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People Are Sharing ‘Alternate Angles’ Of Iconic Events And Places In History, Here Are 30 Of The Best

Close your eyes, and imagine the Statue of Liberty. You’ll probably picture its gigantic size, powerful posture, its intense face, the seven spikes of its crown, the way she’s holding a torch… Even if you’ve never seen it in real life, your mind most likely has a common image of it that most people have.

Thanks to the media, popular culture and instant access to virtually any information, we all have developed common perspectives of things, places and historical events. But what if we take a look at the Statue of Liberty from a completely different angle, let’s say, the very back of its head?

Well, one excellent corner of Reddit named “Alternate Angles” may have an answer or many answers to things we see at their face value. In fact, this relatively new online community created in 2019 is dedicated to showing a whole new viewpoint of “iconic events and places in history beyond the traditional well-known photos and videos.”

The result is fresh perspectives and never-before-seen angles that prove there’s so much more than what meets the eye! Plus, scroll down for the interview with the awesome moderator team behind the Alternate Angles subreddit.

#1 Aa Of The Sphinx – It Has A Tail!

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#2 Onlookers In Horror And Disbelief As They Watch The Twin Towers Collapse On 9/11

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#3 Photo Of A Hiker Watching The Eruption Of Mt. St. Helens From Mt. Adams, About 37 Miles To The East.

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These days, when there’s so much content being shared on Reddit, it’s becoming hard to stand out from the rest of the subreddits. But the Alternate Angles subreddit proves that the internet can be an incredible place where we can all learn something new every day and expand our horizons.

With 132k members, Alternate Angles has been sharing a bunch of very interesting pics that show various objects, places, and events from unusual angles. It comes as a breath of fresh air where the dedicated and professional moderator team stands at the core of it.

#4 Bob Ross Before His Perm + Beard

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#5 Onlookers Reacting To The Explosion Of The Challenger Space Shuttle

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#6 Prince William Giving “Middle Finger” After Prince Louis’ Birth

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“The origins are really quite simple,” the mod team told Bored Panda and continued: “A comment in another subreddit of famous pictures suggested that someone should create a sub of different views of famous pictures, which led to the creation of r/AlternateAngles by u/Murkon and another Redditor who decided to step down and is no longer a moderator.”

Most importantly, we asked the moderators to explain the very concept of Alternate Angles. They said that “it can be summed up by a rule: Limit all submissions to alternate views, or unique perspectives, of well-known locations, items, people, and events. An alternate angle of your kitchen does not qualify but Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen does.”

Having said that, the moderators added that determining what is “well known” is subjective. Hence, “the occasional post of an obviously non-well-known picture slips through, but we strive to keep with the original objective.”

#7 Charles Ebbets Photographing “Lunch On A Skyscraper”, The Famous Picture Of Workers In NY Eating Their Lunch On A Hanging Steel Beam

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#8 The David Statue Protected By Bricks During Ww2

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#9 Neil Armstrong’s Family Watching His Launch To The Moon-1969

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Turns out that much harder posts to moderate are those that are fakes or photoshopped. For this reason, the team relies on “the fantastic and active user base to help out with those.”

When asked to share some of their own personal Alternate Angles posts, the moderator team said they “could have spent hours culling through thousands and thousands of posts to pick out more.” However, they picked a couple ones for our readers to enjoy: the Lincoln Memorial before the reflecting pool, recording Leo the Lion (the MGM’s iconic mascot), this alternate angle of one of the biggest tragedies in US history, and this rare view of the back panel of Mona Lisa.

#10 A More Depressing View Of The Taj Mahal

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#11 The Statue Of Liberty At The 1878 Paris World Fair Before Being Fully Assembled And Shipped To The United States

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#12 Backside Of Tutankhamuns Mask

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#13 Different View Of The Pyramids

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#14 Queen Filming The Iconic Bohemian Rhapsody Music Video In 1975

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#15 Lincoln Memorial Before The Reflecting Pool

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#16 I Have A Dream

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#17 The Tank Man Photo From The Day Of The Tiananmen Square Massacre In 1989, Uncropped

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#18 Star Wars Episode Iv Opening Crawl

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#19 The Beatles Lining Up For The Abbey Road Album Cover Photo

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#20 Tiananmen Square Before The Infamous Picture, The Guy Is In The Top Left, 1989

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#21 Lady Liberty

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#22 The Nevermind Baby Getting Out Of The Pool

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#23 North Korean Founder Kim-Il Sung Had A Baseball Sized Tumor On The Back Of His Head. North Korean Propaganda Officials Had All Photos Taken Of Him From The Left Side. This Is One Of The Few Candid Photos Of The Tumor

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#24 Sydney Opera House From Top

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#25 Alternate Angle Of The Phantom Menace

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#26 The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Empty On The Inside

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#27 Behind The Price Is Right Wheel

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#28 Vincent Van Gogh

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#29 Not The Typical View Of The Tiananmen Square Protests…

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#30 The Position Of The Camera Man Who Took The Picture Of The Dallas Shooter

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30 Cringey Posts That Show What Happens When People Celebrate Just A Little Too Early

They say not to count your chickens before they hatch. ‘Cause by doing so, you raise the chances for an instant loss of karma, dignity, and self-confidence, like, triple.

If you’ve ever been near the finish line raising your arms high in the sky, only to feel a cold wave of wind passing through while you enjoy the moment of not-earned victory, you need no further explanation. And if you are one of the lucky ones who hasn’t had their fair share of premature celebration-turned nightmare, please stay that way and keep on scrolling to see what not to do to become one of many.

Thanks to the subreddit r/Prematurecelebration, we now have the full-on archive of cringey glory that is a product of people celebrating just a microscopic little bit too early. So you’d better get ready to crack up big time.

#1 Random Selection

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#2 Rip

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To find out more about the community behind the r/Prematurecelebration subreddit, Bored Panda reached out to one of its moderators, u/N8theGr8, who was happy to share some insights.

The mod told us that the subreddit was created by u/potato88, who’s now a suspended user, back in 2013. Some time ago, though, the subreddit had no moderators, so the admins gave it to the current mod team, u/N8theGr8 said.

But since the subreddit revolves around a “kind of niche topic,” it’s not as active as it could be. “But we have half a million subscribers and it stays relatively active,” they added. Right now, the subreddit has 525k members in total and their community is still growing.

#3 Death And Taxes

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#4 Good Idea To Straight Up Tell Everyone That You’re Scamming A Company

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When asked about the whole concept of premature celebration that the subreddit as all about, the moderator explained that it “just means celebrating some kind of win or victory before you really should.”

“Like a guy who runs a race and then slows down right at the end to do a victory jump and throw his arms in the air, only to be passed by the 2nd-place guy who then wins the race. Or ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ newspaper held up by President Truman.”

#5 2020 Is Going So Great

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#6 Too Soon

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#7 Showing Off A Bottle Of Johnny Walker

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#8 Rollerblader Prematurely Celebrates Victory Then Gets Robbed

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#9 Oops

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#10 Microsoft Employees Holding A Funeral For The iPhone Following The “Success” Of Their Windows Phone

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#11 Stalker, 30, Who Called Police To Brag ‘I’ll Never Be Caught’ Is Jailed

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#12 Good Lasagaaa

#13 My Friend’s Two Most Recent Snaps On His Story

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#14 Congrats…

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#15 Four Years Ago

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#16 That Escalated Quickly

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#17 Rip Gary F

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#18 Meirl

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#19 Influencer Brags About Her Easy Life In Bali On Twitter, Gets Deported Over It

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#20 New York Times Article From 1924

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#21 The Toronto Blue Jays React To All The Cancelled Mlb Games Recently

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#22 Celebrating Too Early

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#23 A Youtuber Who Said Veganism And God Cured Her Cancer Has Died Of Cancer

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#24 This Showed Up In My Tech News Feed

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#25 Never Obsolete

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#26 Does This Count?

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#27 No Title Needed

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#28 So… Can I Get My Job Back Or Nah?

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#29 Congrats, You Played Yo’self

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#30 Self Explanatory

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The redditor u/N8theGr8 continued: “When you’re so close to the end that victory looks assured is when a lot of people let their guard down, and don’t have the situational awareness to realize that someone else is trying to win too. It’s fine to celebrate early, but make sure you’re in a safe position to do so.”