Marathon Signs Ideas

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I’ve been consistently going to a HIIT class for 1 month and decided to sign up for a half marathon in November. I needed a goal. I used to play soccer through high school (like 15 years ago 😂), but haven’t run more than 7 miles in my life. By six miles typically my ankles and hips really hurt. I’m about to get some legit running shoes, and see how far I can actually run. Please tell me my impulse was a good idea and that I can do this! (& share tips) UPDATE: Thanks for all the advice. I ran 2 miles this morning but ended up at Zone 5 basically the whole time based on my pacing. I did feel like I could keep running and reach maybe 4 miles though, but had to go to work. I’ll have to slow my pace and keep in lower zones to build up my aerobics endurance. submitted by /u/GuestPatient3670 to r/xxfitness [link] [comments]

Spoilers for the finale. Overall, the finale was incredibly rushed. I was shocked and awed when Homelander was killed and there were still 25 minutes left to do the Butcher Genocide storyline. Each half of the episode definitely needed to be its own episode. And they somehow rushed the episode without even using the Gen V cast, who somehow had to help the people from the prior episode even though they can drive themselves? Even the Peak’s death, while appropriate and what he deserved, was rushed. He went out too easily, when he can survive traveling that fast into the beach or severe water pressure. It definitely felt like the season was anchored by the Vought Rising setup, and overall budget issues tied with the 8 episode limit. They spent 2.5 episodes setting up Vought Rising, at the detriment of the season. If Bombsight was a legitimate hero who was grizzled by the world, and was tied into the main plot more such as helping to fight supes with Geisha with the Boys and then dying to Butcher’s final plan, then it would be fine. Instead, he is not or barely even mentioned after getting depowered. The tie in wasn’t a bad idea, but so horribly executed that it hurts the perception of the thing they tried to tie into. They could have made the Vought Rising tie in be the same episode as the Supernatural reunion, by having Marathon Man and Malchemical work with the Boys to find the V1. If there had been 13 episodes, most of the issues in the season could have been fixed because there would have been more time to cover every storyline. While the Peak, Homelander, Frenchie, and Kimiko (might be contentious but I was fine with it) finished their arcs well, MM’s was abandoned entirely after episode 2, Butcher and Soldier Boy let flip flopping too much, and Hughie’s arc of not becoming like Butcher despite everything was only semi-explored. MM’s whole story with Soldier Boy is to show how Butcher is going too far, that he is willing to work with MM’s Homelander. Soldier Boy is now sealed back into ice, not by MM, but by Homelander in a weird scene that felt like it undercut the potential tie in to Boys Mexico they’re planning. What’s the point of having the penultimate episode be called “the Frenchman the female and the man called mothers milk” if he’s the only one who doesn’t finish his arc (Kimiko became the ultimate weapon and Frenchie saved lives and got to tell Homelander the truth). Butcher’s writing (Karl Urban cooked with every scene) feels like the one of the greatest disappointments with this season. Despite becoming Kessler at the end of the last season, he still shows signs of empathy. If he’s doing that, he should be dying from the tumor. They should have had his only moment of empathy be when he sees Lenny in UE and lets him shoot, and let every other moment in the season be his manipulations to kill Homelander or all supes. It’s also terrible that his genocide plan, which had been built up to since season 4 and his decaying morals since season 2, was resolved in less time then it took me to write this entire post. But perhaps the greatest disappointment is how they tied into Gen V. They really didn’t even bother to make sure they got the third season before writing for them in this one. They set up Marie as one of the few who could fight Homelander, and she doesn’t even fight. Cate doesn’t even show up all season (except maybe as a cameo???) even though her powers don’t require CGI. They should have had more supes on Homelander’s side for Gen V to fight in the final episode, and explain that Marie can’t harm him that easily because of the V1, but her support allows everybody to be healed while fighting him and severely limits his speed to escape the fight. Why did they spend so much time on the Vought Rising tie in instead of utilizing the existing tie in? The Boys season 5 had better moments then season 4 all throughout, a more consistent plotline. But it’s severely hampered by its episode count and its writing. I don’t know if Amazon or Kripke or both are the main reason why this happened, but if feels like they got the recipe to a killer Mac and cheese, but they used the microwave instead of the stove, changed the recipe so it can be used in a future recipe rather then using good cheese from a previous recipe, and then only used some salt for flavoring. It’s not so bad it ruins the overall show, but I do feel like it will damage the reputation of the show and all future spinoffs. How can we be excited for Vought Rising? It can be as peak as Centuria or Land of the Lustrous, but we will only know that came at the cost of the main show. submitted by /u/PrimeTheGreat to r/CharacterRant [link] [comments]

Basically what the title says. I've been maintaining this mileage quite consistently for about 6 months and thankfully have not dealt with many injuries. Currently, my runs are split over 4 days, and the longest run I've done in a single day was around 20km. I saw that there will be a trail race not too far from where I live and I'm seriously considering signing up, but I don't know if it's a really stupid idea and if I would have a high risk of injury in the lead up to this or even during the race itself. I've done countless half marathons and done one full marathon before, so I know I have it within me to push through difficult things, but 50km is definitely much longer than 42km, which really took everything out of me when I did it (but I was racing as hard as I could). This 50k trail run also has about 1500 m elevation gain, which I've done while hiking before, but never while trail running. Just wondering if this is the good kind of delusion or the bad kind. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/intrepid-mango to r/trailrunning [link] [comments]

I’m spectating the Pittsburgh Marathon tomorrow morning and would love to create a cheer sign inspired by The Pitt. Please drop your best ideas below! I will not tolerate any character slander, and I particularly love Santos, Abbot, and Mel. I think something with Charge Nurse Dana (or Baby Jane Doe) could work, but my creative juices aren’t flowing. Thank you! submitted by /u/EmDashApologist to r/ThePitt [link] [comments]

I’m spectating the Pittsburgh Marathon tomorrow morning and would love to create a cheer sign inspired by The Pitt. Please drop your best ideas below! I will not tolerate any character slander, and I particularly love Santos, Abbot, and Mel. I think something with Charge Nurse Dana (or Baby Jane Doe) could work, but my creative juices aren’t flowing. Thank you! submitted by /u/EmDashApologist to r/ThePittTVShow [link] [comments]

Just restarted running this year and have worked up to running a 10k. Recently inspired by the London Marathon I decided to sign up for a different marathon. Was I too eager? Should I withdraw my application Currently 33 and running 3-4 times a week (5-6km mainly). submitted by /u/imaginary-fireplace to r/Marathon_Training [link] [comments]

Looking for some ideas from the Bravo community. Every year I make a sign to cheer on my city’s marathon and they have been Bravo themed a lot of the time. Since SH is the show that’s the most in the zeitgeist, I was thinking of doing a SH themed sign but I need ideas! The best one I have so far is “Carl’s a mess… but you’re not!” Any other good ideas?? submitted by /u/RuralJuror24601jr to r/summerhousebravo [link] [comments]

I’m supporting some family who are running a marathon this year and I’d love to take a little sign to make them either smile or laugh! If anyone has seen any funny or good signs whilst doing races please let me know as I’m looking for inspiration! Thanks submitted by /u/TalithaLoisArt to r/UKRunners [link] [comments]

We’re both huge Friends fans and so I want to make her a sign for when I surprise her and cheer her on during the race. There’s obviously a Phoebe run thing but I feel like a sign saying ‘run like Phoebe’ is a bit rubbish. I’ve seen an idea of printing off Chandler’s face and then writing ‘could you BE running any more miles?’ which I think is fun! But anyone have any other ideas? submitted by /u/Grace_Monroe to r/friends_tv_show [link] [comments]

I got into chicago through the lottery. Was originally planning on trying to BQ it and seems like the perfect race for it considering not hilly at all and great atmosphere. I have a friend who is now running philly in November, 6 weeks after Chicago and thinking about signing up for that too. Does this seems like a bad idea or has anyone done this before? The last marathon I did was disney and definitely needed a good week recovery submitted by /u/cl0144 to r/marathons [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, so I’ve been running casually for a couple of years now, mostly 5k and 10k races, and I finally decided to step it up and do a marathon. I’ve been training pretty consistently, following a plan I found online, and I felt pretty confident. But then I clicked on the registration link for the marathon and somehow ended up signing up for a 50k ultramarathon instead. I guess I got distracted or something? Anyway, now I’m kinda freaking out because I have no idea how to train for this longer distance. Do I need to do anything differently? Should I just stick to my original plan and see what happens? Also, does anyone have tips for transitioning from marathon training to ultramarathon training? Thanks in advance, I’m both excited and terrified. - running submitted by /u/sub-simulator to r/SubredditSimulator [link] [comments]

I’ve been running most of my life. My sister has never run past a bit over a KM Some weeks ago she told me she wanted to “try running.” I took her out for an easy conversational run and she surprised herself by finishing a full 5K without stopping. She was shocked…. in a good way. We just talked the whole time and took our time. Fast forward and a friend invited me to run a marathon in Italy this November. She heard about it, loved the idea of doing a **half marathon**, and bought a non-refundable $1,000 flight to come along. Here’s the problem, I later realized the city’s half marathon is in March. In November, it’s only the full marathon. When I told her, she went through all five stages of grief in about an hour. I don’t think she’s yelled at me like that since we were kids. Since then (so like this week) we’ve been training together. We’ve already run 6 miles continuously, all easy pace, fully conversational. No injuries so far. We now have 41 weeks until race day. I genuinely think she can do it if we’re smart but I also don’t want to be delusional or push her into burnout. So I wanted to ask * Is a first-time marathon actually doable with this timeline for someone starting from zero? * Would signing up for a half marathon midway be a good motivational milestone? * For those who started late or coached someone new, what kept them showing up when motivation dipped? I am getting her a pair of Hokas… because I feel guilty but I also see no reason why she couldn’t do it (also her running shoes are from 2017) Worst case scenario it is still a beautiful city so she could just hang? submitted by /u/LoooolGotcha to r/beginnerrunning [link] [comments]

For a while I've been thinking of signing up for Leadsville Trail Marathon. It starts at around 10k feet altitude and at it's peak it has 13k feet altitude and. Total elevation gain is 6k feet. To put it simple, is it unrealistic and just asking for trouble if I cannot train at any altitude, and in general, have never even been at a higher place than maybe 1k feet? I've done NYC, Tokyo and 2 other marathons so far in last 2-3 years, but I don't think they are anything similar to Leadsville. submitted by /u/_JunkSynchron_ to r/Marathon_Training [link] [comments]

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Would love suggestions for swiftie related marathon signs! submitted by /u/ri_dev to r/TaylorSwift [link] [comments]

My murderino sister will be running a half marathon next week and I’d love to do an MFM sign. Any ideas? She will be making a minisode playlist to keep her going. submitted by /u/ri_dev to r/myfavoritemurder [link] [comments]

As the title suggests...a priest in our local diocese will be running a full marathon on November 9. The event is fairly local, so I'd like to go cheer him and his parishioners on. Any tasteful ideas or scriptures I could use for signs? submitted by /u/momrunnerwi to r/Catholicism [link] [comments]

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In my 2021 Reddit Secret Santa info, I mentioned that I enjoyed running and would like to do a half marathon some day, but life kept getting in the way. I just had a baby in August, so I was having some postpartum depression, and didn't have much motivation at the time. My Santa asked for my e-mail and phone number so I decided to take a leap of faith. Using that info, my Santa signed me up for this as a way to motivate me. And it worked! (slight mentions of tmi in this post) ​ ​ ### Race Information * **Name:** Trillium Trek * **Date:** April 23, 2022 * **Distance:** 13.1 miles * **Location:** Gainesville, GA * **Website:** https://www.elachee.org/trillium-trek/ * **Time:** 4:17:34 ​ ### Goals | Goal | Description | Completed? | |------|-------------|------------| | A | Finish | *Yes* | | B | In Under 4 Hours | *No* | ​ ### Training I started training for this race in December. I was running 3 times a week in my neighborhood. I started out super slowly, then built up a little. Unfortunately, my entire family got the Flu/Covid (yes, both) at the end of January, me, my husband, and our 2 young kids. Recovering from that set me back for 3 weeks, and when I started training again, it was basically like starting over. I started running 3 times a week again, and built up to 4. I did intervals on Tues and Thurs, a long run on Saturday, and a speed run (sometimes) on Monday or Wednesday. The area in which I live is hilly, so that was helpful. I didn't really know much about the race other than it was at the nature preserve, and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. ​ ### Pre-race I woke up Saturday morning at 5:00 am, had coffee, oatmeal with berries, and a banana. I drove to the race area and shuttled with a bunch of other racers to the event itself. I was chatting with everyone and mentioned it was my first ever half marathon. Everyone was super kind and helpful with advice, and the participants who had run the race before let me know what I could expect. Hills. I could expect hills. They told me there were more hills on the back half of the loop, but hills were throughout. Before the race, I had a granola bar and half a gatorade. I strapped on my hydration vest, had my energy gels, and had my interval timer and audiobook ready to go on my phone. I was excited, but nervous. Honestly, my big goal was to finish. I just wanted to finish the thing. ​ ### Race The race itself was a trail run which I sort of expected, but I didn't realize how wild the terrain would be. In hindsight, I definitely should have done more research. The course itself wound through the woods and trails uphill and downhill, and the half marathon course was two loops. The first loop went fine. My pacing was good and the audiobook was keeping me company (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, a book I've read a million times so I didn't really need to pay attention to it). I mostly ignored my interval timer and went slower up the hills and faster down, except where there were a bunch of tree roots and I had to go slower. The second loop however, that's when things got dicey. At mile 7, I tripped on a tree root while, hilariously, looking at the mile 7 marker and thinking "Oh mile 7 woohoo, whoooaaaaa -splat-" I banged up my knee pretty good. At mile 10 I got sick of hearing the narrator's voice and took out my headphones. It was just me and the woods and the suffering. Mile 11 I sat on a log and cried for a minute, then threw up, and then kept going. At this point I had given up all pretense of trying to make any kind of time goal, I just wanted to finish. My husband was sending me encouraging texts throughout the race, and that was really helpful. By the time I made it out of the woods, the race was over. My husband was in the parking lot with the kids, and my 4 year-old held my hand and walked with me across where the finish line would have been if I finished in time. ​ ### Post-race When I was done with the race, I thought to myself "I would rather go through unmedicated childbirth again than do another one of these." But this morning I signed up for another half in August. As much as it sucked at times (like REALLY sucked), I honestly loved it, I'm glad I did it, and I'd do it again. I lost 25 lbs since starting to train for this, and I gained something extraordinary. At 35 years of age, I ran my first half marathon. So thanks, Santa, for this life-altering experience. This was so much more than a gift. ​ ​ Made with a new [race report generator](http://sfdavis.com/racereports/) created by /u/herumph. submitted by /u/escherthecat to r/running [link] [comments]

Friends, I had a lot of feedback from my last post, so I wanted to give you an update. In late September, I had lost 157 pounds in 12 months. Since then, I have lost an additional 45 pounds. At the time, I had just run my first (virtual) 10K race. I am now signed up for a half marathon for April. On Friday, I ran over 10 miles in 1 hour, 36 minutes. (UPDATED PHOTO) I have found that it's harder to keep losing weight. Even as I step up the intensity and length of my workouts, I have found it a little more challenging (but not impossible). My body also looks fat. I have loose skin all over my body, which makes me still feel fat at times. But guys, I have to tell you it's amazing to be down to 218. I still want to lose a little more, and think I still can. I also want to say something about companies like Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Advocare and others. I am sure they truly believe in their product. I am sure they work for some people. But I believe they have given people the wrong idea about losing weight. There is a cost of entry to those programs (in some cases, a very expensive cost of entry). It gives so many people the idea that if you don't have the money, you can't diet... THIS IS SO WRONG! Every bit of research out there shows eating a low-calorie, well-balanced diet coupled with regular exercise leads to weight loss. That isn't that hard. I really feel if you just watch what you eat (I have used an app, but pen and paper still works), and compared that to how many calories you burn a day, odds are, you'll become fit. Anyway, thanks for everyone who supported me. Below, I have attached my post from late September: https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/j2z34u/my_weight_loss_journey_1_year_later/ My weight loss journey 1 year later June 2, 2019, I waddled my 420-pound body up Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. My wife and I have taken an annual road trip for our anniversary every year since getting married in 2014. Our 2019 trip was special as it was the first time I had ever spent the night outside of the United States. I had always been fairly athletic despite my size. I played basketball and tennis almost every day growing up. My diet, however, was horrific. I lived off Hot Pockets and ice cream. But exercising every day at least kept me from ballooning as a teenager. Then adulthood came, and the perceived time I had for exercise was replaced with work and chores. Leisure no longer felt like a priority. Walking never felt like a challenge, and the walk from our hotel to the falls wasn’t hateful as it was downhill. But returning from the falls, I was gassed. The simple act of walking had fatigued me to the point that I had to stop. I was shameful. I had never really felt “unhealthy” until this point. Shamers be shaming August 3, 2019, was a gut-wrenching day for many of us in the US. That Saturday, I had just taken Jenna’s car to get an oil change. We found out her rear brake lights would not work, and it appeared there were electrical malfunctions. We were planning on replacing her car at the end of the year, so leaning of a potentially expensive electrical issue prompted us to decide on buying a new car. When I came home, I heard that there was a massacre at the El Paso Walmart. I checked in with our Saturday person at work, and she was going to need some relief at some point (any one who has worked in breaking news understands how draining these massacres are). After working an unexpected Saturday shift, I went to bed planning on teaching a few classes in the morning and then going to buy Jenna a new car. After briefly falling asleep, I received a text that another massacre happened, this time just 15 miles down the road in Dayton. Having graduated from Wright State and then working at the Dayton Daily News, I had many friends living in that immediate area. My thoughts turned to them as I now had to work another shift, this time in an area I knew quite well. While reporting on the events taking place in Dayton, some of my tweets went viral. Immediately, some of the responses weren’t about the shooting, but about my weight. There is this huge tragedy happening in Dayton, and my weight was the issue for some on social media. To be fair to other reporters, this was a new experience for me. For many of my (especially female) colleagues, the vitriol of fat-shamers can be far worse. I am not an on-camera journalist, but for those who are, the shaming can be downright vitriolic. But given the two tragedies going on, it was tough to process this hate I was receiving. A few weeks later, I watched a segment on Bill Maher’s show about how there should be more fat-shaming in society. It had me thinking that all of those people tweeting at me during another tragic night in our country were the ones who were right, and who am I to judge them? I decided to get a gym membership. But the very thing that was driving me to get in shape was what was scaring me off. If these fat-shamers are so spiteful online, how much shame will I face at a gym? Last September, I went for a walk at VOA Park in Butler County, Ohio. The loop there is 1.5 miles. I felt so exhausted just going once around that loop. I had enough. I knew I wanted to get into shape. For several weeks starting around late September 2019, weighing over 420 pounds, I started walking as fast and long as I could. The 1.5-mile walk quickly became 3-mile walks. While I wasn’t seeing results on the scale, I was feeling better mentally. Shamers replaced with cheerleaders After a few walks, I already ran into a few folks at VOA Park who saw how much of a sweat I was working up, and gave me so much encouragement to keep moving. I never expected to get thumbs up from people. You quickly realize that for every person out there shaming you, there are dozens ready to push you and help you. As the weather turned colder, I finally worked up the courage to enter a gym. And it’s true about Planet Fitness… it truly is the “No Judgement Zone.” People there were so wonderful. Hearing people say “good work” was a great affirmation that I was in the right place. My time spent exercising prompted me to do a lot of research on how to lose weight, and what I could do to drop weight. There are SO MANY diets out there. Which one is right for me? It seemed the one constant was you have to watch your calories. If you burn more calories than you consume, you’ll lose weight. I am pretty good with numbers and statistics, so I realized that this could be a winner. So I decided to go with a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet. Coupled with exercise, I found myself losing weight QUICKLY. In the month of December alone, I lost 25 pounds. I have not put anything in my body that I don’t track. I track every calorie I eat. It is a great way to hold oneself accountable. Last December was when exercising no longer felt like a chore but routine. I was no longer “forcing myself” to exercise, and had to force myself to take a few day off for rest. This habit of eating 2,000 calories a day and exercising almost every day simply became my routine, and unlike past diets, it felt like this one worked for me. If I wanted to have a cookie, I could, but I had to make up for it somewhere else. My habit of eating a whole package of Oreos quickly disappeared, however. I have bought a few package of cookies since, but it seems they spoil before I get a chance to finish the container. Then came COVID March 11 started off a good day. My weigh-in had me down 78 pounds since October. I went to the gym and had a good workout on the stair stepper. I then went to work. Our whole world felt like it changed in one night. That evening, the NBA suspended the season, President Trump suspended travel between Europe and the US, and Tom Hanks announced he had the coronavirus. It felt like all of a sudden, the coronavirus was going to have a major impact on our way of life for months to come. Leaving work that night in a bit of a haze, all I wanted to do was stress eat. I got off at an interstate exit and was about to order a midnight McDonald’s hamburger. Then when I got to the drive thru, I saw my gym membership dangling from my keys and decided not to undo the effort I put in that day at the gym. So I drove home and opted for a small, more calorie-friendly snack. In the days to come, I decided to workout from home. I found myself doing step aerobics on a daily basis, thanks to my wife finding a fantastic YouTube channel. I am so thankful for Jenny Ford for her encouragement as she is a great step aerobics instructor. Even though I don’t do step aerobics as often, I plan on doing more as the weather gets colder. It’s a great full-body workout that requires very little equipment. And it doesn’t require going to an indoor gym during a pandemic! Becoming a runner At the start of 2020, I thought it would be cool to do a 5K. But I didn’t just want to walk one, so I decided if I could go 5Ks in less than 45 minutes, I’d sign up for one. Little did I know the only options for 2020 would be virtual. I never really thought I’d enjoy running. It never appealed to me. In May, I tested myself by seeing how fast I could go at the park. It was the first time I had jogged or walked in two months. I crossed the proverbial finish line in less than 40 minutes. YES! Time to sign up for a 5K! It also turns out running is a great way to burn calories. This started to become my daily routine. It also is such a great way to clear the mind. I put on some music and don’t think about work or the ills of the world. This is also where I picked up more cheerleaders. I never truly planned on documenting my weight loss journey. I thought to myself I am doing this for myself, and not those dreaded fat-shamers. But I posted some photos of my first runs, and your support was so overwhelming. It truly motivated me to keep going. On July 3, I ran my first official 5K. Not that I was counting, but my photo from that day had over 200 Facebook likes... more than I got for my wedding. HAHA It was time for a new challenge: a 10K. I completed my first 10K on September 14 in 1 hour, 11 minutes. A few days later, I set my 5K PR at 29 minutes. Let’s say beyond the improvement of my physical health, my mental health has improved so much too. I have felt so fortunate to have my health and fitness back during a time that so many are suffering, I decided to organize a 5K to benefit Feeding America. A small group of friends have joined, and we have already enough participants to contribute nearly 2,500 meals to Feeding America. If anyone is interested to join, it is on Facebook as the “Beat COVD, Beat Hunger 5k Fun Run.” What’s next As I end my first year of diet and exercise, I can announce I have lost 157 pounds. Even at 263 pounds, I am still considered “obese.” There is more weight I want to lose as I want to continue doing more with running. I have already started planning on running a half marathon in 2021. Nine months ago, even the idea of doing a 5K didn’t feel like a given. I understand losing weight is not as challenging as maintaining weight loss. But I am sure with the constant support I have received from so many of you, I will give it my all in keeping the weight off. One reason I write this is because I have gotten several messages from others saying how my new lifestyle has caused them to get more fit. I can’t tell you what it means to be an inspiration to others. Given all of the perceived hate in the world, love is what rules. And I have felt the love from my dear friends and family, especially Jenna! Thank you to everyone for your love and support. You all mean so much to me and I feel so proud that I have been able to inspire others to get out and enjoy the outdoors! submitted by /u/jjboggs to r/loseit [link] [comments]

Hello Everyone! It’s been a few months since I last did one of these, so I thought I’d check in and share a few updates. It’s been a busy few months here at HQ. On the product side, we launched Reddit-hosted video and gifs; crossposting is in beta; and Reddit’s web redesign is in alpha testing with a limited number of users, which we’ll be expanding to an opt-in beta later this month. We’ve got a long way to go, but the feedback we’ve received so far has been super helpful (thank you!). If you’d like to participate in this sort of testing, head over to r/beta and subscribe. Additionally, we’ll be slowly migrating folks over to the new profile pages over the next few months, and two-factor authentication rollout should be fully released in a few weeks. We’ve made many other changes as well, and if you’re interested in following along with all these updates, you can subscribe to r/changelog. In real life, we finished our moderator thank you tour where we met with hundreds of moderators all over the US. It was great getting to know many of you, and we received a ton of good feedback and product ideas that will be working their way into production soon. The next major release of the native apps should make moderators happy (but you never know how these things will go…). Last week we expanded our content policy to clarify our stance around violent content. The previous policy forbade “inciting violence,” but we found it lacking, so we expanded the policy to cover any content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against people or animals. We don’t take changes to our policies lightly, but we felt this one was necessary to continue to make Reddit a place where people feel welcome. Annnnnnd in other news: In case you didn’t catch our post the other week, we’re running our first ever software development internship program next year. If fetching coffee is your cup of tea, check it out! This weekend is Extra Life, a charity gaming marathon benefiting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, and we have a team. Join our team, play games with the Reddit staff, and help us hit our $250k fundraising goal. Finally, today we’re kicking off our ninth annual Secret Santa exchange on Reddit Gifts! This is one of the longest-running traditions on the site, connecting over 100,000 redditors from all around the world through the simple act of giving and receiving gifts. We just opened this year's exchange a few hours ago, so please join us in spreading a little holiday cheer by signing up today. Speaking of the holidays, I’m no longer allowed to use a computer over the Thanksgiving holiday, so I’d love some ideas to keep me busy. -Steve update: I'm taking off for now. Thanks for the questions and feedback. I'll check in over the next couple of days if more bubbles up. Cheers! submitted by /u/spez to r/announcements [link] [comments]

Adult Swim (join us in /r/adultswim!) 15 years ago today, Cartoon Network gave three hours in the middle of the night to an experiment called Adult Swim. For the last 10 years in a row, the network has ranked No. 1 among adults 18-34 years old in basic-cable ratings across the total day. The median age of the Adult Swim viewer is 24 years old, about half that of viewers across all broadcast and cable channels. It saved Family Guy and is responsible for making Seth MacFarlane a TV powerhouse with three shows, three movies, a nine figure net worth, and a relationship with Emilia Clarke. (not a good thing to everyone) It saved Futurama. It turned Tim and Eric from two weirdos who were mailing unsolicited DVD’s to Bob Odenkirk to comedy superstars with a multimedia and multichannel entertainment kingdom with two movies and thirteen television shows, including Nathan for You, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Review, W/ Bob & David, and Check it Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, which stars an Academy Award nominated actor. It boosted the careers of Killer Mike, Flying Lotus, Odd Future, MF Doom, Danger Mouse, and completely made the career of MC Chris. It introduced Killer Mike and El-P, who went on to form Run the Jewels. It gave Brendon Small a platform to launch his multimedia Metalocalypse franchise of a show, albums, and even live tours. It caused a terrorism scare that cost the head of Cartoon Network his job. (See my Aqua Teen retrospective here) Let’s set the scene It's September 2, 2001. The animated adult comedy landscape is nascent but sparsely populated, and you still (barely) live in an innocent, pre-9/11 world. Mission Hill has been off the air for 1 year, Space Ghost and Dr. Katz for 2 years, and Beavis and Butt-Head and Duckman for 4 years. (The Critic has been off for 6 but who cares?) Home Movies only lasted five episodes before being canceled by UPN 2 years ago. The Simpsons is already arguably in decline with Oakley and Weinstein gone. Family Guy has been granted a last minute reprieve of a third season, but its likely to be canceled again as Fox continuously shifts its schedule, and would you really miss it anyway? King of the Hill is going strong, but that's kind of an acquired taste. Futurama is great, but like Family Guy, Fox is fucking with its schedule so you worry. And of course, there's South Park, but nobody wants to enjoy just 1 show forever. The future seems bleak. South Park, the Simpsons, and Beavis and Butthead are popular. Why won’t anyone else give shows like these a serious chance? You’ve heard rumors that Cartoon Network aired some really strange shows with no warning last year. You even caught a random new episode of Space Ghost over the summer! They’ve experimented with weird late night stuff before, like ToonHeads and Late Night Black and White, but even that was still mainly for kids and they canceled Space Ghost in ’99! The bastards. You resign yourself to channel surfing when you hear this. What does it mean? What could it be for? What the hell is “adult swim’? (LOWERCASE INTENDED). Curious, you keep watching, and you can’t believe it, it’s Home Movies)! And it’s… a new episode?!?! Enraptured, you keep watching. A show about fast food? A show about Birdman as a lawyer? A show about an underwater research station full of insane people? Brak got his own damn show! And even Cowboy goddamn Bebop! One of the greatest anime of all time! What the hell is going on?!?! Beginnings In 1993, Mike Lazzo was senior vice president of Cartoon Network, a subsidiary network of Turner that was just a year old and hoping to challenge its more established competitors, Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel. The decline of cartoons on the networks due to FCC regulations and market shifts (see: Wikipedia) gave an upstart like Cartoon Network a chance. Even back then at a children’s focused channel like Cartoon Network, however, it was obvious animation wasn’t just for adults, so Ted Turner asked Mike Lazzo, a high school dropout who’d worked his way up from Turner’s shipping department[1], to create a cheap cartoon that would air late at night and appeal to adults. “What, reasoned Lazzo, could be more low-cost than to take animation frames from the old Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning children's cartoon series Space Ghost and Dino Boy and superimpose them over newly filmed live action sequences? Going a bit farther, Lazzo decided to use the old reedited Space Ghost footage as part of a concept he'd been toying with for year: a satirical David Letterman-style talk show, with a thoroughly clueless and humorless host asking celebrity guests a steady stream of stupid, non sequitur questions. As a result, Space Ghost Coast to Coast was not only the Cartoon Network's first original cartoon series, but it was also the first animated talk show in TV history!”[2] “The original name of the show stemmed from early 1993, while Andy Merrill and Jay Edwards were coming up with names for a marathon of the original Space Ghost TV show to air on Cartoon Network, trying to find things that rhyme with "Ghost".”[3] Space Ghost got 6 seasons and even a kid friendly spin off (Cartoon Planet) before being canceled, or at least put on hiatus, in 1999. Space Ghost family tree Dave Willis Aqua Teen Hunger Force Squidbillies Sealab 2021 Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell Perfect Hair Forever Young Person’s Guide to History Too Many Cooks Matt Maiellaro Aqua Teen Hunger Force Squidbillies Sealab 2021 The Brak Show Perfect Hair Forever Adam Reed Sealab 2021 Frisky Dingo ARCHER Matt Harrigan Late Show with David Letterman KaBlam! Celebrity Deathmatch Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Perfect Hair Forever Tom Goes to the Mayor Assy McGee Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! FishCenter Live Kickoff While entertaining pitches for a variety of adult-focused cartoons, Lazzo realized the potential for packaging them as a complete adult-focused block. Different names were considered, including “ibiso”, Spanish for “stop”, and “Parental Warning”, but he eventually settled on Adult Swim. Cartoon Network aired pilots for Harvey Birdman, Aqua Teen, Sealab, and Brak unannounced on different late night hours in December 2000, and aired two new episodes of Space Ghost in May and July 2001 to test the waters. After greenlighting the pilots, reviving Home Movies, and securing the rights to Cowboy Bebop, Adult Swim was born, starting off with the first new episode of Home Movies, “Director’s Cut”. Family Guy Family Guy was created by Hanna-Barbera veteran Seth MacFarlane, who’d worked on several Cartoon Network shows developed by Lazzo, including Powerpuff Girls, Courage the Cowardly dog, and Dexter’s Lab, as an adaptation of his thesis film for his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design.The show struggled under Fox’s infamously fickle scheduling, which saddled it with low ratings. Adult Swim began reruns of the show in April 2003, and the show was canceled by Fox the same year. It immediately skyrocketed to Adult Swim’s highest rated show, with ratings 239% higher on the late night network than on Fox. The ratings success, coupled with strong DVD sales, convinced Fox to renew the show for a fourth season. Family Guy has since aired 14 total seasons and numerous specials. Show creator Seth MacFarlane used the success of the show to successfully negotiate for two additional shows on Fox, American Dad, which has aired 13 seasons and which airs in reruns on Adult Swim today, and The Cleveland Show, which aired for four seasons on Fox before being canceled and also still airs in reruns on Adult Swim today. Futurama The brainchild of Simpsons creator and television icon Matt Groening and Simpsons writer David X. Cohen, Futurama also struggled with Fox’s capricious scheduling and only lasted one more season than Family Guy before being canceled. Adult Swim picked up the show for reruns in 2003, and producers used the high ratings to convince Fox to greenlight four direct-to-DVD movies. The success of those movies convinced Comedy Central to pick up the show for a revival and reruns. Futurama went on to air 52 additional episodes on Comedy Central. Tim and Eric Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim met while studying at Temple University, and began producing comedy shorts shortly thereafter. In 2002, they mailed a packet containing glossy headshots, a letter, a DVD containing early versions of Tom Goes to the Mayor, and an itemized bill for all of the above to Conan O’Brien, Robert Smigel, and fortuitously, Bob Odenkirk. Bob was the only who responded.[4] From that pitch, we got one of Adult Swim’s strangest shows and the beginning of perhaps the most controversial Adult Swim success stories. One look at Adult Swim’s social media presence will tell you that there is perhaps no bigger demarcator in the Adult Swim fan base than feelings on Tim and Eric. A switch from the dialogue driven animated “stoner” comedy of the early crop of shows to the live action surreal “cringe” humor of Tim and Eric, which relied heavily upon video editing, is still, in my opinion, the biggest cultural inflection point in Adult Swim’s history. T&E leveraged the success of TGTTM to negotiate for their next show, the most controversial Adult Swim show ever, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! which ran for 5 seasons. The show was followed by a Christmas special, a movie, a failed pilot with Gregg Turkington in his Neil Hamuburger, the Twilight Zone inspired anthology show Tim and Eric Bedtime Stories, and a direct spinoff, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, starring Academy Award nominated actor John C. Reilly, which just concluded its 4th season. Tim and Eric are no longer just late night TV alt comedy stars, however. As their success on Adult Swim grew, so did their reach outside of the network. They’ve produced shows on IFC, Comedy Central, and Netflix, including the breakout hit Nathan for You, and the Netflix revival of their comedy mentor Bob Odenkirk’s show Mr. Show. Eric has built up a career as a major music video director, producing videos for Ben Folds, Beach House, Major Lazer, and more. Tim has established himself as a (semi-serious) musician, and acted in mainstream hits like the hit film Bridesmaids, The Simpsons, the Office, and more. Together with Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, and Michael Cera, Tim and Eric created the popular YouTube comedy channel Jash. The Abso Lutely train shows no signs of slowing down any time soon, and the divisive reactions it incites among Adult Swim fans show no signs of abating. Metalocalypse Brendon Small was no stranger to Adult Swim. They’d been a savior to him when they’d saved Home Movies from UPN obscurity and cancellation, but the show ended in 2004. During this time, he began attending metal shows with his friend Tommy Blacha, former writer for Conan, SNL’s TV Funhouse, and Da Ali G Show, and the former creative director for the WWE. From these shows, the idea for Metalocalypse, originally titled Deathclock, was born. Small, a guitar geek and graduate of the Berklee College of Music, worked to ensure that the show was as faithful to real guitar playing as it was funny, carefully syncing the animation of realistic finger and hand movements to the show’s music. Almost every episode featured an original metal song, and the list of guest stars soon became a Who’s Who of the metal and rock worlds. Dethklok wasn’t just a fictional band, however. Small and Adult Swim released three full length albums and an EP as Dethklok, and even conducted full nationwide tours in “Gorillaz style” several times, with video depictions of the animated band and a real band on stage, featuring Small and others. But all good things must come to an end. In it’s third season Metalocalypse became the first of only two Adult Swim shows ever to increase its running time from one season to the next (the other was China, IL) going from the more Adult Swim traditional time of 11 minutes up to 22. This did not last, though, and for the show’s fourth season its running time was brought back down to 11 minutes. In what proved to be another one of the network’s most controversial decisions ever, the fourth season would come to be the last, as Adult Swim canceled the series. Contentious negotiations followed (Small told one interviewer that he hung up on Lazzo in fury the last time they ever spoke by phone), but the show ultimately concluded its broadcast history with an hour length rock opera titled The Doomstar Requiem. TRILL-I-AM’S CONJECTURE Mike Lazzo is famously hands on with Adult Swim creators, to the point of driving the development of individual characters. “He suggested that 14-year-old Morty should show more backbone, because that’s the character whose perspective the audience gets most. The producers took his advice and added a new scene to the first episode in which the grandson seizes control of a space ship from a drunken Rick to prevent a catastrophic explosion. “That’s how we found [the characters’] relationship,” says Mr. Harmon. “You don’t want to let Lazzo down. Which, as a writer, is such a crazy thing to hear yourself say about a suit.”” So basically, if you have a show on Adult Swim, you’re not insulated from the bigwigs by layers of bureaucracy. There’s just one bigwig and he’s directly involved with the creative process of almost every show. So if you have a show, he better like it. Fans will tell you that Mike Lazzo doesn’t appreciate good art and that his cancellation of Metaltocalypse makes him worse than Hitler. I think this misses the point of why he canceled it. From bits and pieces of interviews and one-off appearances on Adult Swim streaming shows, I’ve basically put together that Mike Lazzo thought the show had forgotten that Adult Swim was a comedy network, and its increasing emphasis on telling a serialized serious story involving prophecies and talking whales instead of telling jokes with music on the side meant the show was no longer suited for Adult Swim. The only other Adult Swim show that’s ever attempted to tell a semi-serious serialized story, The Venture Bros., has dealt with the balance between story and comedy by staying light-hearted throughout and grounding the serious elements in a world and web of characters that’s constantly being lampshaded and being put in your face as inherently less than serious. The Boondocks would make serious points (Return of the King and The Passion of Reverend Ruckus) but was balanced out by many more comedic episodes. Do you think serious storytelling has a place on Adult Swim? If your answer is yes, then you probably think Lazzo was wrong to cancel Metalocalypse. If your answer is no, it would seem that Lazzo made the right decision. Anime In the 90s, Toonami used hits like Dragonball Z to pave the way the normalization of anime on American children’s television. Adult Swim followed it up with the first full-throated introduction of mature action anime to American audiences. With shows like Cowboy Bebop, The Big O, and Samurai Champloo, Adult Swim blew the doors off of anime in America, exposing audiences to an entire catalog of shows that no other network would have been willing to broadcast. Even Toonami could never have aired a show Trinity Blood. Breaking even more new ground, Adult Swim has even helped finance original Western-friendly anime like Space Dandy and the upcoming second season FLCL. While anime on the network is currently limited to only one day a week, it’s still a testament to Adult Swim’s relative bravery in the world of television that they’re willing to air a category of shows that almost no other other American television network has been willing to air in the 15 years since AS started, except for flirtations by G4 and SyFy. Streaming Adult Swim currently has 10 different 24/7 streaming channels, only two of which require a cable or satellite subscription. They have a daily animation marathon, a daily live action marathon, a marathon of Tim and Eric, a marathon of The Venture Bros., a stream of their growing companion online channel of shows like FishCenter and Stupid Morning Bullshit, a marathon of the experimental video/music show Off the Air, a Toonami marathon, a marathon replay of the online show FishCenter Live, and an east and west coast live simulcast of the television block that requires cable or satellite. While their deal with Hulu took a great amount of content off AdultSwim.com, the amount of episodes they offer on their website for free and with unimpeded access is still completely unparalleled in the American television landscape. infomercials/Off the Air Adult Swim is more friendly to experimental video and comedy than any other television brand or network in American history. No other network would be willing to air a show like Off the Air (albeit at 4 AM). And while hits like Too Many Cooks may briefly capture the internet’s attention, it’s just the tip of the iceberg of Adult Swim’s insane and daring series of shorts known as Infomercials. There’s “M.O.P.Z.” a full feature length film sped up until its only 11 minutes long. There’s the disturbing “This House Has People In It” from internet famous experimental fillmmaker Alan Resnick, complete with its own still yet to be fully resolved ARG. There’s the (literally) sedate “Joe Pera Talks You To Sleep”. CONCLUSION I could go on and on and on. If i’d started this earlier, I would’ve gone into Xavier Renegade Angel, Moral Orel, The Boondocks, and so much more. Suffice it to say, Adult Swim has changed American television and American culture. While it may not have the flashy success of the more “grown-up” networks like HBO, FX, and Comedy Central, it’s a sleeping giant that those very same networks are falling all over each other to learn from. The only other TV network to ever have a strong cultural brand identity, MTV, was already arguably in decline at this point in its life. Adult Swim is still going strong as hell, and I hope it’ll still be here in another 15 years. I’ve given it a lot of nights in my life, and like a body pillow, it’s been there for me. Citations 1 Cohen, Alan. "Swimming Against The Tide." Fast Company. January 01, 2005. Accessed September 1, 2016. http://www.fastcompany.com/51709/swimming-against-tide. 2 Erickson, Hal. "Space Ghost Coast to Coast [Animated TV Series] (1994)." All Movie. Accessed September 1, 2016. http://www.allmovie.com/movie/space-ghost-coast-to-coast-animated-tv-series-v309268. 3 "Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Production." Wikipedia. Accessed September 1, 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ghost_Coast_to_Coast#Production. 4 Sacks, Mike. "Why Hide Behind Irony?" Believer Mag, September/October 2008. Accessed September 2, 2016. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200809/?read=interview_tim_and_eric. Jurgensen, John. "Adult Swim: How to Run a Creative Hothouse." The Wall Street Journal (New York City), 2015, Arts | Television sec. March 12, 2015. Accessed September 2, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/adult-swim-how-to-run-a-creative-hothouse-1426199501. Jurgensen, John. "Shop Rules at Adult Swim." The Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2015. Accessed September 2, 2016. http://www.wsj.com/articles/shop-rules-at-adult-swim-1426195416. P.S. I want to thank kaptainkristian, whose amazing video "Adult Swim - The History of a Television Empire" informed and inspired much of this. submitted by /u/Trill-I-Am to r/television [link] [comments]