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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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What Could Go Wrong If I Complain To Costco
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
Great response.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Dump My Boat Illegally
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I can't😂
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What Could Go Wrong If You Cuss At Your Boss On Facebook
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Always check who can read your posts. Such mistakes have caused a lot of drama.
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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.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Park In That Space "For The Umpteenth Time"
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
A skilled scaffolding crew takes minutes to built this while an unskilled man could take hours to dismantle it.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Threaten To Shoot Up A Supermarket
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We'd expect something like this from Karen, but it's scary to think that even a legal services professional (supposedly a well-educated person) can willfully be so ignorant and reckless.
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What Could Go Wrong If You Park Your Car In A Non-Parking Zone At The Supermarket
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I think they deserved it.
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The community now has 4.0m members and gets submissions every day, but the creator ofr/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.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Decide To Let My White Dog Out After I Mow My Lawn
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It is Hulk-Dog. Do not make him angry!
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#8
What Could Go Wrong If You Burn 3.3 Tons Of Weed In A Residential Area
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That officer looks like he got a bit too close and enjoyed it too.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Just Feed This One Monkey
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Very dangerous...
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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.” ADVERTIsem*nT 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.
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What Could Go Wrong If You Use A Walmart Bag When Bleaching Your Hair
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he's not the real shady- he's just imitating
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What Could Go Wrong If You Keep Your Feet On The Dashboard And Get Into A Car Crash
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Jon S. Jon S. Community Member Follow
I wish I hadn't seen this. But warning duly taken.
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#12
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear A Click Pen In My Hair
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Well looks like kinda seismometer record on her back
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What Could Go Wrong If I Put A Heavy Casket In My Trunk Without Securing It
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Violet brown Violet brown Community Member Follow
dark but funny
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What Could Go Wrong If You Hoard
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in the other picture, they broke my bones, in this picture they broke my heart😢
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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)
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Andrew Gibb Andrew Gibb Community Member Follow
True story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13184920#:~:text=More%20than%20470%20inmates%20at,Sarposa%20jail%20were%20Taliban%20insurgents.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Open My Restaurant Against State Orders
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
Losing the liquor license sound like a death sentence to a restaurant.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Don't Strap Down The Boat
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I feel like this should be the equivalent of running the red light and his boat licence should be revoked
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What Could Go Wrong If I Leave The Car Window Down In Bear Country
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Monty Is Fiennes Monty Is Fiennes Community Member Follow
Wowch!!!
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#19
What Could Go Wrong If I Hide Things In The Oven
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Why wouldn't you check inside your oven before starting preheating?
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#20
What Could Go Wrong If You Have A Giant Blood Sticker On The Car
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
It really looks frightening.
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What Could Go Wrong If My Dumb Neighbor Put Hot Charcoal From His Grill Into A Trashcan
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The neighbor could have started a fire. Dumb is right.
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#22
What Could Go Wrong If I Try To Eat An Octopus Alive
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I am far from being vegan, but you can't be mad at that octopus for trying to defend itself.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Carry An Unsecured Cargo
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Excuse me, sir, would you like me to tell you about our Lord and Savior, Buddha?
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What Could Go Wrong If You Throw Away Mix With Yeast In It
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) Community Member Follow
Reminds me of when I worked for Pizza Hut in high school and threw out 55 gallons of over proofed dough every night.
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#25
What Could Go Wrong If You Attempt A No-Hand Wakeboard In Your Robes While Drinking Tea
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As a British person I have to respect his attempts to save the tea
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#26
What Could Go Wrong If I Fly A Drone Inside The House
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Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Community Member Follow
I see a new fashion style in your future...Short hair for sure
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#27
What Could Go Wrong If You Park A Car For Days Illegally Under A Tree Full Of Egrets And Herons
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
The birds have voted.
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#28
What Could Go Wrong If I Don’t Check The Height Clearance
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Ain Mukromin Ain Mukromin Community Member Follow
clearly you don't fit
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#29
What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Photo To Remember
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ADHORTATOR ADHORTATOR Community Member Follow
Grandpa is not impressed
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#30
What Could Go Wrong If I Have My Bird As An Advisor
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
When you have a bird you have to expect bird droppings.
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What Could Go Wrong If You Think Playgrounds For Kids Are For Adults As Well
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chi-wei shen chi-wei shen Community Member Follow
He is never going to live this down.
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What Could Go Wrong If I Take A Picture With This Gopher Snake I Found In The Road
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Richard Brown Richard Brown Community Member Follow
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!
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What Could Go Wrong If You Get Into A Dog's Personal Space
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Erica Erica Community Member Follow
Dogs rarely bite without a warning...the first picture and the way his ears and body language are would be a clear indication he’s not happy
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What Could Go Wrong If You Try To Take A Cool Beach Photo
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varwenea varwenea Community Member Follow
He seems incredibly cruel smiling so happily.
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#35
What Could Go Wrong If I Wear An Eagles Shirt On Photo Day
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The question is, who the hell designs a shirt that has EAG on the first row and then LES on the next row...
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What Could Go Wrong If My Neighbor Uses The Longest Possible Drill Out There
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Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Community Member Follow
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
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What Could Go Wrong If I Put My Pizza On A Plastic Board And Cook It In The Oven
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Who the hell puts a plastic board in an oven??
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#38
What Could Go Wrong If You Use Adhesive Letters On The Outside Of Your Massage Therapist Center
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Vorknkx Vorknkx Community Member Follow
"I'll take the rapists for 200."
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What Could Go Wrong If I Forget Sunscreen
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Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Johanna-Nicollette Kidd Community Member Follow
Your a pale skinned Ginger haired person, Never Forget Your SunscreenEver Again! Skin cancer, here you come
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What Could Go Wrong If You Accidentally Throw An Unsecured Bottle Of Cheese Onto Your Laptop
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Taking Mac and cheese to the next level
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made me feel way better about the decisions I make
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Some of them were quite troubling.
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Ms Phit Ms Phit Community Member Follow
Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that X-ray from the car accident! Omg
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Harleen Harleen Community Member Follow
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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made me feel way better about the decisions I make
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Some of them were quite troubling.
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Ms Phit Ms Phit Community Member Follow
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Harleen Harleen Community Member Follow
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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