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Reddit’s 9 best obscure image forums

We’ve gone on an exploration and discovered nine subreddits that are a treasure trove of the unforgettable.

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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.

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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.

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1) r/museum

The content of the world’s museums assembled into a single Reddit forum.

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2) r/mspaint

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The highest caliber drawings using the worst paint program available.

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3) r/glitch_art

Art in happenstance, or the intentionally accidental.

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4) r/ImaginaryMonsters

Reddit’s bestiary of the fantastical and terrifying.

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5) r/PropagandaPosters

Beautiful indoctrination.

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6) r/wtfart

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This subreddit has nothing to do with gaseous expulsions and everything to do experimental art that’s weird in just the right way.

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7) r/Cinemagraphs

Hypnotic loops.

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8) r/SpecArt

Lose yourself in fantasy worlds.

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9) r/HighResPrints

Save, print, and hang on your wall.

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