One very insightful human being named Samuel Beckett wrote: “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” This quote is from the play Endgame, and whilst it may turn your head in puzzlement, it’s quite simple—bad things happen, we go “ha-ha,” mostly because that’s the best we can do at the moment.
And so with that, we enter the chaotic realm of Twitter, where people gather to make sense of daily life through short bits of commentary. Some of it makes us chuckle, some makes us think that the asteroid is long overdue. One Facebook page is set up with the purpose to find and share the best of the worst and worst of the best tweets to have ever existed.
This page is fittingly called “The Best and Worst Of Twitter 2,” run by comedian Trev Lewis, who was kind enough to answer some of Bored Panda’s questions. We’ve spoken with Trev on multiple occasions; one of our previous articles can be found here, and another here.
As you continue scrolling through, don’t forget to upvote your favorites and leave some comments for us all to enjoy! Now let’s get into it!
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“As humans are at once both righteous and sinful, so human existence is at once both heartbreaking and hilarious,” Carl R. Trueman put it. I love quotes. There’s nothing better than an intelligent person leaving their mark on the world with a short message. Every day, 867 million of such messages enter the wonderful world of Twitter.
Wonderful may be an overstatement, as Twitter houses some of the most unhinged, honest, and curious people that exist. Comedian Trev Lewis has gone on a mission to collect some of the most interesting and hilarious tweets to ever exist, posting them on his page “The Best and Worst Of Twitter 2.”
We reached out to Trev to get his opinions on the new and not-so-improved Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover, as well as to understand how important it is for us humans to embrace the funny side of life.
To back it up a bit to a time not-so-long-ago, Trev told Bored Panda that he was conflicted about Musk acquiring Twitter. "Musk has a long history of buying his way into companies and then running them badly," he said, describing the common occurrence of a burning Tesla grazing the ponds of Twitter, as though a metaphor of sorts. You know how the saying goes: If it ain’t broke, don’t get Musk involved. But they did.
Now, a few months after it all transpired, we can all agree that “it’s a hot mess.” “I predicted Musk would run Twitter poorly, but he's performed beneath even my lowest expectations,” Trev said. From major updates on the daily, to Musk’s conduct on the platform, it clearly shows that he “fundamentally has no idea what he is doing. Twitter feels different in many ways now.”
For someone like Trev, who uses Twitter to curate content for other online communities, he’s been finding it much more difficult to source authentic content, as bot farms have been allowed to push their stuff to the forefront. “The good stuff is still there, and I still consider it my favorite social media site, it just takes a lot more effort to navigate,” he explained.
I’m missing the fight or flight response… I have the flappy-flailing-arms-just-like-I-walked-into-a-spider-web-and-curse-a-lot response.
No idea....I was under the impression "plus one" could be literally any other human you want to bring.
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This! I wasn't allowed to bring my bestie to a christmas party. I asked why everyone else was allowed to bring someone and they said that only romantic partners are allowed. I sat alone the entire night just because I don't have partner.
Don't waste your time with those idiots, next time spend the time with your bestie.
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I've been on my own during several weddings. Only once was I allowed to bring someone (I bought my sister and it was such a fun evening). I need a person during these events. Otherwise my entire day will be spent thinking who to sit with next, not to spend too much time with the bride (my friend who invited me), not to seem too alone, not to be pushing my company onto people, weddings are so exhausting because of this. I just need a person. Just one.
To me a plus one is anybody. Hell, bring your mom for all I care, bring your next door neighbor's kid...
Yes, or their kid. Or pet. In fact, are plus ones even necessary? I feel like that's an American thing, but idk. Where I come from, people just show up. Even strangers may show up.
friends of mine gave me this option for their engagement party/meal. Was extremely grateful but everyone there assumed we were a couple
In my single days, if I wasnt allowed a friend at least my emotional support goldie joined me or I cancelled. Not enduring formal stuff alone.
You know I thought "goldfish" at first, made me wonder
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Like this one. Have had so many bridzillas that always say the the plus one needs to be a partner or a lover. One time our mom was invited to a wedding and was recently divorced so she brought her best friend as a plus one. The bride at first made a HUGE stink saying "you are not a lesbian why would you lie to people like that? And if this is you coming out, how could you take away from my big day" mom just replied with "she's my best friend. I said i was coming with a plus one and got divorced (thank heavens) so not to put you in a bid with the quick change i just brought my best friend." The bride went into more of a tizzy freaking out about her vibe and that a freshly divorced woman at her wedding could curse her and her husband. Annd then ahd the gul to say that our mom should've got a "fake husband" for the wedding as to not cause confusion. Our mom's best friend toook that and ran with it for the whole rest of the wedding, she started saying "hello! I'm _____ fake husband!"
Also, normalize not having to bring a plus one at all, romantic or platonic. Even as someone who is married, I’ve gone to friends weddings alone because of scheduling conflicts with other social events, work, child care, etc. And you know what? I, and everyone else, had a great time.
Who the fv6k doesn't let single people bring a plus 1? That's rude. I'm happy I fmdont have "friends" like that!!
I took my mom once as my plus one cause my husband couldn't go. It was no big deal.
Just don't ask permission. What can they say? If they allow a plus 1, it can be anyone. I never assumed it meant romantic relationships only
A few years ago, my bf invited me to a dinner/work function event she had to attend. She wasn't dating anybody and was super embarrassed to go alone. We spent the entire evening telling her coworkers that we were "just friends". Her boss scolded her afterwards and said that only spouses or partners were expected at dinner. Same thing happened the next year at a convention in Iowa. She didn't want to drive out of state alone and it just so happened that I had an appointment to see a Dr at a hospital, in the same city, the day before. So, naturally it made sense to share the ride and check into the same hotel, right?Her boss saw us, but this time I was invited to dinner because obviously we were lovers. The next year, she went alone. The year after that, she earned a trip for two to Hawaii. Again, without a boyfriend, she chose to take her neighbor and passed her off as her mother because some of her other coworkers had earned the trip too and would be there!
"Normalize..." is my least favorite way to be presented with an idea
I'm taking my bestie to my sister wedding and my sister even said to!
At my daughter's wedding, my BFF's son brought their ride as his plus one.
I've attended a wedding I only got a Facebook invite for but I would not attend a wedding that chose to give plus ones to some guests and not others unless it was based on how well the couple knew them. If you're going to compel people to come to your party (with an expensive gift) by treating non-attendance like an insult, then you can't force them to sit alone surrounded by strangers watching all the "happy couples" (most of whom will break up or divorce). I've had to sit with the bride's parents & MOH's parents before, never again.
I almost dropped out of a family wedding over this very issue. because I wanted my BFF to be there, but was told no because we weren't "in" a relationship. Excuse me. She is my BFF, my chosen sister, and very much my other half. The fact we had no interest in a romantic relationship in no way invalidates our relationship.
How about also normalizing not needing a plus one. Is it likely you would be invited to a wedding but not know any of the other guests? What's so wrong with going alone? When I got married, I didn't really specify, I just asked how many I should expect. Lot of my cousins found it easier to travel together with no pressure of bringing a date. A few single ones brought a friend because life long friends are part of the family more than a new romance.
Always found it utterly strange that one was required to have a plus one. Not in my range of logic I’m afraid. Going alone was always acceptable in my strata.
During college, a fair share of my neighborhood friends skipped continued education and instead fast tracked to marriage, home & kids. I was a mostly single, out (since 13) gay male. Several wedding invites didn’t include a plus 1 for me even when they did for other friends who left to uni. Every time I asked, the answer was either “I just assumed you were single being in college and all” or “I just don’t wanna have THAT kinda distraction on my big day.” I only ever attended weddings where I had a +1. The irony is that I grew up in Eureka Valley in San Francisco. Better known as “The Castro.”
Yes- I had an opposite gender best friend who was my plus one for many big family events
The vast majority of people do eventually want them though. So tolerate yes, but normalize no.
Something about the wording of this makes me imagine you secretly fuming at somebody who brought their best friend to a wedding. Tolerate maybe wasn't the right word haha. Just thought it was funny
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why bring a plus one ? weddings are expensive, come alone like a good independant friend
As a single person simply avoid couple partys at all, if they would want you there they wouldn't only invite couples an + you. They just want one person that is single so they feel better in their crappy relationship with the person they don't love.
The future of Twitter is an uncertain one, but Trev still has hope for it, as long as its leadership is sorted out. “I think Twitter will quickly fall under the leadership of someone new, and then it will more closely resemble the pre-Musked version of the platform,” he said. “It's simply too popular to completely fade away. We've seen Tumblr experience its own renaissance recently.”
“Twitter is far more crucial to the zeitgeist than something like Tumblr,” Trev continued. “It has powerful and influential people on it. There's nothing else like it in the increasingly video-centric social media arena. People simply love to log onto Twitter and see what the world is talking about. So, I'm fairly confident it will find a path forward.” We sure hope so, but I think it’s time we returned back to the funny side of things.
Tragedy and humor are two tropes that will continue to define humanity. If you’re trying to find purpose, it’ll be somewhere on that spectrum. Trev believes that humor is “the most powerful and natural coping mechanism we have,” explaining that’s something we not only enjoy, but also need. “That’s why so much of the internet is centered on making people laugh,” he said. “That’s why I try my best to create spaces online where people can reliably find something to laugh at and brighten their day.”
My kids asked that when their dad had been away for a few days and they suddenly saw that the car wasnt in the garage 🤣
This may get me downvoted into oblivion, but I do support medical testing of animals when needed. All of the life saving meds we use have at some stage been tested on animals. If we where to start the testing directly on humans very few meds would make it (or very few test subjects). I have several times been part of medical trials of new meds and vaccines and I can willingly say I wouldnt do that if it animals hadnt takem the first rounds so we at least know something about possible side effects. Animal medical testing should be used with caution and respect, but I will not say to a terminally sick kid that the medicine that might have saved them is still in the lab due to a ban on animal testing.
Current information states that pregnant people can have 200mg caffeine daily.
To go back to the perplexing quote at the very beginning of this article—“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness”—we can see the interpolation of the two. Humor can be emphasized by objectively ridiculing unhappy events in order to relieve the tragic feelings, states Arisa Tohma in her discussion of the play. The narrow line between tragedy and hilarity makes for an interesting dynamic, in which both sides share two sides of the same serious truth.
Dorion Sagan in his essay “The Human is More than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New ‘Facts of Life’” argues that it’s not possible to understand life without understanding the role of energy, and although he speaks on the need for humans to live more in tune with nature and its cycles, I found this idea to be quite interesting.
Our body stores all sorts of information in the form of energy, most of which we don’t think too much about. We’re often taught to bury our pain and soldier on, and, according to Healthline, this can lead to repressed emotions, also known as unconscious avoidance over time. Ever feel like you need to cry, scream, laugh, punch a pillow, or dance it out? Then you should probably do so.
We’re all just batteries full of anxieties, random spouts of happiness, and the craving for mac n’ cheese. Why not have a laugh, because crying makes the eyes quite sore. And if you laugh hard enough you cry—it’s a massive win!
Remember kids, if you study a lot, be a good kid, then work hard, your boss might go to space!
As the New Year is right around the corner, we asked Trev to give a little message to his fans and to our readers: “I wish for my followers to find this year more stable and rewarding than recent ones. We’ve all been through so much lately, with various world events assaulting our wellbeing. Even if the world doesn’t dramatically improve itself, it’s my hope that we all grow stronger and learn how to better manage everything it throws at us.”
“I believe this is within our grasp, no matter how great our challenges going forward may be. And I hope that the content I create and curate can be one small part of how people manage that day-to-day stress. I’ll continue doing my best to make that happen.”
Make sure you give “The Best and Worst Of Twitter 2” and Trev himself a follow on Facebook. And if you’d like to see more of what Trev’s up to, he’s also got a podcast and a YouTube channel called 'Trev Show' where he discusses present-day issues and memorable events.
As you continue scrolling through this list, don’t forget to upvote your favorites and leave some nice comments for us and your fellow Pandas to find. Life is all about having a long hearty laugh at all the things you can’t control, then getting back to washing the dishes. Hope you have a lovely day and a wonderful upcoming New Year!
Aha! Roscoe the pug! This was on BP before too… I love mystery puggo Roscoe 🤣
Also, locks have a way to know when EXACTLY you need them open, and fast. (Source: me, being locked in the spaceship basement with a possibility of having a deranged alien virus hidden in that weird taxidermy of an alien giant amoeba.)
You are in water hooman!!!! It's ok I will save you! I told you not to go back near the bad rain box
Nah it was the best response you could give. You're a human being if they don't realize you don't need to care about thier problems.
Just imagine everyone being rounded up from their cubicles because it's Field Day.
Dave Grohl made a good comment about it, basically saying stars don't come from such shows but from playing bad sounding songs with cheap instruments in shady places till you get better
Whew I thought you were going to say "Iowa" and then I was going to say "Them's fighting words, also, people = s**t"
We do have this in our home. Seperate bedrooms decorated the way we like, with seperate beds. I'm an insomniac that has a hard time getting to sleep and my husband falls asleep immediately, starts snoring & has restless leg syndrome.... yep.
Good riddance, I’ll never forget the time he locked my family in a tower and told me to beg for my life in Spanish
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I came online to figure out how to solve my math homework and somehow ended up here. Those lost 20 minutes were worth it
As you posted this 10 hours ago, can you give us an update? Did you end up getting back to your maths?
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Wanna know a thought I had? Papaya. That's it I'm going to bed
thank u for blessing my day with that word. it's now going on my favorite words list
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I just spent two minutes trying to figure out what the joke was for one of the posts until realizing it was an ad 😭😭😭
*gets hogwarts toilet seat in mail* "this was not for me..."
Load More Replies... I came online to figure out how to solve my math homework and somehow ended up here. Those lost 20 minutes were worth it
As you posted this 10 hours ago, can you give us an update? Did you end up getting back to your maths?
Load More Replies... Wanna know a thought I had? Papaya. That's it I'm going to bed
thank u for blessing my day with that word. it's now going on my favorite words list
Load More Replies... I just spent two minutes trying to figure out what the joke was for one of the posts until realizing it was an ad 😭😭😭
*gets hogwarts toilet seat in mail* "this was not for me..."
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