proofed dough every night.
#25
What Could Go Wrong If You Attempt A No-Hand Wakeboard In Your Robes While Drinking Tea
#26
What Could Go Wrong If I Fly A Drone Inside The House
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 5 years ago
I see a new fashion style in your future...Short hair for sure
#27
What Could Go Wrong If You Park A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
#28
What Could Go Wrong If I Don’t Check The Height Clearance
#29
What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Photo To Remember
#30
What Could Go Wrong If I Have My Bird As An Advisor
#31
What Could Go Wrong If You Think Playgrounds For Kids Are For Adults As Well
#32
What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Picture With This Gopher Snake I Found In The Road
Richard Brown 5 years ago
And thus was born a new superhero VENOM-SNOT! Able to paralyse bad guys by holding a nostril and blowing a poison snot dart out of the other!
Bacony 5 years ago (edited)
Thanos, Joker, Syndrome, and Dr. Vu shake in fear! Sexy babes swoon! Alien babes are surprisingly uninterested! Tides, Winds, and Landslides are powerless! The sarcasm is dense! Criminals cower! News teams are in awe! The day is saved when VENOM-SNOT arrives!
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Vernice Aure 5 years ago (edited)
People tend to forget that non-venomous does not mean non-fanged...
Azure Adams 5 years ago
Gopher snakes are not poisonous but since they are wild animals its best to protect them and not handle them.
Blue Cicada 5 years ago
This is a wild animal, not conditioned to human handling. Even I know better than to hold it with its head free to turn around and bite me.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
One way to pierce your nose, right? The venom should kill all the germs.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
????? why???? would you do that????? in the first place????
Tessa Thompson 5 years ago
YAY, GOPHER SNAKE! It is possible to get a cool picture with a wild Nope Rope like this gorgeous gopher snek without being bitten, but that requires PROPER AND CORRECT SNEK RESTRAINT to keep you AND the Nope Rope safe (not difficult at all). Darn Fool Idjit, pictured here being bitten on the nose, is demonstrating one of the many ways NOT to do it. I'd love to see his hands, because I want to know how much the gopher snek bit him when he was catching it up (he deserved every bite). // This jerk needlessly stressed the hell out of this gopher snek when he caught it up--having no idea what he was doing, so he was chasing it and shouting and generally REALLY stressing it out--and then putting it around his neck(?!?!). His reaction to it--understandably--lashing out and biting his nose (an obvious thing to latch onto)--is to grab it and pull it away and throw it to the ground. *is REALLY UPSET*
RunYouCleverBoyAndRemember 5 years ago
Dude, it's a scared, dangerous, wild animal. Not a photo accessory.
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Because they’re stupid? Was this a trick question...
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
What could happen? You will be grateful that you identified it correctly as non-venomous.
Megzymonsta 5 years ago
WHY WOULD ANYONE PICK UP A SNAKE?!?! I would expect to get bitten if i randomly scooped a snake off the road for a pic. We learned not to touch snakes from a very young age and we don't even have dangerous species in the uk
Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
I used to catch gopher snakes when I was a little girl...it’s a challenge, they’re pretty, and it’s fun to hold them. But then I put it back in the field where I found it and it went its merry way.
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Mary Rose Kent 5 years ago
Darwin Awards are given out only when the person *dies* from doing something spectacularly stupid and has done so *without* having reproduced.
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#33
What Could Go Wrong If You Get Into A Dog's Personal Space
#34
What Could Go Wrong If You Try To Take A Cool Beach Photo
#35
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear An Eagles Shirt On Photo Day
#36
What Could Go Wrong If My Neighbor Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 5 years ago
Just as well no one was standing there. Next time place a bottle of Tomato sauce on the floor&when they drill, they will find the blood like stuff might give them pause for thought
#37
What Could Go Wrong If I Put My Pizza On A Plastic Board And Cook It In The Oven
#38
What Could Go Wrong If You Use Adhesive Letters On The Outside Of Your Massage Therapist Center
#39
What Could Go Wrong If I Forget Sunscreen
Johanna-Nicollette Kidd 5 years ago
Your a pale skinned Ginger haired person, Never Forget Your Sunscreen Ever Again! Skin cancer, here you come
#40
What Could Go Wrong If You Accidentally Throw An Unsecured Bottle Of Cheese Onto Your Laptop
#41
What Could Go Wrong If Your Wife Reminds You Several Times To Put The Dog In His Kennel But You Don't Because He Promised To Be A Good Boy
#42
What Could Go Wrong If A Locomotive Engineer Ignores The Wheel Slip Indicator
#43
What Could Go Wrong If I Drain A Deep Fryer Into A Plastic Bucket
#44
What Could Go Wrong If You Post A Blackface Selfie
#45
What Could Go Wrong If I Chop A Frozen Sausage With A Ceramic Knife
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Ceramic knifes are simply to brittle. A conventional steel knife might have survived.
#46
What Could Go Wrong If You Try To Cross A Flooded Road In Gujranwala, Pakistan
#47
What Could Go Wrong If You Say You Don't Need Any Help Putting Sunscreen On Your Back
#48
What Could Go Wrong If I Follow A Youtube Tutorial To Give Myself A Haircut
#49
What Could Go Wrong If An American Company Unequivocally Sides With China On Human Rights Issues
Richard Brown 5 years ago
Oh, I get it. Blizzard lost a lot of accounts when they stuck up for China by cancelling the prizes after that kid shouted "Free Hong Kong!" during an interview after winning an online game
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Ms Phit 5 years ago
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
Load More Replies... Harleen 5 years ago
What could go wrong when you call in a bomb threat? A girl from my high school found out. She was supposed to be on ISS (In School Suspiension), starting after a break. She decided that she didn't want to. She and her stupid a*s friends came up with a "brilliant" plan and called the school to report a bomb. These hardened criminals forgot about little details - like caller ID and security cameras. If that wasn't bad enough, she had just turned 18, meaning she could be tried as an adult. She definitely got the extended vacation she wanted - 5 years of it in one of our lovely barred, lockdown hotels.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
Robert Townsend 5 years ago (edited)
It has been a learning curve for me. Don't put fake blood on a lorry trying to go under a low bridge or you will flood the engine. Don't get out of motor to feed the monkeys or the bears wreck your car. Never park between trolleys or scaffolding or under bird infested trees. Do not use plastic or hide plastic in the oven, to hold hot oil or to throw ashes into. Stay away from dogs faces but get them to chew up the sofa. Tell mama her food is C**p and I've thrown all her dough in the bin! Avoid hair raising experiences.Oh yeah, don't be an on line karen to stores.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Well, we all make mistakes, if you say, no not me, wait for your turn, on the positive side, it's nice to learn, from others mistakes, I have made a few, no, not telling !!!
Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
Why are most of my comments from yesterday deleted now? I didn't write anything offensive or politically incorrect. I really don't get this site anymore. This is not ok. Maybe I should just say goodbye to all commenting and social media, because this makes me feel like I am a bad person for no reason whatsoever. Whenever I am "cancelled" like this without explanation "bye-bye", I am not commenting anymore.
Ms Phit 5 years ago
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
Load More Replies... Harleen 5 years ago
What could go wrong when you call in a bomb threat? A girl from my high school found out. She was supposed to be on ISS (In School Suspiension), starting after a break. She decided that she didn't want to. She and her stupid a*s friends came up with a "brilliant" plan and called the school to report a bomb. These hardened criminals forgot about little details - like caller ID and security cameras. If that wasn't bad enough, she had just turned 18, meaning she could be tried as an adult. She definitely got the extended vacation she wanted - 5 years of it in one of our lovely barred, lockdown hotels.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
Robert Townsend 5 years ago (edited)
It has been a learning curve for me. Don't put fake blood on a lorry trying to go under a low bridge or you will flood the engine. Don't get out of motor to feed the monkeys or the bears wreck your car. Never park between trolleys or scaffolding or under bird infested trees. Do not use plastic or hide plastic in the oven, to hold hot oil or to throw ashes into. Stay away from dogs faces but get them to chew up the sofa. Tell mama her food is C**p and I've thrown all her dough in the bin! Avoid hair raising experiences.Oh yeah, don't be an on line karen to stores.
Kathryn Baylis 5 years ago
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
sharron lynn parsons 5 years ago
Well, we all make mistakes, if you say, no not me, wait for your turn, on the positive side, it's nice to learn, from others mistakes, I have made a few, no, not telling !!!
Biljana Malesevic 5 years ago
Why are most of my comments from yesterday deleted now? I didn't write anything offensive or politically incorrect. I really don't get this site anymore. This is not ok. Maybe I should just say goodbye to all commenting and social media, because this makes me feel like I am a bad person for no reason whatsoever. Whenever I am "cancelled" like this without explanation "bye-bye", I am not commenting anymore.
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