“r/hmmm was a great source of content and the largest pages of similar names on Facebook at the time only had 10k page likes,” Tweten opened up.
“I knew I could outperform them within a week or two, so I started the page and started to scale it up. I repeated this same strategy for a few different niches, including a page for things that are funny and sad, Please Press F,” the founder said.
Meanwhile, we have actually covered the r/hmmm subreddit, the online community that inspired ‘Things That Make You Go Hmmm’ in the first place, before.
During Bored Panda’s earlier interview with CosmicKeys, the head moderator at r/hmmm, we found out that the sub was initially created in 2008, but its real founding date was 2016, when it began to see real activity online.
“I would post daily pictures while chat was going for people to laugh at oddities from different corners of the internet.”
“That grew into a large collection, so /r/hmmm was born. The name comes from a thread that would appear occasionally on 4chan, and the content was inspired by a website called spaceghetto," CosmicKeys said.
“The subreddit is about obscure and strange images, so over time, as certain types of images have gone from obscure to popular, we've made rules to exclude them.”
Which of these images confused and amused you the most, dear Pandas? Which ones made you go “hmmm” (or even “hmmmmm”) the most?
What’s something so bizarre that you’ve spotted in real life recently that you just had to take out your phone, snap a photo, and send it to your friends?
Share your thoughts and weirdest photos in the comments down below.
