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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
#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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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) 4 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 4 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 4 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!
#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 4 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 4 years ago
Your a pale skinned Ginger haired person, Never Forget Your Sunscreen Ever Again! Skin cancer, here you come
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Ms Phit 4 years ago
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
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Harleen 4 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.
Ms Phit 4 years ago
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
Load More Replies... Harleen 4 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.
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