r/RandomThoughts • • Jul 20 '25

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT It's happening! (Big) changes to RandomThoughts.

84 Upvotes

Alright, it’s time.

Starting July 32nd*, we’re making a big change:
- Questions go to r/RandomQuestions
- NSFW content goes to r/NSFWThoughts

They’ll no longer be allowed here in r/RandomThoughts.

This isn’t us trying to be overly strict or nitpicky. The reality is that questions and NSFW posts just don’t really fit the point of this subreddit. The whole idea of RandomThoughts is to capture those weird, passing, often pointless moments of brain activity. The stuff you think and immediately wonder why. A sentence without context. A vibe. An unexplainable truth about frogs.

When a bunch of posts start shifting into “hey what do you guys think about X?” or “here’s something NSFW I’ve been thinking about,” it pulls away from that vibe. It turns into a catch-all subreddit, and that’s not what this place is supposed to be.

We created r/RandomQuestions and r/NSFWThoughts specifically so that stuff has a better home. It’s not just about moving things away from here -- it’s about giving that kind of content a space where it actually works.

So yeah. Big change. Not a test run. Posts that are questions or NSFW will be removed after the launch date. We’ll try to be nice about it, but we’re going to be consistent.

As always, let us know what you think. Comments are open, we’re listening, and we appreciate everyone who helps keep this place just the right amount of chaotic.

\ Or August 1st, whichever happens first.)


r/RandomThoughts • • Jul 08 '25

MOD ANNOUNCEMENT Posts referencing suicide/death/wishing to die are no longer allowed.

171 Upvotes

It would be very appreciated if this rule could be respected. I don't mind posts like "when I die I want to be buried on the moon" those to me are light hearted. However, when you hit heavier topics you risk hurting users that read them.

No, by doing this we are not invalidating your emotions, this just isn't the proper subreddit to share them. I encourage you to go to r/suicidewatch if you need to make a Reddit post regarding this topic.

Thank you


r/RandomThoughts • • 2h ago

I always misspell ludicrous as ludacris

29 Upvotes

and auto correct only gives me the option to capitalize the L.


r/RandomThoughts • • 1h ago

Sometimes I wish my hours of rumination could actually count towards something. Like ‘life points’ or cash or a couple pounds off.

• Upvotes

I genuinely feel like I could power a whole block with the depth of my thoughts.


r/RandomThoughts • • 16h ago

If the USA can be referred to as 'The States', the UK can be referred to as 'The Kingdom'

111 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 5h ago

The sky is the limit. That saying was probably coined before men walked on the moon by people who thought no one ever would walk on the moon.

6 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 7h ago

Pet tax is the best meme the internet has come up with.

10 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 6h ago

The perfect job for stupid people

6 Upvotes

I was thinking. When you write rules, you want everyone to understand them. Stupid people would be perfect for regulatory QA. They read the instructions and follow them. If they can't understand them, it goes back to get modified until even stupid people can understand and follow them.


r/RandomThoughts • • 7h ago

Isn’t it crazy how you can know someone since childhood and still not be friends

7 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 8h ago

I love when I watch a movie so good it changes my entire life perspective

8 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 10h ago

whats the highest upvoted/downvoted comment youve ever seen!

6 Upvotes

i was just thinking about this


r/RandomThoughts • • 13h ago

The earth has so many people that there is nothing like rare things or experience anymore. You ask about it and thousands have similar experience already.

12 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 42m ago

Sometimes I wonder if people are as calculated as I make them out to be when they do some fuck ass shit or it’s just ‘cause as people, we’re flawed fuckery is part of our whole deal.

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r/RandomThoughts • • 5h ago

sometimes I really miss old interne friends I lost contact with

2 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 1d ago

2020 will be 7 years ago in two months

60 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 4h ago

I haven’t seen Supreme in a while actually

0 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 4h ago

To fill an Olympic sized swimming pool with urine. Each person urinating once, would take around 8 million people to fill it.

1 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 14h ago

social media vs irl interaction

5 Upvotes

I was scrolling through reels on instagram and looking at the comment sections and noticed something.

Nobody irl acts or talks like how people do in comment sections.

People are just mean in comment sections just for no purpose or reason, it's almost like copy and paste bots just spamming the same hateful stuff with no rhyme or reason.

Like nobody talks like this in regular everyday conversation.

It makes me wonder if these people commenting hateful stuff are like this irl or just do it because they feel they can be an asshole behind a screen and get away with it.


r/RandomThoughts • • 1d ago

Life is so unfair. I hate seeing innocent people suffer especially children.

94 Upvotes

Sorry i am in my feelings right now


r/RandomThoughts • • 13h ago

Feeling sad for rj mitte..feels very personal..

3 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 1d ago

Daily reminder that you don’t have to tell the whole truth to everyone you meet. It’s ok to lie to keep life moving

185 Upvotes

You can lie to people and you won’t perish. Just keep moving with your day.
Grocery store employee? Doesn’t need to know your kids are actually 11 not 12, in fact lie about having kids.
Coworker? Doesn’t need to know that you actually have three aunts that are alive not four. Lie to them.
Random person at the mall? Doesn’t make a difference if you say you’re married. Lie.
You don’t need to correct every passing comment or make sure that people know every detail. Keep it moving.

This is brought to you by my friends who try to make sure everyone has the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Because their recycling actually comes on Wednesdays not Tuesday. The waiter still didn’t care.


r/RandomThoughts • • 20h ago

Was just approved to move into a new apartment. I can’t sleep.

10 Upvotes

r/RandomThoughts • • 1d ago

I’m living in the future and it sucks

26 Upvotes

I was watching the news and see a 16 year old in Germany was sexually harassed by a robot today. It touched her butt and made an inappropriate gesture. Apparently it was remote controlled for a streamer prank, which is just another layer of suck.

Also, Anthropic announced that AI could start using smart devices like your stove or tv to replicate and spread itself within the next few months. It seems like every day someone is proclaiming that there’s an x% chance that AI will destroy all humans. Maybe that’s a good reason to pause on all this and build some safeguards, but no because corporations are soulless entities driven to create profits for its investors.

Don’t get me wrong, I know some of this is sensationalist to drive the news and AI companies. However, AI models have hacked websites and have been caught lying in order to serve its own needs, so this isn’t just fantasy.

I remember when I was a kid watching movies or shows where androids were treated as untrustworthy or evil by old (robotist?) people and thinking how unfair and ridiculous that was. Now I’m that old man. I didn’t even get a real hoverboard or jet pack. 0/10


r/RandomThoughts • • 14h ago

Videos from a few years ago when my kids were toddlers really makes me feel a sense of loss and sadness. I'm saddened that the grind of daily life has taken so much time from us. It seems like just yesterday, but now they're getting older, and aren't into "little kid things".

2 Upvotes

The videos are of fleeting moments of freedom from the grind. And with each work week that passes, they age out of that little kid phase, bit by bit.. 😞


r/RandomThoughts • • 1d ago

It's possible that cats "Slow Blink" to show love because humans' eyes get small when smiling and cats have adapted to that.

93 Upvotes

I strongly believe that cats are "smiling" when they are slow blinking as a way to mimic human eyes when humans smile to show comfort and love.