Lower Duck Pond

Lower Duck Pond is a fictional town that has its origins in the Reddit forum /r/HaveWeMet.[1] It was created by user Devuluh in 2017, who plays Dave Miller, the head of the fictional town council. It was the topic of several major news stories in 2019 about the online community built around a role-playing game dynamic.[2] It has been described as a "massive exercise in improvisation" where users feed off each other's stories, and it used to include a daily fictional weather report and a Town Council where users can chat about the community.[1] Some of the jokes in the town include the local delicacy of "hot dog water" and that some former mayors are an alpaca named Ulysses and a moose named Bruce. As of May 2020, the Mayor is an elderly man named Jim.[3]

The subreddit also includes daily transcriptions of a fictional local radio station, The Stream 94.5.[4]

A discussion forum called /r/HaveWeMeta was created to discuss out-of-character issues.[5]

References
  1. Neumann, Sean. "A Good Place: The fake town where everybody knows your name". The Outline. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
  2. Maher, Cian (Aug 1, 2019). "Welcome To Lower Duck Pond, A Fake Town Of 82,000 People". The Verge.
  3. "townhallmuseum - HaveWeMet". reddit. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  4. "r/HaveWeMet - The Stream 94.5 is now on the forums". reddit. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  5. Harrington, Kylie (2018-08-31). "Welcome to HaveWeMet, the Subreddit Where Everyone Pretends to Know Each Other". Study Breaks. Retrieved 2019-09-09.


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