30 Times Premature Celebrators Ended Up Embarrassing Themselves In Public (New Pics)

Bored Panda got in touch with the team of redditors that runs r/Prematurecelebration with a few follow-up questions for them. One of the moderators was happy to answer them.

We were curious as to what has changed since our last article about the online community.

"We have been working towards being more receptive and open-minded about the definition of premature celebration, as to be less bogged down by obvious examples of the genre," they told us.

"We spend a few hours every week debating these posts and working on the definition of the words, shaping the future of the sub," they shared a bit about the work that they and their other moderator colleagues do.

Bored Panda was interested to get the r/Prematurecelebration team's opinion as to why so many people find it hard to admit that they've made a mistake. According to the, the widespread use of the internet and especially social media has a lot to do with it.

"This era of online presence allows people to pull in and out," they explained.

"A lot of people manipulate this to walk away from their mistakes," the mod pointed out that on the internet, it's quite easy to avoid taking responsibility for one's actions.

Finally, we wanted to get their take on the right balance to have between confidence and humility. However, they quipped that "being too humble makes for bad premature celebration!"

In short, if everyone was well-balanced and mature, the subreddit wouldn't need to exist.

The r/Prematurecelebration subreddit is a fantastic corner of the internet that shames anyone who’s arrogant enough to fly too close to the sun, only to have their wax wings melt.

The online community was created to document all those intensely embarrassing moments when people celebrate something (“usually in sports”) before actually accomplishing it. The result? They end up failing in the process. The irony is immeasurable but incredibly entertaining.

Created all the way back in mid-June of 2013, the ‘Premature Celebration’ sub has since grown to house nearly 710k members. The last time that Bored Panda wrote about the subreddit, it had 525k members.

Clearly, the subreddit’s mix of schadenfreude and forced humility appeals to a lot of people. (And, really, we’d be lying if we said that it isn’t satisfying to see someone be wrong on a massive, massive scale.)

Members of the sub have to abide by a few rules. One of the main ones is to keep the content focused on premature celebrations. That is the point of the entire community after all. So you’ve got to show some sort of evidence that the person in question has been celebrating before it was appropriate to do so.

What’s more, redditors ought to avoid reposting the “top 50 of all time or the current hot 25.” In other words, try to keep the content fresh! Do a bit of research on what’s already been posted, don’t just share random screenshots and photos randomly. And, of course, be a kind and decent person: “No namecalling, direct personal attacks, or bigotry.”