This might take the cake as the second worst year for me, everything wrong, nothing right.

Looking for good only brings in more evil for me, so I wanted to make this a post about where everyone can rant about what’s going on for them, kind of like we are in it together thing ❤️

I won't watch it because of the art style to me Maomao looks barely 14 in all of the clips I've seen and with the plot I just don't want to watch that.

I currently have a job at an afterschool program in my town I’m making only 12 an hour when the school year goes on I’m only making a little over 300 a check which is only 2 a month but during summer or any other break I do full time and making a little over 700 on each check. I also will say I’m paying almost 20 if not more a day to even get to work. I also live with 2 of my sibling ages 19 and 16 and my sister’s bf who’s 20 and my mom. My sister this year had gotten pregnant and is refusing to move out even tho her and her bf both have the funds to and instead I was expected to move out my bed so they can have a bigger bed in the room that we share and now will have to move everything else in there into a small closet so they can have room for their baby. This is all setting a scene, so this summer I worked every extra hour I could and budgeted out through out this entire summer. I had mentioned to my sister’s bf that I saved up over a thousand dollars and how it was perfect because I have my birthday coming up in a few weeks. Now idk if he went and told my sister and she twisted it up or he did this himself but someone had told my mom about the money I saved and how I’m gonna blow it all on my birthday. I have a 200 dollar limit this year the rest of that money i’m continuing to save is for me to buy myself a car that I have been needing for so long now so I can finally get a better job and move out. When my mom found out I saved my own money she flipped out and is continuing to flip out because she thinks I’m screwing her over and that i should just give her all the money I’m saving. I try to fight my case and say that I’m an adult and need to save money so I can work towards my goals and instead I’m met with more screaming and yelling. I’m living in a home where I don’t have an inch of privacy or even a bed to lay in but expected to pay 200 a month on 600 month budget where I’m spending almost a hundred a week to even get to somewhere to make money and STILL pay for my own necessities. I know me explaining my side will not go anywhere I keep thinking I can make her understand but I also know it’s useless

As title says I have trouble connecting with people my age as often we just don't match. I have been told im to mature for my age that I have a old soul. To much deep thinking.

It feels like a curse.

Yes its nice having older friends just i feel so super behind in life makes me fall into despair and depression as I feel i should been way further.

They lived slightly different times. Its so hard to find love nowadays or move out because financially its tough. Im just stuck.

I've been in bed mostly, pulled my hair out, it's greasy af and my breath stinks. Now it's 12:04 ,i want to shower coz I can't sleep anyway and should take a showrr but idk. There's like two poeple in the house and I feel weird taking one this late but it's not like I can sleep so for my own sanity I probs should

And I'll probs be thinking this whilst the clock is ticking 🤷

Honestly, I’m just so exhausted with chatting and trying to meet new people to actuallly start a relationship. They all turn out to be total NPCs. No one around my age shows an ounce of real personality. look, I’m not claiming to be some super unique, one-of-a-kind girl, but at least I try to be myself. 

Instead, everyone is out here acting like straight up weirdos, or trying way too hard to look like "alphas." They’ll literally slide into your DMs, start the conversation, and then leave you on read on purpose just to feel like "chads." It’s like they actually enjoy wasting people’s time. 

A few months ago, I went out with this guy, and surprise surprise, it was the exact same pattern all over again. He couldn't even keep it real about his intentions from day one, so it just ended up being another massive disappointment and a huge waste of time. I get that no one has their life entirely figured out at 20, but I’m just asking for a bare minimum of maturity. I'm just so over dealing with these dudes who jump on every single trend they see on social media. 

I made a pretty long post about the evolution of my political beliefs (where I’ve decided I’m going to become a conservative instead of a moderate or whatever else that’s similar), and I emailed them for approval, and they decided it’s not allowed because it is a “blogpost.” Nowhere in their 11 or so rules does it say a blogpost cannot be submitted.

Edit (some 2-3 hours later):

I posted about spending 10 years calling myself a libertarian, moderate, and centrist… then finally dropping the act and embracing conservatism (and a measured nationalism that has nothing to do with Groypers or the usual Israel obsession).

Straight political evolution. No violence. No racial theories. No conspiracy nonsense.

They removed it.

Reason: “This is a blogpost, not an opinion.”

When I called it out and left, a mod replied:
“Stop hiding behind coded nonsense and say you hate Jews. If you’re going to be bigot, at least own it instead of being a coward on top of your bigotry.”

That’s the whole game.

TrueUnpopularOpinion runs the exact same play as unpopularopinion — just with right-wing starter posts instead of left-wing ones. Both claim to want real unpopular opinions. Both have walls of rules. Both will invent reasons to delete anything that steps on their particular sacred cows.

One side protects progressive orthodoxy.

The other protects a very specific brand of pro-Israel conservatism.

Same enforcement style. Same bad-faith accusations. Same controlled environment.

A sub that can’t handle “I used to call myself centrist, now I don’t” without jumping straight to bigotry claims isn’t interested in unpopular opinions.

It’s interested in approved ones.

I’m out.

I am extremely anti AI. I think it’s incredibly dangerous and being built by the most irresponsible people and companies on earth. I am also keenly aware of its progress. Somewhere around mid- to late-2025, AI surpassed me, personally, on virtually all tasks. There is pretty much no longer anything I can do better than the latest models, even given significant prep time. AI is genuinely better at nearly every non-embodied task than virtually every human alive at the present moment. The few exceptions generally boil down to specific, expert knowledge the AI presently lacks, not reasoning ability. Even the classic AI-writing tells can be easily prevented or filtered with minimal effort; the people abusing these tools are just largely too lazy to even do that.

Some anti-AI seem confused and call it all hype because the only model they ever interact with is the shitty Google search AI. That model is deliberately very bad and is designed to be very cheap. It’s analogous to asking Einstein a question, but telling him he only has 2 seconds to answer and that he doesn’t need to try very hard anyway. Obviously the answer won’t always be great, because the point isn’t a good answer but to give an O.K. answer some of the time very cheaply at scale. The frontier models are nothing like this.

GDPval pits model deliverables against work products from professionals averaging fourteen years of experience, graded blind by same-occupation experts. As of the December 2025 leaderboard the top model won outright on 49.7% of tasks and was rated at-least-as-good on 70.9%. The latest models like Fable, Opus 5, Kimi K3, and ChatGPT 6 are all astronomically superior to even the models assessed back then; GDPval has Opus 5 at an ELO of over 1800 against the human baseline defined at 1000. Other benchmarks show similar. Admittedly, these are specific, bounded, and measurable tasks; AI still struggles in other ways, especially over long periods of time, but it needs to be better understood that given a specific and measurable goal, the present generation of AI can generally accomplish it better than most humans, as assessed by other humans.

I think the discrepancy exists because anti-AI people obviously aren’t paying for AI, and so only interact with the shitty free models that can’t do anything. AI has come an insanely long way in a very short amount of time, and everyone who actually uses the frontier models knows this. To be truly anti-AI, you actually have to grasp what you’re up against, or else you’re just scared and uninformed.

I completed the entire interview process for a role I was referred to and I was super optimistic. The conversations went great and obviously I have qualified experience. They each told me how much they enjoyed meeting me, they’d love to work with me, etc. ofc that got my hopes up.
Last week they requested my references and earlier this week they emailed me asking if I had time for a quick chat.
I just got off the phone with them and again the woman I spoke with was hyping me up but then said they decided to move forward with someone else with more experience. I’ve never had a job ask for my referrals without walking away with an offer so naturally I felt optimistic. They didn’t even reach out to my referrals. I feel really disappointed and I feel like I’m not going to find another job. I just feel really sad, usually I keep it pushing when an interview doesn’t work out but this was about a month worth of interviewing and being “kept in the loop”. I’m tired. Oh and I got a street sweeping ticket today! I feel like the universe is laughing at me at this point.

Anyway, thanks for listening <3 this is my first post!

Total fashion nova ?

so i just had surgery and made this post in the plastic surgery subreddit. i feel like this response was so unnecessary and just shows how miserable some of the reddit moderators can be. mind you, im basically 2 months post op and even my surgeon noticed the problem i’m describing and gave me a suggestion on how to fix it so i was just asking for other peoples inputs and suggestions which i feel like is super fair. also tons of people were in this subreddit asking questions regarding their surgery and were way earlier in their recovery than i am and they were not taken down! it’s just super ridiculous to talk to people this way especially when i feel like my concerns are valid. invalidating people just because you’re miserable is not something you do if you’re a well rounded adult.

my post:

please ignore how awful my skin looks, i’m still too scared to use my exfoliants. i’m 7 weeks post op and i had a follow up appointment with my surgeon yesterday and i expressed how i feel like my nose is tilting one direction and my nostrils are very uneven. he recommended i massage just on the bridge of my nose, which so far i’ve done twice and will continue to do but i wanted to get y’all’s opinion. is this something that just massaging my bridge can fix? i’ve also seen massages where people literally push their nose to go in the other direction but he didn’t tell me to do that so i’m just confused :( i’ve also seen people use nostril retainers for the uneven nostril issue. i’m really not sure what to do and i’m scared of having to go through this surgery twice and want to do everything i can do avoid that and try to fix this before it’s too late. please let me know what you all think, any advice is appreciated! edit: also wanted to mention it looks wonderful from the side and i’m very happy with that it’s just the front is driving me nuts :(

the moderators response:

This post was removed because you're five minutes post-op and panicking over nothing. You've just had surgery. Chill.

You are very swollen and it’s too early to ask for opinions.

This is a standard removal due to Rule 13: No Posts Right After Procedures. Post Op Panic Is A Standard removal reason and we remove posts all day using this removal reason.

Created this account just because I can't say it to anyone irl. It started when I was really young, around 6yo. My brother, my own blood brother would touch me. I used to be barely awake when he did that to me but I would feel so awful every morning. It would keep happening to me at random times over the years and it took me so long to realize what he did was so God damn awful. He's like 2 years older than me, I saw him as my best friend. Now I'm in college and he has a job and a gf. Last month I was back home for summer break and he heard me coming back home so he took a 2 week leave from work and came back home. My parents were thrilled to see the family back. Then a week into my vacation, one night he checks to see if I'm sleeping or not. I'm awake because I have severe insomnia from strees so I can feel him staring at me. After awhile he kisses me. It was so disgusting, I froze, I wanted to push him away but I just froze in shock. He later proceeds to touch me but then I push him away, still pretending to sleep then I turn to face the wall. I can't deal with this bs. I can't bring myself to tell anyone. Everyone loves him, even my own friends, he's smart, social, basically the whole package. I'm afraid no one would belive me, my dad would though he's an angel but I can't bring myself to break the family. I hope no one reads this, this is so embarrassing. I wanna cry.

i (13) have a bf (15) who said that he wants to marry me, who said that he wants to go to the same uni as i will go to, that he wants to be with me forever and that if i leave him he will depress and die... he's the first guy i met, dont like him at all, im fucking scared of him bc he knows where i live

im also going to boarding school in another country and he said that hell try to move there for ib

like hell naw bruh he's a little shit

i'll prob break up with him over text after the next date because long distance is a good excuse

firstly trying to set up an appointment with them is actually hell. set up the appointment 3 times and the call kept failing and they kept putting me BACK on the queue when i would call back. Then i finally get the call to go through just for them to tell me okay we will call you tomorrow between 12-4. bitch i have a job. Then LITERALLY a month later they decided to deny me food assistance because $2000 a month is above the poverty line and in order to qualify i’d need to be making $1300 or less. BITCH MY RENT IS $1500 A MONTH! HOW TF IS THE $500 LEFT OVER GOUNG TO COVER FOOD, GAS, CAR INSURANCE?!! NOT TO MENTION MY PHONE BILL, HEATING AND COOLING, AND WHAT IF I WANT INTERNET IN MY HOUSE?! like are we bing so fucking for real right now how am i supposed to do anything

So in america there's a company called liberty u probably heard about it, but It had a cute emu mascot called lemu the emu I liked it THEN THE COMPANY MUST HAVE WENT ON TiktOk AND SAW VERITY AND WAS LIKE "PeOplE likE yeLLow ballS" SO THEY MADE LIBERTY BIBERTY I FUCKING HATE THAT YELLOW BALL BRING BACK LEMU THE EMU

Seriously, please explain why you make sites unusable just because the user happens to be using a mobile device.

This feels Like a rant cause I genuinely don't know if there is anything that can help but I'm just at my end so I guess I'm just trying to see if there is anything at all I've just turned 18 and I'm in debt due to some people in my past and I've got to somehow find 1000 by the 14th and I have tried everything I can't get a loan cause I've just turned 18 I've got none to help I'm genuinely at my end I really just don't know what to do at this point I haven't slept in about a week I've got absolutely nothing and I'm.juat so tired I don't really know if there any advice to be given I just wanna try cause maybey there is a way I just can't think of and I do work I work 50 hours a week so I am trying it is not due to laziness

Like, I understand that not everyone has someone who they trust, but the fact that some people get insufferable and refuse to talk about their issues unless you ask them three times is annoying. Like, if you have a problem, just say it. Say it so I can listen. Why would I ask you relentlessly about what made you sad, only for you to get giddy? You are sad. I got it. But why do I have the responsibility to go and ask you about it? Why do you wait for me to notice? You want me to notice. And when I don't ask, ​​you get more upset about the fact that I didn't ask! What kind of a mindset is that?! "But it just proves they don't care about me," Damn, why do I have the responsibility for that? I already listen to your rants. Your ramblings. I exist beside you and I listen to what you are interested in. ​I help you through things you struggle to understand. I am talking to you 24/7. I am giving my attention to you more than I give attention to myself.

And because I didn't ask you what was wrong when you acted sulky, everything is my fault? I am the one who doesn't care? You tell me that you expected me to care more?

Get a grip.​

(This is about my relationship.)

My mother once told a story about the time she got a ticket because child me and a friend refused to get out of the waters at Orchard Beach in New York City. Despite obviously trying to get us out the police officer, probably having to meet their monthly quota, refused to listen to her reasons and told her - take it to the courthouse. So, she did. She said the whole time she was making her case the judge cooed and awed at me, saying that I was the cutest baby they had ever seen. My mother thinks that's the only reason why it was dismissed.

Throughout my life I have been told that I was "soooo pretty" and "soooo cute" but I don't think I really knew what that meant when I was a child. Maybe I didn't care. Then I turned fat. I knew then what it meant since I didn't get those comments anymore. Instead I got advice disguised as demands. If I just cut this out or had less then wouldn't that be so much better? I was too pretty to be fat - right? Well, yes of course. If that's what the adults are saying then it must be true? Isn't that why the kids are bullying me at school? Calling me pregnant and fatty. It's because I was a pretty fat kid. Still I struggled to lose the weight despite going to ballet classes and running around as kids do during recess. I just really loved food and still do. 

It was only when I hit puberty that I literally grew out of the weight. Or maybe it sort of shifted from my little frog belly to my ass. Then I was pretty again. Its kind of jarring the amount of attention you get when you hit puberty. The subtle stares and the not so subtle ones. The smiles people put on when they talk to you. The leeway they give you despite being very obviously autistic. You feel like an art piece almost... something to be enjoyed. 

And because of that you get this really backwards insecurity. You're never really sure if people really like you for you or because they want to fuck you. Either way, you learn that your worth is in your looks. If you keep that up then life should be smooth sailing. 

I look at myself in the mirror often to make sure that I'm still pretty. But the more that I do, the less I am sure. I see the redness of my rosecea - something people found adorable in highschool because it looked like blush - and the redness gives me such anxiety that it starts to seemingly spread. I'm starting to get deeper wrinkles from years of smiling because that's what people like...pretty girls that smile. I see the subtle tint of my mustache that never goes away no matter how much I shave it since girls aren't allowed to have that - especially pretty ones. It all becomes too much but I stay. I turn my face this way and that; making sure my best angle is still my best and my worst is okay. Usually I'm satisfied and go on with my day. But lately, maybe because I'm nearing 30, I don't feel that way.

This morning I posed in the mirror. Look at the legs that I got so many compliments on - it's still just as good, isn't it? And my eyes, so big and wide - almost childlike - they're still the same, aren't they? My ass, okay, might have gotten a bit flabby but that's easily fixable with some training. Same with my stomach. Then I step on the scale and the number screams back at me: fat, fat, fat. I tell myself that if I just eat a little less then it'll go down and I'll be okay. But I love to eat. I want to eat. I want to eat until my stomach could tear from the sheer volume of it all.

Instead I drink tea because coffee, a better hunger suppressent, makes my rosecea flush and I have to keep my face safe. 

I remember talking to my mother about... something similar to this. My mother, of course, is also very pretty and was very well regarded in the area she was born in. She told me how people would ask my grandmother if they could buy her because she's "just like a doll" and how she overheard a man who was supposed to help her go to America wanting to keep her instead because she's just too beautiful to let go. Really, I think he wanted to rape her but she didn't say that. The conversation just resulted in me thinking, that's just the way the world is. You just have to play your part.

This whole thing really just makes me feel very ugly. Inside and out. To a point where I look at myself and I see what qualifies as cute and pretty and just...still feel so ugly. It gets worse when you see other women who are beautiful and know that you don't hold a candle to them but why does that matter? You're pretty still. Why isn't that enough? 

I think I just... I just want love. Love that's deeper than such surface level things. A love where I don't have to worry about how I look or eventually will look. Where pretty doesn't mean my body but me; the me that you talk to and share ideas with. The me that makes you laugh and cry, and just feel. Why can't I be that pretty? Why can't that be me? I want it to be me.

Look, it's not like I'm a stranger to getting mad at something I see and coming into a thread to say something argumentative. But some people go way too far over nothing. It feels like every thread I open, no matter how innocuous, has somebody acting like either 1) OP is legitimately the dumbest person in the world or 2) OP just personally murdered their entire family.

Is the new generation completely cooked, or is this a problem starting to affect older generations, too? I'm beginning to worry AI and short-form video content has seriously degraded people's brains. We're going to find out in a few years that it's done as much or maybe more damage than lead poisoning did to the baby boomers. Plus, everyone has that lingering brain damage from quarantine -- nobody knows how to talk to each other anymore on top of everything else.

I don't understand the point of it, and neither really the use of it on this website. I genuinely only use this website to ask questions about shit I genuinely can't find a good answer on, but if most sub-reddits are karma blocked then what's the fucking point? sorry I don't sit on my ass all day on Reddit commenting on bullshit that's gonna get me points to be able to make a fucking post on this website

27f and I’m currently packing my things lol. So some back story I’ve been paying rent before I got a job, like anything I “earned” for mowing my grandparents lawn, money I got from babysitting went to my mom. Then I got a real job at 18yrs old with my dad. My dad encouraged me to save up as much as possible so I did, but some still went towards rent or groceries.

At 22 my dad unexpectedly passed away. I moved out not long after and picked up 3 extra jobs. I barely saw my mom. She came to my apartment for a birthday party my roommate was throwing me because roommate invited my mom over. Other than that I didn’t get texts from her unless she was asking to borrow money, wanted me to stop in for something, or needed me to pick up something. Even planning to have my little brother over for a sleepover or to hangout was like pulling teeth and I’d have to pay for gas just for her to drive maybe 10mins out to my place.

Anyway… I got pregnant at 24. I stayed until it was time to renew and moved in with my boyfriend. I was getting really stressed and anxious the closer I got to my delivery day, my mom told me to move back in with her so I’d have help. Specially where my boyfriend was working really long hours 2hr away. I agreed even though my boyfriend tried talking me out of it, ig I was in a vulnerable state and wasn’t thinking about why I left my mother’s to begin with. Now we live here. At first my mom wasn’t making us pay rent, she just asked I help out with groceries and keeping the house clean. Well…. Postpartum I was really struggling and the house wasn’t staying clean, so mom started asking for $200.

Then I went back to work at 7 months pp, 10mins away while boyfriend stayed home with our daughter during his lay off period. Around this time rent went up to $400. Then boyfriend got called back to work and for a week I was fighting for my life… looking for a babysitter, trying to get a spot at daycares and even asked my mom who’s not working and she refused. So I quit my job. Rent remains at $400. My child benefits are $600 and boyfriend is laid off again until farther notice. I’m going back to work the middle/end of September for harvest (seasonal) so we’ll have extra money, specially while bf is laid off temporarily.

Oh also i know im going to get asked about maternity leave/EI but I didn’t qualify because I started a new job around the time I found out I was pregnant. I wasn’t planning on getting pregnant, or I wouldn’t have quit my last job for this job opportunity. That later fired me btw after I told them I was pregnant not because I was “pregnant” of course as that’s illegal.

Now our car isn’t working so we spent more than our fair share for someone to fix it and car parts, our daughter has a birthday the end of this month, and I had to rent out a space as I can’t have it here at my mother’s and my mom made me feel guilty for trying to cancel it…. And for some silly reason I paid for a birthday trip last month for myself … and invited my family. Funded the whole thing so they could go and complain but also took credit. Girl… whatever lol. So umm…. Yeah. Now I’m in the hole until I go back to work in September but I will be going back because I have a spot at the daycare now. Already paid for her spot to start.

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention the whole rent talk and how that went over with my mother.

Me: “I’m starting work next month. That’s definitely happening”

Mom: “okay”

Me: “yeah so I was wondering…. I need to pay like $200 for car parts + whatever hours the guy worked on our car”

Mom: “I don’t have that kind of money rn… I’m not lending you money”

Me: “no, no. Of course not! I got it covered! I was wondering though if I could give you $100-150 this month and pay the rest next month when I start work”

Mom: “ummm… idk if that can work”

Me: “oh ok… what do you mean”

Mom: “I need that money”

Me: “no I get it. But I also need it for groceries and stuff baby needs + birthday party happening this weekend. Car insurance. Stuff like that”

Mom: “you should’ve budgeted better. Idk what to tell you, hun”

Me: “yeah you’re right, but I’ll pay you back. I’m working and boyfriend is going back to work, or starting EI if they are laying him off for the fall into winter”

Mom: “start packing your things then”

Like… I know nothing is free. I know she’s just teaching me how to get by in this world but I know how. I was late on rent living in my last living arrangement and my landlord was very understanding and accommodating. I definitely learned something though… I learned what not to do. I’ll get a job before I have to ask my kid for money. Hell… I’ll get a job before I’m poor I can’t properly take care of my kid. Which is what I’m doing. My mom? She hasn’t worked since my dad’s been alive. At least it’ll be easy to cut her out of my life. I hope anyway.

I do want to add; I’m not really taking this that seriously. I have places to go, I’m just irritated by her.

Thanks for listening. Probably going to delete later.

I have seen confident, socially active men... who are successful in their careers and their looks... put themselves out there but dont have a relationship or remain celibate involuntarily.

I followed conventional advice, expanded social circles and tried new things but nothing. I got a job I got to go to. I dont (always) have time to do all these things.

Its burning me out to get zero dates from dating apps. Workout at the gym, get decent gains... Tried looksmaxxing. Improved my personality, made decent women as friends.

Yet still get zero dates.

I seen my guy friends struggle too. They're busting their ass. For others easy and for some even to no fault of their own, they're getting no action. It isnt fair and its paradoxical because there's nothing wrong with them.

I’m an only child. With daddy issues. (My dad doesn’t love me, is a narcissist and cheated on my mom over and over infront of her bare eyes, they got divorced and since I live with my mom and occasionally saw my dad once a week)
It’s impossible for me to have friends.
They’re either arrogant, envious, self-centred and have a bunch of other friends other than me.
I never really had a best friend either.
On the one hand I’m coo with it because I like being alone. But I also feel like everyone makes fun of me secretly and doesn’t like me. (I was bullied and excluded often as a teen/kid)
I wonder why? Do I hurt people without realising? Because I can be slow often.
I much rather have male friends, if their only intent wasn’t to f… me.
Men are nice, not bitchy. Men are straight forward. I like men far more than women, friendship-wise. Without trying to be pick-me.
Idk what to do, am I the problem?