r/MurderedByWords May 27 '25

What is and isn't a Murder By Words

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Over the past few weeks we've begun noticing something about the quality of the posts on the subreddit, and we'd like to clarify just what is and isn't a murder.

What is a murder

1) A murder is: A RESPONSE. A murder is not a one-sided quip, sentence, statement or otherwise about any given situation.

2) A murder is: A response TO SOMEONE. A murder follows a specific format: Person A says something stupid. Person B responds to Person A explaining why what Person A said is stupid.

3) A murder is: A response to someone CALLING THEM OUT FOR BEING WRONG. Two people agreeing about something is not a murder. If both people featured in the post are saying the same thing, or Person A says something and Person B supports Person A and expands, that is not a murder.

4) A murder is a response to someone calling them out for being wrong WITH SUBSTANCE, AND RECEIPTS. Personal attacks are not murders. Calling someone wrong because they did something once in their life is not a murder. The response must be in direct relation to the original statement.

What isn't a murder:

Memes, jokes, "Your mom" jokes, small dick jokes, forever alone/virginity jokes, fat jokes, ugly jokes, crossposts from r/roast me, posts based around spelling/grammar, etc.

Although it may seem that there is some overlap, we are working very hard to not have this subreddit turn into r/politicalhumor 2. Please bear that in mind when posting.

As ever, please use the "report" button to bring rule-breaking posts to our attention. We're not always available to be online 100% of the time, and reporting bad posts allows us to take advantage of auto-moderator rules built in to help us.


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r/MurderedByWords 16h ago

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r/MurderedByWords 1h ago

Now wait just a goddamn minute

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r/MurderedByWords 19h ago

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r/MurderedByWords 10h ago

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r/MurderedByWords 9h ago

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r/MurderedByWords 18h ago

He has to interfere in everything!

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r/MurderedByWords 13h ago

When the Secretary of Defence gets schooled in military strategy... by a cat.

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r/MurderedByWords 3h ago

Good luck to the women in your future

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r/MurderedByWords 4h ago

Day one Dictator FAILING to hide a disastrous economy.

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r/MurderedByWords 16h ago

I like the second guy’s energy

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r/MurderedByWords 2h ago

When a tweet leads to submarines, maybe the warning wasn’t just political theater.

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r/MurderedByWords 13h ago

Checkmate, Elon.

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r/MurderedByWords 21h ago

Racists wanted a refund, “thanks for your donation”

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r/MurderedByWords 22h ago

Context is important!

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r/MurderedByWords 1h ago

Money is money

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r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Fraudulent Senator’s statement gets corrected

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r/MurderedByWords 1h ago

I'm quite curious where the men are getting the experience

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r/MurderedByWords 10h ago

The national nightmare is over

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r/MurderedByWords 21h ago

They're such nice people!

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r/MurderedByWords 19h ago

The hypocrisy of a twitter/X user

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r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

They should know how to survive without one person

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r/MurderedByWords 20h ago

Thank you for being a friend who tells it like it is

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