A typical Reddit user, presumably.Photo: Aquarius Studio (Shutterstock)
It’s not hard to identify a thing if you almost know what it is—maybe you’ve got a field guide for birds or a repair manual for car parts you can cross reference it against. But when you truly have no clue what you’ve got, or when the options are all too confusing, you need human help. Fortunately, Reddit is on the case, with a variety of subs dedicated to identifying different categories of things. Let’s take a tour of some of the most fun ones.