A guide to this sub's explanatory comment rule.

[u/NatoBoram]

Recently, we noticed an increased amount of nonsensical explanatory comments with no relation in any way, shape or form to the theme of this subreddit.

The "leopards ate my face" theme is embodied by this quote in the sidebar.

"I never thought leopards would eat my face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. Revel in the schadenfreude anytime someone has a sad because they're suffering consequences from something they voted for, supported or wanted to impose on other people.

This statement made out of 3 parts, not in that order.

1. Someone voted for, supported or wanted to impose something on other people.
2. Something has the consequences of consequences.
3. As a consequence of something, consequences happened to someone.

In your explanatory comment, answer these 3 elements and include the minimum amount of information necessary so your post can be understood by everyone, even if they don't live in the US or speak English as their native language. If you fail to identify them, it will be difficult for a moderator to understand if this post fits and it will probably be removed. If you complain about it, we'll just send you back here.

The explanatory comment is not the place to write a pretty poem nor is it the place to promote books. Copying this post, copying large parts of the article and nonsensical comments will get your post removed under rule #3. Keep it stupid simple.

To help you get started, here's an example.

1. Helen, Roberto Beristain's wife, voted for Donald Trump, who vowed to impose deportation to illegal immigrants such as her husband.
2. Voting for Trump, who vowed to deport illegal immigrants such as Roberto Beristain, has the consequence of having illegal immigrants deported and families separated.
3. As a consequence of voting for Trump, Roberto Beristain got deported and Helen's family was separated.

You should absolutely make sure that it is easy to match your explanatory comment with the provided format or your post will be mercilessly removed. If, however, you can't match your explanatory comment with the format, then you should just delete your post and save us the effort.

Additionally, we've identified several types of posts that do not fit the theme of this subreddit.

• Bye bye job: People losing their job, a business, a scholarship, an admission or a similar kind of opportunity due to their actions online or in person, but those actions don't imply that they vote for, support or want to impose something on other people that then had consequences on them.
• Distinct enabler and victim: The person who voted for, supported or wanted to impose something must be the same person who's suffering the consequences. For example, if a parent is not vaccinating their children and then those children get sick, then those children are innocent victims of their parent's abuse. They didn't vote for, supported or wanted to impose being vulnerable to preventable diseases on anyone, so the post doesn't fit the subreddit's theme.
• Fuck the law: When someone breaks the law and then suffers the consequence of the law, they probably didn't vote for, support or want to impose that law on other people in the first place. Includes all the r/CapitolConsequences.
• Future consequences: Yes, Trump is going to do bad things once he's in office. But he's not in office until 20 January 2025. This subreddit is not about future hypotheticals.
• Hypocrisy: Someone says something but then does the opposite.
• Lesser of two evils: Posts must induce schadenfreude, but it is not the case when someone is forced to make a tough choice because the other choices are equally terrible or worse.
• No consequences: Being shocked, feeling regrets, getting criticized and panicking are not consequences. A consequence refers to a real-world event that has actually happened to someone.
• Self-aware wolves: Someone accidentally describes themselves but they're not self-aware enough to realize it.
• Sudden betrayal: In the case of a betrayal, the betrayer must've been known to betray people in the first place.

[u/BelleAriel]

Link to a thread containing a flowchart on what counts as LAMF

[u/[deleted]]

I've also noticed that sometimes the OP never makes a comment explaining why the post belongs, but the post is never deleted even after several hours. Has that been fixed?

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

The bot doesn't auto-delete posts yet, so we're dealing with everything manually. It might take more time if no mods are online at the time of posting

[u/maccouch → u/NatoBoram]

Auto deletion would be great to have, to start with.

I loved this subreddit when I found it but it has steered away from its original idea so much that it really needs some hard-core mod'ing and generous use of post deletion by mods.

[u/NatoBoram → u/maccouch]

That's pretty much what we're doing. I don't have stats, but I'm pretty sure we delete more than 50% of new posts on a daily basis.

[u/Stumatthews11 → u/NatoBoram]

Wow, aren't you awesome!?

[u/NatoBoram → u/maccouch]

Stats are in, we delete 80%+ of posts here.

[u/Lysander_Propolis → u/NatoBoram]

Not familiar with how reddit moderation software works but but elsewhere when you have stats like that you can have full moderation and only let through the ones that DO fit. For the others, they don't go through until the explanation comes in.

[u/JC_InAustin → u/NatoBoram]

Dang; now I'm afraid to post here. I'm old and just learning reddit, but I'm trying.

[u/ZydecoMoose → u/JC_InAustin]

Happy cake day! Remember you can always send modmail before posting something to ask if it's appropriate.

[u/linlin110 → u/NatoBoram]

Is it possible to delete posts if the poster does not write an explanatory comment within say, 1 hour?

[u/NatoBoram → u/linlin110]

I heard the bot was going to do this, but I don't know more than that

[u/12altoids34 → u/NatoBoram]

When I posted it it did not allow me to make any comment to the Post. Or perhaps there was a way to attach a comment but I missed it. It's definitely wasn't intentional. I did receive a notice asking for a response which ultimately led to my previous post here explaining it

[u/NatoBoram → u/12altoids34]

You'll have to bring this up with Reddit administrators and use a different Reddit client

[u/Nightslash360]

Thank you! I’ve been noticing a lot of posts lately that are ironic but not really “Leopards Ate My Face”.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Nightslash360]

This probably won't fix it, but at least we can link here instead of just saying "your post doesn't fit"

[u/[deleted] → u/NatoBoram]

I was severely disappointed :(

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, we should probably add a form that even a five years old can fill :/

[u/TistedLogic → u/NatoBoram]

And you'd still be giving the end user too much credit and faith that they'll understand the form is a form to begin with. Much less why they should bother with it. Then cry persecution when every post they submit gets automatically deleted by the mod bot.

I have no idea where that all came from. Perhaps I've been on [r/tfts](r/talesfromtechsupport) lately.

Anyways. Have a great weekend.

[u/ramblinjd → u/NatoBoram]

Please change the auto mod prompt to include this.

[u/NatoBoram → u/ramblinjd]

It's in the pipeline!

[u/No_Reveal_3698 → u/NatoBoram]

Thank you! I’ve been noticing a lot of posts lately that are ironic but not really “Leopards Ate My Face”.

[u/funbobbyfun → u/No_Reveal_3698]

Irony ironic or Alanis Morissette unlucky coincidence ironic?

[u/[deleted] → u/No_Reveal_3698]

But I like the ironic ones too. Can we also have an r/SortOfLeopardsAteMyFace?

[u/[deleted] → u/Nightslash360]

It's been happening for quite some time.

[u/IGotAWayWithWords → u/Nightslash360]

It’s because only very few subscribers are real humans. This subreddit is a bot farm operated by AcBlue, a democrat superpac that controls Reddit and creates scams to sell to impressionable users.

[u/FinancialBarnacle785 → u/IGotAWayWithWords]

I grabbed my pet leopard and we rolled on the floor together. He turned blue, so

I gave him his favorite treat, a chunk of human flesh, ripped from the capacious buttocks of a once-famous 3rd generation big city real estate magnate,

once a man, now retired as an unreconstructed thief of unflushable paper products

[u/DimiC88]

Is it me or was the situation better when people worked “leopard ate my face” in the title.

It seems that when they don’t have the do the effort of working that in, it makes it easier for people to post stuff that don’t fit.

[u/NatoBoram → u/DimiC88]

Previously, every titles were a rehash of "some leopards eat some faces" while having nothing to do with leopard or face eating. People are just going to post garbage whatever we do, so It's best if we can moderate it easily.

[u/Thefisherman128]

So, just to try and understand this subreddit, would something like Minneapolis voting to defund and get rid of their Police Department and then suddenly experiencing higher crime rates and slower emergency response times fit here?

[u/NatoBoram → u/Thefisherman128]

No, because there's an ulterior motive different from the consequences. It would fit if they wanted more crimes or crimes to be committed to a specific group excluding themselves. However, the motivation for this vote was to put money towards other social services that police already can't handle properly as to reduce crimes with different means than by police.

[u/MarioNinja96815 → u/NatoBoram]

I'm sure you'll delete this comment but that doesn't fit the example you gave in your post. You didn't say or even imply she voted for Trump because he vowed to deport illegal immigrants, it was a side effect. Seems this sub only applies to those who vote right but wishes to ignore when it happens to those who vote left. Low integrity.

[u/mle_eliz → u/Thefisherman128]

Minneapolis has actually increased police budgets every year since George Floyd. The amount of money “defunded” was minuscule and only diverted VS defunded.

Law enforcement officers quit en masse following the Chauvin verdict rather than keep a job that might hold them accountable for murder.

Most of the residents in Minneapolis aren’t actually complaining about this, either.

People from outside of Minneapolis who visit to watch a sports game every year or two are the ones who complain.

[u/[deleted]]

Question: Does is this sub for the leftist party to criticize people on the right? No hate intended if it is, I just want to know incase i have something to post here.

[u/DanCassell → u/[deleted]]

There are a lot of right-wing posts that fail to understand what the left wanted out of a situation, and these people tend to not realize why they are not getting the upvotes they deserve. But in theory poking fun at the left is allowed so long as it follows the LAMF formula.

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

Nope! It's specifically for schadenfreude, but there's just more of it in one side than the other one due to the nature of the thing.

[u/Mobile_Busy → u/NatoBoram]

There's only one side of things trying to deliberately hurt people.

[u/Blue-Oblong-Lint → u/Mobile_Busy]

I think its more the "unintended consequences"/schadenfreude is going to occur o the extremes of the political spectrum. Its just atm the far right is far more prominent than the far left, so the majority of the stories can be found there

[u/Mobile_Busy → u/Blue-Oblong-Lint]

I'll keep my eyes peeled for a leftist LAMF story that's not just a churlish fascist misunderstanding the premise.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Mobile_Busy]

Same

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

There was a post about Banksy losing a trademark/copyright case because Banksy didn't believe in that stuff.

[u/KratosLeftNut → u/[deleted]]

Nah it def is lmao. Go ahead and search you'll find maybe 2 post of leftist that arent full of people downvoting or saying "well actually". Its an echo chamber. Just like every single political sub.

[u/[deleted] → u/KratosLeftNut]

The indefensible tends to get voted down when one starts to defend it. Nothing leftist about it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

This sub is explicitly a leftist circle jerk.

[u/HgnX]

Even with the detailed explanation I still do not fully understand what the explanation means. Is it possible to receive and even simpler one? I'm apologising in advance.

Ps. English is not my primary language so it might hinder understanding

[u/NatoBoram → u/HgnX]

It covers many scenarios

• Someone who wants to impose something on other people but got that very thing imposed to them instead
  • For example, voting to restrict immigration between your country and another then being denied immigration under the same laws
  • Another example, someone who forces other people to have risky behavior but then suffers the consequences of the same risky behavior
• Voting or supporting someone who has a history of doing something, but then having that very person do the thing they always do it to you
  • For example, Trump doesn't pay his debts. If you lend a service to Trump, you know you won't get paid. Not getting paid by Trump would be a valid scenario.

Here's an example of an explanatory comment :

Individual in the post protests against wearing masks. Not wearing a mask favours the transmission of COVID-19 and puts people at risk. They caught the virus and died.

Here, the explanation is very clear because we can easily identify who did the thing, what was the thing and its consequence and we can verify that the consequences were indeed applied to that person.

[u/What_a_young_guy]

So is there any real reason this sub couldn't just be "republicans ate my face?" Literally every post is just conservatives being idiots because their own party doesn't give a shit about them or something similar.

[u/NatoBoram → u/What_a_young_guy]

We also accept "Democrats ate my face" if you find some that fits

[u/EpiZirco → u/What_a_young_guy]

There are plenty of “Tories ate my face” posts, especially related to Brexit.

[u/rysimpcrz]

It's. Literally easier to delete Reddit than to deal with the magical rules that are abnormally arbitrary. Peace out friends.

[u/NatoBoram → u/rysimpcrz]

👋

[u/dla26]

I understand why the rules weren't strictly enforced over the 4 years the leopards eating people's faces party was out of power, but I hope they will be once Trump is back in office.

[u/NatoBoram → u/dla26]

Reddit's API was what enabled zealous moderation

[u/ItsDominare → u/NatoBoram]

Maybe get a few more moderators in, then? You must have noticed the surge in off-topic posts since last week's vote so its only going to get worse...

[u/Parrotparser7 → u/ItsDominare]

Seriously. Over 75% of it is off-topic.

[u/ItsDominare → u/Parrotparser7]

They only have 5-6 active mods which for a sub this size is bonkers.

..and of course by "active" I mean has posted at least one comment in the last six months, doesn't necessarily mean they're actually pitching in on this sub.

[u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Is there no moderator tools that can FORCE people to answer the automod before a post can be approved??  If not can we get a VERY strict 'answer automod within 24hrs or be automatically deleted' rule in ESPECIALLY (and/or specifically) for ANY politically related post? This place is just becoming an easy karmafarming political dumping ground with increasingly diminishing quality of any real enough LAMFs or attempts to even make it. LAMFing the 1 2 3 is honestly SOOO easy it should be an actually enforced standard. It's easy to make anything LAMF but OPs should * have to make the effort to do do to qualify their privilege to post in here *.

Please let's clean the place up to standards over ideological viewpoints, mods.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Nope. I was going to make one but then the API became paid so that project fucked off.

[u/Affectionate-Emu5051 → u/NatoBoram]

Ah man I was also wondering if API changes were also affecting moderation abilities. All for the money I guess now -.-

Are we....are WE tha LAMF, reddit????

[u/FwibbFwibb]

Can you just have this post as the explanatory post in the comments section? Right now it's shit and this would really clear things up. Most of the posts here don't even fit the sub.

[u/NatoBoram → u/FwibbFwibb]

You'll have to ask here, sorry about that

[u/Tasty_Historian_3623]

Sticklers for formatting at a time like this is applying lipstick to a wild boar hungry face eating leapard.

If you want fresh outrage in real time, try r/Project2025Award in 2024. If you want to wait a few days and like the presentation, I'd stay here.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Tasty_Historian_3623]

Thanks, I've added that subreddit to the sidebar just now

[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

Talk it up with the admins

[u/peterabbit456]

I think I need a little help to conform to the rules, but I am sure I have a valid submission. It is a little too related to ecology (and leopards) to fit some of the rules.

Title: I never thought I'd say this, but we need more leopards

1. Biologists, worried about elephants overgrazing causing desertification, order 30,000 elephants shot.
2. Desertification gets worse.
3. Elephants die, people starve.
4. Bring back grazing animals and leopards.

 * Leopards chase animals.
 * Animals stampede and trample grass.
 * Trampled grass makes the soil retain more moisture.
 * More grass grows. Desertification is reversed.

Therefore, we need more leopards.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

My problems are:

1. Leopards in the title.
2. YouTube is not recognized as a valid source.
3. Wikipedia informs me Alan Savory is controversial. Some people say he overclaims. Others are angry because his scientific publications did not cite their earlier work.

Edit: Here is another video that actually mentions leopards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI

[u/NatoBoram → u/peterabbit456]

If you can fit this situation in the provided template as explained in the post, we'll have a much better time helping you with that!

[u/ChaosKeeshond]

Please don't give me hope like this. I'm so tired of LOL REPUBLICANS BAD.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not even American. Your left wing party is to the right of my right wing party, and I'm on the left of mine. I don't say this out of some sort of tribal defence of the right.

It has just been depressing watching a sub with a specific niche being overrun with torrents of the same old political circlejerking you get everywhere else.

Proceeding with cautious optimism...

[u/DanCassell → u/ChaosKeeshond]

America has two right-wing parties, some weirdos who don't understand why taxes exist (that is also right wing), and a green party.

[u/GavinDanceWClaudio → u/ChaosKeeshond]

For real. I just discovered this sub and read through it for 20 minutes. Not ONCE did I find a post that actually fit the theme. It's just a bunch of "lol, republicans bad and stupid". As Biden would say, "come on, man."

[u/Divan_Medium → u/GavinDanceWClaudio]

We need a stick post at the top that confirms that Republicans Are bad and stupid. In fact they represent a coalition of the bad and the stupid. If you're not from the USA, you probably don't understand how bad the bad are. It's like a Charles Manson wannabe club.

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/ChaosKeeshond]

Me too! I'm sick of this sub, not because I like republicans, but because democrats are terrible too. There would be a lot to post about them.

[u/Non-member1961 → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

"The Democrats are terrible too" Hey Bernie, you still mad?

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/Non-member1961]

I kind of am. Bernie would have been the best choice, and it's not like he's a Bolshevik, he would have not expropriated the Capitalists.

It's really only unlimited greed (gotta have their tax cuts and gotta keep making billions with people's health) that prevents him (and people like him) to get to power in one of the richest countries in the world.

[u/LittleMissyRah → u/ChaosKeeshond]

I too am on the left of left wing. ;) So nice to spot a political kindred spirit out in the wild. :)

[u/LittleMissyRah → u/ChaosKeeshond]

Aha I (think) I spy a fellow British socialist u/ChaosKeeshond ! Greetings comrade.

[u/my_monkey_loves_me → u/ChaosKeeshond]

Quiet with that sexy socialist mouth

[u/Mammoth-Phone6630]

This is happening again. People aren’t doing a good explanation.

[u/NatoBoram → u/Mammoth-Phone6630]

Yeah, and I'm removing them again

[u/hubaloza]

Cool, uber glad I'm reading this instead of the post i actually clicked on and wanted to read, thanks very helpful.

[u/NatoBoram → u/hubaloza]

Very common bug with the official Reddit app. Try Slide or Infinity in the meantime

[u/blackbird77]

I feel like a lot of the posts lately have been more like "leader exposes their own hypocrisy" which are somewhat related to the theme of LeopardsAteMyFace, but are not really the same thing. I think the consequence is often missing from these posts. I would not mind subscribing to a second subreddit for "HypocriteLeaders" or something like that, but so many of these posts don't really belong here.

[u/Trilobyte141 → u/blackbird77]

Yes, 'leader who claimed they would do x does y instead, followers upset' is not the same thing at all.

[u/GeneralTanker → u/Trilobyte141]

Or leader is anti-x but said leader is a x or does x things.

[u/Trilobyte141 → u/[deleted]]

To use a completely neutral example: If you voted for a guy who said he was going to paint the sidewalks green, and then he painted the sidewalks purple after he got into office and you're upset by that because you hate purple - he's a liar, but you weren't hurt by what you voted for. Not leopards eating faces. If he actually came through and painted them green and your response was, "Why did he paint MY sidewalk green?? I hate green, I thought he meant he was going to paint other people's sidewalks, not mine." then the leopard ate your face and you belong on this sub.

Leopards eating faces does not apply when politicians lie or break campaign promises. It's for when they actually do what they have been saying they were going to do all along, and the people who cheered for those things suddenly don't like it happening to them.

It also apples to movements and policies - see Brexit.

[u/Non-member1961 → u/blackbird77]

Being a "hypocrite" is hardly the same as being a dangerous , fascist dictator.

[u/WakeNikis]

Can we put this in the auto comment.

People just post shitty Explanations.

Like- can we put in the auto comment- list off #1 (the someone), #2 (the something)...

Or even something simple like: 1. Name the person 2. Name something they supported or voted for 3. How did their vote/support end up hurting them.

Like literally make them connect the dots in A very common sense way.

As it right now, The auto comment pops up and just says: “explain how this fits the sub” and then people give a shitty explanation that shows irony or karma, but isn’t actually about leopards eating faces.

[u/fforde_thinking → u/WakeNikis]

I think this format would be better. Hopefully forces the OP to think about why it actually fits LAMF Like, just today we have OP's explanation for a post with 500+ upvotes: "I have to laugh how these idiots publicise their treason and expect no consequences." What?

[u/[deleted] → u/WakeNikis]

I like this one better than the current rule in the sticky, which is too convoluted.

[u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Do the mods here even care anymore? You guys are letting any old shit through. Set some rules and stick to them, regardless of content. I'll happily volunteer to help mod with the caveats;

1. Delete any post that doesn't have an explanatory comment/response to the automod within 24 hours REGARDLESS of what the content is, EVEN if it is LAMF.
2. The sheer amount of reposted karma-farming; - first post on a topic with good automod response stays and others go.
3. Clearing out the absolute sheer amount of just not LAMF posts (offering in the many edge cases a community discussion in the thread automod top comment to help decide this).

It's not just that this sub is going to shit it is now very obviously and actively used in disinformation, misinformation, and influence campaigns. This is not supposed to just be a r/politics dumping ground. The automod is a very VERY simple and incredibly smart/effective gate for posts but the problem is it seems none of the mods here actually give a fuck to implement or enforce it(at least from how I see) so what was the point in even ever having it? Let's get this place cleaned up.

[u/Hairy_Personality167]

It is very frustrating. There are plenty of other SR to complain. I come here only for leopards eating faces not hand-wringing

[u/NatoBoram → u/Hairy_Personality167]

Yeaaaah. I'm trying to make a command-line tool to speed things up but Reddit's API is dogshit and the new limits means I can't share that bot easily to non-programmers.

[u/Akesgeroth]

I know this post is already 2 months old, but I only come here occasionally. What I've noticed is a lot of people just posting "HAHA SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED TO PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE" as if that's what this sub is about. Worse, I've seen submissions get downvoted despite the fact that they fit the sub quite well but the people who had their faces eaten happened to be liked by the users.

[u/4tran13]

Regarding #3, is it strictly necessary for the face eating to have already occurred? Is the leopard declaring that it will eat faces enough? Or some other circumstance where it's a near certainty that faces will be eaten?

[u/[deleted]]

Can we please ban, or vote to ban, Facebook-tier memes that rarely even fit? They're so bad and they always make it to the front page of Reddit and attract more morons who in turn post more of them here. I feel like they're overrunning the sub and it's just going to get worse.

[u/SamsonsLot]

Thank you! Inconsistency in one's political beliefs is not all that's required for a post to be "Face-eating Leopard" quality.

[u/[deleted]]

an example can be like this:

a brexiteer votes to leave the EU and says he will benefit a lot from brexit

this ends up blowing in his/her face when the business goes wrong and i didn’t realise it and i didn’t listen to people who were telling me its a bad idea.

[u/StreetofChimes → u/[deleted]]

1. A person voted for Brexit
2. This person announced their support for Brexit with annoying and condescending posts on social media.
3. The person's business is now tanking because of leaving the common market. Posts whiny things on social media about this wasn't supposed to happen to THEM.

[u/[deleted] → u/StreetofChimes]

^ this is good thank you

[u/Duck8Quack → u/[deleted]]

Brexit has filled so many leopards’ bellies with faces.

[u/[deleted] → u/Duck8Quack]

Brexit and Trump are like 90% of this sub

[u/Divan_Medium → u/[deleted]]

I think the core theme is stupidity, so that's where to find it.

[u/Jaytalvapes → u/Divan_Medium]

Conservatism and right leaning politics are just the lowest hanging fruit when you're looking for idiots working against there own interest without the slightest understanding of consequences.

People are mad that this sub is almost entirely "look, right wing is dumb" but that's just the reality.

[u/LauraGravity → u/[deleted]]

Leopards be hungry

[u/Kavafy]

Can we have a rule explicitly stating that LAMF is not simply "consequences of my own actions"?

[u/NatoBoram → u/Kavafy]

It's written in so many places idk what to do anymore lmao

[u/Kavafy → u/NatoBoram]

Put it as rule 8

[u/destroslithoid]

question: does the explanatory comment have to come from OP, or can another redditor come in and save a floundering explanation?

[u/jackconrad]

The story about the Trump campaign having to refund people has been reposted here at least 10 times in the last 2 days in various guises, it's ridiculous. I get it, it fits on the sub but we don't need that many posts about it from people blatantly karma farming.

[u/LessThanCleverName]

Isn’t the intent of Leopards Ate My Face that the policies/person you supported end up coming back to get you? Seems 99% of posts here are pretty much someone supported Trump/Republican (because, understandbly given Reddit is very American-centric, that’s all there is) now people who don’t support Trump are giving them consequences.

It’s not Leopards ate my face, it’s pretty much all not-Leopards ate my face posts. Maybe I don’t understand the original intent, but it pretty much just seems like anything bad that happens to Trump/Republican voters regardless if it’s by Trump/Republican policies or not goes.

[u/busyfren]

(tldr at bottom)

One thing that's kinda sad here sometimes is when whole regions are grouped together as though all the people voted for the party that screwed them over. Even in area that is 60/40 voters in favor of one party, there are still 40% (and maybe more, if you include those who didn't vote) who are against said party.

For example, there was a train derailment and environmental disaster that is endangering people in Ohio. I see a lot of posts kind of implying that Ohioans are surprised to be getting what they deserve, but those posts apply to like __everyone in rural Ohio__, as though they all supported what caused the thing harming their communities/families. It really adds insult to injury and makes the people brave enough to resist this sort of stuff invisible.

TLDR: I think this sub is strongest when posts don't consist of the low hanging fruit of "people in this region tended to vote for this party, and look, tragedy struck bc of deregulation and they all got what they deserved!" Would there be a way to add to the guidelines that posts should be about -specific- people or groups? I guess if it's a small town having a unique and popular initiative that bites their face, it's one thing; but I think it's really sad to act as though half of Ohioans didn't try to resist this happening.

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[u/IGotAWayWithWords]

Big yikes. This sub is a bot farm and a constant scam, to say the absolute least, and I’ll be proven right once I’m banned for leaving this comment.

[u/NatoBoram → u/IGotAWayWithWords]

Always feels weird to approve these kinds of comments

[u/Kamenev_Drang]

In the interests of improving people's understanding of the LMAF concept, I'm going to link the video exchange which prompted Adrian Bott/Cavalorn to post the original meme back in 2015

https://youtu.be/9hCgCZQE9os?t=36

[u/[deleted]]

Love the concept. You guys must be kept very busy these days.

[u/_Vard_]

I feel it could be simplified into 2 steps

1: what is the bad thing they wanted to happen to others?

2: how did that bad thing happen to them instead?

…

GOOD LAMF Example:

*1: Man wanted other patrons thrown out for not following dress code

2: same man gets thrown out for not following dress code*

…

Example of the bad explanation that non-LAMF posts usually give:

A guy wants people thrown out for not following dress code, so people stop coming to his restaurant and it goes out of business

[u/work_work-work-work]

This sub has turned into:

"I never thought leopards could potentially eat something that might vaguely resemble my face", sobs what I assume could be a woman who I heard voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[u/morningwoodx420 → u/work_work-work-work]

I was literally coming here to bitch about this.

It's become r/ohnoconsequences for MAGA

[u/Accomplished-Car7666]

How many karma points are needed to post ?

[u/NatoBoram → u/Accomplished-Car7666]

About a hundred

[u/Duck8Quack → u/[deleted]]

Moderator makes post about following posting rules while violating posting rules and consequently is ridiculed by Redditors for not following posting rules.

Moderator: “Oh great leopards, I give this offering of my face unto thee.”

[u/DerpyDaDulfin]

After looking at the flowchart, and reviewing a number of topics in this very subreddit, it seems that many users continue to misunderstand the intended goal of this subreddit, or perhaps (as these topics are upvoted in the thousands anyway), it would be wise to expand the definition of what this sub represents.

Yes, the sub specifically sets out to emulate the example laid down by one specific tweet, but the banner clearly states the goal is Schadenfreude. This can be experienced in a variety of ways, and although there are many subs that are designed to deliver Schadenfreude as well, I still think there is a place for many of these aforementioned posts in this space, if may I suggest another form of "consequences?"

In America (and typically worldwide), Politicians rarely face the consequences of their own actions, save for being called out on social media / in the media. Very, very few ever go to jail or actually suffer consequences beyond a blow to their reputation. Nevertheless, seeing politicians being called out for taking the opposite on stances they previously held, or looking to have egg on their face (basically every topic about the Roe V Wade leak) does offer us as humans Schadenfreude; hell, according to a Harvard study, we hate hypocrites more than liars.

This is my suggested change: Allow Politicians being "called out" on social media / in the media to count as the "consequence of their actions" clause of the LAMF flowchart. Indeed, some of the top voted posts over the last year were exactly these types of posts. I think we all understand that being called out is barely a consequence for your actions, but that's about all the recourse we have these days against politicians.

Every once in a while, a politician(s) actually maneuvers themselves into a place where they actually are LAMF (as I understand it to be now), but you'll be waiting a while between posts for the next time a politician actually faces any consequences.

Half the Content on this sub was laughing at Covidiots who died / suffered from not getting vaxxed. With the pandemic on the wane, that content will drop off, and this type of political humor is being posted every day here.

[u/murphykills]

just a reminder that something as vague as "an organized religion" is not a leopard. if a person grows up in a church, then they find themselves cast out of that church for some reason regarding that church's lack of progressiveness, that is not the same as somebody letting a leopard out of a cage and then having their face eaten. religions are massive things that have many good and bad aspects, and people are drawn to them for a variety of reasons. they're not simply bigot clubs, despite some of them operating that way. so joining or supporting a religion because you want the good things does not mean you support the bad, just as identifying as american does not mean you support the negative things america has done through history.
it's just annoying to see posts about gay people being treated badly by religion and then it gets posted here for us to just laugh at? leaves a bad taste in my mouth, that's not what this sub is about to me, it's not for the people getting tricked by the leopards, it's about the actual leopard HANDLERS, they are the ones i want to see getting eaten.

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[u/NatoBoram → u/[deleted]]

Gender euphoria can be received from the strangest places…

[u/Maleficent_Maybe2200]

scrolling through this sub I'm not sure I've found even a single post that complies with this rule. Could you link some examples?

[u/Retax7]

My entire country is basically this sub, but any news are in spanish, unsure if it will be fun if I post them here.

[u/really_isnt_me → u/Retax7]

Run it through google translate. :)

[u/FinancialSubstance16]

From what I understand, it's about people showing a lack of regard for the veil of ignorance, meaning that they support a policy with the assumption that it won't screw them over. They support a policy which obviously screws over a group of people but the person supports it without any regard for the possibility that it will affect him or his loved ones.

Here are some examples:

• Bob is a rich guy who supported cutting public aid to the downtrodden because it costs him taxpayer money. Bob later found himself going from riches to rags.
• Sally largely blames victims for rape. She later became a victim of rape.For an inverted example, Matt thinks that due process for rapists should be eliminated. In his mind, they are guilty until proven innocent. He eventually got accused of rape.
• As a matter of fact, this includes any time a law a politician helped to pass which is later used to prosecute them.
• Sam thinks that businesses should be able to serve whomever they want. His son, who's gay, was denied treatment at a hospital because he's gay, leading to his death.
• John opposed federal aid to areas which had gone through a disaster. John's hometown got ravaged by a tornado.
• Dale is an affluent person and is a staunch democrat who believes that the government should do more to help the downtrodden. He was surprised to learn that when the democrats took office, his taxes went up.
• Alice supported tariffs because she supports "buying American". After tariffs get passed, Alice noticed that goods cost more.
• Josh works a low wage job and wanted to increase the minimum wage. Josh was well aware that the increase would cost some jobs but didn't think that he would be affected. As it turned out, he got laid off.

Not examples:

• Bob, a rich guy, supports policies which screw over the lower and middle classes only to find that nobody likes him.
• Sally is a conservative who got cancelled for her views.
• Dale is another rich guy who votes democrat. He doesn't like high taxes but supports them for being pro LGBT.
• Josh didn't work hard and got fired.

[u/ezybutton7]

Mmm I joined this sub for the lols but lately it's just "haha this dumbcunt died haha"

[u/kinisonkhan]

Sub reddit is losing control, people are posting political memes which are far and away from being LAMF but still get thousands of upvotes.

[u/Every_Cash4328]

I wrote my post exactly as suggested and still got deleted. You may want to test your bot a bit more rigorously

[u/SickWalrusman]

Can someone with enough Karma please post this? I’m not allowed 🚫 and it’s bang on the Leopards Ate My Face theme :(

Lifelong voter for the refugee-bashing party says they have lost his vote now that his refugee family can’t reach the UK

https://inews.co.uk/news/homes-for-ukraine-tory-party-lose-ukrainian-refugee-scheme-mess-1533782

[u/kinisonkhan]

If a post isn't LAMF and the OP explaining it has 30+ down votes, moderators should lock the thread. I unsubscribed to this sub because most of the posts are more Fuck Around & Find Out than LAMF.

[u/mr_shmits]

why can't we post Instagram links?

[u/NatoBoram → u/mr_shmits]

It's more likely to be spam than not. Better take a screenshot instead

[u/O_X_E_Y]

mods woke up let's goooo

[u/DaveInMoab → u/[deleted]]

So the mask gets eaten first, this preserving our face for just a little bit longer.

[u/Turbulent-Opening-75]

Question: I have an example of the foundation of this group but I face two issues: one there is absolutely nothing online about said issue it was something I witnessed first hand. And two does it have to be a meme format or can it just be a story: cause oh boy it’s a cluster chunk.

[u/100beep]

Shouldn’t it be « sobs faceless woman »?

[u/Parrotparser7]

Mods please require LAMF posts to stick to the LAMF theme. We're getting a flood of FAFO.

[u/Affectionate-Emu5051]

Right. Someone link me or explain to me again on how to apply to be a mod here - cos this place is dogshit and it needs some wiping up. Give me a 60 day trial. Tell me who to talk to.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub is beginning to just contain posts about Covid and Brexit. I think it’s a great sub, but over the last few months it has just become this massive echo chamber for the same basic content. It would be more varied (and I think enjoyable) if there were a broader range of subjects covered.

To be honest, I voted to remain and I am sick of the Brexit posts every single time the UK economy seems to have any kind of bad news.

[u/newdaynewfrog]

why aren't these rules being enforced?

[u/shaodyn]

Took me a second to realize that there is no rule 7.

[u/visforv]

This thread says "Pro-Palestinians break for Trump, Trump Threatens to Bomb Gaza" but nowhere in the article does it even talk about Pro-Palestine voters or even interview any.

How does this count as LAMF?

[u/Kamenev_Drang]

Frankly, we need a moratorium on US-related content. The sub is being flooded with gloating Democrats who don't seem to get the whole 'I voted for the Conservatives and they cut my child benefit' that is the core idea of this sub.

[u/[deleted] → u/Kamenev_Drang]

No, you don't need to ban American stuff. You just need to post more stuff from around the world. It's not like the subreddit has a cap on it for content. Stop whining!

[u/GameEpoch]

This sub was great but now it's really bad.

[u/[deleted] → u/GameEpoch]

turned to suck.

[u/OldBob10]

“We are getting killed by indie voters who think we support full bans with no exceptions.”

No - Republicans are getting voted out by people who observe them trying to turn America into an evangelical Christo-fascist state and don’t agree with it.

[u/metricnv]

LAMF sub reddit: now, more than ever.

[u/[deleted]]

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

this is the first time I heard this and I cant stop laughing

[u/chris2k2]

Feature request: add a "please upvote this comment if it fits the sub, downvote if it doesn't". The bot then auto deletes all too heavy downvoted posts automatically.

[u/EnvironmentalBee6654]

I feel like there should be a r/PitbullAteMyFace too.

[u/BubuBarakas]

Chinese volunteers to join Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Surprised to find there is no medical support and little, if any, logistical support as well.

[u/isanameaname]

You would think that the premise of this sub is simple enough for anybody to understand. Alas.

[u/annedroiid]

I don’t think I’ve seen a true LAMF post in weeks on my feed

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, consequences! That's literally the point of this sub.

[u/Vanpotheosis]

How does an "illegal immigrant" vote for US president?

[u/SMIIIJJJ]

Thanks for this explanation; I’m new but LOVING this!

[u/armahillo]

Can each of those types be made into Reporting-Reasons for posts?

There is a ridiculous amount of non-LAMF posts getting posted, and they get upvoted by people who also don't understand the point of this sub, and it's really annoying. r/politics already exists -- I don't sub to it because I don't want to read that shit. I'm here for the LAMF content.

[u/catdogfishes1]

Anyone who doesn't think this is a LAMF is a fucking idiot. It is 100% correct according to the flow chart.

All the liberal SJW cunts support policies to end things like cash bail, and defund the police, and supported "deescalation" instead of police action.

Those policies hurt/oppress anyone who has been assaulted/raped/murdered/robbed by these thug criminals who don't even get arrested in the first place or are released on no cash bail immediately.

His support of those policies is what got him killed.

The leopard (criminal violent thugs) he was trying to save, ate his fucking face.

Deal with it.

[u/blueben]

Seeing a lot more FAFO in the LAMF lately.

[u/12altoids34]

The Republicans fought so hard to prove that there was voter fraud in arizona. As a result of all that work they have been charged with voter fraud themselves.

[u/chargernj]

1. Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Isreal, supported Hamas as a way to drive a wedge between the Palestinian political factions.
2. With the support of Netanyahu Hamas became the "dominant political force" within the Palestinian territories.
3. As a consequence of Hamas becoming the dominant political force in Palestine, many many people died due to the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

[u/ironFEline_82]

1. Randy Fine fully supports Ron DeSantis and all of his policies.
2. DeSantis has been notably silent on the growing problem of neo-Nazis in Florida and particularly in central Florida where this took place
3. Fine, who is Jewish, was just accosted by one of these neo-Nazis for whom DeSantis and his agenda have made the state a hospitable place.

[u/ReillyOBrien]

Why is this sub flooded with people gleefully wishing death on unvaccinated people who oppose the covid regime then get sick?

This claims to be a sub about people regretting political actions yet all I've seen is the equivalent of pointing and laughing at someone whos dying of cancer saying "I bet you wish you didn't smoke cigarettes idiot lol"

[u/Plastic_Egg_596]

Texans, including ranchers, support secession from the US, but are now looking for government assistance for wildfires, caused by climate change, which they also deny.

[u/Natural_Fix1926]

I posted about Christians voting for Trump and how Russia is attacking Christians in Ukraine. I thought I posted correctly. I am now confused.

[u/trolzilalol]

No actual leopards eating people's faces in this sub. Downvoted.

[u/pylorih]

Mods need to clean it up here.

Low effort posts that don’t fit the sub are flooding it.

[u/tjmin]

https://www.comicsands.com/kevin-corbin-condemns-helene-conspiracies-2669341522.html

[u/StrobeLightHoe]

I think everyone is missing the point. Kevin is a Christian so this is all OK.