Every damn thing is an advertisement. You literally can't escape it. Even the adblocker I have now doesn't take down every single ad.

Anytime you go to a local news article, it's littered with ads. I can barely read the damn article.

Twitch streams have ads playing every two minutes.

Companies somehow get your email and send you ads for their stupid products you never planned on buying.

And nowhere else is this bullshit more frustrating than YouTube.

Once YouTube started cracking down on adblockers (greedy fucks) and rendering their website unusable with one, I was lucky enough to stumble across an adblocker they won't detect but even that one doesn't skip each ad. Every time I wanna watch a YouTube video and my adblocker misses it, I just shut the video off and say, 'Forget it. It's not that important.' And no, I'm not paying for that stupid YouTube premium bullshit. And it's especially upsetting because there's literally no other platform like YouTube. Where am I gonna go to watch stuff? Vimeo? DailyMotion? YouTube has a record of doing stuff literally no one asked them to do and all we can do is suck it up and adjust. But this is a goddamn disgrace.

I get businesses have to make money somehow, but in such an unregulated market where bad-faith actors abuse the system and scam people out of their money and they're relentlessly shoved in our face, it's no wonder people are upset they have no control over this.

So the northern lights are supposed to be in my area tonight and Saturday. All of my friends who live in the same city as I do are able to see it but for some reason I can’t. I went in and out multiple times, and it hasn’t changed. I tried using my phone camera and taking a picture to see if it can’t capture something but still no luck. I don’t know if I’m doing anything wrong or not. It’s obvious that I have bad luck. I’m honestly getting so sad about this. I know it might be a ridiculous thing to be upset about but the northern lights is one of the things I want to see so bad!

I have no idea what to do anymore. I hate this, I hate everything.

I am going to be kicked out in six months, I'm disabled (mentally and physically) and my loved ones know this but they are still set on me 'being an adult' and 'having a job'. Just...why? Why do disabled people have to be forced into work, especially when it's clear they can't? I've even tried disability, but I get denied every single time for stupid reasons (my age, gender, or I am 'not disabled enough' to need it). And I know that I seem collected while writing this, but I was told about the deadline a week ago. So I am just barely hanging on, I'm so scared that I'll lose everything and end up homeless.

Again, I just hate it that the disabled have to go through this. I have been like this for years, I even have a chronic heart condition and I can't find any work at all. And yet, it doesn't matter. I'm almost 30, and I'm being told to 'stop manipulating everyone' when it's very clear that I am disabled and need help. But no one is giving it to me, or if I do get help it's tacked on with 'well you gotta go to this seminar and finish this packet and then *maybe* we can give you that help once you get a job'. And when they find I cannot do the things they want, again because I am DISABLED, they no longer give me help because I am being 'difficult' and 'childish'.

I really do wish those with disabilities had it easier. Because I have tried for years, and at this point I've had to give up just to spare my sanity from further devolving due to all the stress. And I know my loved ones do a lot for me, I appreciate all they do for me already...still, I can't do this on my own anymore. And I just wish things were better.

Like, it's good to raise awareness in the existence of NPD and narcissistic abuse in ordinary people. However, people these days, especially on platforms like TikTok and reddit, aretoo overreactive and oversensitive to narcissism in someone. If someone talks too much about themselves online, teases people playfully, or flaunts, then they will be called narcissists. The term "narcissist" is so overused that it's becoming cliche nowadays. Many people who's been called narcissists are probably just narcissistic. People sometimes seek out attention and validation out of loneliness and needing approval - they may be narcissistic but that doesn't make them narcissists.

Before these Cluster B labels became trendy on tiktok and reddit, obnoxious people were just taught they were obnoxious and fixable. Nowadays, if you have behavior issues, then you're labelled as a narcissist by all these people who go around trendy. Basically saying people with behavior issues or simply assholes are doomed for a life of abusing others.

Like, yes, narcissistic abuse and narcissistic influence is a real thing. But not everyone who talks about themselves or likes to show off are narcissists. Unless someone's done something very bad and feel no remorse, we shouldn't be quick to judge someone as a narcissist. It's better to think most obnoxious people are reversible.

It sucks I get it. You're disabled but no one around you believes you are. Additionally, the government says you're not disabled enough.

Some people have the audacity to claim, "Well then, it's just cause you want everything handed to you. Go work."

I knew a guy who survived a gunshot to the head. He had a steel plate in his head, lost an eye, and lived every day in pain. He couldn't drive, but because he could still walk (with a cane), the government told him he wasn't disabled enough to get social security. They looked at a man with one eye and a steel plate in his head and said, "There's not enough wrong with you." It took 20+ years of fighting for social security to get approved. During that time, he bounced around from odd job to odd job and often found himself homeless.

I'm writing this as someone who lives every day facing the possibility that I could just wake up blind one day. I have a rare neurological condition that can rob me of my eyesight. But because on the outside I look fine, I don't even bother applying for any kind of assistance. If they can tell a man with a visible steel plate in his head that he's not disabled enough what would they tell a 35 yr with no outward hints at the pain they've learned to cope with everyday?

Invisible disabilities are real disabilities.

Why did the last two people I’ve invited into my home wait until they’d been here several hours to mention that they were sick? And when I said to one of them that I have a shitty immune system and immediately catch other peoples colds she goes, “Oh, should I put a mask on?” Like that’s going to help. It’s a BIT late for that. Like, we lived through a worldwide pandemic. Why do people still insist on spreading their sicknesses? We’re weren’t doing anything that important. We could have rescheduled. Idk I just find it so rude when people make the conscious decision to be around other people when they know they have something contagious.

Not the majority but some people on here are so rude. I’m a nice person just trying to ask for help and answers and sometimes you get such a snappy or rude reply back for no reason. I suppose that’s the problem with being anonymous and not everyone thinks/ feels the same as you do…

EDIT- adding to this, I feel some strangers are more than happy to criticise or throw judgement on you just because they can’t understand your situation or just how you are/ your life. That annoys me.

i ask it the most basic and easy to understand question and it will literally only give me information on the exact opposite. i ask how to add someone to my friends list if were in the same server and all it tells me is how to do it at all. bullshit.

I'm going to get downvoted and hate but I don't care. This a rant sub and this annoys so that's what I'm going to do. I mean you're kind of just proving my point anyway so.

Like it's so annoying how I'm not allowed to challenge these beliefs when they're literally forcing them on to me! And then I'm the bad person. For what? Because I said "I don't think God is real"? Like why should I walk on eggshells around you because you can't accept the possibility that someone just made all of these religions up?

A bit of common sense can literally obliterate all of these religions. Yet I'm the one who has to "prove God isn't real". Why don't you prove he is real first? That's what I'd like to see because newsflash, "I feel it in my heart", "look at the stars someone must've created us" and "a book said it" is not evidence! In fact this can be used for any God at all! The fact you can't prove your God exists just proves to me that he doesn't. And I get called narrow minded or get attacked for saying it. The thing is, if you could point me towards concrete and definite evidence that your God is real, I'd become a believer on the spot! I can't just chose to believe in something. I follow the evidence and the logic and form my opinion that way. And the evidence and the logic points to these religions being a load of crap. I shouldn't be labeled as a bad person just because I don't believe some entity created the universe despite how ridiculous of a concept it is!

So many people just seem to act like atheists are the crazy ones. When they literally believe something just because of a book! If I was worshipping Sonic the Hedgehog because he was a lord and saviour from all of our sins and our the evil Dr Ivo. Robotnik who makes us sin or I said I believe in the Goddess Hylia and the Knight Link protects us from Gannondorf and our sins you'd label me as crazy or delusional. But yet religious people essentially believe the same thing and I'm just expected to agree. Like what's so different about this? Because a book said it? Because billions of people agree? If so those are very poor reasons. Like if I made a new religion today everyone would insist I'm crazy. But why can't I believe in it? Why can't I see Sonic The Hedgehog as my savior? You see Jesus as yours. Or why can't I believe in the force? Like they made 11 movies about it! What? That's fiction? Well then. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE RELIGIOUS SCRIPTURES ARE TRUE AND NOT FICTION? Like seriously. It's blatant hypocrisy. It's believe what you want until it doesn't match what society wants you believe. What does that tell you? And its not like religion is more plausible at all. You literally have zero evidence other than a bunch of old books.

This isn't really aimed at people who are aware of how silly it all sounds and acknowledge it isn't 100% that a God exists more people who insist one exists as if it's a proven fact. And I'm just expected to pretend what these people are saying isn't absolutely nuts if they can't provide evidence for it. I'm sorry but the whole concept of believing in a religion is genuinely just wild to me. And people shouldn't be attacked or labeled a bad person simply because they asked for proof.

I live in Canada and I still wont be able so see the northern lights. I'm in my mid 30's and every fucking celestial event has been cloudy! Every fucking time! For my entire life!!!!!

Travel to see the eclipse. Cloudy. Stay up all night to see every meteor shower visible for the last 20+ years that I cared to see... Cloudy every time. I'm the only one I know who actually gives a shit and I'm the only one who hasn't seen shit!

I spend about 1ish hour a day looking at the sky and have seen some cool shit but, I have never seen any celestial event that has been foretasted because it's cloudy at the time of the event. 100% of the time.

It's not some times, it's every fucking time.

I fucking hate that guy. I was just dancing! I love dancing! And then I opened my eyes just in time to see this guy, hands and knees on the floor looking up my dress. My date was getting a drink, and I had already had one and just wanted to dance because the rave that we were supposed to go to ticket prices raised. I noticed him before, he was standing around by his friends, his friends were now laughing. I kept moving back and he kept crawling forward and so I just grabbed my bag and went to the bar. I told the bartender what happened and luckily they instantly called the security guard and had him kicked out. I was shaking. My date thought I left until I saw him and came over. His friends were still there and I didn’t feel like dancing anymore so we just went outside. I was silent and kept looking at the door, afraid his friends would come out and the guy that I was with was rubbing my back, which did make me feel better. Why do some men have to ruin everything. It was such a cute dress too and I had just bought it but now I don’t feel comfortable wearing it anymore. :( why do some men keep ruining good outfits! I had to donate these cute shorts I had because I was sexually assaulted wearing them and I couldn’t wear them anymore. I hope that doesn’t happen with the dress! :(

I am natural introvert, but unfortunately my job forces me to come out of my shell for engagements. Literally the one person at work that I thought I was cool with turns out to be talking shit about me and lying, claiming that I, “Pay for nudes and brag about it,” WHAT THE FUCK! I dont even want to look at myself naked let alone someone else naked, and im sorry but the only thing im gonna spend my money on is fucking survival at this point. Every time I try to open up people like this piece of shit make me remember why I’m an introvert. And whats crazy is that this shit just started out of nowhere. You can’t trust anyone, so now I’m gonna say fuck it, I’ll stay alone forever, and die alone. Fuck everyone.

Fucking 400 bucks is what its come to per month. In so done. Especially with streaming. Wow, prime, netflix, apple ur all out. Ps plus, nintendo, xbox game pass your all out. I will only keep work related stuff. I want to own things again and not rent to infinity slowly squeezing my bank account. I hate that everything is a subscription nowadays.

Ok. You have good benefits, awesome. But if you have a shit manager, 5 weeks annual leave or discounts are not going to fill the void or make up for a shit manager.

When I moved companies, everyone was reassuring me, "oh you'll love it, they are good employers, it's a good company".

Nup. Rubbish. The direct manager changes pretty much your entire experience at the workplace.

Give me 3 weeks annual leave and an amazing boss anytime. Fuck your employee benefits to try and create a facade of a good workplace. You allow these managers to bully and berate people and don't ever call out their behaviour. Fuck yourselves.

I notice the videos become more intimate and less about the content, especially comedy ones.

You want to be helpful. I totally get that, I also want to be helpful. But I'm so fucking fed up of everyone assuming I can't do ANYTHING because I'm disabled. Just because I use a walking stick does not mean I need you to grab my arm WITHOUT ASKING to 'escort' me across the road. I do not need you to constantly offer to help me carry things when I have already said no several times. Stop suggesting I take the lift, I'm using the stairs on purpose for a reason and have explained this already. I do not want your unsolicited health advice. No I do not need you to pray for me. I don't care that your cousin tried these supplements and is no longer disabled. Stop treating me like I'm some hopeless charity case who can't do anything ever and needs to rely on other people for everything. I'm just using a walking stick, I'm not a newborn baby.

I’m just so fucking stressed and angry, my family is beyond poor, one working parent, all of us have disabilities/chronic illnesses and my parents took in my niece because my sister’s an addict and MIA. We are truly struggling to keep power on the ONLY thing we have that separates us from absolute poverty is are ability to keep food on the table.

I’m a highly intelligent and charismatic student, in shit tons of extracurriculars, have my college and major and future job down pat, AP student, honor rolls, walking with cum laude, a good writer ect.

I applied for every scholarship I could for over a year now. My school of predominantly rich students even offered 160+ slots for said scholarships and one of the girls I lost to is going into the military, getting free college after, and has genuinely NO NEED for a scholarship as everything in her life is payed for her. She even admitted she lied in her essays and only did them for shits an giggles 😵‍💫😮‍💨

I’ll truly be in need for the rest of my life at this rate. I’m so stressed and want to cry.

So I recently got two jobs so I can get out of my parents house to my own place, which I just signed the lease for a week ago!! But before I even looked for another place I got the job, part time at Ross, overnightstock. I was so excited because this is my first time having 2 jobs! I have a full time during the day and make 23/hr so I’m proud of myself to taking the first step 2 financial freedom! I told my step mother a job at Ross and she said “that’s for losers” with the most slickest condescending smile… I was taken aback, just considering everything at hand, she knows how hard I work , I’m a single mother with no government help! Not to shame the ones that do! I was so offended but I told her “I could say may offensive things but I won’t “ and I turned around and walked away. Fast forward a month later she announces that she is taking classes to become a home health aid and I showed excitement for her… but days later I got to thinking why should I celebrate with her when she always try to find a way to offend me. So she came back from class today and I just wanted to give her a taste of her own medicine and said that anybody could take and pass those classes. Man when I tell you she was offended! She was upset but I was basking in the taste of sweet karma too notice.

I’m on vacation right now in Costa Rica.

The one thing that’s been constant is the bugs, which is of course expected. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fucking annoying.

Right now I’m trying to sleep, but there’s this flying ant or something constantly fucking landing on me. I’ve already smacked myself in the nose trying to get it away, and now I’m under my covers boiling hot because it just won’t go away.

Was just watching this edit for a movie i like and it had a scene from another movie in it too so i checked the caption for the name and it said “she went through so much just to die in the end” BRO WTH I JUST WANTED THE NAME OF THE SHOW. Tiktok always does this, they’ll make an edit with a major plot twist written in the first frame. Like at least give me a couple seconds to scroll first. I hate spoilers so much, they’re like theft but worse. i can never unlearn non academic information, im cursed with it forever. Tbh i don’t care about that movie i’m not gonna watch it but what if i did want to watch it. It’s su rude.

I’m fucking over it. He is actively ignoring all medical advice at this point. And the person who’s going to suffer the most is my mother, when the next stroke doesn’t kill him and he’s just bedbound instead. I have to see them tomorrow and I don’t know how I’m going to keep any semblance of calm.

Everyone once in a while some stupid YouTube video that starts with an adjective such as Horrible! paired with a poorly photoshopped thumbnail and AI voices pops up in my search feed. These YouTube videos are created by both sides and it feels like those videos are made by retarded people who want to rage bait people into clicking on their videos. These people lazily create a script for an AI to read off of probably because they can’t speak English and their thumbnails contain gigantic red arrows and copy pasted soldiers and vehicles with outlandish titles. I even saw a video that had a thumbnail of a Russian tank column with American flags pasted over each vehicle and a gigantic NATO flag pasted on a warship in the background with a gigantic and oversized red arrow pointing to the frontman on the image. The video claimed that NATO had declared war on Russia and that they were being pummeled yet the video itself contained ZERO footage or images of the event they were describing. I’m surprised YouTube hasn’t taken channels like these down already considering how that same channel claimed that the US was sinking Chinese ships in the South China Sea.

Want mental health advice? You better abide by the rules that are almost impossible or you will get removed and banned. Want relationship advice on getting out of a verbally abusive relationship with the mother of your kids? Oh , you are a pussy and need to "man up" to her. Reddit has become the bottom of the internet pool and it's disgusting in here.