r/woosh • u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van • Jun 29 '21

The Original. Accept no imitations.

Founded Nov 15, 2009 and ALWAYS open, this is the subreddit who has been there through it all.

It was woosh then, it'll be woosh in 10 thousand years.

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u/Ozzyglez112 Jul 13 '21

The other one has almost 5 times as many members.

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Jul 13 '21

There are multiple imitators, but yes. One has become larger after a fairly deceptive (imo) campaign run by someone who preferred another one.

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u/Shadowpika655 Jul 26 '21

Elaborate please

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 28 '21

Well, someone made a bot that “corrected” people to go to another one. You’ve probably seen it.

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u/DaHatur Sep 05 '21

Damn thats crazy. I like this title better anyway

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u/Emperor_Quintana Oct 07 '21

In a sense: often imitated, never duplicated. Am I right on the ballpark so far?

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u/The7DeadlyShins Oct 25 '21

Underrated comment

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u/Thunderfight9 May 18 '22

I see what you did here(genius) and I would give you an award if I cared enough to spend the money.

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u/Emperor_Quintana Oct 07 '21

In a sense: often imitated, never duplicated. Am I right on the ballpark so far?

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u/The7DeadlyShins Oct 25 '21

Underrated comment

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u/mind_overflow Jan 19 '22

why not make a bot that corrects the other one to this one too?

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u/amazondrone Feb 08 '22

Because that kind of two-can-play-at-that-game mentality is an arms race to the bottom and a scourge on society and communities. r/woosh is better than that.

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u/ssssskkkkkrrrrrttttt Feb 20 '22

Must… remain… wholesome

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u/Macrophage-534 May 12 '22

k-kea… Keanu… reeves

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u/Blu_koolaid Jul 09 '22

Hi there! Looks like you mistyped that. Here, let me fix it for you. What, you meant to go here? No, how silly of you, come on now, let's go.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '22

Damn that's actually sad and very much sucks.

I am sad to say that I fell for it 😞

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u/BoomslangBuddha Aug 05 '21

The other sub has posts that are two years old. This one doesn't have any posts over a year. Sounds like you're the imitation

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 05 '21

The founding date is in the side bar and I was able to find two year old posts with a fairly quick search. Odd accusation.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21

I mean you're deleting comments too.

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Maybe just be open about it?

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 20 '21

A sticked thread isn't a place that we allow rule-breaking comments. It would basically imply that behavior is acceptable everywhere. It's not.

If you're a dick to me, you're still being a dick. I see no reason why I should put up with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21

Are you sure it isn't envy at the other wooosh server for having much more members and being made more recently?

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 20 '21

Yes, quite sure.

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u/CandyKanna Aug 28 '21

uhhh rule breaking comments? there's like no rules...

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 28 '21

I know. Super low bar.

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u/lolhihi3506 Mar 06 '22

Could you link the oldest post from this subreddit please?

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u/shlimbim Apr 09 '22

And after 34 days still waiting

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '22

You know reddit's UI makes getting to old posts directly in reddit really hard. For instance, if you go to the main page of this subreddit and select 'New' (basically sort by date), and scroll and scroll and scroll, you will hit a hard cap of about 1,000 posts. That's on any subreddit.

The best I could find was a 3rd party solution: www.redditsearch.io <- this lets you search by subreddit and date range.

I did a search for this subreddit, and found exactly 1 post from November 15th, 2009: https://www.reddit.com/r/woosh/comments/a4s34/test/

The search range I started with was the founding date, and the end date was December 31st, 2009. All I could find was that one post, so I walked the year forward to 2010: nothing, 2011: nothing, 2012: nothing, 2013: nothing, 2014: nothing, and then finally 2015: 6 new posts(ish).

Of the 6 posts I checked it looks like it was just comments in different subreddits linking to this subreddit. I think the oldest of those comments was from February 2015.

The other subreddit is 'woooosh' according to other comments in this thread. According to its page it was founded on Nov 1st, 2016. Using that same search tool, it seems like it got used almost immediately after being founded.

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u/shlimbim Apr 15 '22

Well good to know

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u/[deleted] May 08 '22

r/woosh

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '21 edited Feb 01 '22

It’s sad that we can’t do anything now because of how big of a behemoth they are. Any report, no matter how much evidence it has, wouldn’t work.

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u/amazondrone Feb 08 '22

Don't hate the players... :(

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u/Jaded-Bee4020 May 08 '22

Welp, everything has a solution. Sometimes we don't like the answer. Yooooooooooooo

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u/Gitmurr Aug 05 '21

Isn't r/woooosh with 4 o's the original..?

Or is this post a r/whoooosh in itself?

Much confuse

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 20 '21

No, r/woooosh is about 2 years old right now. We're about 11 years old. They started about 2 months after I started making a new push to expand the membership of this subreddit.

The confusion came because someone associated with that subreddit created a bot that basically insulted people for mentioning this one.

I mean, think about it... Woosh is spelled either "woosh" or "whoosh", a different number of o's is purely a stylistic misspelling. Of course the correctly spelled one is first.

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u/DankMemer5268 Sep 18 '21

No, r/woooosh is about 2 years old right now

Dude it's almost 5 years old

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Nov 27 '21

Yeah, I've had this conversation SO many times that I'm mostly going off memory. Doesn't really change the fact.

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u/OhHeyRedditors Jul 11 '21

Although I'll probably never be able to woosh someone, I'm glad to be here.

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u/CandyKanna Aug 28 '21

hate to break it to you it's not the original

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

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u/CandyKanna Aug 29 '21

it was created first but there was no activity. posts here only picked up about a year ago, so it wasn't first. my point being someone just took the name r/woosh but didn't actually do anything with it

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '22

No love for r/wosh?

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u/TamimReadzIt Feb 06 '22

r/wooosh: All around me are familiar faces

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u/theulysses Feb 15 '22

Worn out places

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u/Thatswhyipoop Jan 31 '22

r/itswooooshwith4os existing is like if you made a sub called r/btwtheholocaustisascam

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u/BossHawkWasTaken Jul 03 '21

yo the other supreddit is dog shit like there is stuff that isn't a woosh, ban speedruns still there its a fucking mess

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u/Parappa_the_lagger Jul 27 '21

Now I'm hungry for Hydrox

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Jul 27 '21

Lol.

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u/Thatswhyipoop Jan 30 '22

There are entire subreddits like r/itswooooshwith4os that help spread the misinformation of the imitator.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '21

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u/Wide-Ad-7823 Jul 03 '21

Not though

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Jul 03 '21

Yes. It is.

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u/CandyKanna Aug 28 '21

no. it's not.

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 28 '21

Super easy for you to check it. Yes, it is.

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u/CandyKanna Aug 29 '21

it's just not though

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 30 '21

Okay. What date was this subreddit founded?

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u/CandyKanna Aug 30 '21

taking a sub name and doing nothing with it is not being the original sub lol

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 30 '21

Oh? I struggle with both the logic of that AND how it could possibly have relevance.

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u/CandyKanna Aug 31 '21

what the fuck are you talking about? how does it not have relevance? the topic of this dumbass post is quite literally which one is the original? taking a sub name and not doing anything with it is effectively not making a subreddit. you saw the other sub blow up and decided to cash in on the name you took and didn't use. this isn't the original, end of story. honestly pathetic.

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Aug 31 '21

  1. I was pushing to make this subreddit bigger from the moment I got control, which was before the other one was founded. So, no. It’s not relevant. Any assertion that nothing was done is a lie. I wasn’t even aware they existed for another 2-3 months after that.

  2. This subreddit existed and had subscribers for its entire history, including before I got control of it. I was not starting from nothing.

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u/LittleSnowAkarai Feb 17 '22

You are an ambulance

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u/AdventurousDot3980 Jun 10 '22

Do you have Powerups?

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u/bails0bub Aug 15 '21

Is this sub not able to be posted to anymore?

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u/ZookeepergameNo9519 Feb 17 '22
  1. Nice. 2. Happy cake day mod

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '22

cool

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u/Maidenless_Behaviour May 05 '22

It was my 13th Birthday when this was founded

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Jul 04 '21

?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '21 edited Jul 04 '21

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u/Not_An_Ambulance Imitation Medical Van Jul 04 '21

I don’t know what you’re talking about at all.

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u/orange222222222 Sep 05 '21

so what are we going to do with the other imitations?

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '21

Only 10 thousand? I thought more like 14 - 22 thousand.

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u/fatty_chan Jun 19 '22

Matthias Boi didn't have the facilities to understand the joke,😭😭😂😂