Reddit, the massively popular social news site, has become an imageboard—a factory of visual stimulation that is seemingly infinite, endlessly entertaining, and, we’re sorry to say, often intellectually vacuous.
There is indeed a direct correlation between the number of Advice Animals you’ve seen in a lifetime and the degeneration of your IQ. Cat pictures, meanwhile, have been proven to attach to your hippocampus like plaque, smothering memories of smart things: lessons your mother taught you, calculus, the solution to P versus NP.
There are places on Reddit where images won’t infect your brain with stupid, however. Hidden gems buried deep in the maze of pastel blue. Places where images stimulate through wonder rather than deaden through mindless entertainment.
This is a voyage, an exploration of the best of Reddit’s unknown image forums. Are you ready? Gird your optic nerves.
1) r/museum
The content of the world’s museums assembled into a single Reddit forum.
2) r/mspaint
The highest caliber drawings using the worst paint program available.
3) r/glitch_art
Art in happenstance, or the intentionally accidental.
Reddit’s bestiary of the fantastical and terrifying.
Beautiful indoctrination.
6) r/wtfart
This subreddit has nothing to do with gaseous expulsions and everything to do experimental art that’s weird in just the right way.
Hypnotic loops.
8) r/SpecArt
Lose yourself in fantasy worlds.
Save, print, and hang on your wall.
