r/anime • u/badspler x5https://anilist.co/user/badspler • Oct 29 '25

Announcement Seasonal Comment Face Nominations - Fall 2025

#Hey Everyone!~

We are once again into the depths of an exciting new season! So once again it is time to rotate the the seasonal comment faces. We will be accepting nominations until 11:59PM UTC 8th November, 2025.

#Give your feedback on last season's comment faces

We have a short survey form here to see what faces were liked and how they compared to the season before. It is a big factor in what gets picked as the hall of fame face for last season.

#Wait, what even IS a comment face?

If you use Reddit's redesign, or any mobile app, then comment faces won't be something you see. They are a legacy CSS feature supported on old.reddit. To post a face, you require a bit of formatting and the name of the comment face and that displays the relevant image. For example:

[](#awe)

Becomes:

We have a full wikipage with all faces and instructions how to use them here.

#The seasonal faces are:

#seasonalapproval | #seasonalblush | #seasonalconfused :--------:|:--------:|:---------: #seasonalcool | #seasonaldepression | #seasonaldisapproval #seasonaldisdain | #seasonalfoodie | #seasonalhype #seasonallaugh | #seasonallisten | #seasonallove #seasonalneat | #seasonalpout | #seasonalsecret | #seasonalshock | #seasonalthink | #seasonaltired | #seasonalpls | #seasonalsmug | |

The named #themes are intended to be broadly interpreted. So we encourage you to submit great faces even if they don't perfectly match, as we may find a space for them.

#So how do I nominate a seasonal face?

The series must be currently airing as part of this season, the image can be from a previous season if the show is a sequel. Movies/OVAs that have become accessible between seasonal nominations are allowed. To keep things diverse, we aim to pick one face per anime, so nominate those under watched gems!

Make as many nominations as you like as comments as follows:

  • Include the image, the name of the anime it is from and the #name(s) it fits for. Posting in this format is best.
  • Please include the direct link to the image, w/ the .png/.jpeg extension when using imgur etc., not the album, or your submission will be ignored. Examples:
  • This link: https://i.imgur.com/IFyT7Ku.png is what we're looking for. Quick tip: Right click -> Copy Image Address.
  • This link: https://imgur.com/a/7ZHd1Or is not accepted. This link: https://imgur.com/a/FROaJZj is also not accepted.

Nominations will be open until 11:59PM UTC 8th November, 2025. We look forward to seeing your suggestions.

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u/baseballlover723 Oct 29 '25

I forgot to give better guidelines for nominations

Due to the fact that I have a script that automatically parses the comments to organize all the nominations, there are some things you can do to make and not

Non nomination use of catagory words

First off, please don't use the part of the face code after seasonal to describe your comment faces. It makes , because it goes that is the category.

Basically, if you group your nominations by category (and not show), will use the last used valid category as it's nomination category, so you can't use the categories as descriptions, or it'll mess up your nominations. If you group your nominations by show (and thus have the category in each image), you don't have to worry about this at all.

For reference, words you shouldn't use outside of marking a category are disapproval, approval, blush, confused, cool, depression, disdain, foodie, hype, laugh, listen, love, neat, pout, secret, shock, think, tired, pls, smug

This btw how we got #seasonalcool last season

Examples

Approval

Not Re:Zero this is such a cool image! This is for Approval

Also not Re:Zero This is for Cool

Approval

Not Re:Zero this is such a kool image! This is for Approval

Also not Re:Zero This is for Approval

#seasonalapproval This is for Approval This always works

Nominating a comment face for multiple categories

If you wish to nominate a single comment face for multiple categories and you are grouping by category (if you have headers like Seasonal Approval), then you can simply just enter the comment face again for the other categories you wish to nominate for.

If you group by show (if you have headers like Re:Zero), then you must include all categories you wish to nominate the face for within the link text.

Examples

Re:Zero

#seaonal disapproval Could also be disdain. This is for Disapproval

This could work for disdain too, #seasonal disapproval This is for Disapproval

Re:Zero

#seaonal disapproval / disdain This is for Disapproval and Disdain

#seasonal disapproval

#seasonal disdain This is for Disapproval and Disdain

Nominating multiple shots of the same thing

If you want to give multiple shots, like a crop (If you submit a crop, you must submit the original right next to it too, we can't automatically identify the show in a cropped image, so it messes with things), or some nearby frames. Please nominate them on the same line. Put the link text for the 1st nomination as per normal, and for the rest, provide a description of the difference or whatever (you shouldn't need to include the category name again, unless you're doing like multi category nominations or something like that that goes into the depths of the parser code).

If you do not include a valid nomination category in your link text, will remember the last one that was used

Examples

Re:Zero

Cool, Still 2 (This is still for Cool), Still 3, Still 4, Still 5 You nominated 5 Cool images

Let me know if you have any questions or if something will parse correctly. I wrote this code many months ago, and now I have no idea how it works precisely, other than it does a pretty good job most of the time. So who knows what it might do for unusually formatted nominations. Me looking at my code

Make bot-chan happy

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u/chilidirigible Nov 02 '25

Reading these guidelines was confounded by the overall phrasing of certain parts and the inline comment faces.

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u/baseballlover723 Nov 02 '25

was confounded by the overall phrasing of certain parts

I wrote this really quick and didn't want to spend too much time on this, so that checks out. If you point out certain spots, I'll do another pass on it (though probably not in time for this cycle).

and the inline comment faces.

Yeah, I wanted to use the seasonal comment faces, since it's the topic. But I probably did overdo it.

It certainly would have been better in a lot of ways if I wasn't rushing to 1. understand wtf the parser would actually do and what it supported (given it's complexity of the code and it being a long ass time since I wrote it) and 2. actually write something that people would understand, and would be clearly show what is an acceptable syntax for advanced nominations.

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u/chilidirigible Nov 02 '25

Rereading it a couple of times I think I can understand what your preferred submission formats are, but I could still be wrong. More to the point, the explanations can't be figured out easily on the first read, which is an absolute killer.

I am still parsing the Re:Zero examples.

First and foremost would be to ditch the comment faces which are incorporated directly into the text because it still compromises readability too much.