000: Getting sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison, Ask Me Anything
Dante Orpilla (/u/youngluck) is the focus of the debut episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Dante about the Bottom Dwellerz; losing custody of his son; his drug addiction, his trial; discovering...
View Article001: Could a Unit of Marines Defeat the Entire Roman Empire?
The story of Rome, Sweet Rome and James Erwin (/u/prufrock451) are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to James about growing up in Iowa; winning Jeopardy twice; writing...
View Article002: A Career Making A capella Videogame Music
Max Gleason aka Smooth McGroove (/u/SmoothMcGroove) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Max about growing up in Oklahoma; falling in love with videogames; developing as...
View Article003: From Homeless to Hip Hop Social Media Star
DeStorm Power is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We talk to DeStorm about his experiences growing up in the projects; his first encounters with art; moving to New York City to...
View Article004: A Free Trip Around the World With a Total Stranger
Jordan Axani (/u/jaxani) is the focus of this week's Upvoted by reddit. We talk to Jordan about his experiences growing up in Canada; his love of travel; buying tickets around the world on glitch trip...
View Article005: Three Female Computer Scientists Walk into an AMA
Elana Glassman, Jean Yang, and Neha Narula from MIT join Upvoted for a roundtable discussion on women in STEM. We discuss their upbringings, the public vs private sector, challenges women are currently...
View Article006: From Sarajevo to Seattle - Rocking out with Kultur Shock
Val Kiossovski and Gino Jevđević (/u/ginoyevdjevich) from Kultur Shock are the focus of this week's Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Gino’s rise to pop stardom in Yugoslavia as Gino Banana; the Bosnian...
View Article007: Double Dick Dude
Double Dick Dude (/u/DoubleDickDude) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how he decided to come out to the internet; his infamous AMA; his struggles in high school;...
View Article008: The Serendipity of Giving
James Harrison and Zachary Meyer (/u/bobandgeorge) are both the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss the history of rhesus disease; James’ surgery at the age of 14 in which he...
View Article009: Religion, Abortion, a Texan Family & a Pun Show Up at a Rally
Tuesday and Billy Cain (/u/billyjoecain) are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss the history of Texas’ SB5, Senator Wendy Davis’ historic filibuster, Tuesday’s...
View Article010: From Swole of Body to Swole at Heart: An Exploration of Gender
Michael (/u/tgtly) is the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Michael’s upbringing; her battle with depression; her relationship with Francesca (/u/Franjane); their fateful...
View Article011: Four Walls and a Roof
Huck (/u/huckstah) is the focus if this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Huck’s upbringing; his impetus for hitting the road; hitchhiking on his first trip to San Francisco; finding...
View Article012: The Surprisingly Complex Life of a Vacuum Repairman
Jack (/u/touchmyfuckingcoffee) is the focus of this episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss his upbringing; the loss of his father; meeting his wife; his battle with drug addiction; his spectacular...
View Article013: One Farmer’s Fight
Craig Watts and Leah Garces are the focus of this week's episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how Craig got into farming; farmers’ relationships with poultry companies; the conditions of chickens...
View Article014: To The Moon
Josh Wise and Dogecar are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Josh Wise’s career in racing; Dogecoin; how Denis Pavel came up with the idea of Dogecoin sponsoring Josh Wise; how...
View Article015: A Century After Genocide
John Ohanian, Chris Ohanian and Lara Setrakian join me to discuss the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. We discuss Turkey’s denial of the event; the US government’s unwillingness to...
View Article016: Until the Road Runs Out
Sebastiaan de With (/u/caliform) and Stewart Philkill (/u/aye_candy) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Sebastiaan’s upbringing in Holland; how he fell in love with design;...
View Article017: Four Walls and a Roof [Part 2]
Huck and Rin are back for a part two on Upvoted! We discuss how low income travelers use technology; finding love on the road; relationships with family; and an update on Rin’s travels. This week’s...
View Article018: The Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home
/u/Yoinkie2013, /u/motivatinggiraffe, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (/u/GovSchwarzenegger) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted. We discuss Yoinkie’s Ulysses’ Bucket List challenge; the birth of...
View Article019: A Suspicious Onlooker
Alexander Rhodes (/u/Alexanderr) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss his passion for film; getting into the entertainment industry; working as a background actor on Tom...
View Article020: A Neutral Net Part 1
The Indian Net Neutrality debate is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss what net neutrality is, how the debate grew in the United States, how fighters of internet freedom...
View Article021: A Neutral Net Part 2
The social impact of the Indian Net Neutrality debate is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. This is the last of our two part series on this subject. We discuss the original TRAI...
View Article022: The Button
The Button is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss The Button’s inception; flairs; the reddit office pool on when The Button would end; the data garnered from The Button;...
View Article023: Inside The Warlizard Gaming Forum
Warlizard is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss legend of The Warlizard Gaming Forum; The Warlizard Chronicles; the origin of The Warlizard Gaming forum; Warlizard’s...
View Article024: reddit Turns Ten
Steve Huffman (/u/spez) and Alexis Ohanian (/u/kn0thing) discuss the founding of reddit. They discuss Tags vs Subreddits; star rating systems; faking users; the debate on comments; the RTM button; how...
View Article025: A Mile In Someone Else's Shoes
/u/mach-2 and /u/rhoner are the focus if this week’s Upvoted by reddit. They discuss racism in the united states; the murder of Freddie Gray; racism in reddit; Youtuber, Kain Carter’s video addressing...
View Article026: About Last Week
The events of last week are the focus of this week’s Upvoted by reddit. We talk about what we did wrong; our failure in communicating properly with moderators; what we plan to do in the near future;...
View Article027: Unidan
Unidan (/u/unidanx) is the focus of this week’s Upvoted by reddit. We discuss how he fell in love with science; his comedic development; discovering reddit; reddit fame; his ban; the aftermath;...
View Article028: Teeth & Ink
/u/tomato_juice99 and the Shartmander are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. In the story of /u/tomato_juice99 we discuss how he developed teeth problems, reached out to reddit,...
View Article029: Reddit Builds Bionics
Cameron Norris (/u/cameronwevolver) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by reddit. We discuss Cameron’s upbringing, how his interest in bionics developed, working with Wevolver, his offer to...
View Article030: The Wave
Heather (/u/sailingshort) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss Heather’s upbringing, how she discovered sailing after high school, how she started working on tall ships...
View Article031: The Heroine of Heroin
Tracey Helton (/u/traceyh415) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her depression growing up, how she became addicted to heroin, life as a homeless heroin addict, being...
View Article032: The Great North American TIFU
Elyot Grant (/u/elyot) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss how Elyot created Prismata, how he dropped out of graduate school at MIT, his epic TIFU, how reddit came to...
View Article033: A Tale of Two Fighters
/u/Minifig81 and Ben Nguyen (/u/Ben10MMA) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. With /u/Minifig81 we discuss how he got into fighting spam on reddit, moderates 138 subreddits, and...
View Article034: The Story of Matthew VanDyke
Matthew VanDyke (/u/MatthewVanDyke) is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing; his motorcycle trip through North Africa as well as the Middle East, why he...
View Article035: Real Life First Person Shooter
David Reynolds (/u/DavidMReynolds) and Shaz Abdullah (/u/dartmoorninja) are the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss game of thumbs, zombies, their church residence, meeting...
View Article036: Willie Barcena
Willie Barcena is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing, career, development deals, the art of comedy, experience on cruise ships, couples counseling, and...
View Article037: Reddit in Watercolour
/u/shitty_watercolour is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss his upbringing, how he started doing paintings on reddit, welcoming celebrities on AMAs, how he started...
View Article038: Hold On
/u/m3rlino is the focus of this week’s episode of Upvoted by Reddit. We discuss her upbringing, the death of her step dad, moving in with her father, addiction, how she was sent to an all women’s...
View ArticleStoryboard: When I Came Out
Six perspectives on coming out, told firsthand from Reddit users—and employees—in a new segment called Storyboard. A special Pride Month edition of Upvoted. If you’re in the Orlando area and would...
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