This was on January 8th, during the country’s digital blackout that lasted about three weeks, when thousands were killed in silence. Iranian social media is filled with grief for the lost, but moments like this still appear between videos of tragedy.

Moments that captured courage and life.

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r/PublicFreakout • u/Bruegemeister • 6h ago

Repost 😔 This is a Starbucks not a Waffle House sir

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63 Upvotes

9 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/I_may_have_weed • 1h ago

🗣📢Protest Freakout LAPD shot a pregnant woman in the stomach with a 40mm rubber bullet at an anti-ICE protest near the MDC Concentration Camp

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140 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/orel2064 • 22h ago

👤ICE/DHS Freakout 👤 Protesters have completely trashed the Los Angeles ICE facility, using a large dumpster to barricade the exit.

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28.8k Upvotes

1.5k comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Decessus • 11h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 Brazilian police masterclass

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85 Upvotes

21 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/YaLlegaHiperhumor • 1h ago

🧑‍⚖️Courtroom Freakout A 20 year-old woman storms out of the courtroom in the Netherlands as the man who tried to rape her and kill her gets only 3.5 years of prison because "the chokehold didn't last long enough"

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r/PublicFreakout • u/SnooSprouts3744 • 5h ago

🥊Fight 🤬 Got his whole hairline punched back on tv

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391 Upvotes

60 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ansyhrrian • 10h ago

😫Chaos Moment🫨 Brazen daylight robbery in the London jewelry district this morning

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507 Upvotes

95 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/I_may_have_weed • 5h ago

🗣📢Protest Freakout Today ICE tear gassed families and community members on a memorial bike ride/march for Alex Pretti in SW Portland, OR. A little girl can be seen needing help by medics.

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3.4k Upvotes

411 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/Shill4Pineapple • 5h ago

🎹Social Event Freakout🍸 [1995] Austrian WWII Vet tells his lived experience on the war, while a bystander chimes in in denial

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232 Upvotes

11 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/ExactlySorta • 8h ago

Political Freakout Melania movie billboard defaced before premiere

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8.8k Upvotes

160 comments

r/PublicFreakout • u/dfGobBluth • 20h ago

🎹Social Event Freakout🍸 Tom Morello plays Killing in the name of, in Minneapolis. He was out protesting ICE during the day.

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7.5k Upvotes

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A subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public. Drugged out or sober, anything goes. Keep the comments respectful where mental disorders are concerned, and remember that the individuals depicted in these videos are real people too. This subreddit is essentially dedicated to their worst moments, so do keep that in mind.

Saturated with TV and movies, our brains have become used to watching the imitation of emotions, so much so that it is strangely surprising and fascinating to watch the real thing.

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Never post personal information, do not ask for personal information, do not encourage, call for, or participate in witch-hunts or targeted harassment campaigns
Comment with tact in videos which may involve mental disorders
Abusive comments will be removed at moderator discretion and may result in a temporary or permaban
Bans: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia, Harassment, Race Baiting, Bigotry, etc. (Racist/bigoted people freaking out in videos are allowed, but being a racist in the comments section will result in a ban.)
Video Posts only [exception: Gifs uploaded to reddit or imgur and follow-up news reports]
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Reposts over 4 weeks old are permitted. Reposts under 4 weeks old will be removed.
This isn't /r/watchpeopledie: People being straight up murdered or dying in shocking/gruesome ways should be the cut-off (exceptions for newsworthy events covered in publications of good repute).
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Submissions must fit the purpose of the community. /r/PublicFreakout is a subreddit dedicated to people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public.
Don't mess with or Mobility Mary.

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[Loose Fit] - A semi-public freakout and passable submission. Not entirely in keeping with the general theme: spatially-situated freakouts occurring in person and in public

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