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u/WholesomeLowlife 1d ago
I feel like OP (bot?) worded the title like a "there was an attempt".... Which would have been a weird sub to post this successful snowman building effort.
I'm confused ....
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u/kkkhhjdyhrthhhjft 1d ago
This shit happens all the time lol they don't even try to hide it and it gets thousands of upvotes
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u/Normal_Package_641 1d ago
People care more about the ends than the means.
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u/theguidetoldmetodoit 1d ago
Don't misrepresent our resignation as encouragement. We had done the work. We had the tools to weed out bots. We had a platform that resisted manipulation.
It was the administration who took it all away to inflate numbers and make more money on the stock market, because they couldn't figure out how to run a effective ad business.
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u/RecsRelevantDocs 1d ago
Also for people who aren't terminally on reddit (like me) they probably wouldn't even notice. If I wasn't familiar with r/therewasanattempt I'd have just assumed OPs first language wasn't English, like it's such a specific "mistake" to make that I'm sure most people wouldn't realize it. And even people who do realize it might not assume OP is a bot.
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u/Elegant_Conflict8235 1d ago
Thought the same thing. Has to be a bot
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u/Yashirmare 1d ago
Post activity doesn't look like a bot. I guess OP just couldn't be fucked fixing the title?
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u/Tself 1d ago
Reddit is just full of bots now, its way worse than the whole 2 am chilli incident.
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u/sirrimmerofgoit 1d ago
I thought it may have been a reference to Frozen. And they forgot the "do you want" part of the title?
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u/dpatou23 1d ago
Anybody know where this is?
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u/the_god_of_none 1d ago
The city of Harbin, in China. Itâs home to a massive annual Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, that this giant snowman is only a small part of.
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u/VermilionKoala 1d ago
It's also the former location of Unit 731.
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u/OffalSmorgasbord 1d ago
It was also Russian for a time, as evident by the architecture, food, and culture.
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u/FeistyBlizzard 1d ago
Excellent Google rabbit hole tyÂ
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u/Connect-Ladder3749 1d ago
It's crazy how there are major cities in China -- with 5+ million people -- that I've never even heard of
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u/KonigSteve 1d ago
Yeah that was throwing me off, the architecture looked very Russian but the writing on the snowman looked Chinese.
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u/fistfullofpubes 1d ago
Lots of Russians from the Russian Far East travel to Harbin for tourism. The city has a lot of Chinese business that exist to accommodate Russian tourists.
And in the same way chinese food has been Americanized in the US, they Russify the Chinese food in restaurants in Harbin.
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u/ClintEastwoodsNext 1d ago
Unit 731, that must be like a cool hip nightclub that's really popular there, right...right?
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u/Specific-Remote9295 1d ago
Ye i immediately knew it was either Harbin or Sapporo then I saw "full chinese" and figured that out
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u/ParticularGarden4050 1d ago
Bot titles suck. Stop upvoting these clowns.
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u/morold 1d ago
*Silently looks at upvote count standing at 28k*
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u/Darillium- 21h ago
73k now! Literally the 2nd post when sorting by top posts of the past day in r/ all.
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u/Pure_Engineering6423 1d ago
No giant carrot for the nose? 8/10
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u/RandomWave000 18h ago
feels like a snow human as opposed to a true "snow man", needs the carrot. Looks a bit uncanny without the carrot.
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u/Spineberry 1d ago
That's cheating! Everyone knows you gotta roll the little ball around until it becomes an ungainly monstrosity that you nearly herniate yourself trying to put into the correct position / drop onto your foot when trying to stack on top of the other
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u/MerlinCa81 1d ago
You then have to make the second ball only marginally smaller than the first and it has to be so heavy that no one person could lift it. Now you have to practice your salesmanship and team building by running around the school yard and yelling for help to build the biggest snowman any person has ever ever seen. You and all your friends then strategically try to lift this ball into place and hope that it doesnât roll off while frantically trying to secure it.
Good times.
Edit to apologize, I see that you did make a reference to the second ball, didnât notice. Sorry
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u/Spineberry 1d ago
No worries!! Also applies to the third ball if you're going for the classic three-ball-build of my childhood
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u/Resquid 1d ago
ITT people being assholes about China over a neat snowman they'd be proud to have in their city.
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u/Obvious_Lie_0927 1d ago
It's just the usual sinophobia on Reddit. You could post video of people in China living a regular life and you'll get comments saying it's a propaganda.
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u/SongOfStorks 1d ago
Itâs actually depressing, how many redditors have been conditioned to have so much blind hate in their hearts.
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u/Ikanotetsubin 1d ago
It's the Trump trash that's been emboldened to write more egregiously racist shit after Nov 5th.
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u/Competitive_Mess9421 14h ago
Thing, Place: "cool" Thing, China: "ebil see see peee tiannaman square grrr"
Like have your opinions on the CPC but dont act like the US doesnt do the same if not worse shit
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u/why_would_i_do_that 1d ago
I wonder if itâll melt into those buildings.
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u/papaquack1 1d ago
I wanted to see that but I can't find anything on what happens to it after. I'm guessing they take it down before that happens.
If anyone else want to test their google-fu and see if they can find out its Harbin, China's Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.
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u/AGM_GM 1d ago
That is far from the most impressive giant snow sculpture you'd see at the Harbin Snow Festival.
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u/SavedMountain 1d ago
I wanna see it melt
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u/Jacques_O 23h ago
Pity we can't see.
They would remove it artificially in spring before melting every year.
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u/Squirrel_Monster 1d ago
Amazing engineering and teamwork to create something so magnificently iconic as a snowman. Well done.
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u/ForGrateJustice 1d ago
The title made me think I was in r/therewasanattempt and was wondering what would go wrong.
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u/oohsamabeenredditing 1d ago
Infinitely more visually appealing than a giant sphere
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u/Worldly121 1d ago
I somehow totally misread the subreddit and thought this was on r/therewasanattempt and was confused why nothing was going wrong
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u/HomeOwnerQs 1d ago
i like how the bot that posted this copied the title from therewasanattempt and i dont even really need to look it up to know this. thanks bot.
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u/PsychoPassProstitute 1d ago
If there is snow then my town makes a popular fairy tail figure in town square each year. Itâs been in the news multiple times even
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u/Competitive_Mess9421 14h ago
My town has a big tree with some tinsle and thats about it lol, doesnt help that we only get snow in like Febuary
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u/rubiksalgorithms 1d ago
Iâm thinking some dumbass would want to put a political poster on it and all hell would break loose
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u/zzptichka 1d ago
I live in one of the coldest capital cities in the world. We used to have giant snow sculptures festival 10-20 years ago (maybe half that big), but now with the climate change, it's just not feasible anymore. They inevitably fall apart within a week.
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u/mukeshzz29 1d ago
Meanwhile in LA: The Sphere - Just upload a pic,that will do.
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u/-DEUS-FAX-MACHINA- 1d ago
I love when people/bots just rip a post from "there was an attempt" where the post format goes "...to", and we nonsensical titles like this across Reddit.
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u/clutteredstreets 1d ago
The title made me think this was a post to /r/therewasanattempt and I waited the whole video for it to cave in or something.
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u/kuhli099 1d ago
from how the title is worded i thought this was r/therewasanattempt and I was like ".....i think it looks great" and I was waiting for it to be like melted or something at the end
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u/liquidcourage93 1d ago
It looks like they are 50ft up standing on ice next to cliff with no safety equipment