"I didn't even know I had high blood pressure," one Redditor wrote in a thread. Compared to a healthy blood pressure reading that maxes out at 120/80 mm Hg, this poster came in at 218/124, which is well above the threshold for a medical emergency.
UnitedHealth Group ( NYSE:UNH) shares rose 7.3% over the past week as retail investor sentiment on Reddit and X shifted from deeply bearish to neutral. Trading around $355, the stock has stabilized after falling significantly from its 52-week high following the December 2024 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Current sentiment scores sit at 42 out of 100, up from extreme negativity just months ago.
Ohanian stepped down from Reddit's board of directors in June 2020 following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. At the time, he wrote on Reddit that it was a "long overdue" move to "do the right thing." He urged the Reddit board to fill his seat with a black candidate, after the company had been criticized for providing a platform for racist and hate speech.
Ryan Schuster, the director of paid search and social at media agency Exverus by Brainlabs, exemplifies this strategy. While working with clients such as Premier Protein, Theralogix supplements, and New Belgium Brewing, Schuster says he typically puts 60 percent of their paid social budget toward Meta and 30 percent toward TikTok. Then, he either spends the remaining 10 percent on Reddit "or some sort of other test-and-learn" channel.
Sweeping surveillance, now found in doorbells, cars and a vast network of vehicle-tracking cameras, did eventually help track down the whereabouts of Claudio Neves Valente, the 48-year-old former Brown graduate student investigators believe was responsible for the Dec. 13 shooting and another killing two days later of an MIT professor in Brookline, Massachusetts.
From keeping your purse off the floor to skipping chicken on New Year's Day, these family superstitions didn't fade - they stuck. Call them cultural traditions, old wives' tales, or just "I'm not risking it." They promise good luck, ward off "the devil," and trace how beliefs travel from grandparents to Gen Z'ers. As bizarre as some of them sound, we keep them for the same reason we keep family recipes: they were handed down with love, warnings, and a little drama.
When two people are starting to date, they might polish themselves a little to make a good impression. Maybe you downplay a flaw or maybe you exaggerate something positive. And regardless of what you think about it, I assume we can agree that up to a certain point this can be dismissed as harmless behavior. However, Reddit user Lejr321 believes her boyfriend has crossed that line.
According to a police document seen by BBC News, the man - who is not named in the document - shared 347 clips of nude scenes on the Reddit group he moderated, which were then viewed 4.2 million times. The Danish police say he has been given a seven month suspended sentence for copyright infringement. Experts say the man was prosecuted under a rarely-used clause in Danish copyright law.
A Toronto children's hospital was flooded this week with a surprise surge of thousands of dollars in donations. The unlikely source? Dodgers fans. The Dodgers the Toronto Blue Jays in a monumental World Series win last week, giving the Boys in Blue back-to-back titles. After such an upset, a rivalry between the cities seems natural. But Dodgers fans are making a widespread effort to prove just the opposite.
Unlike previous years, they're not impulse buying - 79% of Americans plan to research more before purchasing, comparing products, reading reviews, and seeking genuine recommendations from real people. In the days leading up to Prime Day, Reddit communities were buzzing with shopping strategies, deal comparisons, and wish lists. During the event itself, views of Prime Day conversations exploded - skyrocketing more than 150x and peaking on day two as Redditors shared their best finds in real time.
