r/PublicFreakout • u/ohhyouknow • Jan 28 '25

📌Follow Up Rule 1 of this subreddit: why it exists.

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Today we have a thread up featuring a nasty Nazi woman calling people subhumans, laughing at their plight.

We understand this is very upsetting to see, however, what that lady said doesn’t make it okay for you all to go after this random unrelated woman. We banned many people for violating the no witch hunting/no doxxing rule, and some of yall were pretty damn rude about it in modmail.

Look, we love this subreddit, we love exposing bigots and Nazis here, if you participate in a witch hunt you are participating in attempting to get this subreddit shut down. If we allow witch hunts the subreddit will be banned. So just don’t do it.

On top of the folks who participated in putting this subreddit at risk for banning, ya’ll are relentlessly harassing and facilitating the harassment of an innocent woman.

I can’t say I’ve seen many examples of Reddit getting it right and targeting the right price of shit. You all mean well but you ruin people’s lives.

The Boston bombing debacle should have taught you all a lesson but it seems it did not.

336 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ohhyouknow • Mar 06 '25

Mind how you are voting because Reddit is about to start spanking folks for votes.

1.3k Upvotes

465 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta • 3h ago

Political Freakout Trump scolds another reporter: "Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for? You're a stupid person."

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4.9k Upvotes

632 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/T_Shurt • 2h ago

Political Freakout Trump Freaks Out On CNN’s Kaitlan Collins For Asking About Easing Russian Sanctions: “You don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re a dummy. You’re a low IQ person, you’re a dummy, and you work for CNN.”

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2.4k Upvotes

Source article (published October 21, 2026): https://www.mediaite.com/politics/youre-a-dummy-trump-flips-out-on-cnn-abc-reporters-grilling-him-over-russia-sanctions-relief/

308 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/4DollarsALB • 8h ago

🗣📢Protest Freakout The Paris restaurant owner who went viral for spraying rioters with perfume got his restaurant burned down

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8.5k Upvotes

Original video

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/ahrr2Ak77Y

969 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/KimberlyWexlersFoot • 3h ago

🤷‍♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟‍♀️ Karen assaults driving instructor

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2.2k Upvotes

follow up: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/IAzKaJ3qaN

322 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Jevus_himself • 12h ago

🙌🏽🙌Righteous Freakout 🙌🏻🙌🏾 Guy picks up dog shit and throws it at dog owner who left it behind

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5.5k Upvotes

217 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Flashmemory256 • 9h ago

😏Main Character Freakout🤳 BMW Driver Gets Karma After Getting Angry

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1.9k Upvotes

97 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/AngleRelative4683 • 1h ago

🤘Righteous Freakout 🤘 Security guard reacts to getting spit on

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• Upvotes

35 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Girl-Understood • 13h ago

🙌🏽🙌Righteous Freakout 🙌🏻🙌🏾 Woman shopping for treats for homeless kids at Dollar Tree goes off on a couple after she agreed to help pay for their daughter's Halloween party candy, yet the man tries to sneak a $25 Xbox gift card

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2.4k Upvotes

200 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Love_CoolBreeze • 3h ago

Political Freakout French police tear-gassed around 400 musicians from the Orchestre du Nouveau Monde during a peaceful rehearsal concert at Place de la Republique

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391 Upvotes

24 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/KimberlyWexlersFoot • 31m ago

🤷‍♀️ Karen Freakout 🧟‍♀️ Follow up to Racist Karen assaults driving instructor.

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30 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/tommos • 15h ago

🐖 🐽 🐖 🐽 🐖 Protester tells riot police to square up and one of them takes the bait.

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2.2k Upvotes

116 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Worldlyoox • 20h ago

🎹Social Event Freakout🍸 Man arrested and handcuffed for having been accused of “flashing a gun”

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4.6k Upvotes

678 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/viperware • 13h ago

☠NSFL☠ Bodycam footage of the Senatobia Walmart incident where a 1-year-old was shot after a diaper shoplifting call

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1.2k Upvotes

830 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/BronzeAgePrincess • 15h ago

Religious Freakout Israeli woman walks around shopping centre in Istanbul. Shoppers allege she is an ex-Israeli solider.

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1.6k Upvotes

342 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/omgfakeusername • 21h ago

🐖 🐽 🐖 🐽 🐖 Pulled over on false grounds freakout

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4.7k Upvotes

253 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/sakhaliner • 8h ago

😀 Happy Freakout 😀 Guy dancing above idol concert

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347 Upvotes

53 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/MoreMotivation • 1d ago

Political Freakout Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's first public appearance today didn’t go well as a protestor called out his vile ad against his opponent Amy Acton

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7.4k Upvotes

363 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/stevesmithsglasses • 13h ago

😏Main Character Freakout🤳 Don't mess with her, she's the one that "went viral with 5K views, look it up"

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690 Upvotes

200 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/haze4140 • 14h ago

🚗Road Rage🤬 Road ragers settle their differences with angle grinders in Phoenix, Arizona

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680 Upvotes

132 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Motor_Fault_8806 • 22h ago

🚗Road Rage🤬 This is why everyone needs a dashcam

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1.9k Upvotes

97 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ErsiliaCavedagni • 6h ago

🥊Fight 🤬 With a helmet and a club in hand, a single protester in Tirana, Albania attacks the police (October 2026)

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79 Upvotes

8 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/n8saces • 18h ago

🚗Road Rage🤬 I'm convinced that 90% of people should lose their license or not have one at all.

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677 Upvotes

176 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/4DollarsALB • 1d ago

🗣📢Protest Freakout Rioters in Paris attempt to break into a restaurant. The owner sprays them with perfume from the second floor

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4.5k Upvotes

567 comments

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A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public. Drugged out or sober, anything goes. Keep the comments respectful where mental disorders are concerned, and remember that the individuals depicted in these videos are real people too. This subreddit is essentially dedicated to their worst moments, so do keep that in mind.

Saturated with TV and movies, our brains have become used to watching the imitation of emotions, so much so that it is strangely surprising and fascinating to watch the real thing.

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Abusive comments will be removed at moderator discretion and may result in a temporary or permaban
Bans: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Harassment, Race Baiting, Bigotry, etc. (Racist/bigoted people freaking out in videos are allowed, but being a racist in the comments section will result in a ban.)
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Don't mess with or Mobility Mary.

When you get banned for violating the rules, it has nothing to do with free speech but we do welcome appeals of all moderator decisions via modmail.

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