Brand new to Reddit, and fairly green on how the site even works, on Friday I posted a picture I took while on vacation in New Orleans of a crazy tie I found in an antiques store along with a caption that I thought would be amusing.
Apparently, a lot of people agreed with me because it rocketed up to #4 on r/funny and ended up with a rating of around 1,600 with several hundred comments. According to the main page at imgur, the pic was viewed almost 600,000 times.
Is it always so easy to blow up on there, or did I capture lighting in a bottle right out the gate? Has anyone else here gotten a taste of Reddit “stardom”?
Wow! I remember clicking on that link. I posted this link to a picture of my dog, who is awfully cute, and didn’t get a single upvote. Mangy old cats get more! So, yeah–you’re good at Reddit.
You caught lightning in a bottle, but you had a lot of things going for you. In order to get on the front page you have to play their game. In this case you had a few things going for you (image, something quirky, retro tech nostalgia) which tend to work well. Even then, you got lucky because so many other people are trying to play the same game.
I very briefly made the front page with a submission to /r/wikipedia, as it was one of the most popular submissions to that subreddit ever.
NO! I didn’t buy it. I found it in an antiques mall on Magazine St in NOLA and by the time I realized that I should have bought the tie, we’d walked too far to go back easily. I’m thinking of sending a friend of mine into the store to find it for me though.
From reading the comments on my Reddit post, I may have caused a mini-run on Tabasco ties on eBay. Many people posted that they had bought one or were bidding on one and sure enough, when I checked eBay’s listings - there were a lot of completed Buy-it-Now auctions for weird Tabasco ties on Friday evening.
I have a red Tabasco tie with a bunch of small PC’s on it all showing the Tabasco logo on their screens. Got it back when I was working helpdesk at a company that required ties.
I actually have a Tabasco tie but not that one. There are a number of different ones as well as a whole line of Tabasco art. My mother has the entire framed set of Tabasco paintings framed and hung on the walls of her living room. I am not sure how they came up with the computer/Tabasco hybrid tie however.
