The Joke Community That Became a Barometer for War

r/NonCredibleDefense did not set out to be a barometer. It set out to be a release valve — founded in 2019 and now exceeding 500,000 subscribers, the community built its identity around military humor, the kind of absurdist engagement that lets people who follow defense topics closely decompress. The "fox 2" jurisdiction question ^[5] and the drone near-miss narrative ^[15] are the community doing exactly what it was designed to do.