The expectation is you shower every day. The assumption is if you did not shower that day, you stink.
It was an easy way to get downvotes on reddit: just say I shower ever 3-5 days and don't stink and people would just assume I did stink and that it is impossible for the human body not to sink without a daily shower.
Sometimes I'd even experiment and say I wash my pits daily and use a bidet. That helped a little, but not a lot. It has to be full body immersion in a shower, or it is ineffective according to the common wisdom.
Edit: i see it's not limited to reddit lol