r/teenagers • • Sep 01 '26

Mod [mod] Tightening requirements for political submissions

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r/teenagers is not a political subreddit, and we never intend to be. However, in this current day and age, it is important for teenagers to discuss such topics. So while we aren't a political subreddt, we don't intend to restrict political posts.

However, it's become quite clear that that same idea of "[not] intending to restrict political posts." also does some harm. We don't currently have any rules surrounding such posts because it was never an intended talking point of this subreddit. This lack of proper guardrails has lead to an influx of falsified news, biased writeups, harmful rhetoric, etc.

Because of this, we're changing a few things.


1. Introducing a new flair

This flair will be appropriately named Political/Current Events. All submissions that fall under the umbrella of politics, and submissions that reference any notable current event, must assign this flair. Failure to do so will result in post removal.

Of course, to know when to assign that flair, you must know what counts as political. Politics doesn't solely mean government. Some examples of what would be considered political are:

  • Government: Elections, legislation, government agencies, politicians, public officials, and foreign policy.
  • Social and Ideological Issues: Public debates on civil rights, economic policy, war, identity, ideologies, public health, etc.

If you feel a post falls under the political umbrella, it probably does. Posts that also touch on certain current events are to be assigned this flair. The two often bleed into each other. Some examples of what would be considered a notable current event are:

  • Breaking & Developing News Stories: These invite rapid speculation, unverified rumors, and rage-bait-esque remarks before facts are verified.
  • Events Involving Public Officials or Institutions: Any current event involving heads of state, local government officials, law enforcement agencies, or legislative bodies.

With the introduction of a dedicated flair, it allows users to filter out political posts. We've been asked this a bit, so this is a fair middle ground to allow hiding, without totally restricting. On the flipside, it does also allow users to solely filter by political posts, which is a slippery slope. This is where some guardrails are introduced:

2. Karma requirements

From this point on, there'll be a community karma requirement to create or participate under Political/Current Events submissions. We won't share the threshold for obvious reasons, but it isn't egregious. The main purpose behind it is to prevent bad actors with un-established accounts, or some unwanted visitors from r/all from barging in and behaving in an uncivil manner.

Gaining subreddit karma is as easy as participating. It's easier for us to trust that you wont do harm if you show us.

3. Titles must be neutral

All titles under this umbrella, whether a discussion post or a screenshot of an article must be framed in a neutral manner. Neutality means the title answers simple, factual questions (who, what, where, and when).

Adding subjective adjectives, assigning motives (the why), using loaded language, and/or inserting personal commentary in a post title will violate this rule, leading to a post removal.

Also on the topic of neutrality:

4. Posts referencing a certain event MUST include a relevant, accessible, and verifiable source

Submissions will need to have a link in the body text or the image caption. This is to do away with unverified instagram screenshots, biased articles, and blatant lies. If referencing something, prove it is real. This also helps users do their own research and come to their own conclusions.

Users often also post events that occurred years ago. While not a "current event", they still typically fall under the umbrella. Providing links to events that occurred at any moment in time, whether current or not, is mandatory. This helps verify legitimacy, and can help inform users on when the issue occurred.

Lots of articles nowadays are paywalled. While paywalls usually indicate an article's quality, it is quite unrealistic to ask a subreddit of this demographic to pay for them. If a source you are attempting to use is locked behind any sort of payment, you must also provide a summary, either in the post caption or as a reply to Automod.

5. Political discussion posts will have a mandatory word count

It's nothing high, it's 100% achievable for those who actually want to discuss. This rule is in place to prevent one sentence rage posts and low effort commentary. Writing a few words does not offer enough context, and does not promote any meaningful discussion.

This only applies to text posts. Posts with an attached image aren't affected, often because the image contains enough context. Obviously don't use images to circumvent the word count.


That's all for now. Lot's of big changes that might take time to get used to. They will be in effect right away, and the flair should be visible to users as of now. Some rules will also be updated to reflect this.

Some parts of this may be changed depending on if it's too effective or not effective enough (karma requirements, word counts, automated vs manual checks). Nothing is ever set in stone, as mentioned at the beginning of this post we don't want to unnecessarily restrict political discussions.

Since this is a big change, feel free to leave any thoughts/critiques down below, or via modmail. Of course, please be reasonable with such comments, thank you!

- r/teenagers mod team


r/teenagers • • May 03 '25

Mod [mod] REMINDER ABOUT WITCH HUNTING POSTS.

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With a large influx recently of posts showing weird dms please remember that this is NOT allowed on the subreddit as it is against Reddit TOS to do witch hunting. Posting images of DM conversations will lead to you getting banned, even if the person in your DMS is being weird, its still not allowed. So instead please report weird people in your dms directly to Reddit so they can be banned because we cant do anything about it.

Also as a reminder we aren't doing this to protect the weirdos or because we are defending what they are doing, we are simply just enforcing Reddit TOS.

Have a great day/night!

-r/teenagers mod team


r/teenagers • • 1h ago

Rant Just walked outside as someone who has asthma and couldn't breathe for 10 minutes 🙃

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r/teenagers • • 1h ago

Discussion Why are these western brands labelling other cultures dress as something else?

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I've seen so many western brands labelling South Asian saris, jhumkas,kurthas as "vintage accessories" or "Ibiza" or "modern chic" ive even given an example.

Itd be one thing if small brands, small business would do it because ik there's a lot of copycats in the industry But big brands like YSL, Saint Laurent, Ralph Lauren are also doing this?

There's so many examples "Scandinavian girl scarf", "Ibiza tops".

SHARING culture is okay but renaming it and saying its your own creation not even bothering to credit our culture is insane.


r/teenagers • • 13h ago

Serious Pedophilia in a kids tv show??

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My little brother was watching this on tv a bit back and there was a family on vacation and they had a teenage daughter (left) and there was a cop (right) who is VERY clearly an adult with a full time job, now there were multiple occasions in the beginning where there were hearts coming off from both characters which on itself is already really weird…

And near the end they went into a bush, the bush started rumbling and you could hear suggestive noises…

WHY is this allowed on tv!??? And especially a KID’S show


r/teenagers • • 19h ago

Meme No way lmao

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5.5k Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 6h ago

Discussion some mf genuinely sent me this fucking flag 💔 Spoiler

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414 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 12h ago

Meme well well well, who could've guessed?

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822 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 6h ago

Meme This goes for everyone btw

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258 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 18h ago

Serious F*ck these guys.

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Nah, that's it.

The hatred is insane.

Now justify this too.

Fucking Demons.


r/teenagers • • 3h ago

Social can yall share what your pfp came from i wanna know your lore 😄

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heres mine its roxy from fnaf security breach bc i love her and shes my fav char from fnaf ☺️


r/teenagers • • 23h ago

Political / Current Events Child marriage in Germany: Over 350 cases logged, some brides aged 11

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5.3k Upvotes

The sources:

https://theprint.in/feature/358-child-marriages-german-11-year-iraqi-girl-afghan/3070741/

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16202699/Germany-child-marriages-Iraq-Syria-Pakistan.html?ito=amp_whatsapp_share-top

Please be civil in comments as this news includes very serious crime against minors

Unwanted or insensitive comments would be reported to mods


r/teenagers • • 8h ago

Discussion Part one of my random question NSFW

207 Upvotes

So if every girl has tried to suck her own titty and every guy had tried to suck his own dick had anyone ever given themselves a blowjob?


r/teenagers • • 10h ago

Serious This is genuinely upsetting.

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287 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 7h ago

Social I just busted the fattest nut. NSFW

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146 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 4h ago

Serious Please dont go out and get laid at an early age NSFW

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So I lost it a little under a year ago, and seriously, it's not heaven, or however one makes it out to be, yes, it can feel nice, but if shit hits the fan, you are screwed, as I did with someone who I planned on marrying, but uhm she went past psycho, and it feels incredibly wrong losing it to someone who you aren't marrying and end up breaking up with


r/teenagers • • 3h ago

Discussion guess where I live from my hand drawn world map

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45 Upvotes

saw someone else do this and I thought it'd be fun


r/teenagers • • 1h ago

Rant My ex died last night, I don’t know what to do I’m in so much pain

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She passed last night, Passed on motorcycle, won’t give deets out of respect. Just had her birthday as well. I miss her I love her, first love first kiss first everything. We were each others first. I won’t ever get to hold her hands again. Had to break up cuz of her parents they hated my religion and stuff like it just was a “In another life” type of thing we wouldn’t have broken up if it wasn’t for her parents it just had to happen won’t give info. Ik she loved me when we broke up (not copium ok fuck off). I don’t know what to do I just went on vacation too, she had such a bright future I love her so much I won’t ever forget her. I still remember cuddling and watching the stars with her and sneaking out Just to see her. I miss her so much I’m so sad this happened. The human brain is such an ass won’t let me sleep. I love her and always will, my sweet girl just had to leave so early. I loved her and she always has a big place in my heart.

Sorry for bad punctuation and grammar my hands r trembling and it’s cold asf


r/teenagers • • 18h ago

Other The lions in Noah's ark are gay change my mind

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553 Upvotes

r/teenagers • • 12h ago

Discussion What are some things that essentially utilize this argument?

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167 Upvotes

This is a good example of a reductio ad absurdum (reducing an argument to absurdity). A logical and rhetorical argument method that disproves a claim by showing that accepting it leads to a clear contradiction, an impossible scenario, or a ridiculous and unacceptable conclusion. In this specific example, it is used in sports debates to show why judging athletes purely by uncontextualized record statistics (or lack of championship titles) is flawed.

Could you name some other things that utilize this rhetoric?


r/teenagers • • 10h ago

Advice Guys my HG said she’s gonna get me pregnant what do I do??? NSFW

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108 Upvotes

I’m ver scared (nsfw for just in case)


r/teenagers • • 2h ago

Discussion How tf do yall not find math fun

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26 Upvotes

Like seriously numbers are so fun. I do not get how y’all don’t enjoy math. This might come from a bit of a bias since I’ve always been good at math, but I also think some people glaze the difficulty but like not only is it fun it’s useful too, obviously lower levels of math or more useful for the average person but if you’re planning to go into any scientific field, even like physics, you’re gonna have to know advanced mathematics it’s probably one of if not the most useful things in science and in school plus if you get something, that’s really easy it becomes a free period like today in my sixth period math. We had a quiz and I finished it in like five minutes so I had the rest of the time to just be a free Period.


r/teenagers • • 3h ago

Social Why have two eyes when we could just have one big eye for bigger vision?

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r/teenagers • • 28m ago

Rant 16 yr old boy barely punished after violently raping an `18yr old girl under the pretense of "not knowing how bad rape is"

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This case disgusts me. His punishment as of now is a Good Behaviour Order where he will be supervised strictly to monitor his behaviour, where if he misses any rehabilitation systems or check ins or whatever, he will be imprisoned for a measly 18 months.

https://www.courts.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/3136623/Hancock-a-pseudonym.pdf

"he is also recorded in the course of the pre-sentence report interview, notwithstanding the agreed statement of facts, to say the victim was “exaggerating stuff” and that he “didn’t force her to do that and this”. He states because she didn’t say no, he believed it was consensual."

"She was crying and said, “please stop, I don’t want this” - Explicitly made it clear she didn't consent (even though she hadn't obviously consented prior)


r/teenagers • • 21h ago

Other Part 2 of my junior called me a 'perv' and 'creep' because I said that her skirt was lifted and is now spreading rumours that I like her 💔💔

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Okay this is the continuation of

https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/s/zIT6AyBnjy

So, if you want context, please read the above.

Now my people, you won't ducking believe what happened. 😭😭😭

Well, Ig I mentioned somewhere in one of the previous comments that my school was supposed to be closed today but apparently, we had an MUN coming up by the end of October, so I had to go to school.

Unfortunately enough, that ahh sophomore kid or 10th kid was also participating. And as I already mentioned, I was going to confront her.

After our teachers gave us a long presentation, I saw that she was going to the washroom and this was my golden opportunity ✨✨ and I followed her ( to confront her ).

Then -

Me : Excuse me? I heard that you are going around spreading rumours that I like you ?

( She was actually baffled that I was talking to her💔)

Her : What ?

Me : Not to mention, you also called me a 'perv' and a 'creep'

Her : who told you all these ?

Me : Well, someone everyone is talking about it. Thanks to you, I've been labelled as a creep.

( She didn't know what to say 😭 )

Me : Just because I said that your goddamn skirt was lifted, you don't have any right to go on speaking bs. I am bi but that doesn't means I'll like any rando a*s girl and go nuts. NGL, that was honestly stupid of you. I tried to do you a favor but you.... ( Gestures with hand )

( She was silent for a long time and I was standing there like 🧍🏻‍♀️ )

Her : Well, I am sorry.

Me : Are you ?

Her ( nods )

Me : So you better stop spreading those meaningless rumours and how about focus on improving your behaviour ?

Her : I didn't mean to.

Me : 🧍🏻‍♀️ seriously, after everything ?

Her ( looking at me) : I mean... You are always so openly confident that you're bi, it kinda pmo.

Me : 👁️👄👁️ what the hell ? How come me being confident pi*ses you off ?

( And that is when she dropped the bombshell. )

Her : I'm bi myself.... But I could never feel so confident about it.

( I swear my jaw dropped because wtf ? Like wtf ?😭😭💔💔 Now, I don't judge a book by its cover but I swear to holy moly potatoes, that she was one of the straightest person I had ever seen. Plus, she always goes around saying 'no homo' so when she said that for a moment, my brain stopped functioning. Like wtffffffffffffffffffffffff ???! 😭😭👁️👄👁️)

( But then again I felt bad for her as well because yeah, I know how it feels. I myself had to go on a long run before I became confident about my sexuality. )

Me : 🧍🏻‍♀️

Her : Please don't tell anyone.

Me : I won't. ( Yes, I don't intend to.)

Her : Really?

Me : Yes. But next time, please don't do such stuff again. It can seriously ruin anyone's image.

Her : ok. Sorry, once again.

Me : Good ( walks away. )

Well, the same afternoon, I came home and saw that she send me a friend request on insta. Like bro 🧍🏻‍♀️😭

( I don't know if I should accept it )

Tbh, I am not mad at her now. She was rather insecure and I understand why she did it. It still doesn't excuse her mistake and I believe she won't repeat it again but yeah, I will be more careful.

( Summary: I confronted the junior . Turned out she was insecure about the fact that she was bi and decided to spread ahh rumours Abt me because I was openly bi 👁️👄👁️ )