People Are Sharing Moments When “There Was An Attempt” In This Online Community And Here Are 150 Of The Funniest Ones

We all know very well that things in this world tend to backfire. Call it a law of nature, a frequent twist of fate, or destiny. “Look who’s laughing now” is a phenomenon that has happened to virtually every one of us, and no matter what you do, it repeats again and again, and again.

The Reddit community “There Was An Attempt” is dedicated to precisely the comic absurdity of all the attempts in life that went against the plan, or turned in the wrong direction. Created in August 2015, the subreddit now has 1.9m members that are not immune to the funny attempts that “were there.”

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“People enjoy the slapstick comedy of it. At the end of the day, everyone is laughing,” the subreddit’s moderator told Bored Panda in the interview that you can read in full below. And now we leave the stage to the ensued hilarity.

#1 At Going Outside

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#2 To Get Drinks

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#3 To Prevent The Homeless From Sleeping Here

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Bored Panda spoke to redditor u/F4T4-M0RG4N4, the moderator of the r/ThereWasAnAttempt subreddit, who said that the community has evolved a lot since it was created 5 years ago.

“When I first joined the team, it was mostly a screenshot sub. A few months back, there was some drama about how there were only three mods who ran the subreddit (which at the time had around a million members).” As a result, they invited more people to join the moderator team and removed the screenshot posts.

#4 To Shame Men

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#5 …. To Find Buried Treasure

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#6 To Eat A Mozzarella Stick

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For those who’re wondering what, precisely, “there was an attempt” refers to, u/F4T4-M0RG4N4 explained that it’s basically about “someone attempting something but ultimately failing.”

Conceptually, it’s similar to “if someone tried jumping off a trampoline into a pool but when they tried to jump, the trampoline tore. In that case, you could say, ‘Well… there was an attempt, at least’ and that’s where our subreddit comes into play.”

The posts are mainly about “some people having a dumb idea, trying out that idea, and failing.” This misery is what makes it so funny. 

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#7 To Suggest A New Idea

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#8 To Be Deep

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#9 To Convince People To Be Pro-Life

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Today, the moderator team only allows video submissions and cross-posts, “which are posts that were in one subreddit but were reposted to another (kind of like retweeting.” This format works better for r/ThereWasAnAttempt, since screenshots can more easily become reposts, for one.

Especially when there’s one similar subreddit that’s specifically for social media clapbacks and comebacks, but its content mainly features screenshots.When it comes to their 1.9 million member count, the moderator said that “I don’t think we have the exact same post frequency as, say, a meme subreddit.”

Partly, it’s because it isn’t easy to repost something from r/ThereWasAnAttempt. “I could probably look at the new section for r/memes and see quite a few frequent reposts.”

#10 To Stand Up For The Joker

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#11 To Sound Literate

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#12 To Befriend A Porcupine

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#13 To Sound Intellectual

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#14 To Be An Animal Activist

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#15 To Prove How Unfashionable These Jeans Were

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#16 To Complain About A Child Selling Hot Dogs

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#17 To Defend God

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#18 To Be Pro Lgbt

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#19 To Make The Special Olympics Look Bad

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#20 To Be Inclusive

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#21 …to Photograph Birds

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#22 To Clean Up After Himself

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#23 To Get A Heartwarming Tattoo

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#24 To Be A Professional Company

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#25 To Start Cat Racing

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#26 To Dress Up Like A Matrix Character….

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#27 To Create 3 Mexican Countries

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#28 To Motivate

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#29 To Say That Boomer Is A Racial Slur

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#30 To Display Plus Size Clothes Without Causing Offence

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#31 To Be Non-Binary

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#32 To Make A Serious Ad Campaign

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#33 To Stop Suicide

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#34 To Provide Front, Side, And Rear Photos For The Car Insurance Rep

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#35 To Replace I’m Sorry With Thank You

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#36 To Keep A Streak Going

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#37 To Make Fun Of A Bird

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#38 To Criticize A Garbage Man

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#39 To Cook Smiley Buns

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#40 To Be Racist

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#41 To Hide

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#42 To Get A Cardi B Tattoo

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#43 To Raise Self-Esteem

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#44 To Pass Security

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#45 By Google To Identify A Cat.

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#46 To Draw A Horse

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#47 To Fuck The Police

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#48 To Take A Cute Picture

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#49 To Play Hard To Get

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#50 To Ambush British Vessels

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#51 To Take A Panoramic Photo Which Included Their Dog

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#52 To Champion “Straight Pride”

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#53 There Was An Attempt To Catfish

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#54 To Be Responsible And Uber Home

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#55 There Was An Attempt To Run For Mayor

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#56 To Avoid Death

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#57 To Be Neighborly

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#58 To Take Away Car Privileges…

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#59 To Sound Tougher

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#60 To Escape Prison

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#61 To Correct Someone

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#62 To Have Fun With A Halloween Decoration

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#63 I Mean… You Tried..?

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#64 To Run From A Flying Predator

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#65 To Virtue Signal…

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#66 To Cure Cancer

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#67 To Market Her Oils

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#68 To Have A Black Friday Week “Sale”.

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#69 To Be A Good Person

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#70 To Karma Whore On Reddit

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#71 To Amputate

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#72 To Have A Selfie With Mona Lisa

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#73 To Recreate A Wholesome Family Photo

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#74 To Figure Out Trump’s Natural Skin Color

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#75 To Understand A Girl

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#76 To Infect Someone With A Virus

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#77 There Was An Attempt To “Shame” Someone Who Was Suicidal.

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#78 To Identify A Threat

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#79 To Install A Kitty Door

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#80 There Was A Attempt To Steal A Joke

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#81 To Make A Pun

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#82 To Betray Coca Cola

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#83 To Be Offended For Another Group Of People.

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#84 To Get An A

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#85 To Shame Atheists And Take Away Their Holidays

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#86 To Post On R/Oldschoolcool

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#87 To Save The Teens

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#88 To Promote Equal Rights

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#89 To Ask Twitter

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#90 To Scare Your Boyfriend

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#91 To Scare Someone

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#92 To Arrest A “Drug Dealer

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#93 To Be Sexist

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#94 To Diss Myspace

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#95 To Explain Who Barack Obama Is

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#96 To Have A Smart Shower Thought

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#97 To Be Edgy And Poetic

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#98 To Understand A Joke

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#99 To Honor Rosa Parks

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#100 To Glorify The President

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#101 To Be Wholesome

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#102 To Be Inclusive

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#103 To Protest Homophobia

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#104 To Prove That Patton Oswalt Is A Failed Comedian

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#105 To Bash A Girl With Acne

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#106 To Be Anti-Government

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#107 To Blame Homosexuality

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#108 To Help Someone Trapped In An Elevator.

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#109 To Write A Math Question

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#110 To Understand A Joke

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#111 To Blame Hispanics…

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#112 To Make A Dark Mode Only Meme

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#113 To Criticize The Local News Station

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#114 To Rick Roll On Reddit.

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#115 To Be Poetic

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#116 To Predict A War With Iran

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#117 To Compliment Her Tattoos

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#118 To Blackmail Jaromir Jagr

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#119 To Cut In Line

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#120 There Was An Attempt To Protest Racism

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#121 To Count Words

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#122 To Make Speaking 2 Languages Sophisticated.

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#123 To Roast Males

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#124 To Be Patriotic..

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#125 To Ask About Dirty Toilets…

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#126 To Not Be Racist

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#127 To Be Deep

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#128 To Have Their Dick Sucked Tomorrow

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#129 To Get Gold

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#130 … To Choose A Sexual Orientation

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#131 At Least He Tried

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#132 There Was A Attempt To Steal A Joke

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#133 To Show China In A Positive Way

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#134 To Make A Cute Picture Of A Family Wearing Masks

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#135 To Make A Selfish Photoshop Request

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#136 To Recreate The Spider-Man Meme

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#137 To Spread Anarchy

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#138 To Take A Nice Selfie

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#139 To Burn Ted Cruz

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#140 To Write 7 Rings In Japanese

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#141 To Make An Infographic.

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#142 To Get Into The Library.

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#143 To Help The Blind Read The Sign.

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#144 To Sound Poetic

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#145 To Construct A Tough And Resilient Airplane

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#146 To Sneak A Hot-Dog In The Back Pocket

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#147 To Make His Death Look Like A Suicide

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#148 To Correct The Student’s Answer

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#149 To Be Sassy

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#150 To Make People Stop Making Rape Jokes

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