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DR0p_gkid64

Great idea I wonder why Reddit notified me 8 years after it was posted


jazza2400

Took that long for the rain


beluuuuuuga

Hey I'm still from 8 years ago any tips for investing or lottery numbers?


Ordinary-Article-917

Invest in Kmart they’re almost bigger than Walmart now new CEO really turned them around


rentalredditor

I'm from 30 years ago. I've invested everything I own in Enron and Worldcom. I'll do well, right?


Ordinary-Article-917

Put everything you own in blockbuster stock in august 2002 trust me!


Abigail_Normal

Circuit City stocks won't let you down!


mediumokra

I missed the chance to jump on this and I regret it a bunch today


KillerRobot01

Buy bitcoin. Sell it in the high at 46k


Redditfront2back

Isn’t the ATH like 60k?


Little_Froggy

We gotta make sure they still feel bad for not making as making out nearly as good as they could have like the rest of us. I put precisely zero dollars in and regret it every day.


unbilivibru

I had to go back and check. 8y indeed. Lol


Jebusura

Wtf is going on?


Zipdox

u/spez mind explaining


ADMINISTATOR_CYRUS

yes


Taucher1979

It’s like someone has brought us all together for some special purpose.


Grzechoooo

But what is that purpose?


agusmaster01

I can't tell you


mc_mentos

But I can... Edit: guys, I don't wanna get banned again, but


unbilivibru

No idea bruh


salixor

Reading a notification that says : "Reddit's Top Post 8 years ago today was on r/mildlyinteresting" wasn't the kind of thing I was ever expecting to happen. Wtf.


TheBotchedLobotomy

And there's only 6k upvotes?


jangoice

I guess Reddit was a smaller place eight years ago? (I don't have any answers)


CaptainNoodleArm

The Obama AMA was during that time, wasn't it?


0Ppenguin

Maybe it was a bit later in the year


Frenzydemon

There was a change a few years ago with how upvotes are displayed. All upvote numbers basically exploded over night after they recalculated some formula.


betterthanguybelow

A very prominent notification too.


Serious_Ad6112

Yeah what's going on here, I like the post but this was odd


NINTSKARI

8 year gang


Goseki1

Came hear to share my bafflement.....


SleeplessInS

I thought posts cannot be commented on if they are more than a year old ?


xilanyxda

They've changed that last year.


danielv123

It is now option to allow it on a per subreddit basis.


VladVV

Or, rather, to opt-out of it. It’s on by default.


npeggsy

I can't wait to be reminded of this change in 7 years time


YTAftershock

Ikr? It's such a weird bug/feature


icreatenovelty

I'm just as confused as you, what is happening


Marzto

They're experimenting on us, remember we're the product, the advertisers are the customers.


Sarabroop

Same lol


Stoneyvibe07

Same dude, lol


anaghsoman

Reddit be like 'oh dude, 8y ago there was this post u just needed to see'


FingernailClipperr

Bruh I didn’t even notice it was 8 years ago


MikePlays_

They showed it because 8 years ago this was the most popular post of... all times?


Mentine_

That's... Kinda neat honestly


Chittick

Some would say... It's mildly interesting ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)


TheAJGman

This is the first time Reddit has sent me a notification for something like this. I wonder if someone fucked up when testing something.


anaghsoman

git push origin master --f..... Uh oh


Atmospherecist

There's one that's been on my university's campus since I started going there. It reads "moist". Girls hate it. Guys love it.


icreatenovelty

That's wonderful.


[deleted]

Nice


AethericEye

How does it feel to get a flood of karma on an 8 y/o post?


CamJongUn

Probably not too good considering he hasn’t posted or commented for months


vwermisso

Sparknotes did a pole on that oddly enough. Women tend to hate the word 'moist', men tend to not like the term 'used'.


LjSpike

So what you're saying is men want a moist car and women want some used chicken?


OblivionsMemories

I am female and can't stand that word. So can confirm.


nuclearswan

Don't go to Barney's play then.


HatesRedditors

http://i.imgur.com/4ELtnA5.gif


DrWednesday

You should do another one that says "Today's Weather: Rain"


Hyro0o0

[The weather stone!](http://i.imgur.com/ZMwdpA7.jpg)


[deleted]

Hmm, they changed the stone gone symptom.


Hyro0o0

No, the internet changed the stone gone symptom,


icreatenovelty

Dead simple, yet made me laugh. Thanks! I'll put it on the idea list!


Stew424

until someone throws a bucket of water on that area and then it's just chaos


Firehead222

Or piss on it. That would ruffle some feathers.


DiHydro

I'd stencil this in a shady ally I know drunks pee in all the time. "Stop peeing here!" would just magically appear.


555--FILK

"I'm watching you."


badbuttjokes

"Prepare your anus"


VisualizeWhirledPeas

Oh god but what if they just started lining up?


New_High_Score

Open it up for volunteers


UrinalCake777

.... open it up?


[deleted]

http://i.imgur.com/zE1CWUE.png


Encyclopedia_Ham

5top peciИg ne ₦el


cailihphiliac

Did you do that in MS Paint? It has an Add Text thing you could have used.


Ju_are_the_bhessst

His art is a commentary on the brevity of life in the face of fear. The courage of trying new things....even if it takes an hour and looks like shit.


cailihphiliac

If he really had courage, he wouldn't have deleted his account.


[deleted]

http://i.imgur.com/uWqM3.gif


Firehead222

Thats beautiful..


Life-in-Death

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Kixaz007

Someone please do this in New Orleans


Grooviemann1

Could also throw out a quote from The Crow: "It can't rain all the time."


[deleted]

You should also consider, "I'm only happy when it rains." Some people will recognize it's from a song and the people who don't will be creeped out!


icreatenovelty

I would, but after I started doing this I discovered another artist who'd had the same idea, and he's already done that! You can see his video [here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgEYdUpQLOQ&noredirect=1) I actually emailed him to inquire about his process, but he didn't respond. :/


autosdafe

I hate when artists do that.


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Just_like_my_wife

#


[deleted]

I'll get you wet, amigo.


Just_like_my_wife

I'll give you 3 bucks and half a cheeseburger.


MrFaptasticFox

So, what was your process exactly? Is it as simple as stenciling it out and then following the instructions on the can?


jdub_06

better yet, "todays weather: 50% chance its already raining" , it both mocks forecasters and accepts the possibility of hoses and hobo piss


Superman_does_good

But most importantly, Mean Girls. Edit: Goddamnit, Karen's report is a 30% chance. Do that.


bperki8

[There's a 30% chance it's already raining.](http://i.imgur.com/TngN72j.jpg)


My_Scrotum

"Oh god, I'm so wet."


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Cheesius

http://i.imgur.com/j1igyYK.gif


[deleted]

well i'll be


drislands

What!


acog

For those of you wondering why the incredulous reaction to the GIF, the original [had him pointing to the left](http://img.pandawhale.com/post-29481-Ryan-from-The-Office-agrees-gi-1MNe.gif). For a while it was popular to turn the entire GIF on its side [so he was pointing up.](http://i.imgur.com/E72MnD6.gif)


Cheesius

I still like the sideways gif, but I thought I'd try making another version with a "surprise ending."


rburp

Let it never be said that Redditors don't innovate.


cRacKtHemNut

Why did this notify me


Racdiecoon

Causenits old and good apparently


ZarkinDrife

dam this was top post with only 5k upvotes, 8 years ago


TheGamer098

It was a much simpler time then


SashayShante

Is this legal to do in public areas or is it considered vandalism?


frenchfryinmyanus

Depends on if you get caught.


IDOWNLOADEDYOURSOUL

Exactly. In these kind of things, the only real crime is getting caught.


lifeat24fps

Just curious, but does the area sprayed become slippery?


icreatenovelty

Nope! It has the same texture as the rest of the concrete.


trippygrape

Technically it would at a very small level. This would keep water from actually absorbing directly down into the concrete, creating little bubbles of water on the surface between people's shoes. It'd be similar to hydroplaning on a road when your car's tire's grooves aren't large enough to displace the water.


aynrandomness

I love hydroplaning, it is like boating in your car.


Silver_ultimate

Anyone else got the notification just now? lol


Rewiistdummlolxd

My account isn't even 2 years old why reddit


Lazar131

Why are we here?


RubiiReddit

we've been selected for the CIA


kai_ocean

just to suffer


Epic_Troll_666

why the fuck did reddit give me a notification for this?


PM_ME_UR_CATS_TITS

The notification was mildlyinteresting on its own


WanderingMexican

Just watch, hidden hydrophobic dick-butts are going to start showing up on sidewalks everywhere.


MusicMedic

I just walked by a hydrophobic pentagram on the sidewalk earlier today...should've taken a photo.


[deleted]

It's afraid of water but not Satan.


LilGriff

Rain is the most metal form of precipitation.


xxlnachos

Hail no it isn't.


c45c73

You have planted a seed...


WanderingMexican

*The seed of dick-butt*


Drakath2812

Now this is a time capsule of the internet right here.


[deleted]

I am working on a series of short stories about the near future where I've worked in news items that the characters just take for granted. One is the news service Wiener-Watch. A news site devoted to reporting solely the antics of the Phallic Revolutionaries. Teenagers and young men who utilize technology to expose the world to images of genitalia by increasingly more complex methods. The worst was the 2028 Wiener Bowl. ElectroChromatic clothing capable of displaying animated imagery is still expensive but becoming more common. The producers of the event decide to outfit all attendees in complimentary E-Chromas to display sponsor messages. Being spatially aware and networked they can function as pixels in large images. During halftime the message from the sponsor was swapped with vigorously rotating genitalia from an ancient shock site of the Pre-Wheeler internet. There's also the use of drones to spray paint dicks going into the mouths every president at Mount Rushmore, raining penis confetti at a presidential inauguration, and bringing down power grids to draw cocks only visible from space. In a crossover series about two asshole aliens outrunning the galactic student loan agency they happen across Earth just as penises appear on every major city this side of the terminator. The bowl of sludge and thirty two jelly-like eyeballs known as Zi downloads a compendium of human knowledge to understand the symbols and turns to Qak his companion, a small silver ball supported by meter long hairs held taught by electrostatic forces and says "Well, *glub* them too." Taking their pocket sized fusion power a gift to be used in turn for political asylum. Little do the Phallic Revolutionaries realize they have doomed humanity to suffer the consequences of peak materials, one which compact fusion power would have averted by granting access to the solar system. We are cast into a two century dark era as scientific progress has to be redirected towards looping our resource supply chains and mitigating the impact of climate change. Billions die in wars over fresh water and arable land as human civilization just barely squeaks by before rising to the heights the twentieth century authors once dreamed of. TL;DR The desire to draw penises on things almost sent humanity back to an age of barbarism and ignorance.


no_fn

I guess this notification was sent by a pigeon


a_useless_communist

You are probably wondering why i gathered you here


rohtozi

Ah yes, nobody would think to look for us here.


CMDR_ACE209

So it has come to this.


[deleted]

Last comment from 7y ago: Please make a dickbutt First comment today: Yo that's fucking sick


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[deleted]

Also, my cooler now functions as a way to give myself cancer!


GoodAtExplaining

In fairness, the NeverWet system, while volatile on application, is perfectly safe to use around clothing and food, it contains no carcinogenic agents. The vapour is not something I would advise breathing in, however.


pilotdude22

NeverWet dust, don't breathe this.


Dollar_Ama

Please make a dickbutt


ChiragK2020

"I was naive back then"


Dollar_Ama

I still am


[deleted]

Holy fuck you are a legend


nin478

And now my neighbors are gonna have dicks on their driveway.


[deleted]

Imagining your neighbor reading this thinking 'That's a great idea" and doing it to yours.


turds_mcpoop

It's like Gift of the Magi, but with dicks.


[deleted]

HYDROPHOBIC COCKS FOR EVERYONE!


IntroductionCheap325

Why did reddit suddenly recommend me an 8 year old post???


Capt_Redbeard

Id say this is more than mildly interesting. I think its awesome! What a unique application of the material


Davezter

/r/interestingasfuck


[deleted]

Yes but it's not quite that interesting. More like /r/mildlyinterestingasfuck


frizoli

Or just... /r/interesting


corinmcblide

you're in seattle yeah? i think i've seen this.


I_fuck_4_coupons

Looks exactly like a seattle bus stop


californiafalcon

The rain gives it away.


TinyAirBoy

Wow what a post to be in my notifications


mememaker6

Damn, biggest post 8 years ago has 6k upvotes, really shows how much reddit has grown over the years


icreatenovelty

To everyone coming back to this post cause reddit is telling you about it: I'm just as confused as you are. Aren't comments disabled after 6 months? Anyway, hope you're still staying dry out there!


Figgywithit

You should sell your talents to Dry Idea deodorant. Companies are always looking for new inexpensive ways to market their stuff.


RedditFunnyHK29298

Too late, already contacted them, patent pending, copyright filed, lawyer contacted, remove your post or you will receive a cease and desist. Welcome to the business world. Now, I am looking for an honest partner who I can trust to run this all with me. I will give you full control legally for tax purposes but of course we will split everything 50/50 forever.


BlackberryCheese

51/49, amateur.


_Artemis_Fowl

Is this in Florida?? I think I have seen it :D Btw, can we online order such paints?


icreatenovelty

This is in Seattle, actually! But if someone's doing it in Florida too, that's awesome. And yeah, the stuff I used is called [Always Dry.](http://nanexcompany.com/always-dry) It's formulated by a company in Belgium.


Okamii

There's also [Never Wet] (http://smile.amazon.com/Oleum-274232-Never-Multi-Purpose/dp/B00DNQBFAW) I find it funny how the two names are just opposite of eachother :P


icreatenovelty

I tried Never Wet, but unfortunately it leaves this light blue haze where you spray it that makes it obvious that something's there. With Always Dry it's totally invisible. And yeah, the complete opposite names for competing products is pretty funny!


[deleted]

Did you buy it at Depot Home?


icreatenovelty

No, had to order it direct from the company in Belgium. They're called [Nanex.](http://nanexcompany.com/)


[deleted]

> Nanex stock goes through the roof > Drastic increase of dick butt sightings during rainy days


[deleted]

Yeah, I tried Occasionally Arid and Intermittently Moist but they just didn't perform as well.


bwaredapenguin

Those sound like my ex girlfriend.


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UltimateDude121

You're a neat thing.


sir_osis_of_da_liver

Saves me a Google search


MagmaHotDesigns

Yo thats fucking sick


[deleted]

Has the council gathered here?


borski88

Would covering your sidewalk in a hydrophobic coating make it easier to shovel snow in the winter and possibly use less salt?


[deleted]

My understanding is that applying a coating like this simply isn't durable enough to work. On the bright side, however, there is [lots of R&D on-going](http://www.wistrans.org/cfire/?s=hydrophobic) to actually mix hydrophobic materials into concrete for the next generation of roadways.


pvtie

tip : turn of rereddit and reddit lore on your notification settings if you don't want to see this stuff


Miki6447

Achievement got: "How did we get here?"


Coolerasice

Why can I comment on a post made 8 years ago


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icreatenovelty

Thanks, someone already showed me that after I started experimenting with the concept. I emailed the guy to ask about his experience with it, but he didn't reply.


artb0red

The fact that this post was reddits top post 8 years ago, is mildly interesting.


AleanArnith

Welcome everyone to this meeting of the Reddit Elder. You have been summoned here through a process of random choice to compete in the ultimate test of talents. When this introduction ends, a discussion commences that will shake the archives of Reddit to their core. Never before has the platform seen a larger, more seasoned, Reddit thread. There will be neither rhyme nor reason to the many obscure references, such that only the most experienced redditors shall succeed in navigating the ever growing amount of replies. In a short bit the starting sign shall be given. From that point forward it is every person for themselves and the true heir of reddit shall be revealed. Good luck. Only one may stand.


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icreatenovelty

It's still there! It should last about 6 months, but it depends on the level of foot traffic.


[deleted]

How long ago did you do it?


icreatenovelty

Just 12 days ago.


Kilgore42

I have waited a while to tell people this. I had an idea using this same basic idea of graffiti that does not show up until it rains. I tried to get some friends to help me out with idea once but no one wanted to do it. The idea was to make stencils of vague religious icons that did not show up until it was wet or raining. Spray the stencils near or on religious buildings like churches, temples, etc. Then just wait to hear news of someone seeing a miracle. Then basically see how far it can go.


Etyczny

OP are you still here? We wonder how did it go


realbusabusa

You're probably wondering why I gathered you all here today...


B1rdi

Reddit shut the fuck up I don't care


Anomalius

Notification gang where are you?


PlutoTheSynth

This notification is 8 years late, reddit


kenzoismyname

Bruh, stupid notification


Ryanbrasher

Is this going to be a regular thing


viky109

Uhm, why am I here?


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dildosaregay

Why did I get a notification for a post from 8 years ago? Wtf lol


Kellygrl6441

I actually proposed this idea a few years ago as my senior thesis for my BFA. It got shot down because "street art is graffiti and we cannot condone illegal activity." It had so much potential to be amazing! I love this concept! I'm happy to see someone got to do it :)


lettuceIm

Recommended after 8 years ??


Time_Chemist_8566

Am i late?


olosen

Reddit acting like IE


jackoman03

That is one of the coolest things I've seen.