Digging Up Reddit's Past | Reading Reddit Stories

Trevor Evarts (0:00)

Hello.

Shayne Topp (0:01)

Hi, Shayne. This Reddit Stories.

Hi, I'm Shayne. Welcome to Reddit Stories. Today is a very ancient episode of the show in honor of Dino Week. We're diving into the Museum of Reddit, and I'm joined by two cavemen, Trevor and Tommy.

Tommy Bowe (0:19)

Me no Trevor, me Gog.

Trevor Evarts (0:23)

If you catch me in a cave, something has gone wrong. I am claustrophobic. If you catch me in a cave, I have gone crazy.

Shayne Topp (0:32)

I'm laughing at walking into a cave full of cavemen, where they're all talking about cavemen, and then there's one who's like, look, I do not want to be here.

Trevor Evarts (0:41)

Something horrible has happened if I'm in a cave.

Tommy Bowe (0:43)

I'm going to be honest, when I saw prehistoric Reddit on the call sheet, I thought, I was like, what are you talking about?

I was like, hi, I, T-Rex25, my friend, Velociraptor22 stole my carcass, and so I killed this whole family. Am I the asshole? But that makes more sense.

Shayne Topp (1:02)

Yeah, we're in the middle of dino week.

Trevor Evarts (1:03)

That's right.

Shayne Topp (1:04)

And look at this.

It's prehistoric in here, man. Straight up Triassic.

Tommy Bowe (1:10)

It's prehistoric as.

Shayne Topp (1:12)

You are enjoying this.

Tommy Bowe (1:14)

It kind of feels nice.

Trevor Evarts (1:15)

It feels nice. There's a good recoil to it, but there's still some heft. There's no damage, but you feel it. It's really nice. This one hurts.

Tommy Bowe (1:22)

That looks like it hurts. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Trevor Evarts (1:25)

Also, huge fan of tiny Yoshi eggs back there. Really big fan of tiny Yoshi eggs.

Shayne Topp (1:30)

What do you guys think of my slab?

Tommy Bowe (1:31)

Oh yeah.

Trevor Evarts (1:32)

I think your slab is awesome. It's a little mossy.

Shayne Topp (1:34)

It is a little mossy.

Trevor Evarts (1:36)

It's mossy. Dude, be careful.

Tommy Bowe (1:38)

You don't want to read the wrong incantation off that thing and be cursed for thousands of years.

Shayne Topp (1:43)

Don't worry.

Tommy Bowe (1:44)

It's pretty dangerous.

Shayne Topp (1:45)

Don't worry. I won't. I've got a lot of parsley on it though.

Trevor Evarts (1:47)

Stop touching that moss like that.

Shayne Topp (1:49)

It's parsley. Dude, it's parsley.

Trevor Evarts (1:51)

It's fiddling with it. It's fiddling with that moss. It's crazy.

Shayne Topp (1:53)

So, we've obviously covered lots of classic Reddit Stories on this show before. We've had the Cylinder recently. We've done Poop Knife.

Trevor Evarts (2:02)

Poop Knife.

Shayne Topp (2:03)

Sea Bat. There's been a million classics. So, Am I the Asshole? The subreddit started in 2013

Trevor Evarts (2:09)

Okay.

Shayne Topp (2:09)

Reddit's been around since I want to say like mid-2000s.

So, there's some old stories. What do you think was the first thing posted on Am I the Asshole? Like if you were to take a guess back in 2013, not that the year matters, but like what do you think generated this?

Tommy Bowe (2:26)

What were people being an asshole about in 2013?

Trevor Evarts (2:30)

What if it's like I, female, 40-something, am planning on running for president?

Shayne Topp (2:37)

Pretty good. Am I the asshole for running for president?

Tommy Bowe (2:41)

Were they using the I and then in parentheses 45?

Trevor Evarts (2:44)

I actually don't know.

Shayne Topp (2:46)

I think those formats probably came about more so over time. So the first story ever posted on Am I the Asshole was pretty mundane, but a legitimate dispute.

According to an article on CBC radio, there was an office conflict brewing over a thermostat and an office between the men who wanted it turned down and the women who wanted it higher. The creator of the subreddit felt that because the men were stuck wearing suits, the women should just dress warmer, but it left him wondering if maybe he was in the wrong.

Trevor Evarts (3:17)

Oh.

Shayne Topp (3:18)

So it's kind of just a...

Tommy Bowe (3:19)

That's a pretty reasonable kind of like...

Shayne Topp (3:21)

Yeah, and it's like that at the basis of Am I the Asshole is what is supposed to be there. You know, it's like really truly like...

Trevor Evarts (3:28)

But yeah, that's an actual middle ground post where there's something to figure out as opposed to Am I the Asshole for like blowing up my wife with a bomb.

Tommy Bowe (3:36)

Right.

Trevor Evarts (3:37)

It's like, no.

Tommy Bowe (3:37)

The most normal little office, like, hey, I kind of, we're having this issue and like, I want to know if I'm like, I'm wearing a suit and I'm getting warm or like, could they bring in a cardigan? Am I an asshole for suggesting that?