r/Whatcouldgowrong

255K archived posts · Apr 2013 – Sep 2026

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

r/Whatcouldgowrong

The best place to learn what not to do.

Created Apr 27, 2013

7.6MMembers (last snapshot)

255KArchived posts

What Could Go Wrong?

Welcome to r/whatcouldgowrong, the home of stupid ideas and their consequences. Grab a chair and popcorn, sit back, and you're all set.

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RULES

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1) Golden Rule: Links must contain a stupid idea and something going wrong.

2) Direct links to gifs/videos/pics only. (Gfycat.com is great for gifs). No compilation videos are allowed. Also, posting a pic of text describing the event is not acceptable.

3) Tag your material with NSFW if it is NSFW. Any posts involving severe injury needs to include NSFL in the title. Overly NSFW material will be removed.

4) No death posts, no young children getting injured.

5) Mods can remove obscene material, racism, sexism, and re-re-reposts at their discretion, and banning may ensue.

6) No straight up fighting posts

7) No videos from Tiktok or videos that promote individual content creators