34 Wild Pieces of Reddit Lore

Given that Reddit has been around since the early aughts, there’s plenty of lore for newcomers to familiarize themselves with. Sometimes, it’s just the story of a guy who trolled his girlfriend’s parents by insisting he didn’t know what a potato was. But other times, it’s something that starts off as a troll and ends up informative, like the time a guy peed on a pregnancy test as a joke, and it came up positive. Everyone had a laugh — until a med student in the comments told the OP that he should go to the doctor immediately, as that positive test was a sign of testicular cancer. It was caught and treated pretty quickly, all thanks to Reddit. 

Other Redditors have remembered the times the community came together, including moments of laughter, moments of tears and one moment that everyone regretted seeing the contents of a box.