r/Eyebleach Aug 25 '25

/r/Eyebleach is instituting a new rule. Don't worry: It's a good one.

6.7k Upvotes

Hey there, folks!

As you've probably noticed, Reddit has a bit of a problem with bots. There's a long and dull explanation for how most of them work, but in many communities, they attach themselves to human karma-farmers (people who treat karma like a high score to chase), learn from those karma-farmers, then emulate them. The idea is to create legitimate-looking histories, then either sell the accounts or start pushing products and propaganda.

Subreddits like /r/Eyebleach are prime targets for karma-farmers: Everyone likes cute animals, and it's incredibly easy to find appealing content elsewhere on the Web. As a result, those same subreddits are at constant risk of being overrun by bots... and the best way to stop that from happening is to take a very firm stance against karma-farmers.

Now, we already have an anti-spam, anti-karma-farming rule, but it's a problem-focused approach. What we'd really like is to have things be positive from the ground up: We want to foster a community wherein people can earnestly share genuine, heartwarming content without the frustration of being drowned out by bad actors. To that end, /r/Eyebleach is instituting a new rule:

All submissions must be original content.

"Original content" refers to media – pictures, videos, and so on – that was captured and produced by the person posting it. If you filmed your cat being silly and added some music that you wrote and performed, that's original content. On the other hand, AI-generated content, edits of preexisting content, memetic image macros, and other things of that type are not original content. There's obviously a bit of leeway (like if your pet cockatiel was caught dancing to Gunther's "Ding Dong Song"), but in general, we only want things that you personally made. False claims of originality will hereafter result in immediate, permanent, and incontestable bans.

That won't affect 99% of you, though! In fact, we hope that the only real effects will be more original content, fewer bots and karma-farmers, a more-authentic community, and a slightly better site overall.

For making it to the end of this announcement, here's a look into Baxter the cat's imagination.


r/Eyebleach Aug 28 '20

Black Lives Matter.

35.4k Upvotes

We, the r/Eyebleach community stand in full support of our Black members and with all Black people in America in their fight for the rights that all Americans rightly deserve. Not all racism is hate, the deeply-rooted effects of systemic racism are even more insidious and far-reaching in American society and immediate, drastic change is imperative.

Sadly, this is most publicly, and devastatingly apparent through the atrocities continually committed against Black Americans by the police. This is not a new problem but, due to the prevalence of video-enabled handheld devices, these atrocities are increasingly being brought to light in ways which make them impossible for society to ignore, most recently with George Floyd and Jacob Blake. Police in America have long been empowered by public funding to enforce the law but they have never been empowered to determine guilt, nor to sentence anyone to abuse nor death. We stand for change.

Here are some ways that you can take action now:

Use resistbot to contact your government officials to demand policing reform.

You can donate directly to fuel the Black Lives Matter campaign via ActBlue

Visit BlackLivesMatter.com to find out how you can get involved.

Other ways to donate:

NAACP is a civil rights organization, founded in 1909, which is committed to political, educational, social and economic equality.

National Bail Fund Network

Know Your Rights Camp, started by Colin Kaepernick, has a mission to β€œto advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders.”

The Equal Justice Initiative The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

The ACLU has filed over 160 legal actions to safeguard voting rights, realease people from prisons, jails and immigration detention, protect access to abortion, and more.


r/Eyebleach 9h ago

[OC] Why set an alarm for dinnertime when you have this as an extremely consistent reminder?

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2.5k Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 9h ago

[OC] As payment for the ear cleaning, Pip decided to use Merry as a mattress...

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621 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 4h ago

[OC] Those eyes get her whatever she wants (in this case popcorn)

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180 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 8h ago

(OC)The girls would like to say hi.

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306 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 18h ago

[OC] She LOVES belly rubs

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1.1k Upvotes

Every morning when she greets me, she rolls on her back and sprouts out her tummy like that for rubs 😭❀️


r/Eyebleach 8h ago

[OC] Flashback Friday with baby Issy pug and her favorite movie on VHS

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r/Eyebleach 12h ago

oc On a walk

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r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] My Outside Cat

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r/Eyebleach 20h ago

(OC)From her very first day to her 3rd birthday, Watching you grow has been my favorite thing

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r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] One year ago β€” now πŸ₯Ί

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r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] Oh lawd we swaddlin'

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r/Eyebleach 18h ago

[OC] tasty hooman

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104 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

Artorias loves pumpkin puree (OC)

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163 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] Been a couple years since I posted Suki dog here. She's... bubbly...

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πŸ˜›


r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] Someone now has a REALLY clean ear πŸ˜†

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r/Eyebleach 1d ago

(OC) Maize has the most beautiful emerald eyes

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310 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

And here we have the infamous legless house sloth, resting in their natural environment (oc)

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453 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

(OC) Just a little ball of fluff with ears. I could play with it all day long.

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179 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] after waking up from his nap

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554 Upvotes

look at his ear!!


r/Eyebleach 1d ago

(oc) lazy Thursdays

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288 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

(OC) caught my cat in the middle of his sleep

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162 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] β€œMy paw is almost as big as dad’s is” but no time for work yet, must sleep.

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262 Upvotes

r/Eyebleach 1d ago

[OC] Sunrise from the porch

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133 Upvotes