Overview

Chivegate or F1exican's "Cutting Chives Every Day" Reddit Drama refers to controversy surrounding Redditor F1exican for reposting the same photo of a chopping board full of chives to the /r/KitchenConfidential subreddit as part of his "Cutting a cup of chives every day until this Reddit says they’re perfect" series of posts, purportedly in an attempt to pass off the photo as a new attempt at perfectly cutting chives. F1exican started the series of posts in early October 2025, and they became very popular on the /r/KitchenConfidential subreddit, inspiring memes and discussions.

On day 31 of the series, F1exican reposted the same photo he posted on day 23, but flipped, resulting in callouts on the subreddit. F1exican responded with an apology for reposting the chives, claiming that he had car troubles and was unable to cut chives that day. The user continued the series thereafter.

Background

Cutting a Cup of Chives Every Day Until This Reddit Says They're Perfect

On October 7th, 2025, Redditor F1exican posted a photograph of a cup full of chopped chives to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[1] subreddit, writing, "Cutting a cup of chives everyday until the Reddit says they’re perfect," garnering over 6,600 upvotes in a month, beginning a series of posts that would carry on for weeks.

The post inspired numerous comments pointing out flaws in the user's chive cutting. Most notably, some Redditors posted screenshots of the photo with red circles around "tubed" and unsuccessfully cut chives. The Redditor continued to post photos of his chive cutting progress nearly every day over the course of the next month, each post gaining tens of thousands of upvotes and earning the Redditor the nickname "Chive Lord."

Developments

Chivegate

On October 29th, 2025, Redditor F1exican posted day 23 of their cutting chives series to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[2] subreddit, garnering over 23,000 upvotes in two weeks.

On November 1st, F1exican made a post to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[3] subreddit announcing that they would not be posting a photo of their chive cutting progress that day, writing, "Hey guys unfortunately I have ran out of chives. There is no chives at any of the stores around my area. I am sorry to let everyone down today, I hope you all had a great Halloween night and I will be back with chives tomorrow," garnering over 25,000 upvotes in just over a week. This is the first day missed by the Redditor.

On November 6th, F1exican posted day 31 of their chive cutting progress to the subreddit,^[4] garnering over 25,000 upvotes and 1,200 comments in four days. Some commenters, including Redditor ehsteve23,^[5] claimed that the photo of the chives was the same photo used in day 23.

On November 7th, Redditor Late-Bed4240 made a post to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[6] subreddit calling F1exican out for reposting the day 23 image, writing, "Chivelord is a Fraud" and crediting ehsteve23 for the discovery, garnering over 37,000 likes and 3,100 comments in three days. The post includes images pointing out that the day 23 image was simply flipped for the day 31 post.

u/F1exican's Apology

On November 7th, 2025, F1exican made a post to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[7] subreddit sharing day 32 of their series and apologizing for reposting an old chive photo and trying to pass it off as a new photo. The post, which gained over 65,000 upvotes and 4,000 comments in three days, reads:

Hey everyone. I would just like to come out and apologize for post the same pile of chives twice,

I was having car problems yesterday and was unable to get and cut chives, and rather than being upfront and honest with you guys I chose to repost chives. I didn’t want to give you guys another chiveless day.

I see now that it would have been better to just be honest and say no chives rather than try and lie, this also goes against the whole point of the posts, I would like to thank all of you for holding me accountable for my actions.

I will be subjecting myself to a Reddit decided punishment, the most upvoted punishment that is REASONABLE will be my punishment. So nothing illegal nothing expensive please but cutting extra chives or maybe something I have to do for the rest of my posts.

I again apologize and will ensure this never happens again.

Online Reactions

Word of "Chivegate" spread online, mostly on Reddit and in the /r/KitchenConfidential subreddit, surrounding the incident in early November 2025.

On November 7th, 2025, the day the incident was called out, a post was made to the /r/SubredditDrama^[8] subreddit about the drama, garnering over 17,000 upvotes in three days.

On the same day, a post was made to the /r/OutOfTheLoop^[9] subreddit asking for an explanation of the drama, garnering over 760 upvotes in three days.

That day, the official @Reddit X^[10] / Twitter account posted, "Official statement from Reddit, Inc.: Chive guy faked it," gaining over 400 likes in three days.

Also on November 7th, 2025, Redditor BongWaterRamen posted a The Sopranos meme about the incident to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[11] subreddit, garnering over 19,000 upvotes in three days.

On that day, Redditor SinfullySophie posted a Freedom of Speech meme to the /r/KitchenConfidential^[12] subreddit defending Chive Lord, writing, "I don't care if they lied, I just enjoy the pursuit of perfection. I believe in you F1exican," garnering over 16,000 upvotes in three days.

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