diff --git a/bdfr/downloader.py b/bdfr/downloader.py
index 9dbafc9..3348628 100644
--- a/bdfr/downloader.py
+++ b/bdfr/downloader.py
@@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ class RedditDownloader:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _check_subreddit_status(subreddit: praw.models.Subreddit):
+        if subreddit.display_name == 'all':
+            return
         try:
             assert subreddit.id
         except prawcore.NotFound:
diff --git a/tests/test_downloader.py b/tests/test_downloader.py
index ef06a77..0a3418e 100644
--- a/tests/test_downloader.py
+++ b/tests/test_downloader.py
@@ -513,7 +513,20 @@ def test_check_user_existence_banned(
     ('donaldtrump', 'cannot be found'),
     ('submitters', 'private and cannot be scraped')
 ))
-def test_check_subreddit_status(test_subreddit_name: str, expected_message: str, reddit_instance: praw.Reddit):
+def test_check_subreddit_status_bad(test_subreddit_name: str, expected_message: str, reddit_instance: praw.Reddit):
     test_subreddit = reddit_instance.subreddit(test_subreddit_name)
     with pytest.raises(BulkDownloaderException, match=expected_message):
         RedditDownloader._check_subreddit_status(test_subreddit)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.online
+@pytest.mark.reddit
+@pytest.mark.parametrize('test_subreddit_name', (
+    'Python',
+    'Mindustry',
+    'TrollXChromosomes',
+    'all',
+))
+def test_check_subreddit_status_good(test_subreddit_name: str, reddit_instance: praw.Reddit):
+    test_subreddit = reddit_instance.subreddit(test_subreddit_name)
+    RedditDownloader._check_subreddit_status(test_subreddit)