Before the advent of the Internet, gatekeeping (it is defined as the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something) felt pretty rare. Unless you went to a high school with extremely annoying people, you could wear a band t-shirt without being quizzed on the artist’s catalogue and obscure trivia. Activities such as …
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Poor Fools Who Fell For The Onion’s Satire
We don’t want to come at people too harshly for getting wooshed by ambiguous jokes or falling for a fake headline that sounds like it could be totally real, but everyone should know what The Onion is by now. Most satirical news publications these days have the words satire, or fake, or not real news …
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Cringey Examples Of Gratuitous Gatekeeping
The internet is brimming with examples of bullshitters who state opinion as fact, make unwarranted declarations about their authority on a subject, and make up ridiculous rules about who has the right to enjoy or experience specific things. These people are called gatekeepers. The annoying gatekeeper is also known for putting others down for not …
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Cringey Bathroom Signs Roasted For Terrible Use of Gender Roles
Let’s just stick with unisex, okay?
Unhinged Tweets From Messed Up Minds
More people should be investing in filters.
Some of the Worst Tweets Ever, Compiled Into One Painful Thread
We often highlight some of the funniest jokes that Twitter has to offer for those who normally wouldn’t go near the bird website with a ten-foot pole. But it would be a lie to portray Twitter as anything other than a cesspool of horrific takes and the sort of cringe that can only come from …
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Women Share Weird & Cringey Things Men Have Done On Dates
Dating is hard. And now that things are dying down a little, Covid-wise, we expect the scene is going to get a whole lot crazier. While it’s great that those romantic Zoom meetups are (mostly) a thing of the past, there were some perks to getting acquainted to a Tinder or Bumble date ahead of …
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Cringey ‘Nice Guys’ Who Revealed Their Toxic Entitlement
There’s been a lot of talk about incels and ‘nice guys‘ over the past few years, and it is absolutely for good reason. It’s not just some venddetta against men. You see, there really are dudes out there who fervently believe they’re entitled to the affection of women just because they treat them with a …
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Egregious Liars Who Were Called Out For Their Crap
Too many people seem to assume that lying on the internet from behind the comfort of a keyboard somehow protects them from getting caught spreading complete bull crap. On the contrary, it only takes a few educated clicks to debunk some sus information, and thanks to tools like reverse image search, it is pretty hard …
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Mortician Reveals All Activities She Avoids Because She Sees Their Victims At Work
Being alive is a very dangerous business. We can roll our eyes at the excesses of health and safety all we like, but a lot of those rules are there for a reason. On top of that, there are plenty of times that they can fail — or, of course, people decide to deviate from …
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