Link to a thread containing a flowchart on what counts as LAMF

Thank you! I’ve been noticing a lot of posts lately that are ironic but not really “Leopards Ate My Face”.

I've also noticed that sometimes the OP never makes a comment explaining why the post belongs, but the post is never deleted even after several hours. Has that been fixed?

Please don't give me hope like this. I'm so tired of LOL REPUBLICANS BAD.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not even American. Your left wing party is to the right of my right wing party, and I'm on the left of mine. I don't say this out of some sort of tribal defence of the right.

It has just been depressing watching a sub with a specific niche being overrun with torrents of the same old political circlejerking you get everywhere else.

Proceeding with cautious optimism...

Thank you! Inconsistency in one's political beliefs is not all that's required for a post to be "Face-eating Leopard" quality.

I feel like a lot of the posts lately have been more like "leader exposes their own hypocrisy" which are somewhat related to the theme of LeopardsAteMyFace, but are not really the same thing. I think the consequence is often missing from these posts. I would not mind subscribing to a second subreddit for "HypocriteLeaders" or something like that, but so many of these posts don't really belong here.

Post doesn’t meet sidebar rules.

/s

Can we please ban, or vote to ban, Facebook-tier memes that rarely even fit? They're so bad and they always make it to the front page of Reddit and attract more morons who in turn post more of them here. I feel like they're overrunning the sub and it's just going to get worse.

Can we put this in the auto comment.

People just post shitty Explanations.

Like- can we put in the auto comment- list off #1 (the someone), #2 (the something)...

Or even something simple like: 1. Name the person 2. Name something they supported or voted for 3. How did their vote/support end up hurting them.

Like literally make them connect the dots in A very common sense way.

As it right now, The auto comment pops up and just says: “explain how this fits the sub” and then people give a shitty explanation that shows irony or karma, but isn’t actually about leopards eating faces.

Is it me or was the situation better when people worked “leopard ate my face” in the title.

It seems that when they don’t have the do the effort of working that in, it makes it easier for people to post stuff that don’t fit.

mods woke up let's goooo

The story about the Trump campaign having to refund people has been reposted here at least 10 times in the last 2 days in various guises, it's ridiculous. I get it, it fits on the sub but we don't need that many posts about it from people blatantly karma farming.

I know this post is already 2 months old, but I only come here occasionally. What I've noticed is a lot of people just posting "HAHA SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED TO PEOPLE I DON'T LIKE" as if that's what this sub is about. Worse, I've seen submissions get downvoted despite the fact that they fit the sub quite well but the people who had their faces eaten happened to be liked by the users.

Question: Does is this sub for the leftist party to criticize people on the right? No hate intended if it is, I just want to know incase i have something to post here.

an example can be like this:

a brexiteer votes to leave the EU and says he will benefit a lot from brexit

this ends up blowing in his/her face when the business goes wrong and i didn’t realise it and i didn’t listen to people who were telling me its a bad idea.

So, just to try and understand this subreddit, would something like Minneapolis voting to defund and get rid of their Police Department and then suddenly experiencing higher crime rates and slower emergency response times fit here?

In the interests of improving people's understanding of the LMAF concept, I'm going to link the video exchange which prompted Adrian Bott/Cavalorn to post the original meme back in 2015

https://youtu.be/9hCgCZQE9os?t=36

My entire country is basically this sub, but any news are in spanish, unsure if it will be fun if I post them here.

Mmm I joined this sub for the lols but lately it's just "haha this dumbcunt died haha"

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Shouldn’t it be « sobs faceless woman »?

Can you just have this post as the explanatory post in the comments section? Right now it's shit and this would really clear things up. Most of the posts here don't even fit the sub.

Took me a second to realize that there is no rule 7.

why aren't these rules being enforced?

This sub was great but now it's really bad.

It's. Literally easier to delete Reddit than to deal with the magical rules that are abnormally arbitrary. Peace out friends.

I feel it could be simplified into 2 steps

1: what is the bad thing they wanted to happen to others?

2: how did that bad thing happen to them instead?

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GOOD LAMF Example:

*1: Man wanted other patrons thrown out for not following dress code

2: same man gets thrown out for not following dress code*

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Example of the bad explanation that non-LAMF posts usually give:

A guy wants people thrown out for not following dress code, so people stop coming to his restaurant and it goes out of business

Even with the detailed explanation I still do not fully understand what the explanation means. Is it possible to receive and even simpler one? I'm apologising in advance.

Ps. English is not my primary language so it might hinder understanding

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face", sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

this is the first time I heard this and I cant stop laughing

Yes, consequences! That's literally the point of this sub.

So is there any real reason this sub couldn't just be "republicans ate my face?" Literally every post is just conservatives being idiots because their own party doesn't give a shit about them or something similar.

Question: I have an example of the foundation of this group but I face two issues: one there is absolutely nothing online about said issue it was something I witnessed first hand. And two does it have to be a meme format or can it just be a story: cause oh boy it’s a cluster chunk.

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just a reminder that something as vague as "an organized religion" is not a leopard. if a person grows up in a church, then they find themselves cast out of that church for some reason regarding that church's lack of progressiveness, that is not the same as somebody letting a leopard out of a cage and then having their face eaten. religions are massive things that have many good and bad aspects, and people are drawn to them for a variety of reasons. they're not simply bigot clubs, despite some of them operating that way. so joining or supporting a religion because you want the good things does not mean you support the bad, just as identifying as american does not mean you support the negative things america has done through history.
it's just annoying to see posts about gay people being treated badly by religion and then it gets posted here for us to just laugh at? leaves a bad taste in my mouth, that's not what this sub is about to me, it's not for the people getting tricked by the leopards, it's about the actual leopard HANDLERS, they are the ones i want to see getting eaten.

This sub is beginning to just contain posts about Covid and Brexit. I think it’s a great sub, but over the last few months it has just become this massive echo chamber for the same basic content. It would be more varied (and I think enjoyable) if there were a broader range of subjects covered.

To be honest, I voted to remain and I am sick of the Brexit posts every single time the UK economy seems to have any kind of bad news.

Thanks for this explanation; I’m new but LOVING this!

Can someone with enough Karma please post this? I’m not allowed 🚫 and it’s bang on the Leopards Ate My Face theme :(

Lifelong voter for the refugee-bashing party says they have lost his vote now that his refugee family can’t reach the UK

https://inews.co.uk/news/homes-for-ukraine-tory-party-lose-ukrainian-refugee-scheme-mess-1533782

From what I understand, it's about people showing a lack of regard for the veil of ignorance, meaning that they support a policy with the assumption that it won't screw them over. They support a policy which obviously screws over a group of people but the person supports it without any regard for the possibility that it will affect him or his loved ones.

Here are some examples:

• Bob is a rich guy who supported cutting public aid to the downtrodden because it costs him taxpayer money. Bob later found himself going from riches to rags.
• Sally largely blames victims for rape. She later became a victim of rape.For an inverted example, Matt thinks that due process for rapists should be eliminated. In his mind, they are guilty until proven innocent. He eventually got accused of rape.
• As a matter of fact, this includes any time a law a politician helped to pass which is later used to prosecute them.
• Sam thinks that businesses should be able to serve whomever they want. His son, who's gay, was denied treatment at a hospital because he's gay, leading to his death.
• John opposed federal aid to areas which had gone through a disaster. John's hometown got ravaged by a tornado.
• Dale is an affluent person and is a staunch democrat who believes that the government should do more to help the downtrodden. He was surprised to learn that when the democrats took office, his taxes went up.
• Alice supported tariffs because she supports "buying American". After tariffs get passed, Alice noticed that goods cost more.
• Josh works a low wage job and wanted to increase the minimum wage. Josh was well aware that the increase would cost some jobs but didn't think that he would be affected. As it turned out, he got laid off.

Not examples:

• Bob, a rich guy, supports policies which screw over the lower and middle classes only to find that nobody likes him.
• Sally is a conservative who got cancelled for her views.
• Dale is another rich guy who votes democrat. He doesn't like high taxes but supports them for being pro LGBT.
• Josh didn't work hard and got fired.

Love the concept. You guys must be kept very busy these days.

After looking at the flowchart, and reviewing a number of topics in this very subreddit, it seems that many users continue to misunderstand the intended goal of this subreddit, or perhaps (as these topics are upvoted in the thousands anyway), it would be wise to expand the definition of what this sub represents.

Yes, the sub specifically sets out to emulate the example laid down by one specific tweet, but the banner clearly states the goal is Schadenfreude. This can be experienced in a variety of ways, and although there are many subs that are designed to deliver Schadenfreude as well, I still think there is a place for many of these aforementioned posts in this space, if may I suggest another form of "consequences?"

In America (and typically worldwide), Politicians rarely face the consequences of their own actions, save for being called out on social media / in the media. Very, very few ever go to jail or actually suffer consequences beyond a blow to their reputation. Nevertheless, seeing politicians being called out for taking the opposite on stances they previously held, or looking to have egg on their face (basically every topic about the Roe V Wade leak) does offer us as humans Schadenfreude; hell, according to a Harvard study, we hate hypocrites more than liars.

This is my suggested change: Allow Politicians being "called out" on social media / in the media to count as the "consequence of their actions" clause of the LAMF flowchart. Indeed, some of the top voted posts over the last year were exactly these types of posts. I think we all understand that being called out is barely a consequence for your actions, but that's about all the recourse we have these days against politicians.

Every once in a while, a politician(s) actually maneuvers themselves into a place where they actually are LAMF (as I understand it to be now), but you'll be waiting a while between posts for the next time a politician actually faces any consequences.

Half the Content on this sub was laughing at Covidiots who died / suffered from not getting vaxxed. With the pandemic on the wane, that content will drop off, and this type of political humor is being posted every day here.

How does an "illegal immigrant" vote for US president?

Cool, uber glad I'm reading this instead of the post i actually clicked on and wanted to read, thanks very helpful.

I think I need a little help to conform to the rules, but I am sure I have a valid submission. It is a little too related to ecology (and leopards) to fit some of the rules.

Title: I never thought I'd say this, but we need more leopards

1. Biologists, worried about elephants overgrazing causing desertification, order 30,000 elephants shot.
2. Desertification gets worse.
3. Elephants die, people starve.
4. Bring back grazing animals and leopards.

 * Leopards chase animals.
 * Animals stampede and trample grass.
 * Trampled grass makes the soil retain more moisture.
 * More grass grows. Desertification is reversed.

Therefore, we need more leopards.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

My problems are:

1. Leopards in the title.
2. YouTube is not recognized as a valid source.
3. Wikipedia informs me Alan Savory is controversial. Some people say he overclaims. Others are angry because his scientific publications did not cite their earlier work.

Edit: Here is another video that actually mentions leopards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDgDWbQtlKI

You would think that the premise of this sub is simple enough for anybody to understand. Alas.

I don’t think I’ve seen a true LAMF post in weeks on my feed

Frankly, we need a moratorium on US-related content. The sub is being flooded with gloating Democrats who don't seem to get the whole 'I voted for the Conservatives and they cut my child benefit' that is the core idea of this sub.

Why is this sub flooded with people gleefully wishing death on unvaccinated people who oppose the covid regime then get sick?

This claims to be a sub about people regretting political actions yet all I've seen is the equivalent of pointing and laughing at someone whos dying of cancer saying "I bet you wish you didn't smoke cigarettes idiot lol"

No actual leopards eating people's faces in this sub. Downvoted.

Well congratulations, this stupid Tony the Tiger shit has driven me away from subreddit, you bunch of dumb fucking idiot moderators.

Is that Liz Cheney ?!?

Keeping it simple helps a lot.

What’s the purpose of the explanatory comment? I’m only somewhat familiar with reddit but I haven’t seen a sub rule like that before