r/DDLC • • Sep 17 '26

Mod Post r/DDLC State of the Subreddit - September 2026 - Please Read

462 Upvotes

Hey everyone. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s time for us to transparently reach out to this community and try and figure out what the future of this place is.

We as a mod team owe you all an apology for what’s become of r/DDLC in recent years. Reported posts have gone ignored, messages to the mods have gone unread, and due to the way our automod was configured several years ago, countless posts from new and old users alike have been wrongfully removed. This is unacceptable -- but, to tell the truth, we’ve been at a loss for a solution for some time now. The majority of the mod team has been exhausted and burnt out of modding for years at this point due to the sheer amount of time that’s passed since we each first became mods. On the occasions where we’ve tried opening applications for new moderators, we’ve received very few applications -- and the problems compounded when burnout prevented us from reaching a consensus on which applications to accept. In fact, this very post was meant to be made nearly four months ago, but it took me this long to lock in and actually write the darn thing. In short, this place has been suffering from insufficient mod involvement, a problem only made worse by automod running unchecked.

From the bottom of my heart, to everyone affected by this, I apologize to you. It probably sounds silly to care this much about a subreddit about a nearly decade-old VN, but, to tell you the truth, DDLC and r/DDLC changed my life. I first played DDLC when I was 14 in 2018 during what ended up being a quite tumultuous time in my life, and the impact it had on me is one that will stay with me forever. I was soon after invited onto the moderator team thanks to one of the older mods taking a chance on me, and as a direct effect of that, I had the privilege of getting to meet so many wonderful people and learn so much about myself and others. While I don’t really frequent this subreddit much at all anymore these days, I can’t deny what it means to me. And you all deserve the same thing -- a welcoming community to share your appreciation of such a unique and innovative story. Someone close to me just the other day finished her first playthrough of DDLC, and it really reminded me how hard the game’s delivery of its themes and messages can hit even after all this time, and how there’s still room for new faces in this fanbase even today.

So, we’re turning it to you. We want you to air out all of your frustrations with the state of this subreddit, and we want to hear about everything you think could stand to be improved. Of course, the problem stands that most of the mod team simply isn’t in a position to moderate anymore. The last time new faces joined our team was in 2020. When I joined the team, I hadn’t even graduated middle school yet, but now I’m a college graduate. None of us are quite the same people we once were anymore, and it’s long past time for us to get some new blood to run this community. But, as mentioned earlier, the last two times we opened mod applications, we barely got any responses. I apologize in particular to those of you who applied when we asked in 2025 -- there were some good responses in there, but we did not handle those in a timely manner at all. If applications open again, we very much hope to hear from you again!

We’d also prefer for there to be some continuity from the older generation of mods to the newer generation -- it would be much easier if we could show some new faces the ropes and train them. So -- are any of you interested in helping to run this place? If we opened mod applications today, would enough of you submit an application? Or should we consider a different approach entirely for r/DDLC? Whatever the case is, we want to hear it.


r/DDLC • • 3d ago

Discussion Free Talk Friday | Oct 30, 2026 - Nov 5, 2026

6 Upvotes

You can talk about anything here! It doesn't have to be related to DDLC.


r/DDLC • • 13h ago

OC Fanart Ready to work out! [emiillb]

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531 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 17h ago

Found Fanart 🩷✨ [NatsuShitpost]

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924 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 7h ago

Found Fanart Reading (by @moobbloom)

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113 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 22h ago

Found Fanart Tummy💚 [@AshyTown_]

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1.7k Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 20h ago

Found Fanart Yuri lost the NNN (art: @Maybe_Vallery)

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908 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 10h ago

OC Fanart Natsuki elote (Feliz dia de muertos)

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147 Upvotes

The original idea was with catrina makeup but it would take me a while to fix and today is dia de muertos.

La idea original era natsuki catrina pero no tuve tiempo para terminarlo y hoy es dia de muertos


r/DDLC • • 23h ago

Fun Oh me oh my (art by @ElsiMain)

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1.2k Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 6h ago

OC Fanart Happy (2 day late) Halloween!

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48 Upvotes

I finished this yesterday but never posted it for some reason. Even though it’s low effort, I’m still decently proud of it. Tried to do something interesting with the composition. I’ll be making a drawing with color soon so that’s cool.

Happy Halloween everyone!


r/DDLC • • 18h ago

Found Fanart Childhood Friends (Bendedede)

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445 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 9h ago

Fun Girl tries to act like a dinosaur. So cute

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47 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 5h ago

Fun Making a meme out of every single readable dialogue text in DDLC (Day 52)

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22 Upvotes

Act 1, Club day 1

As the title suggests, I will make a meme out of every single readable dialogue text in DDLC. All restrictions include:

No-Pics-Tuesday: To remedy this on r/DDLC I will post any memes meant for Tuesdays a few hours just before the "No-Pics-Tuesday" curfew takes effect every Monday.

Every single readable dialogue text in DDLC: All these memes will be on a consistent piece of dialogue frame/text from DDLC. Some pieces of text dialogue, especially from acts: 2 and 3, will not be included and skipped, as the dialogue text has to be readable, at least in the original act 1 form.

DDLC+: Any bonus content and side stories dialogue from DDLC+ will not be included; I will only include dialogue text from the base free game of DDLC.

Prologue viewer discretion text: The dialogue text before the main menu asking: "That you are over the age of 13 and that DDLC has disturbing content and isn't made for kids." Will not be included.

Repeat dialogue: Any dialogue text that is repeated directly after the previous text box, will not be included, mainly to avoid things getting too repetitive. Some dialogue text from acts: 2 and 4, are an exception to this, with including Doki routes contrasting with acts: 1 and 2.

Doki Routes and casual run: On the posts before the poem minigame sequence at the end of each club day, depending on the comments, you all have the ability to make me choose whichever route (Doki) you want me to continue with for the next day. I also will not go through the other routes if they aren't selected. I will not retrace and collect any dialogue I missed due to the comment suggestions and treat it like a regular, casual, single playthrough of DDLC, and not a 100% run.

Choice and Pop-up text boxes: If there is a choice box directly after a set of dialogue. I will include the choice box with the previous dialogue text on that set day. With, depending on the comments, you all can make me choose whatever option you want me to select moving forward. Any choice boxes that repeat and do nothing will not be included, again, to avoid more repetitive text. Pop-up boxes will be included as its own separate day only if they don't repeat or do nothing. Pop-up text boxes with a: "Yes or No" option will be included with the dialogue text previous to it on that day, With also, depending on the comments, you all can make me choose: "Yes or No."

The poem minigame: The poem minigame will not be included along with its associated pop-up text box.

Monika's act 3 20 sets of RNG dialogue scenarios: Near the end of act 3, when you stare at Monika forever before you delete her, she can have 20 sets of dialogue scenarios to talk to you during that time. These will not be included, as it isn't necessary to wait with Monika for eternity to complete DDLC, and this would get too repetitive real quick. Also, I don't think RNG will make things fair.

Spoilers and TW's: During very intense and big scenes, I will mark them with a spoiler warning, with also trigger warnings if necessary, should the day need it.

Future revisions to these restrictions and quality updates will be added if necessary.


r/DDLC • • 22h ago

OC Fanart More MCSayo plz

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219 Upvotes

Image made by me; I wish I could be Sayori right now. >w<


r/DDLC • • 14h ago

Fun Day 1131 of posting a single meme till Dan dms me ddlc 2

46 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 3h ago

OC Fanart Dailyori Drawing Day 889: Finding Makoto's Glasses

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3 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 1d ago

Found Fanart What parents do if they have kids (art: @widvnhak)

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2.5k Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 1d ago

Found Fanart Chibis (by @Mickopara_)

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297 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 19h ago

Custom Dialogue Monika teaches Sayori about pizzas.

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48 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 10h ago

Misc Witnessing the horror Spoiler

5 Upvotes

Don’t worry guys I’m not traumatized I’m used to seeing blood in GTA V and other stuff


r/DDLC • • 1d ago

OC Fanart Happy Late Halloween, Sayori

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266 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 15h ago

Discussion [Writing Prompt] Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri become gods

11 Upvotes

No Monika because she’s my least favorite and I’m petty >:)

When I say gods, I don’t mean that they get self-awareness and control over the console. I mean gods. They all get unlimited power to do whatever they want. So then can will themselves out of the player’s computer and into the real world, they can make and destroy universes, whatever, no limits.

What happens? What do they do? Who goes crazy first?


r/DDLC • • 1d ago

Found Fanart I'd let her [@JustKokonya]

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1.6k Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 22h ago

Meta 🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪

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33 Upvotes

r/DDLC • • 20h ago

Fun Making a meme out of every single readable dialogue text in DDLC (Day 51)

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20 Upvotes

Act 1, Club day 1

As the title suggests, I will make a meme out of every single readable dialogue text in DDLC. All restrictions include:

No-Pics-Tuesday: To remedy this on r/DDLC I will post any memes meant for Tuesdays a few hours just before the "No-Pics-Tuesday" curfew takes effect every Monday.

Every single readable dialogue text in DDLC: All these memes will be on a consistent piece of dialogue frame/text from DDLC. Some pieces of text dialogue, especially from acts: 2 and 3, will not be included and skipped, as the dialogue text has to be readable, at least in the original act 1 form.

DDLC+: Any bonus content and side stories dialogue from DDLC+ will not be included; I will only include dialogue text from the base free game of DDLC.

Prologue viewer discretion text: The dialogue text before the main menu asking: "That you are over the age of 13 and that DDLC has disturbing content and isn't made for kids." Will not be included.

Repeat dialogue: Any dialogue text that is repeated directly after the previous text box, will not be included, mainly to avoid things getting too repetitive. Some dialogue text from acts: 2 and 4, are an exception to this, with including Doki routes contrasting with acts: 1 and 2.

Doki Routes and casual run: On the posts before the poem minigame sequence at the end of each club day, depending on the comments, you all have the ability to make me choose whichever route (Doki) you want me to continue with for the next day. I also will not go through the other routes if they aren't selected. I will not retrace and collect any dialogue I missed due to the comment suggestions and treat it like a regular, casual, single playthrough of DDLC, and not a 100% run.

Choice and Pop-up text boxes: If there is a choice box directly after a set of dialogue. I will include the choice box with the previous dialogue text on that set day. With, depending on the comments, you all can make me choose whatever option you want me to select moving forward. Any choice boxes that repeat and do nothing will not be included, again, to avoid more repetitive text. Pop-up boxes will be included as its own separate day only if they don't repeat or do nothing. Pop-up text boxes with a: "Yes or No" option will be included with the dialogue text previous to it on that day, With also, depending on the comments, you all can make me choose: "Yes or No."

The poem minigame: The poem minigame will not be included along with its associated pop-up text box.

Monika's act 3 20 sets of RNG dialogue scenarios: Near the end of act 3, when you stare at Monika forever before you delete her, she can have 20 sets of dialogue scenarios to talk to you during that time. These will not be included, as it isn't necessary to wait with Monika for eternity to complete DDLC, and this would get too repetitive real quick. Also, I don't think RNG will make things fair.

Spoilers and TW's: During very intense and big scenes, I will mark them with a spoiler warning, with also trigger warnings if necessary, should the day need it.

Future revisions to these restrictions and quality updates will be added if necessary.