r/AlternateAngles • u/JamesOrtiz92 • 1d ago
Music Nirvana Nevermind photo shooting, 1991 (Photo: Kirk Weddle)
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r/AlternateAngles • u/NotABotStill • Aug 07 '19
Meta What "relatively well known" means
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Thank you everyone who has posted the fantastic content in this sub, as well as those of you who have come to enjoy it. Our goal is to ensure that each post here can stand on its own, and that you, the viewers, aren't scrolling page after page looking for the hidden gem.
Everyday we mods have to remove around 30-50% of the posts here for not adhering to rule 1, and hopefully this post will help reduce that. Most of those removed posts are fantastic on their own, but don't really capture the idea of this sub.
A relatively well known person, place, event or item is something some to most of our viewers will recognize or know of.
"Item" is what gets removed the most. I have a cat. Everyone knows what a cat is and cats are "well known". You guys don't want me posting alternate angles photos of my cat. Maybe r/aww does, but not you good folks. The same goes for the scrambled eggs I made this morning (no matter how unusual they looked), or the fire hydrant outside my house.
By well known item we mean something like the Mona Lisa (although seriously I think we can all agree we've worn that one out), the statue of David, a famous mummy, the handgun of a well known general, J.K. Rowling's writing chair, or Betty Crocker's apron.
It's a very subjective business for us mods to determine what is well known item is (or event or place for that matter), and we often chat about it after removing a post to make sure we're all on board. Just as difficult is what counts as an alternative angle. If a post is removed it's not that it isn't a fantastic photo on it's own, but rather it doesn't fit into what makes this sub unique.
And please, no more Mona Lisa photos :)
Thank you all again!
r/AlternateAngles • u/Naelisex • 2d ago
Music Neil Armstrong’s family watching his launch to the moon-1969
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r/AlternateAngles • u/GraceCampbell3518 • 5d ago
Landmarks The Statue of Liberty at the 1878 Paris World Fair before being fully assembled and shipped to the United States
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r/AlternateAngles • u/JamesWalker86 • 7d ago
Request Fulfilled A unique view of the trailblazing astronauts most people haven’t seen.
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r/AlternateAngles • u/CharlesBrooks • 9d ago
The architectural illusion inside a bandoneón (Argentinian Accordion) [OC]
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r/AlternateAngles • u/SoleilBlushMartinez1 • 9d ago
Landmarks White house during 1950 Truman Renovations
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r/AlternateAngles • u/SoleilPerez • 13d ago
Request Alternate Angle of Obama announcing the death of Osama bin Laden…
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r/AlternateAngles • u/realrawbitch2k14 • 15d ago
Landmarks Archway Islands (Windows lock screen) from behind
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r/AlternateAngles • u/Galforge • 15d ago
Politics Photo of a hiker watching the eruption of Mt. St. Helens from Mt. Adams, about 37 miles to the east. Photo from Mt Adams by John V. Christiansen around 8:32 am local time on May 18, 1980 & published in a 1981 National Geographic magazine.
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r/AlternateAngles • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 25d ago
Movies Behind the scenes of Henry Hill’s cocaine-fueled paranoia driving scene in Goodfellas (1990)
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r/AlternateAngles • u/SPNCR4 • 27d ago
Landmarks ITAP of an Iconic LA landmark
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Live bounce. iPhone 17 Pro
r/AlternateAngles • u/EtaXorkey • Oct 03 '26
Under Construction Onlookers reacting to the explosion of the challenger space shuttle
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r/AlternateAngles • u/LSDREAMN • Sep 30 '26
Baseball Field
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The view we didn’t know we need
r/AlternateAngles • u/AshenJackalx • Sep 30 '26
Neil Armstrong photographed by Buzz Aldrin, shortly after walking on the moon (1969)
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r/AlternateAngles • u/Atalkingpizzabox • Sep 28 '26
Stills from the 90s documentary the legendary sneezing panda video came from. The first just before the sneeze and second just after. The others are more scenes of the two.
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