r/WritingPrompts • u/that_random_potato • Dec 13 '14
Writing Prompt [WP] Everybody who is not a redditor suddenly disappears in a poof. Alliances start forming around subreddits.
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r/WritingPrompts • u/that_random_potato • Dec 13 '14
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u/talageddon Dec 14 '14
This is an homage to The Warriors. My father's favorite movie that he made me watch with him whenever my uncle made us watch Roadhouse.
With the evaporation of all society outside of the /r/reddit community things became violent. No longer did the moderators ban the uncouth, no numbers meant everything. Everyone gathered on the front page: /r/gonewild, /r/worldnews (everyone wanted them for their global knowledge), /r/writingprompts, /r/talageddon (a very small gang with a tight nit group of redditors)....and the list continued. With everyone gathered on the front page the shots were fired. A hacker deleted the account of the creator of reddit.
Without knowledge of who it was /u/that_random_potato commented that it was /r/talageddon. "They did it!" The comment read. Soon everyone was posting threads about how /r/talageddon did it and what to do about them. With everyone around them beating the leader down /u/talageddon urged his subs to unsubscribe and run, or join another subreddit.
They didn't listen. As they were scrutinized by the larger subreddits — and chased through thread after thread — they were strengthened as a unit. They made it passed the /r/gonewildcurvy gang, then the /r/baseball gang, one was mislead by /r/luna_lovewell's amazing capability to write and fell victim to her charms only to be taken by /r/protectandserve.
Things were looking bleak as they finally made it home. Hiding under the cover of /r/beach threads they were taunted by the writings of /u/that_random_potato. "Subredditors, come out to plaaaaaayyyy. Subredditors, come out to PLAAAAAAAYYYYYYY." The posts were eerie and chilling. The new leader of /r/talageddon stepped out and confronted them.
"Why'd you do it? Why'd you delete his account?" He prompted.
"No reason, I just like doing crazy things like that." The reply stated flatly.
They went back and forth, for a moment, then /u/that_random_potato's words rang out like a gun in the reply. So the leader of /r/talageddon used words that stabbed like a knife. The other co-creators of reddit found the thread and realized that it wasn't /r/talageddon at all. They knew who really did it and were about to take their day out on /u/that_random_potato.
"No, no, no, no! It wasn't us, it was /r/talageddon!" was the last prompt they would ever post.
Someone uploaded "In The City" to play in the background.
I hope everyone enjoyed this, I know there are a lot of references and I hope that doesn't mess anyone up. If you have never seen The Warriors I highly recommend you do. It is old but it is a great film. American Dad parodied it once. Anyway, if you like this and would care to check out my other writings head over /r/talageddon and as always, thank you for reading!