Behold The Visually Infuriating World Of The "TV Too High" Subreddit

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Behold The Visually Infuriating World Of The "TV Too High" Subreddit

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The /r/TVTooHigh subreddit exploded in popularity this week after a Washington Post reporter posted a Twitter thread full of images from the subreddit, setting the internet ablaze as Twitter users pondered what would possess someone to mount their television so high up on the wall that it nearly touches the ceiling. Now the internet can’t stop talking about the subreddit, which is filled with mildly infuriating images depicting some of the oddest television mounting choices known to man.

Found a subreddit where they just post photos of TVs that are too high on the wall pic.twitter.com/enSamf8win

— Washington Post TikTok Guy ?? (@davejorgenson) July 18, 2022

The images of these unusually positioned televisions are enough to make anyone’s eye twitch (and make their neck hurt). Some of the subreddit’s top posts include an image of a TV mounted to the top of a slanted bedroom wall, a television placed so high it’s parallel to the second floor of the house, an image of a relative watching TV in his preferred TV-watching position, a photo of a technician installing a TV set above a doorway in a large foyer, and the pièce de résistance: an interior photo of a posh home in a wealthy neighborhood, with a television set mounted to the ceiling of the living room.

Subreddit closed. We found the winner boys. from TVTooHigh

When faced with posts like these, subreddit members often jump to place blame on the technician who installed the television. After all, what kind of professional would mount a TV to the ceiling (or mere centimeters below it), especially knowing how much strain this positioning can put on the necks of customers who spend a lot of time in front of the television. While inexperience, negligence, or just plain laziness can certainly play a part in especially poor installation jobs, it turns out that more often than not, the customer is who dictates the placement of the TV set. While technicians can offer their opinion regarding the ideal spot for the television’s placement, the customer is ultimately who decides what goes where–and they frequently disregard the advice given by experienced technicians.

In a recent post titled “TV Too High? This may be why…” user /r/xnign, who is a TV installation tech himself, explained how these awful mounting jobs come to be.

​”I’ve been seeing a lot of discourse about this subreddit in the media recently and wanted to chime in as someone who installed TVs for a living until very recently,” xnign said in a comment. “It used to be good money, especially since I’m more than a bit obsessive about the process. But 5 stars or no, people want to pay $69 for someone to put some holes in their wall and hang their several-hundred-dollar appliance. Probably over a source of heat or moisture, and probably in a bad spot.”

“What a lot of people don’t realize is that many of these horrifying mount jobs are due to a direct request from a customer,” he continued. “Don’t get me wrong, a s*** ton of them are due to the installers, but everything I’ll post here is something a customer or client demanded!”

The post itself is a photo of the end result of one of the user’s television mounting jobs, with the TV mounted barely an inch below the ceiling–just like the client requested.

“Where a TV goes depends on 4 things (not counting for skill): the TV, the mount, what’s inside the wall, and the customer’s opinion,” the installation tech explained. “A lot of the time the 4th one there conflicts with the rest.”

When it comes to handling customers who are dead-set on a terrible TV placement, xnign stated, “After I reduce the options for the customer to that which is in the realm of possibility, I then try to recommend options that are firmly in the halls of sanity. Questions like, ‘How is the TV going to be used?’, ‘Where are people going to sit?'”

Interestingly, a closer look at the subreddit’s top posts reveals something surprising: /r/TVTooHigh has beef with another subreddit. /r/DIY, Reddit’s massive do-it-yourself community, has not only banned members from making any negative comments regarding the height of any televisions that may be featured in photos of completed DIY projects, they’ve also outright banned any mention of /r/TVTooHigh in any posts or comments. /r/DIY boasts a whopping 21.3 million members, so the fact that a subreddit with a mere 81,000 members has managed to affect a huge community like /r/DIY to the point that it requires a rule change is no small feat.

While /r/TVTooHigh did not instigate any form of targeted harassment against /r/DIY, it seems that DIY projects with poorly-mounted televisions are posted to the subreddit so often that the forum’s own members frequently began commenting on these posts with a single word: “/r/TVTooHigh.”

These people are afraid to post in public. Keep it up guys, we’re starting to make a difference from TVTooHigh

The subreddit’s reasoning for the rule change has not been explicitly stated, but /r/DIY mod /u/Guygan left a comment on a thread in the subreddit that simply stated, “Anyone who tags a subreddit regarding the height of home entertainment screens will be banned.” The comment was on a photo depicting a renovated living room with a television mounted high on the wall, over a stone fireplace (another move that can cause serious headaches for installation technicians).

As home entertainment systems change and grow, technicians must find creative ways to work around any issues they encounter while installing televisions in homes that were built long before flatscreens became commonplace, with living rooms that were not designed to accommodate 60-inch wall-mounted televisions. Those workarounds–combined customer requests for less-than-ideal TV placements–will continue to result in aesthetically-displeasing (and often hilarious) TV mounting jobs for the foreseeable future, meaning /r/TVTooHigh will have an endless flow of amusing, poorly positioned content for years to come.

For /r/DIY members who are mourning the loss of their ability to reference /r/TVTooHigh, there’s an alternative subreddit, /r/DiWHY which focuses solely on unfortunate DIY creations and poor design decisions. Unlike the main /r/DIY subreddit, /r/DiIWHY is a lighthearted community that encourages its members to post poorly executed DIY creations and roast the worst offenders–terribly positioned televisions included.

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