r/misleadingthumbnails↗
Misleading Thumbnails - Not always what you think
This subreddit is a place to share posts (often found elsewhere on reddit), that have the unique quality of generating a Reddit thumbnail that misleads people into seeing something entirely different than what the full-size image ends up being. This almost always occurs in an unexpected fashion, where shrinking down an image to thumbnail-size suddenly creates an illusion one would not have expected. (Only works on Old Reddit or "Classic View")
494k subscribers41 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~2% by known bots)35 authors / mosince 2011
r/misleadingthumbnails has 494k members (+1.1% over the last 12 months). It gets about 41 posts a month from 35 people. Top topics: Fried Chicken, Chicken Moments and Ice Cream Moments.
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- Fried Chicken0.1%
- Chicken Moments0.1%
- Ice Cream Moments0.1%
- Cat Faces & Behaviors0.1%
- Fish Tanks & Critters0.1%
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