Why does Reddit keep showing dead animals?
Encountering unexpected images of injured or dead animals causes intense emotional pain and anger. This makes people feel manipulated by social media feeds, leading them to hate seeing such content forced upon them.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Scrolling past the posts immediately to train the algorithm
- 2Filtering content using web or third-party methods
- 3Leaving subreddits that allow upsetting content
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’m so sick of Reddit showing me people’s dead and injured cats”source ↗
“Fuck Reddit for trying to manipulate my feeling with dead and injured animals every day!”source ↗
“One dead cat. It hurts because this was a good bevy.”source ↗
“Looking at those baby eyes open it really hurt.”source ↗
“I really hate people and would have loved to see who would do this to a baby.”source ↗
“I SWEAR whenever I open reddit I see at least one post about a dying or dead cat”source ↗
Where this came up
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- 8What to do if a stray cat bites you and breaks the skin
- 7Why is my gray kitten turning orange?
- 2Coping with a pet's terminal illness right before a major life event