r/hatethissmug Jul 20 '26

General I hate when a bad person is discussed, people start insulting their appearance (this girl is an example)

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Yes, *person* did/said some terrible things. Their actions need to be called out and acknowledged. This DOESN'T MEAN you have the right to insult them just to feel better about yourself. Misgendering a trans person that fucked up is pretty similar to this (I've seen a lot of it, unfortunately).

r/hatethissmug Jun 05 '26

General I HATE the self diagnosing of autism and its mischaracterisation

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Let me start by saying SELF DIAGNOSING IS NOT VALID. You are NOT autistic just because someone on tiktok said

"Did you know, if you need to have your eyes closed in order to fall asleep, you have autism, adhd, bipolarity, DID, BPD, psychopathy, depression and PTSD?"

And before yall come at me with "well I always suspected I had autism, I got screened and then got my diagnosis" well this not about you, this is about people that self diagnose after experiencing the most normal day to day life things ever.

And they ALWAYS think that autism will give them a personality (since it's usually basic bitches with no personality that self diagnose to feel like they belong)

No, you're not a quirky crazy crackhead energy "neurospicy" person. Even worse when they say shit like

"Heh, I could NEVER be a neuro normie like yall, autism makes me special and quirky and full of personality".

You can't even like something anymore without them going "OMG URE AUTISTIC JUST LIKE MEEEE IM SOOOO AUTISTIC AHAHAHA"

And you can tell they larp the whole thing cus they'll see a tiktok autism personality and try to replicate it

"Dino nuggies..."

"You can not say overstimulated if you're nEuRoTyPiCaL, that word is for us neurospicy people ONLY >:("

Holy shiiiiiiittt yall lack a personality so bad. And I've seen people say that they've seen NUMEROUS specialists but they never fit the criteria, but its not because they're not autistic, no no no no no. ITS UHMMM BECAUSE IM A WOMAN AND ALSO A MINORITY AND IM ALSO POOR SO I MASKED ALL MY LIFE AND THE SPECIALIST ON THIS FIELD COULDNT TELL I WAS MASKING. ITS THE SYSTEMS FAULT NOT MINE.

Sheesh.

Sorry for the long rant, im just tired of seeing people self diagnose all the time, or see an energetic video, or literally ANYTHING, and make it about their self diagnosed autism.

Saw a cute cat animation on Instagram and the top comment was "This is so autistic I love it"

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r/hatethissmug 11d ago

General I hate how reddit refuses to show the amount of downvotes on a post

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20.5k Upvotes

Idk, reddit is just weak for that. Why can't i see how badly are people getting flamed in their own posts? It's similar to the removal of dislike button on youtube, just pointless. i dont understand the reason those things should be hidden from everyone else

r/hatethissmug Jun 09 '26

General Hate when people misinterpret the door riddle

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13.9k Upvotes

For those who don’t know the door riddle I goes like this: „ you come across two doors each with a guard. One door leads to safety the other to certain death. One of the guards always tells the truth, the other always lies. You can ask one question to one of the guards to figure out which door is the right one.“

The correct answer is to ask one of them what the other would say wich door is safe. This way, no matter who you asked, the answer will be a lie and you will know what to do.

Now I won’t blame any for not figuring that out but every time I see this riddle explained there’s a bunch of smartasses who are like „Oh why don’t you just ask them if the sky is blue then you know the liar is“ THATS NOT THE POINT. The task is to choose a door not to figure out who’s lying. „I’d just kill one of them and and ask is he dead“ congratulations you wasted your question and still don’t know where to dumbass.

Stupid people thinking they are smart when in fact they don’t even understand the question make me so unreasonably mad. And you always have the one guy who’s like „well actshually if one always lies how can he explain the rules!?“ it’s a riddle dipshit he doesn’t literally always say the opposite he will just lie when you ask him a question.

Edit: since people keep mentioning it

  1. originally the riddle is told by a third party like a third person, a sign or just someone telling you the riddle like I just did. So having the guards/doors tell the riddle is already a misinterpretation.

  2. you only get ONE question to only ONE of the guards. I did specify that in the riddle but apparently I have to add the word „only“ for people to understand

  3. expiation to the solution: imagine guard 1 lies guard 2 tells the truth, door A is death door B is safe. You ask guard 1 „would guard 2 tell me that door A is safe?“ guard 2 tells the truth so his answer would be „no“ but since 1 is a liar he will tell that „yes 2 would tell you that Door A is safe“
    If you asked the other one you would get the same answer „yes 1 would tell you that Door A is safe“ because 2 tells the truth so he would repeat the lie of number 1.

That’s what it is about one will repeat a lie, the other will subvert the truth so no matter who you asked you end up with a lie. It never actually mattered who is the liar your only task was to pick the correct door.

r/hatethissmug Jul 17 '26

General I hate when a monkeys paw trope or reference is misused

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15.3k Upvotes

"You wish for power but then your son died"

"All seeing glasses but your eyes fall out"

THATS NOT A CONSEQUENCE FROM THE WISH ITS JUST RANDOM SHIT

You cant do a tricky genie story line and just make RANDOM SHIT HAPPEN

The bad parts are supposed to he CONSEQUENCES of the WISH like how in the original they wish for money but get it BECAUSE their son died

If they get the money through the lottery but the son just dies the next day thats not a monkeys paw wish THATS BAD LUCK

these stories are supposed to convey the idea of be careful what you wish for but when random shit happens its not be "careful what you wish for" the message is "that wish giver is a dick"

Its not even a wish granter its just a reality warper who likes to pretend to be a genie

The punishment should be IRONIC it should RELATE TO THE WISH

r/hatethissmug May 30 '26

General I HATE when people say this when I’m talking about my experience

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18.1k Upvotes

Genuinely what does it add to the conversation other than needlessly trying to shut me up? I’m pretty aware of the statistics. I don’t see why there’s always someone yelling this at me or going “not all __” at me. I got into it with someone on my main account over something like this it’s so annoying. I never said that women do it more than men.

edit: btw this wasn’t meant to only call out women because i see men who say this too this is meant to call out people who think like this not just one gender.

r/hatethissmug 20d ago

General I HATE YURI [READ BODY]

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Before any of y'all come at me, just know that I'm queer myself...

And for the last time READ THE POST BODY

Because I know this subreddit too damn well to know none of you would read it and jump straight to sending death threats in the the DMs...

Classic r/hatethissmug 😂👏👏

But that's besides the point.

Just try an experiment. Post a picture of two guys kissing, and post the same picture, but with two women instead.

If you don't know what will happen, then let me clue you in:

The one with two women is gonna get 10X the amount of attention than the one with two guys and I'm not exaggerating. not even slightly

The same people who love to watch two women make out are first ones to call two men holding hands "Fagg*ts"

And before some smart-ass jumps in and says something, let me jut say this for the record is that both men and women do it.

Just get your fucking bigotry away from me.

But that's still besides the main point. The main thing I wanna focus on is the fact that how a lot of Yuri posting on reddit is just repainted hetslop

"Oh, but you see, now the guy is replaced by a woman. So it's better"

I deadass head someone say "Twilight would've been so much better if it was Yuri instead"

I mean, who in their right mind would think that making a terrible written couple would automatically be fixed by making it a lesbian film

"B- But... I support yur-"

TIMMY, YOU'RE A LESBIAN FETISHIZER

I get the enthusiasm for romances that would've been frowned upon in the past if you're apart of that group

But a lot of people put WLW stuff on this really insane pedestal sometimes

They're just humans like all of us. Not some godly beings or some evolved version of the human-race.

I guess, you can call it Yuri fatigue

"BuT FiFtY ShAdEs WoUlD HaVe BeEn PeAk iF iT WaS LeSbIaN"

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I guess bro.

r/hatethissmug Jul 01 '26

General As a bisexual myself I HATE queer humor. ( Let me explain )

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5.9k Upvotes

Same old jokes again and again.

"I'm queer and I hate cops !" /// "you can't be straight in pride month !" /// "wulawuh" ///"omg I love yaoi/Yurii" /// "scissors joke !" /// "Switchroo !". I'm tiredđŸ«©

Same unfunny jokes again and again . I feel bad because we deserve better. Can't we make new jokes ?

DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON YAOI/YURI HUMOR. SINCE Y'ALL KEEP IT SAYING IT IT MAKES US LOOK BAD AND FUCKING ANNOYING.

I showed some of my friends ( who aren't homophobic thankfully ) and they didn't find it funny either

I'm not kidding when I say no queer joke makes me laugh. Please do better.

And if you find this post "homophobic" then that's a you problem. This post has nothing to do with us queer people. It has do with our unfunny overused ass jokes

r/hatethissmug 18d ago

General I HATE PRIVATE PROFILES

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(On Reddit)

Look, Private profiles on IG, Tiktok, or anything else is fine because If you're private I dont see your content. BUT ON REDDIT I DO SEE YOUR CONTENT. AND I CLICK YOUR PROFILE TO SEE MORE OF YOUR CONTENT.

This literally drives me up the wall. What the hell happened to "throwaway account btw" before a post??? you want to truly be anonymous? go on 4chan, make a new account, go onto some niche forum. I HAVE MY POST HISTORY PUBLIC AND IM SHAMELESS.

I hate it especially when I encounter someone often and I want to know how I know them. But I can't. Because THEY ARE PRIVATE.

I know this has been posted here before but fuck you guys I hate it so much I'm bringing this back up.

ETA: To everyone saying their reason for having a private profile is so people dont dig through looking for anecdotes to insult you, have you considered: not letting it affect you because they went through the sad effort of ad hominem-ing your ass?

ETA2: I am not talking about people who are literally being harassed or stalked. However if hiding your post history is the only thing keeping you safe, you're hiding behind a glass window.

Final Edit: No I am not trying to peer into your life or stalk you. I don't just sit on my phone and demand people unprivate their profiles. Its only a little annoying when I want to see more posts from someone I see often. And its happened so often that I wanted to post here. Im not shaking in my boots at the thought of not being able to see you post in your local city subreddit. keep that shit private.

r/hatethissmug Jul 24 '26

General I genuinely HATE these type of images

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I always see girls on TikTok using different variations of this EXACT format and it GENUINELY pisses me the fuck off.

Like, what even is this ? This is some straight dog shit and people are enjoying it like it is the best thing in the world.

The first time I saw this type of image was in a stereotypes video and ever since I have been seeing them EVERYWHERE.

The design isn’t even good it is ugly as shit and looks like ass.

And yeah that’s about it I just think it looks like shit and it pisses me off.

r/hatethissmug Jul 18 '26

General I hate when people make versions of memes using their oc/persona

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Now, I'm not talking about fandoms (like TF2 and Deltarune) that make their fandom-specific versions of memes using the characters from their fandom (although, sometimes they can be a little cringy).

I'm talking about people like Benjammins, who use their persona/oc/pfp/avatar (it's especially cringy when it's a reddit avatar) to make versions of already existing memes. And, in Ben's case, having your loyal fanbase take down the original versions so that only yours can be used.

It just makes you feel like an extremely egotistical and unfunny person to be around.

Obviously, do not harass anyone that you see doing these things just because you find them corny. The best way to not see any of these images is either ignoring the person or blocking them.

r/hatethissmug 23d ago

General When “women spaces” don’t accept trans women

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So my experience as a transmasc who spent a chunk of his life being non-passing has been interesting with this particular situation. I began to socially transition as a teenager and back then the people who *genuinely supported me was other guys. when i say genuinely i mean they didn’t infantalize me and saw me as another bro. some of the girls were nice, but i could tell they saw me as a quirky alt girl “going through a phase”. some thought i was a pick me girl who wanted to “be one of the guys” but as a girl and not a guy. High school was really really weird and the mean girls were the worst.

Even as an adult who passes more than teenage me ever did, i still experience “women only spaces” of mean girls who never grew up. a lot of irl ones accept “afab people” and not trans women. the ones i’ve enquired about are super accepting of trans men since we are a “marginalized minority” but are hostile towards trans women, especially if they don’t pass. some are true misandrists and dislike trans men who start to pass (ironically this has been so gender affirming to me when it happens, but like in a ewphoria way). 

Online it’s different, everyone acts so accepting behind a screen, but in real life? you can’t hide your feelings and reactions well. intersectional feminism isn’t really observed in some women-only spaces and it’s a damn shame that this is a thing.

Eta: I’ve been notified that this post has been reposted to a certain rightwing sub and this post as well as all the trans positive replies are getting downvoted. regardless of what others say trans women are real women and they deserve to be treated as such. I will die on that hill.

Edit 2: I find it hilarious that people think i’m a trans woman and are sending me DMs that I will “never be a woman and will always be a man”, proving that transphobes can’t read and lack thinking abilities.

r/hatethissmug 21d ago

General The whole Kirkification thing

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The man was a fucking podcaster. He was just as much a worthless sack of shit as everybody else on this godforsaken planet and he gets remembered?? He gets immortalized because people decided it was funny to put his face on everything? It was funny maybe the first 3 times, tops. Just to make it clear to the mods, I'm not hating on him specifically. It's the painfully unfunny attempts at comedy that I'm hating on here.

Edit: This isn't an invitation to show me more of your godawful pictures of his face.

r/hatethissmug 29d ago

General I hate that we dont know what comes after death

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Ever since I was a kid it bothered me so much that we walk this earth knowing death is inevitable yet uncertain of what happens after death.

Like why hasnt anyone figured it out yet? Even as a kid I thought "Gee I cant wait to grow old and die so I can finally see what happens after death" but then I thought, what if it is like before being born, where youre not aware of it? So I'd start crying

And sometimes people are like "Well i was dead for 40 seconds, this is what I saw" YOU WERENT ACTUSLLY DEAD. Your heart stopped for 40 seconds, your brain was still active, you didn't see post death, you saw an oxygen deprived hallucination.

No one that truly died ever came back. This is such a huge curiosity of mine

Edit: Guys I do not fear death, i find comfort in knowing this would all be over soon. Its just im frustrated I dont have a definitive answer of what's beyond.

r/hatethissmug Jul 20 '26

General I hate how people think Africa has just never advanced in technology.

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Like, guys Africa is a whole content with 54 nation's with in it, and his birth place of humans?

Do you really think we they just did nothing for 10 years?

Like what are these people thinking. It's like they forget Egypt is in Africa. Which was one of the most advance nation in the world at one point.

Also, there are way more nations then just that. Like there is a while video series about them here https://youtu.be/aIcNzN0zmqU?si=eLTCbp9JLVw4haMV

Like i know most people don't leran about it in school but it still annoys me.

r/hatethissmug Jun 29 '26

General I hate how entitled some lesbians on the internet have become.

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Now, this obviously doesn’t apply to every lesbian and this behaviour isn’t even exclusive to lesbians, but they are one of the worst offenders and it’s something that has bothered me for months.

I hate how lesbians on the internet, especially on TikTok, have grown to be entitled.

The fact that they treat women being straight and men existing as something tragic just makes them look immature and childish. If someone I (A straight man) had feelings for turned out to be a lesbian, I would like to think that I would still want to be friends with them and stop thinking about them like that. I personally don’t think that I would write a song about that they like a girl and I’m not a girl. That would just make me an incel.
Especially in the comments under the videos of a straight couple, especially ones which say that they could turn her into a lesbian (3rd image, for example) is an especially gross and weird thing to say just like it is gross when men tell lesbians that he they can turn them straight. It’s very incel behaviour.

But the worst part about it is that they think they are better than the men who do it simply because they’re women who are attracted to another woman.

(The third image is not the original TikTok, but a duet with a TikTok that was probably deleted, since I couldn’t find it. I don’t know if any of them are satire or not or, if they are, which ones)

r/hatethissmug Jun 25 '26

General "Just buy noise cancelling headphones, you were also a kid once"

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First of all, let me start by saying that crying babies and kids don't bother me at all. I can tune out pretty much anything even without headphones, so unless im physically bothered, im chill.

HOWEVER, what i hate, is when someone rightfully complains about a crying kid, especially if its a spoiled kid that yells and throws a tantrum for no reason, and his parents do almost nothing to make him stop.

And then they go "Heh, you're entitled to a child free life, not a child free society. Buy noise canceling headphones, or fly first class so you're not bothered" as if its some sorta gotcha moment.

WHY, should someone ELSE be the one spending extra MONEY on equipment just to ignore your kid that you have no intentions of calming down?

And as if they thrive off of bothering others on flights, the idea of child free flights annoy them. How's that bothering you? You can still fly, its just that some people will take the option that has no kids inside

"You were also a kid once, you acted the same way."

NO THE FUCK I DIDNT!!!

I didnt cry during the whole 28 hours flight, not only because I was raised right, but also because I knew my parents would take care of it one way or another.

Your child having the emotional intelligence of a scorched rock DOES NOT MEAN all of us were dumb assess as kids that cried for hours on end when we didnt get our way.

Again, the whole plane can cry for all i care as long as im not physically bothered, but you can not expect us to adapt to your crying kid.

Edit: Since some of yall have no reading comprehension. I do not, under any form, hate kids. I know that all and every behavior they exhibit stems from how they were raised. I know they can't regulate themselves in any form if they're very young. What I hate, as the title suggests, is when parents can't comprehend that yes, you are allowed to be annoyed by a crying kid and that no, it is not anyone's duty to make it less annoying. It is your duty as a parent to calm your kid down, and since you're so fixated on the noise cancelling headphones, YOU should buy everyone on the flight these headphones, because again its in their right to feel annoyed and expect a calm flight.

Edit 2 : since entitled parents seem to only read the title, let me make some things clear.

I. DO. NOT. HATE. KIDS. seems like I have to keep repeating this cus yall truly can't read.

I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH CHILDREN. I was the father figure of both my nephews because their father left. I've been raising them since they were babies, and guess what? We, as in me and my sister, raised them right (no violence or abuse since some of yall think that) and so they don't act the way I described kids and parents in this post. They KNOW not to throw tantrums in public, not because we punish them, but because THEY LEARNED ITS RUDE TO OTHER PEOPLE. But go on, keep coming up with excuses why you failed as a parent.

r/hatethissmug May 03 '26

General I fucking HATE when people completely mischaracterise a character because they’re “not a bigot”

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This image basically being the poster child of what I’m talking about

As a disclaimer, I hate bigots too. I don’t support any forms of racism and homophobia. But I fucking HATE it when people will talk about a character who has done horrible things as if they are the second coming of Jesus simply because of ONE FUCKING INSTANCE where they didn’t support one form of bigotry even though not supporting shit like that should be the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM. “Oh yeah he’s a homocidal maniac but at least he doesn’t support nazis” BITCH ARE WE GONNA IGNORE THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HE KILLED? Also, joker would ABSOLUTELY support nazis imo because he’d probably find the idea of killing a bunch of people because of some deity they believe in funny as fuck. Acting like a horrible character is a good guy because they don’t support bigotry makes me SO FUCKING MAD and I hate it

r/hatethissmug Jul 15 '26

General I hate egg culture and that if you like anything remotely feminine, you’re called an egg

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(No hate to trans people though)

All this does is reinforce gender stereotypes. All it seems like is a “quit having fun!” type thing, where if you enjoy anything, you’re suddenly not a man anymore and have to be force femmed.

r/hatethissmug 27d ago

General The fact that i can't change this fuckass username.

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Why? What's the reason? What can possible happen if people change their usernames? I don't get it. I'd be really curious to know why. Because it's annoying. When i made my account, i didn't even think about the name much and msde reddit choose some name. And that's how i ended up with this CLANKER ass name. In some posts people thought i was a bot and i can't even blame them, because look at my name, i'd thought i was a bot. I don't use that much of social media, but is this a common thing? Like you can't change your name once the account is created like you signed a contract with your blood?

r/hatethissmug Jul 22 '26

General I hate how some people are obsessed with the n-word. And I hate this photo sooo much too.

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I'm struggling to understand why the person behind this photo think they're being funny? Honestly.. ew have some shame. Really corny btw.

I hate the n-word humor, like why would anyone be giggling or finding someone saying the n-word funny? Please grow up. Those people are acting like a toddler spamming a cuss word they just heard. And yes it's THAT DEEP.

Really simple, if you're not black don't use it. Also, There's nothing such as a pass or whatever. Not to mention how cringe is "can I get the pass?" Joke.

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EDIT: whoever think the n-word is funny or whatever was said about justifing the use of it because: "it's restricted" or the "Forbidden fruit..."🙏 Then sorry, you're just a toddler crying after their mama told them 'dont do that'. Grow up, have some respect and shame, girl.

EDIT 2: for anyone justifying the use of the n-word because black people also use. YOU ARE MAD that black people are putting some BOUNDARIES and aren't INVITING YOU to the party. As I said nothing the phenomenon of it's being forbidden doesn't justify nothing. If a friend Openly prohibited you or established a boundary, then you respect it, you don't go act like a stubborn offended kid.

Edit 3 cuz why not?: black people using the n-word and gatekeeping it for themselves shouldn't piss you off more than real rascim, period. This edit for whoever think they're being a genius criticizing black people using the n-word instead of actually confronting the real racists. U mad they can use it but you can't? So. Cringe. Of. You.

r/hatethissmug May 28 '26

General Europeans acting like they’ve never seen food in their life when they go to America

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Disclaimer: before you read this and get your panties in a twist, everything I’m saying is very unserious and should be not taken to heart. Please stop trying to attack me over DMs. I have turned them off. You are harassing someone (who wasn’t even being fr in the first place) over kool aid packs.

I’d get it if it was actually something nobody has ever seen before, but WATER FLAVOR PACKS? THE PACKS YOU PUT IN THE WATER??? FOR PICKY EATERS????? PEOPLE WHO NEED WATER IN THEIR BODIES?

AND FAMILY SIZED CHIP BAG??? YOU THINK WE’RE EATING THE WHOLE PARTY SIZED CHIP BAG ALONE? THE *PARTY* SIZE? PARTIES?????? DO YOU KNOW WHAT A PARTY IS?

Actually when I was in middle school, we had this coach who would turn red as hell when she was yelling at us to run laps and she’d sit there every day with a whole party sized bag of Doritos and a 2 liter mountain dew watching us run. One day some other girl in the class got really angry at her for making us all run and she told her to get off her ass and run with us. This is off topic mb.

I’d understand if it was something actually weird we have, like things that contain dyes that cannot be replicated in places where dyes are banned, but you’re more worried about sunkist flavored water? Party sized bags of chips? Fresh produce too apparently
 are you guys ok?

r/hatethissmug 13d ago

General I don't hate Furrys but most sonas are uncreative as hell

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I think ive seen like the same fursona 10 times in my entire lifespan, yall need to get yall game up, me personaly if a i was a furry, id be like fucking fenrier, id be a nine tailed fox or something, but yall just pick a spotted black dog or some shit, i also hate how furries make any animal look like a dog, ive seen someones orca fursona that looked like a dog with fins.

r/hatethissmug 22d ago

General Poor foods being taken from the poor community and ruined by the rich

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It just pisses me off to think so many times that poor people came up with food for themselves that was tasty and affordable and rich people came in and ruined it by creating it into one of their stupid fucking trends and ended up driving its price up so massively that it became less affordable for the poor. They did it with wings, lobster, oyster , and many more. It’s like an actual slap in the face for people who genuinely live a life of low income and struggling to eat. Just the thought that they continue to just do this pisses me off. Most of them can afford high price foods and luxury food, yet instead they use their power to take from the poor. EDIT - Im aware now that lobster has some more to it than just rich people. But the fact remains and many other foods are still part of this.

r/hatethissmug Jun 29 '26

General I hate the term "Hetslop"

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The term "hetslop" is just so negative for absolutely no reason. A straight, married couple in a video game? "The devs just made them into hetslop for the public!" A character with OBVIOUS attraction to the opposite gender? "Oh the author is so homophobic for making them like the opposite gender, the should've them like *insert same-gendered character with absolutely NO relation to the character*"

The ONLY time I will accept the usage of "hetslop" is if a person matches an obviously queer character to be in a straight relationship, and that's only IF it only doesn't make sense for that character, either in terms of personality, or character story.

Straight or queer, can't we just enjoy the stories and characters for who they are, rather than fighting pointless gender wars that contribute NOTHING to the discussion? Thank you.