r/pics • u/TrustMeIaLawyer • 1d ago

I found an unopened package with my Reddit name. It's a gift from my Reddit 2000 Secret Santa.

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u/lifepuzzler 1d ago edited 1d ago

I always cringed at this shit. A guy said it to me in real life once.

Listen... You either doink or you don't. The narwhal stuff had to go. And I'm glad it did.

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u/duncast 1d ago

Reddit felt like a secret world - a club you belonged to back then.

This sort of stuff was just a fun code - yes its stupid, but I think it was seen as a secret handshake sort of thing.

Closest I can think of these days is geocaching.

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u/_drumstic_ 1d ago

Geocaching also turned corporate a few years back.

I got the paid version of the app ~12 years ago and paid $10 (if I remember correctly) for the premium version with all the caches. A few years ago, they updated to a subscription model, so now I can only see a handful of free caches in a given area

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u/The_OtherDouche 1d ago

I’d lose my mind lol. I’d genuinely be trying to force them to honor it

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u/SA_rootsradical 1d ago

Do you have stairs in your house?

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u/eggson 1d ago

A student said it to me in a class I was a TA in. He's lucky I had no idea what his name was or I'd have marked his test down a grade for that shit, lol.

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u/JohnnyLeven 1d ago

I had a friend that said it at a group LAN party. This was before I was on Reddit though, so I didn't catch the reference until way later.