When I was five, I sincerely believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, at seventeen - that at least someone in this world could stop Michael Jordan on his way to the sixth ring, at thirty - that the ratings of songs on streaming services reflect their true popularity. As Thorin Oakenshield said, “I’ve never been so wrong in all my life…”
Well, that’s the thing about growing up and gaining what people usually call ‘wisdom’ - that over the years, we change our views on things, and what we believed with all the fervor of a neophyte in our youth seems ridiculous years later. However, not always - and our selection, based on this viral thread in the AskReddit community, is intended to convince you of this. Or at least give rise to a good discussion.
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Sports. I get it, entertainment. But like, calm down. You aren’t on the team. Take a breath.
anon , Tembela Bohle Report
Social media in general. Too many people believe every clickbait headline, or buy in to whatever trend is taking over. Feels like people can’t self soothe and need the validation or something, it’s just weird.
Cynn13 , dole777 Report
Having a loud exhaust or sound system in your car.
SoberButGrateful , Oscar Sutton Report
Elon Musk and other billionaire “geniuses.” People are pretty freaking gullible.
GladysSchwartz23 , movie-screencaps Report
That 5G towers caused Covid. Like, wtf.
c-fox , Baatcheet Films Report
Flat Earth. Literally don’t believe it. I think these people are fictional.
vladkornea , Porapak Apichodilok Report
My dad once told me he believed that 9/11 was a hologram… How can anyone, any age, take that seriously? Like, I’m supposed to take advice from someone who believes in bizarre theories like that? I wouldn’t be surprised if he believes in lizard people and spaghetti god; or, I don’t know, we evolved from dolphins. How does any grown-up take him seriously?
Haunting_Meal_3599 , Aidan Bartos Report
Social Influencers.
Staud59 , Blue Bird Report
Getting their ‘facts’ from some rando on YouTube who’s an ‘expert’ because they said they are.
Rockindobbs , Jesus Loves Austin Report
‘Reality’ tv. People get so invested. .
Princess_Jade1974 , JESHOOTS.com Report
Religion. I’m not trying to be edgy, but true believers. Really? I could understand using parables to educate, but the adults that believe the miracles and magic… I cannot fathom it. I simply have to accept that’s how humans are. There’s a survival reason we see faces in the shadows. It may have been a tiger or not but I can think about that as I’m running away safely. The same quirk of imagination gave us religion. Arg! Oh well. At least it also gave us music. We’re a weird animal aren’t we?
Elizabetha_W , Pixabay Report
Online people’s opinions. Who gives a st what some random ct on a screen says? Never understood how fully grown adults get so worked up over it.
TheNameless00 , Nicola Barts Report
Horoscopes.
KnoBreaks , Josh Rangel Report
Working extra hard at work will get you raises or promotions….
Fryboy_Fabricates , Vlada Karpovich Report
How other people live their lives.
Birdy304 , Oliver Sjöström Report
Crystals. I like rocks n s**t. I’ll buy one if it looks cool for the right price. But it never fails when I grab an interesting amethyst, the seller tries to tell me what it’s good for.
JellyfishSavings2802 , Alina Vilchenko Report
Gossip in general. I live in a small town and it is maddening how people here are so serious about it. It’s not light fun chatting, it’s all SCANDAL and we need to take ACTION. I swear a lot of people’s problems would be immediately solved if they just stopped giving a s**t what everyone else does (to an extent).
buffalopantry , Anna Shvets Report
I think kind of revolting against modern medicine is something that I feel is awkwardly privileged. Like, if I get really sick emergency medical care can get me.. while I consume raw eggs, raw milk, raw food ( I don’t know of anyone who I know is doing the third thing, but I’m seeing weird trends of this type of c**p on Tiktock or Instagram.) And don’t give me started on vaccines… there’s this weird kind of good faith argument that if someone dies of pneumonia or covid, that’s nature taking its course, but if these individuals die of anything after the modern jab, it’s all vaccine related and untimely.
MastermindorHero , Osarodion Amenze Report
This is niche but community theatre. The DRAMA among grown adults is insane, worse than when I was in high school. Like yall, we are singing and dancing and wearing silly costumes. It’s not that serious.
MediocreVideo1893 , Erik Mclean Report
Stanley cups. I don’t get it, at all, they make me angry because you can’t put them in a bag without spilling.
Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhzz , Natilyn Photography Report
Cryptocurrencies, the Metaverse, and other such b**t technologies. Also, in the case of men, the Alpha/ Sigma male st, and in the case of women, the Witch-Tok and other such girly st.
Miserable_Ad_2379 , Ivan Babydov Report
The royal family. What in the actual f**k?
cheeseofthemoon , Roméo A. Report
Being threatened by things they don’t understand, and having a narrow threshold to boot.
Whiskey-Blossom , cottonbro studio Report
MLMs.
SpiketheFox32 , Pixabay Report
Facebook…likes, number of friends.
marlada , Austin Distel Report
The Disney Adults who get all bent because their favorite movie for little girls got remade and they dint like it none. Like it ain’t that serious Mary.
i__hate__stairs , Héctor Vásquez Report
Politicians. Like holy s**t, be interested in your own life a little more.
VT_Squire , RDNE Stock project Report
Giving kids tablets.
Medium_Ad298 , Emily Wade Report
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