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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What Could Go Wrong If I Complain To Costco
What Could Go Wrong If I Dump My Boat Illegally
What Could Go Wrong If You Cuss At Your Boss On Facebook
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.
What Could Go Wrong If I Park In That Space "For The Umpteenth Time"
A skilled scaffolding crew takes minutes to built this while an unskilled man could take hours to dismantle it.
What Could Go Wrong If I Threaten To Shoot Up A Supermarket
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.
What Could Go Wrong If I Decide To Let My White Dog Out After I Mow My Lawn
What Could Go Wrong If You Burn 3.3 Tons Of Weed In A Residential Area
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.
What Could Go Wrong If You Use A Walmart Bag When Bleaching Your Hair
What Could Go Wrong If You Keep Your Feet On The Dashboard And Get Into A Car Crash
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear A Click Pen In My Hair
What Could Go Wrong If I Put A Heavy Casket In My Trunk Without Securing It
What Could Go Wrong If You Hoard
in the other picture, they broke my bones, in this picture they broke my heart😢
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)
True story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920#:~:text=More%20than%20470%20inmates%20at,Sarposa%20jail%20were%20Taliban%20insurgents.
What Could Go Wrong If I Open My Restaurant Against State Orders
Losing the liquor license sound like a death sentence to a restaurant.
What Could Go Wrong If I Don't Strap Down The Boat
I feel like this should be the equivalent of running the red light and his boat licence should be revoked
What Could Go Wrong If I Leave The Car Window Down In Bear Country
What Could Go Wrong If I Hide Things In The Oven
What Could Go Wrong If You Have A Giant Blood Sticker On The Car
Hey maybe this up and coming serial killer and he's proudly displaying his work
I was just thinking that here’s another member of the idiot fringe.
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It is the type of car that criminals drive and you are stupid when you think the police wouldn't pull you over again and again.
I must be channeling my inner 6 year old today because I think that's hilarious.
Should someone who's stupid enough to put something like that on their car for decor really be allowed to drive?!? I would seriously question the intelligence of anyone who thinks putting something like this on their car is a good idea
I wonder about the story behind this. And who made produced that sticker.
If someone has a giant blood sticker on their car, something is already wrong.
Who would be crazy enought to drive a car with real blood all over it?
And would this dumbass be surprised if a cop had his hand on his gun at the stop?
Probably not the wisest thing to do....although I get the dark humor in it.
at least it isnt the one that looks like there are hands trying to climb out the boot hehehe
Why? Just why? Are we really so desperate for attention nowadays? What could you possibly not have expected to happen.
Will the police pull you over? Is there a specific citation for it?
I threw up before reading the heading and after looking at the picture.
Not wise. I see one on bored panda how the police paintball the motors on the run
Turns out you can buy some smaller ones on Amazon. Why would you want that on your car? Unbelievable!
What Could Go Wrong If My Dumb Neighbor Put Hot Charcoal From His Grill Into A Trashcan
What Could Go Wrong If I Try To Eat An Octopus Alive
What Could Go Wrong If I Carry An Unsecured Cargo
What Could Go Wrong If You Throw Away Mix With Yeast In It
Reminds me of when I worked for Pizza Hut in high school and threw out 55 gallons of over proofed dough every night.
What Could Go Wrong If You Attempt A No-Hand Wakeboard In Your Robes While Drinking Tea
What Could Go Wrong If I Fly A Drone Inside The House
I see a new fashion style in your future...Short hair for sure
What Could Go Wrong If You Park A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
What Could Go Wrong If I Don’t Check The Height Clearance
What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Photo To Remember
What Could Go Wrong If I Have My Bird As An Advisor
What Could Go Wrong If You Think Playgrounds For Kids Are For Adults As Well
What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Picture With This Gopher Snake I Found In The Road
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!
What Could Go Wrong If You Get Into A Dog's Personal Space
What Could Go Wrong If You Try To Take A Cool Beach Photo
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear An Eagles Shirt On Photo Day
What Could Go Wrong If My Neighbor Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There
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
What Could Go Wrong If I Put My Pizza On A Plastic Board And Cook It In The Oven
What Could Go Wrong If You Use Adhesive Letters On The Outside Of Your Massage Therapist Center
What Could Go Wrong If I Forget Sunscreen
Your a pale skinned Ginger haired person, Never Forget Your Sunscreen Ever Again! Skin cancer, here you come
What Could Go Wrong If You Accidentally Throw An Unsecured Bottle Of Cheese Onto Your Laptop
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Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
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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.
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
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.
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
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 !!!
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.
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
Load More Replies... 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.
Albert Einstein said the two most common things in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity. These pictures seem to prove the latter.
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.
What makes me even sadder is how the educational system is letting people like this matriculate through school then graduate.
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 !!!
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.
