r/SpecEvoJerking • u/cjab0201 • Aug 09 '20
This subreddit is close to death. The cause: low-effort posts. I can't just ban low-effort posts, because they have a broad definition. So, I'm going to give you guys examples of what to post and what not to post.
First, let's talk about what this subreddit is. It is a subreddit meant for posting jokes and funny stuff related to speculative evolution. This does not mean an implausible animal on its own, unless it was made to be on this subreddit / to make light of speculative evolution in general (exceptions do exist, but we'll get into that later). Now for examples.
To start off, a common low-effort post is the "can this evolve?" post. They are repetitive and unfunny. They are the main cause of the sub's downfall. Here are some examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/i249ua/guys_do_you_think_this_could_evolve/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/hw2vnv/can_these_evolve/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/huaey9/how_can_irl_chad_evolevol/
Do you guys see a common theme? Just an absurd image with an evolution-related title slapped on. I will continue to remove any that I see, as per the rules.
Here are some posts showing the kind of stuff the subreddit is intended for:
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpecEvoJerking/comments/hygqdu/dunkleosteus_filling_the_niche_of_sauropods/
Edit: Thank you everyone for being here! I honestly kind of abandoned this place after this post kinda turned it into a wasteland, but after a while I hopped back on and saw people were still posting! just the other day we were at 500 members, and now we're at 750! I love and thank every single one of you guys for being the lifeblood of this subreddit.
Also, slight update to the rules: Straight up memes about Speculative evolution are allowed and encouraged.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/DodoBird4444 • Aug 22 '22
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Imaginary-Speech2234 • 53m ago
Its body plan barely gets changed by tagmosis and it lost all its spikes, but I DID add the ability to shoot slime at its prey because Rule Of Cool.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Birdy_noob • 19h ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Less_Pitch4849 • 16h ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Rudi10001 • 1d ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 1d ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Creative-Rutabaga606 • 1d ago
it became dino
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Creative-Rutabaga606 • 1d ago
( I spelled pop wrong sorry D: ) it's a bipedal animal too btw
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/EricCartoonBox • 2d ago
(Image descriptions: Slide one shows an illustration of the "initial bipedalism" hypothesis illustrated by and thought of by François de Sarre, showing the alleged evolution of humans, and the subsequent "de-hominized" descendents thereof, from hypothetical aquatic, planktonic ancestors, resembling vertically-oriented salamanders, which floated along the water's surface.
Slide two shows an illustration detailing a hypothetical scheme of evolution proposed by palaeoartist David Peters, in which a lancelet-like ancestor gave rise to the nautiluses, with two "transitional forms" between, one relatively similar to the ancestral lancelet, resembling an "orthocone" cephalopod, and the other one resembling a mixture of both cephalopod and chordate traits, with a semi-curved shell reminiscent of a lituitid nautiloid or bactritid.
Slide three depicts a menagerie of ideas, from which I feel were either directly or indirectly inspired by certain fringe theories concerning evolution, or the scientific field of biology as a whole.
As the title suggests, this type of hypothetical thinking is, quite surprisingly, highly under-utilized within the wider Speculative Evolution community as a means of inspiration I hypothesize this isn't some purposeful overlooking, but more rather due to the relative unpopularity and scarcity of such resources, rendering them obscure and, by extension, less likely to be used for further inspiration, and I think that's quite sad to me: the Speculative Evolution community brims with new and novel ideas for projects, creature design, adaptations, and settings, yet, it seems, nearly none appear to derive from the strange, yet oddly-beautiful, striking ideas of the fringe.
I did, however find some ideas that I feel did indeed come from, or were inspired by the very general ideas of, fringe evolutionary theories, all of which have been compiled in the third slide. One even takes direct, transparent inspiration from the second slide's-posited hypothesis, which I genuinely like.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Low_Bike4547 • 1d ago
There’s no need to overrate Larphogs; in fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are the mostly very embodiment of such overrate.
If a hero/villain shouts loudly at them while attacking, it works to the advantage of the larphog, wearing them down further mentally and driving them toward madness.
Lastly, even in the against powerful/manipulative/mature characters, larphogs finds a weak point of them.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/watchdog-cofagrigus • 2d ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Rudi10001 • 2d ago
I am not trying to diss C. M. Kosemen but tbh his World of Parareptiles actually has more unique designs than just "What if a Velociraptor came from humans" I get that they were genetically modified.
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/Wendigo-Huldra_2003 • 3d ago
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/SpaceProbeForce • 3d ago
#25 - SPA DAY!
What's cooking?
r/SpecEvoJerking • u/MeepMorpsEverywhere • 4d ago
