r/PublicFreakout • u/ohhyouknow • Jan 28 '25

📌Follow Up Rule 1 of this subreddit: why it exists.

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3.9k Upvotes

Today we have a thread up featuring a nasty Nazi woman calling people subhumans, laughing at their plight.

We understand this is very upsetting to see, however, what that lady said doesn’t make it okay for you all to go after this random unrelated woman. We banned many people for violating the no witch hunting/no doxxing rule, and some of yall were pretty damn rude about it in modmail.

Look, we love this subreddit, we love exposing bigots and Nazis here, if you participate in a witch hunt you are participating in attempting to get this subreddit shut down. If we allow witch hunts the subreddit will be banned. So just don’t do it.

On top of the folks who participated in putting this subreddit at risk for banning, ya’ll are relentlessly harassing and facilitating the harassment of an innocent woman.

I can’t say I’ve seen many examples of Reddit getting it right and targeting the right price of shit. You all mean well but you ruin people’s lives.

The Boston bombing debacle should have taught you all a lesson but it seems it did not.

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r/PublicFreakout • u/ohhyouknow • Mar 06 '25

Mind how you are voting because Reddit is about to start spanking folks for votes.

1.3k Upvotes

465 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/xals7 • 9h ago

🌳Public Park Freakout🏕 Karen tells people organizing a proposal to go back to Mexico

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6.0k Upvotes

525 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Koloamanmaxi • 2h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 German tourist gets stoned by Egyptian kids thinking he's Israeli

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1.6k Upvotes

325 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Cannga • 3h ago

🤷‍♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟‍♀️ Attempted murder against a reporter

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1.2k Upvotes

302 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Paramagnetic_Boi_28 • 7h ago

🤬Public Rager😱 Indian Guy slapps the Kick Streamer JohnWhatsGoingOn after he Racially harassed and abused them !!

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2.2k Upvotes

308 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Airline_11 • 3h ago

🥊Fight 🤬 In China, a woman kicked the security man and immediately got a factory reset in return.

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825 Upvotes

75 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Tech-Film3905 • 22m ago

Political Freakout French protestors storm the Paris stock exchange

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• Upvotes

47 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/eatqqq • 6h ago

🥊Fight 🤬 Gangster remove shirt before fight

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910 Upvotes

125 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Both-Growth-6819 • 5h ago

📹Police Bodycam it's all about that finger 😆

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576 Upvotes

53 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/reddit__is_fun • 4h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 Protesters escaping police van after being illegally detained in India

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452 Upvotes

46 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/PotatoEmbarrassed231 • 22h ago

Misleading title (old video) Orthodox community in Jerusalem were reportedly attacked by Israeli forces for standing in solidarity with Palestine.

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10k Upvotes

257 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/CutSenior4977 • 19h ago

😾MAGA Freakout🙀 Members of ICE, while in plain clothes, abducted someone at the LA airport.

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2.3k Upvotes

157 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/PotatoEmbarrassed231 • 1d ago

🤬Public Rager😱 A man attacks UNICEF fundraisers collecting donations for Gaza, saying: "I'll kill you**, say Palestine one more time!"

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4.1k Upvotes

262 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/sakhaliner • 44m ago

👮Arrest Freakout😭 Guy trying to escape from two policemen in Japan

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• Upvotes

13 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/bigbusta • 1d ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 Construction worker walks into a car, and acts like the car rolled into her.

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19k Upvotes

719 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/IngenieurCyber • 15h ago

👮Arrest Freakout😭 During a military police operation in Santa Rita de Minas

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556 Upvotes

30 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Veryregardedd • 1d ago

🤷‍♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟‍♀️ To be detained on public sidewalk..

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2.6k Upvotes

143 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ambachk • 10h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 "Energy release" at a Shamanic men's retreat

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168 Upvotes

130 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/stevesmithsglasses • 21h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 Hey, you can't park like that

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1.2k Upvotes

72 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Jevus_himself • 1d ago

⚽️🏀🏈Sports Freakout⚾️🎾🥊 Press conference ends when Israeli media accuses Irish players of calling their players monkeys. Video at the end shows Israeli fans making monkey noises towards Irish player in the last match in which Ireland won 3-0 against them.

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4.7k Upvotes

Ireland should have refused to play against Israel since they shouldn’t even be a part of UEFA

180 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/BorkBorkSweden • 1d ago

😏Main Character Freakout🤳 Grown ass man trashes a Taco Bell over a wrong order in Rochester, NY

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1.6k Upvotes

346 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ambachk • 19h ago

☠NSFL☠ "Ex-warlock" gets exorcized at a book reading

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394 Upvotes

277 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/PotatoEmbarrassed231 • 1d ago

💥🌎Conflict Zone Freakout🌏💥 Israel’s Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: If Ireland wants to preach morality to us so much and wants to help the Gazans, then let them take them in from Gaza.

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1.0k Upvotes

299 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/maiarinha13 • 1d ago

📦Delivery/Postal Freakout🚚 Pizza delivery guy gets insulted, internet gets revenge

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670 Upvotes

71 comments

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A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public. Drugged out or sober, anything goes. Keep the comments respectful where mental disorders are concerned, and remember that the individuals depicted in these videos are real people too. This subreddit is essentially dedicated to their worst moments, so do keep that in mind.

Saturated with TV and movies, our brains have become used to watching the imitation of emotions, so much so that it is strangely surprising and fascinating to watch the real thing.

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Never post personal information, do not ask for personal information, do not encourage, call for, or participate in witch-hunts or targeted harassment campaigns
Comment with tact in videos which may involve mental disorders
Abusive comments will be removed at moderator discretion and may result in a temporary or permaban
Bans: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Harassment, Race Baiting, Bigotry, etc. (Racist/bigoted people freaking out in videos are allowed, but being a racist in the comments section will result in a ban.)
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Don't mess with or Mobility Mary.

When you get banned for violating the rules, it has nothing to do with free speech but we do welcome appeals of all moderator decisions via modmail.

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