While there are many reasons to keep your faith in humanity, there are some moments when we lose it completely. There are truly terrible people in the world who do God-awful things to others. Focusing just on them without seeing the kindness around us would be pessimistic, but it’s important to be aware of just how deep some people’s evil really goes. In short, being aware of the darker aspects of life gives us a more nuanced picture.
And there’s hardly a better place to see some things that might make your blood boil than the ‘Extremely Infuriating’ subreddit. It’s a 91.7k-member-strong online community that has been showing the internet the dark side of humanity all the way since 2012. Scroll down below for some of the worst things you’re likely to read all week. Let us know in the comments which of these things shocked you the most, Pandas. And if you’re up for it, tell us how you personally deal with negative news like this.
(Warning: this list really isn’t for you if you have high blood pressure and if you’d like to relax. For those that need some sunshine in your lives, we suggest you check out Bored Panda’s recent article about silly animals doing cute nonsense things right here.)
Bored Panda wanted to understand why we’re so fascinated by some of the darker aspects of humanity and why being angry all the time might be bad for us, so we reached out to Suzanne Degges-White, a Licensed Counselor, Professor, and Chair at the Department of Counseling and Higher Education at Northern Illinois University.
“When it comes to hearing information about the darker aspects of humanity, our brains experience greater stimulation when we hear stories of depravity than of kindness. It also has a ‘feel-good aspect’ for some folks as it normalizes and minimizes their own dark aspects or negative traits,” the professor explained to Bored Panda why negative, dark, evil-related content might appeal to people.
#1 Beekeeper’s Life Work Destroyed By Arsonists Who Trashed His Hives, Sheds And Greenhouse
He spent 20 years creating a bee that was able to survive attacks from a killer mite.
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#2 I Really Hate Poachers
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#3 Swan ‘Dies From A Broken Heart’ After Teenagers Destroy Nest And Eggs
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#4 Kenya’s Only Female White Giraffe And Her Calf Killed By Poachers
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#5 People Who Park In The Handicap Lines
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#6 Seaworld
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#7 Ugh
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#8 If Only Fruits Came With A Natural Seal Or Covering
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#9 Makes Sense Everyone Knows Kids Can Photosynthesize
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#10 Someone In My Hometown Plants Razors In Sausages Just To Be Cruel To The Local Dogs
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#11 Plastic Is The New Paper!
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#12 First Day Of Lockdown Restrictions Eased
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#13 Who Broke Quarantine To Steal A Bike
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#14 My Mom’s Boyfriend Threw Away My 9 Year Old Collection Of LEGO Just Because I Hadn’t Played With It In A While. There Are Sets From The 1990s In There And Also Sets In The Harry Potter Series
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#15 Parent Deletes Their Child’s Steam Account (Maybe The New Most Hated Person)
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#16 This Is Unreal
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#17 Kid Destroys $15,000 LEGO Sculpture An Hour After New Exhibit Opens
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#18 A Drunk Driver Drove Into My Parents Home. Truck Landed On My Brothers Bed While He Was Sleeping
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#19 The Beach Near My House After The Tourist Left
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#20 App Doesn’t Let You Tip What You Want
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#21 This Is Not The Way To Do It Y’all
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#22 I Feel The Pain Coming Through The Screen
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#23 Somebody Put Chewing Gum In The USB-Outlets On The Bus
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#24 Was This Necessary?
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#25 I Let My Sister Borrow My Laptop Last Night, Woke Up To This
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#26 Thank Mailman, Who Said Reading Is Essential??
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#27 This Pressure Washing Job
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#28 The “Window Seat” I Paid Extra To Book Ahead Of Time On My 13 Hour Flight
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#29 What My Cousin Did To My Newton’s Cradle
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#30 Really?
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#31 A Road Was Built To Go Through These Castle Ruins (Kajaani, Finland)
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#32 This Is Infuriating
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#33 My School Disabled Offline Editing And I Can’t Do My Work
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#34 How The Hell Does This Count As A Lunch?
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#35 Why Even Get My Missing Assignments Done If The Best I Can Get Is 22%
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#36 The Way My Sister Eats Pizza
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