Nowadays, it’s hard not to spend time on the internet. We go online to read the news, keep up with our friends and family members, find entertainment and to understand the latest trends. But if you catch yourself speaking in more meme and TikTok references than coherent sentences, it might be time to log off and get some fresh air.
Being chronically online is a sneaky illness that creeps up on us when we least expect it, but thankfully, there is a cure: spending time offline. Below, Bored Panda has gathered some of the most facepalm worthy posts from folks who could certainly be diagnosed as chronically online to serve as a warning sign that it’s never too late to go outside and touch some grass. Keep reading to find a conversation with Eric Simons of the Chronically Online podcast, and remember to log off social media before this insidious illness gets to you too!
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Chronically Online Suicide
I feel like if you "unalive" yourself, you've already cancelled yourself ETA quotations around unalive since it wasn't clear that I was using it as satire and not seriously
God Im so sick of this weird trend of saying "unalive"
Load More Replies...I just tainted my search history by looking up the names of characters from Irish Celtic legends who did themselves in, just to prove this moron extra wrong. Anyway, I think it's a pretty safe bet depressed teenagers in, say, modern Japan also sometimes decide to end it all and it's got nothing to do with honour and everything to do with not wanting to be alive. How goddamn insensitive can you get?
In Canada, there's a high rate in Indigenous young people. In India, it's farmers in debt. The poster's an idiot and got called out. Here's one response: https://twitter.com/LovelyMrPitiful/status/1655241909072277504/photo/1
Load More Replies...Hate how they put "depressed" in speech marks! This goes to show that there still needs to be some education around mental health and preventing suicide.
Wow, the mental gymnastics involved to come up with that tweet. Just... wow!
Eyupp, that's Twitter... Working out? Alt-Right behaviour! Hiking? Racist towards PoC! Men breathing while sleeping next to their partner? Misogyny! (I wish I would be joking, but those are serious takes on there)
lmao suicide is not respectful of the person that's dead. This is horrifically awful. I say this as a survivor of about six attempts. Suicide is not respectful or a 'high note' wtf this woman smoking fr.
Nothing is new morons. Everybody has done everything. Vikings had braids without ever meeting a black person as just one example.
Worrying about cultural appropriation is the stupidest thing in the world. Must be nice to have all that free time to bïtch about people liking things that others do and adopting it for for themselves.
According to Oberlo, internet users around the world spend an average of 399.5 minutes every single day online. In South Africa, the average person who uses the internet is online for a whopping 567 minutes per day, while Brazilians with internet access tend to spend 555 minutes each day surfing the web. At over nine hours each day on the internet, I think those people could qualify as “chronically online.”
To learn more about what it means to be chronically online, we reached out to an expert on the topic, Eric Simons, co-host of the Chronically Online podcast. “Chronically online is an insult. It refers to a person who is always online, lacks any real-world interaction, and forms their entire worldview from their phone,” Eric explained.
“You will see it used in a comment section to tell someone they don't have a life. The accused ‘chronically online’ individuals are also often told to ‘touch grass,’” the host continued. “That means go outside and experience the real world. Daniel and I chose the podcast name ‘Chronically Online’ to be tongue-in-cheek, but we fit the description. Overall, the term is negative.”
Touch Grass
I am white with brown eyes. It feels good to feel exceptional... for once.
I'm also white with brown eyes. That makes all 3,621,931,437 of us exceptional.
Load More Replies...The anthropologist, Peter Frost, studied eye colour, and hair colour. The norm for humanity is black hair and dark brown eyes. White Europeans (and those with European ancestors) display the greatest range of eye and hair colours. However, even amongst white Europeans, the norm is for brown eyes. http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html
Indeed. Even though the common brown among Europeans is paler than the dark brown of most people of the world. I guess the author of this weird question has never heard about genetics.
Load More Replies...I'm a kind of pinkish/creamish color, with hazel eyes. Bouche is a silver grey tabby with yellow eyes, and Audi is a golden grey tabby with green eyes. The moth Audi is chasing is a pale brownish color, but I've not seen its eyes.
My cousin his half Afro-American (is this still a politically correct word? 😳) She has dark skin and blue eyes. It’s a beautiful mix of genes! I am naturally blonde with bland boring grey eyes and got rather dark eyebrows…. We are 25% blood related (same grandparents) and look nothing alike. Funny though: character-wise we are almost clones! 😂😍💕👍🏻
Love your grey eyes! I do :) mine appear to change from blue-grey to green-grey depending on what I'm wearing and my hair colour/make-up. Grey eyes aren't so common. Dark skin and blue eyes sounds incredibly striking!
Load More Replies...I Like that! And there are so many different hues… from light gold to amber and deep chestnut ale brown! 😉👍🏻
Load More Replies...I have green, brown and grey eyes, apparently they get more green when I'm hung over.
Pffft…this guy believes in eyes. Eyes are just a myth by BigGlasses to get people to see stuff and buy their products.
Despite the term not being a compliment, Eric jokingly argues that it probably is one of the least harmful addictions we can have. “Think about it. By the time you tell someone they are chronically on fentanyl, they’re a goner,” he told Bored Panda. “But to be serious, being chronically online is unhealthy. You can fall behind in school or at work when you are glued to the screen. It can also affect your physical health when you trade exercising for arguing with people in the comments sections of cat videos.”
“A psychologist will have to tell you what living in a bubble of algorithm-tuned content does to the brain,” Eric continued. “Nothing good, I bet. But hey, back in the old days, people were outside all the time and would get kicked by horses. So I ask you, which is healthier: too much internet or a horse kick?”
This Woman Who Thinks The Sky Is A Tiktok Background
Clouds we have plenty of. It is the blue bit we are lacking!
Load More Replies...Like one kid said in the zoo: Mommy,those seals are 3D,like in my video game...
I promise somebody has added that sort of background by using something like this: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/clouds-on-sky-royalty-free-image/184103864
Eric also says he believes the younger generations are more prone to being chronically online, but that doesn’t necessarily mean society will be worse off. “Some individuals may be more prone to develop internet addiction that negatively affects their lives, but overall, the younger generations will be able to reach a stable level of internet usage,” the host says. “They will adapt. We are already adapting.”
And if you’re looking for a cure for “chronic online-itis,” Eric says he knows just the thing. “Find a hobby that does two things. First, it gets you out of the house. Second, it involves interacting with other people. For Dan and I, that hobby is stand up comedy,” he shared with Bored Panda. “We are out there on stage facing the real world every night. The joy of landing jokes and the pain of bombing are as real as real life gets. And the comedy community? Our local scene is top-notch. It's a supportive, diverse circle that adds much needed perspectives to my world view.”
It Was All A Conspiracy To Make Gamers Touch Grass
No conspiracy here, this is just a humorous comment about Overwatch 2 which is apparently the most blatant money grab (coupled with a buggy game) that Acti/Blizzard have put out. Currently rated about 10% on Steam. *OOF!*
I ran across a listing for it a couple days ago and it was rated about 12%....good to see it's still dropping!
Load More Replies...“The more community-based your hobby the better,” Eric added. “I see rock-climbing and hiking have strong communities. They have the added bonus of being great for physical health. For me personally, as an internet addict with an itch to create my own viral videos, I found enriching connections in filmmaking circles.”
“For getting a diversified perspective on the world, volunteering can really help, because you meet a wide range of people from different backgrounds and with varied personalities,” the host continued. “Starting a local group to pick up litter at a park or nature preserve in your area is my go-to volunteering suggestion. The planet will thank you too.”
And if you’d like to hear more from Eric about what it means to be chronically online, he urges readers to let him and Dan be “your chronically online friends who keep you updated on internet trends.” You can find their podcast right here!
Vegan Lions
she is right, lions should follow a vegan diet .. as in .. eat vegans
Are they free-range vegans?
Load More Replies...At least this one is a person complaining about the video they saw. I assume the girl in the shot doesn't actually believe it...
I'm not vegan and I certainly don't treat my dogs as such, but they are omnivores and they love (some) vegetables. Carrots especially make them happy. Cats not so much.
Load More Replies...I agree lions should take up a vegan diet. Eat 3 vegans a day lions, please.
Given that I have seen people unironically believe that all animals were living in harmony as vegans until humans taught predators how to eat meat...
That Vegan Teacher is the cause of this belief. Mind you, she also believes all animals bred for consumption will "vanish" if we would just stop eating them.
Load More Replies...The factory farming industry absolutely needs to be more humane, but I feel like these anti-food chain vegans are one step away from becoming the kind of loons who decide they are plants and can survive solely on water and sunlight.
I think we should push them there and let the problem take care of itself. (Totally agree re factory farming though, just to be clear.)
Load More Replies...I don't like how these animals are killing and eating each other like that. They should have the decency to go to the store and buy food just like us!
Chronically Online Vampire Girl
I mean, I’m also sick of mortals… I just know I’m one of them too XD
Hell, I'm sick of mortals, gods and fictitious creatures at this point. Someone please tell the OP about Porphyria. Oh, and that she does not sparkle.
Load More Replies...She's lucky they didn't just run with an Assault charge. I'm ok with people wanting to do their own thing (being furries for example). I might privately think it's weird but you do you. Until it starts harming other people. And before anyone asks, NO, a "vamphobic slur" doesn't justify her in biting someone.
There are worse things than tetanus that can happen from a human bite, our mouth biome is surprisingly dangerous for others
She probably had to get a tetanus shot, which I’m assuming she did because Vampira broke the skin with her bite. I’d sue for assault too, if someone did that to my kid, and I’m not a lawyer.
Load More Replies...Seriously, me too. What the hell would be considered a "vamphobic slur"...fangbanger?
Load More Replies...Is it? Some people identify as trees. CNN just put our an article about "neopronouns" including things like "leaf" too. This is sadly reality now.
Load More Replies...I think it's more scary that this person *actually* believes they're a vampire....
A human bite is not likely to give you tetanus. Tetanus tends to come from puncture wounds (narrow opening and deep), typically from stepping on a rusty nail or something with a similar environment for the tetanus bacteria to grow. LOTS of nasties from a human bite that breaks the skin but tetanus really ain't your main concern.
That was my thought also. Humam mouth doesn't seem like a place tetanus would flourish
Load More Replies...While being chronically online is usually nothing to worry about, and is of course, not something that a doctor would actually diagnose, there are a few signs to look out for to remind yourself that it might be time to log off for a while. According to Katie Rees at Make Use Of, spending too much time on the internet might start to become a problem if you’re skipping appointments or events to spend more time online, being sedentary for hours at a time on the internet, prioritizing your online life over staying fueled and hydrated, losing touch with friends and family members in real life, or if you know more about online culture than real world events.
Some of the ways you can combat becoming too chronically online are by using distraction-blocking apps on your devices, keeping a solid schedule to avoid becoming bored and scrolling online, limiting or deleting your social media accounts, turning off notifications for non-essential apps, making regular plans with your friends and family members and finding interests and hobbies to pursue that don’t involve being online.
The Twitter Immigration Is Real!
I have many followers, but they always seem to have a flashing light on the roof of their car.
So, I don't really do social media. But dude wants to see how many followers everyone else has, so he can base his own self worth off it?
Seems like it. He’s “better” than those with lower follower counts. And probably tries to win any argument with, “what do you know? You only have xx followers. I have xxx.”
Load More Replies...When I first signed up BP would email me all the times people 'liked' my comments but I got tired of how popular I was and turned it off. THAT'S RIGHT! I just VOLUNTARILY ENTERED MYSELF into this horrible people list 🙃
Wtf
Where are these people who believe that the homeless might be millionaires in disguise?
Load More Replies...I recognize the language as English but the words....the combination....I am lost.
Load More Replies...It’s a new social experiment and you failed, you have to give 50 bucks now! So go back and try again!
Blue Checks Need To Touch Grass
...but I'm gay? And not sexually attracted to female family members or female friends. I'm a freak of nature and I'd love to continue living in this "fairytale world" 🤪
I'm an aro ace woman and one of my friends is an aro ace man. For some strange reason the relationship has remained platonic.
One of you is clearly trans and you just don't know it yet. /s
Load More Replies...People who are not men or women *also visibly confused*
Load More Replies...I know what he means but when you think about it... Every relationship between men and women is a relationship between two sexes. Yes, I'm bored. Can my shift be over.
I’m sure he thinks they just haven’t tried to f*ck the right person yet 🙃
Load More Replies...One of the reasons why slipping into being chronically online is so easy is because there’s always something new to see online. We have unlimited access to news, and there are constantly new posts being shared on social media and fresh YouTube videos to watch. We naturally want to keep up with the trends, share the latest hilarious memes and keep in constant contact with our friends. But when prioritizing internet culture starts to impact our real lives, it’s important to remind ourselves why we need some time offline every now and then too. Logging off every now and then can be a nice reset to remind ourselves that what’s happening online isn’t always real. “Girl dinner” is just eating food, and your relationship doesn’t have to be chronicled on Instagram and TikTok to be valid.
This Person Who Made A Sweeping Generalization About Men Who Don't Like Cats
Most cats don't like cats though. I even used to have a cat who didn't like animals in general.
Load More Replies...There actually is a saying about people that don't like cats (excluding people allergic to them) is because they cannot be controlled easily, they aren't a puppet and are independent. From the people I know who didn't like cats, there could be a link but I also know a narcissist that liked cats. I disagree about making it a gender thing though.
I always say, it’s because you have to earn a cats love and respect. I like both animals but I’d say I’m a cat person more, I can’t handle the clingy ‘always happy to see me’ , in your face kinda thing though with dogs (and kids 😂) so I don’t have.
Load More Replies...Who are the men (and women) who actually can control cats? And why aren't they running the UN?
My main reason for not wanting a house cat is the poop box. Does she poop in a box that I'm required to clean? Because if so, she's got a point.
Do you like to control women, or women who are controlling? There is just so much to unpick here.
Some soft can-openers are more equal than others.
Bouche and Audi would probably hate me. I'm allergic to cats, but as I've gotten older, I've learned that I CAN be around them, but not to touch my face or ears without washing my hands. I love cats, just not in the position to have more than one. I say more than one because I've heard getting 2 is a good idea.
Load More Replies...the logic here is sound people who dont like salt, boxes, crabs, tissues wood are all red flags
I have a wife and I have two cats. I can’t control any of them, and I love them all.
Stop Touching Grass
Wait, wait, wait. Tinder has a thing that suggests what you say? (I’ve married to the same guy for the last 23 years, so never used it). That’s the most online dating thing I’ve ever heard! Bwahahaha!
"You're not hiding away in bed surrounded by cereal bowls and pizza boxes. This outside s**t ain't you, fam!"
Well, I mean, if your Tinder match is stalking you and currently standing outside your window, this message might scare them off your property? :D
Outdoors is overrated. Now the bed, the bed with some BP, that is some good stuff…(joking but not joking)
This Can't Be Real
Yeah! Knock it off with all that joy. /s
Load More Replies...I've heard of those "not Americans". Unbelievable right?
Load More Replies...Maybe she is happy because she don't read news? I always feel better when I don't read them for a while
Same! Whenever I feel that I'm getting mentally overwhelmed, I only read news about weather and avoid anything that I *know* will annoy me.
Load More Replies...So we should never be happy again, because there's always something bad happening in the world. Good to know 😄
Load More Replies...Zach de la Rocha chooses his hills to die on. It's a conscious thing. Try to feel happy when you get the opportunity. Rage against injustice when you feel strong enough.
Perhaps they are one of the dozens of people around the globe that aren't American?
Poor thing can’t even celebrate feeling good for a change without some 🫏🕳️ trying to take it all away. This is why we shouldn’t post EVERYTHING on social media, as some people will wanna twist it, wreck it, invalidate it, or all those things at once. 😕
Spending time off of the internet can also be a great way to boost your creativity. When we’re bombarded with memes, social media posts and news headlines, we don’t have to think. We can just absorb endless amounts of information. But when we stop and spend some time with our thoughts, we might be inspired to create something new. If we actually allow ourselves to become bored for a moment, we might have some original thoughts for once. Without seeing the views and thoughts of influencers, you might have a fresh perspective on life.
This Is So Chronically Online
Hmm, easier to know who has a large supply of expensive AV equipment laying around and you can even case the joint remotely!
Holy f**k guys, it was a satirical prank website from a local visual artist. Get a grip and, as Abraham Lincoln said, "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!" https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Blue-Check-Homes-SF-artist-prank-verified-Twitter-15918854.php
Why in “THE HELL” would I actually want people to know such a thing of me? UGG!🤦♀️😳
Hey Guys Don’t Go To The Beach Or You’re Promoting Global Warming😡😡
I’ve lived in a beach town my whole life. Guess I’m promoting/celebrating global warming.
How the heck do you do enough mental gymnastics to work misogyny and consumerism into a rant about climate problems? I mean it's bad enough they're ripping on people who are just happy to see summer come back around to start, but then to add that in?
“Brands use” hot girl summer” to promote bikinis and swimwear and also diet culture to women and that’s misogynist and consumerist” when women are just trying to feel good about themselves in a bikini in summer
Load More Replies...Tic Tacs are a one and a half calorie breath mint/candy that comes in a neat little dispenser box. Many of them are quite nice.
Load More Replies...Ignorance: We can eliminate it in our lifetime. For just $19 month I can buy noise cancelling headphones and a small house in Alaska and never have to deal with this nonsense again.
The initial snap (or whatever that is) made me roll my eyes. The reply gave me diarrhea
Enjoying summer is misogynistic? How does that work? I have so many questions. 🤔🫤
Oh My Godddd
*me spending 10 minutes wondering what being gay has to do with multilevel marketing*
Well you see, much like a pyramid, there's a top and a bottom.
Load More Replies...So we've gone past the point where everyone is free to label themselves as they see fit and now we need to correctly label ourselves as some arbitrary judge decides? This is why people are getting frustrating with modern culture.
I confess I preferred the days when we were all striving to get rid of labels as they were seen as limiting, though I honestly don't mine if people do want to label themselves. Live and let live seems to be such a problem for far too many people.
Load More Replies...I'm assuming mlm means "man likes men" or something like that but at first I read it as "multilevel marketing" and was confused what pyramid schemes had to do with it
I thought it was the sound a cat makes drinking milk.
Load More Replies...The majority of queer people don't claim people like this
Wait, people are telling other people what they can be and what they can't be???
Since when ist the Term homosexual outdated? It is more neutral as mlm because there is no gender in it. And If I would like to refer to myself as a cheescake being it would be okay. That is my thing alone, isn't it?
Load More Replies...I—wha—it-it’s just a more scientific term! Living offended by every little thing like this is not a good way to live. You either accept it, ignore it, or laugh at it, and then move on in your day.
How in the world is this offensive?! I hope I won't be alive anymore if the world gets to a point where no one knows what to call anything anymore... >.<
If "heterosexual" isn't offensive, "homosexual" shouldn't be either.
Spending less time online might also translate to having more time for things you enjoy. You can prepare a fresh, home cooked meal for your family and spend hours chatting outside while your phone is perfectly fine without you. You can be more present in conversations when you’re not distracted with notifications, and you might finally be able to finish that project you started months ago that you “never have time” for. Logging off might also make you feel less stressed. We tend to compare ourselves to others when we spend too much time on social media, but when we take a break and really allow ourselves to be present in real life, we’re reminded that things like virtual likes and Instagram followers really mean nothing.
Touching Grass Makes You A Fascist
I think ive done enough internet for today. I would say i am going outside to touch grass but might be accused of being white supremist. And its 2:30 in the morning.
If you have some lush green grass please go touch it..:it hasn’t rained in 2 months where I am and I long for some flowing green grass :,)
Load More Replies...Yes, naturally growing groundcover is definitely fascist in nature. Of course it is. Facts. Did you know that Benito Mussolini was the first fascist to plant one blade of grass on the seven hills of Rome? Now we have lawns. They did not exist before that day. Lawn mowers are disestablishment devices. Bring one to the next anti-Trump rally. Strapped, blade out, to your chest. Go forth and dismember.
Am I the only one who's never heard of the expression 'touch grass' before today?
No. No you are not. I still don't really understand it
Load More Replies...Think of yourself as the Gorbachev of lawn maintenance.
Load More Replies...FasCiSts oh yes the word of a generation. The only, only word they seem to be able to screech…
Fascism derives from Latin 'fasces' meaning group, and nothing is more grouped than grass ergo grass is fascist
Thought This Belonged Here
Well MY mental illness requires that I stab you in your left butt-cheek every time you say the word "circle". If you deny my stab then you are being a dingleberry to a mentally ill person! That's hate speech! /j
Is it just that word? Are synonyms ok? Like ring, loop, band... circlet?
Load More Replies...The thing is, the dude isn't even completely wrong - some people do drive over the speed limit/do do dangerous things on motorcycles or whatever, because of the adrenaline rush it gives them because they got numb from some mental thing. However, that doesn't make it any less of a stupid thing to do as it puts everybody on risk.
The concept they are describing 'risk but no risk/danger' is the basis of theme and amusement parks. Perhaps they should go to one of those instead.
I actually like that suggestion if they were free-
Load More Replies...Yea don't risk others lives. Just because it's a coping mechanism doesn't mean it's good-
In that case, your mental illness makes you a danger to others and you should be sectioned.
Yeah, I like the whole rebuttal of "It's the country. There's not even anyone around here to crash into." So then how is it thrilling? I guess maybe they're avoiding a bunch of trees? I'm doubting others aren't put at risk. This is that jerk who cut me off on the freeway this morning for his "mental health."
Load More Replies...Country roads can be the MOST dangerous to speed on (at least in the UK). There might be less vehicular traffic but you're much more likely to meet cyclists or equestrians and be responsible for a bad accident. I hope you run into a pothole at speed and it flips your car and writes it off (without seriously hurting you) and there are (unharmed) witnesses who catch it on camera.
My experience is that someone who resorts to verbally abusive language isn't intelligent enough to form a valid argument.
Or to judge if their placing others in danger with their speeding.
Load More Replies...Aye, Fair Enough
I love my car, I would be devistated if it becomes totaled, it's also fully paid off. But, I don't think I'm a jerk cause I own my vehicle. Less money? Yes. Jerk? Don't think so.
I own a car. I am sometimes a d!ckhead. Most of the time, i make an effort to not be a d!ckhead.
Load More Replies...I need a car to be able to get to my job. Any job. I live in the countryside. Everyone needs a car here, there isn't public transport. Does that mean everyone living in rural areas are dickheads? Or are obligated to walk for hiurs or use a bike? 🤔
I'm very pro walkable neighborhoods and public transport and would like to see far fewer cars around, but I do wish people would recognize that not needing a car (at least in the US) is a privilege and is probably never going to be feasible for people in rural/ sparsely populated areas.
It could be, but I think most of the criticism is aimed at the lack of alternatives in places where they are absolutely feasible.
Load More Replies...If I didn’t own a car I would have to walk about four hours or bike about two hours to get literally anywhere. Would that…. Make me a better person? Or would it just make me always really late?
I own a car, but I was a d******d loooooong before that. Is this a chicken and egg scenario?
He probably thinks they are jerks because no one wants to give his broke a** a ride. (the real reason he will never own a car)
This is exactly the car attitude this guy was talking about. This weird opinion that anyone who doesn't own a car must be too poor to own one.
Load More Replies...Whoa! I've owned cars since 1978...this has made me a d******d for 45 years; just because I owned cars! Yes, block these idiots.
Causation vs correlation. Why is it so hard for people to make the distinction?
According to Daisy Jones at Vogue, spending less time online might even make you a more attractive and interesting person. She explains how appealing she finds it that her girlfriend does not keep up with Twitter discourse or the latest trends on TikTok. She also hypothesizes that it’s healthy for one chronically online person to be with someone else who is less terminally online. “I think I find people who are mostly offline appealing because I am so online (largely for my work, but also because I’m addicted). It’s the combination that works,” Jones explains. “Kind of like someone who is incredibly energetic being drawn to someone a little more withheld. The two can level each other out; a reminder of what exists outside of their own bubble, and the shared equilibrium that can occur when two worlds collide.”
This Kid Who Thinks An Internet Urban Legend Is Reality
I had to look this one up because the only thing that came to mind was going to a store and asking if an out of stock item might be in the back room. To save other people time here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms and to summarise Backrooms is some weird creepy pasta about a bunch (maze) of empty backrooms that you can accidentally find yourself stuck in. Potentially occupied by creepy critters. If the son in the tweet is young it's not hard to imagine them believing this. We all believed stupid stuff as kids.
As far as I know, Backrooms began as a result of people noticing the fear of "Luminal Spaces" (huge, open areas that should be covered in people but appear to be completely empty, for example universities or shopping malls). It's basically the equivalent of unused data rooms in videogames that are under the actual map and that you can glitch into by accident (as it would be in a game). It's also somewhat of an endless maze with no way in or out and looks like a yellow office. Depending on the variant of the story, it has several floors, or monsters, or an actual way out.
Load More Replies..."Back rooms" is more than an urban legend, it's an example of how the collective imagination can build something fascinating, starting from a premise as simple as a creepypasta. A bit like the "SCP Fondation".
I find shared fictional worlds intriguing. Lovecraft and his cronies effectively played in the same big sandbox with their stories which I find very cool. SCP is a great example of a newer take on that idea. Heck you might view the bible (or religion in general) as the first example of people creating shared fictional universes.
Load More Replies...I don’t think this is terminally online, it’s just a kid learning the difference between fiction and reality.
Yeah, being online isn't the same thing as being "terminally online". Sounds like a pretty normal interaction that could arise from a child being exposed to any work of fiction.
Load More Replies...Being a queer person who occasionally visited clubs like that when I was in my 20s, that's where my mind immediately went, too. I had no idea at all about what the OP meant.
Load More Replies...Classic Tiktok
Right....because disabled, overweight people are incapable of *looks at notes* going outside.
I am also getting REALLY tired of the " if you are trying to loose weight because your doctor has told you your health is at risk , you will live longer , and itll probably feel better" is somehow morally wrong and offensive to others. It''s my body and if i want to say i am fat ( i am ) or say i am lame ( best word to describe my condition) , i should be able to.
Load More Replies...This post has zero context. The video that is being commented on might have all those things or none of them.
It’s not a video that is being reacted to. It’s the still image (from a video?) and then lettering on it. The comment is on the image that has been manipulated to include words. Not any video it may been taken from.
Load More Replies...This Person Who's Having Nightmares About Getting Canceled For Spilling Juice
I kind of like this one. It's about a dream and it's related to a real thing (cancel culture) even if the dream twisted that into a weird situation. That's just this persons brain doing some thinking while they're asleep. Unless it's in a completely inappropriate discussion forum then it seems fine.
Okay... I had a dream my wife and daughter wrecked my truck and were using hair pins to fix it...interpret please
Load More Replies...i mean with the way things are this is real fear for people to cancelled over something so ridiculous
The other night I had a weird dream that I was at a dinner party and people were mad at me because I drank a lot of wine and kept going to the restroom. I was also a guy. Peed in a plastic cup and emptied it into the toilet over and over again. In the ladies' room.
"no one was paying attention" and "no one was listening" are key words here.
I once had a dream where I was on Bored Panda and I was looking at pictures of avocados for some reason.
So if you have a lot of trouble staying off the internet, it’s important to at least have someone in your life who’s not terminally online who can keep you grounded. “I love that, like the majority of people probably, our most treasured and connected moments are the simple, real-world stuff,” Jones writes about her own relationship. “Smoking in the garden, foraging for wild garlic at sundown, holding hands at the supermarket. The internet is full of noise, and of people shouting over each other in order to be heard. When we’re together, all of that falls quiet.”
When Chronically Online Kids Think Gender Is So Cool And Fun And Quirky
This post is totally not gender. (Did I do it right? Are you proud of me grandson?)
I'm trying to work out what they mean. That's not normal. I desperately want to change it to believe it gives them gender envy or something but it's obviously not
Maybe they're just trying to stay inclusive????? Fr idk. These days, people use others sexualities and genders as insults. Like I'm a therian, and when I explained it to someone, they said "go pee in a litter box, furry" . Yes, I am still pissed about that. No, being a furry isn't bad. I'm a furry, meaning I enjoy dressing up as anthropomorphic animals. Nothing else! And I'm a therian, meaning I feel psychologically or spiritually connected to one or more animals. I practise quadrobics to feel more connected to past lives. No, I'm NOT "MeNtAlLy iLl" I have autism, ADHD and anxiety. Not mental illnesses. Just disabilities that I have learned to hate and think of as a push back on my life. F**king stop with the hate already. EDIT: Sorry, I just needed to vent and this is a sensitive topic for me.
Load More Replies...What? You say it's vaginal but not gender? How dare you beeing so chicken wing?!
Load More Replies...'it's very gender' has like a whole meaning though. you can't just swap 'gender' for 'cool' smh.
As a queer person, I do make jokes about how something is the best gender, or very gender, but it's always iironically when it's serious I'm usually talking about getting gender envy
Because heaven forbid the youths just enjoy something that is for them, not you.
Load More Replies...I do this sometimes. When I think a character is just….gender??. Cus my little dysphoric a*s is jealous. Like Nimona is very gender…does that make sense?
Oof
Being "ratio" or "ratioed" mean you get more downvotes than upvotes, or when you get a majority of negative responses when stating an opinion.
Load More Replies...No, we learned this term in math class last year, I think it’s just them being stupid
Load More Replies...As someone named something similar to ratio (Rachael) I am offended jk!
Why's there a cat face next to four, along with two?
"A ratio is a comparison of two quantities" -- my math teacher made us say that every single class for like four months
Women Shames People For Wanting To Prevent Stis And Underage Pregnancy...under A Post About Hoe Obesity Prevention Is "Eugenics"
I mean, pregnancy is *technically* a sexually-transmitted infection… there’s another lifeform growing in there XD
Or call it a tumor cause it feeds off your body and grows.
Load More Replies...There's literally a gonorrhea pandemic happening right now, and this person is the equivalent of an anti vaxxer - an anti-wrapper, if you will.
It took me ten attempts to try to decipher it before I realised that the E is supposed to be a W.
Load More Replies...It is a well-deserved punishment for having sex.. at least, that was more or less what I was told by a nurse at the clinic.
Load More Replies...I know I'm supposed to upvote to relay the horribleness of the post. But some are so out there I often downvote by accident. Upvote, downvote, downvote, upvote. Oats.
Oats go well in raisin cookies.
Load More Replies...Alright then, how about you get an sti. And guess what? As part of the fun let’s not give you any treatment, since you’re so sex positive!
No... if ppl have sex *with proper barrier protection* STIs are NOT going to increase. Jeez.
Being chronically online is likely to become more and more widespread amongst younger generations, especially considering that 42% of kids have a phone by age 10 nowadays. So as their elders, it’s probably wise for us to teach them the value of real life skills and interactions, since there’s no question they’ll understand technology better than we do. Take them outside, play sports with them, take them camping, teach them how to swim and ride a bike. And please for goodness sakes, teach them that social media is not real and does not actually affect their value as a person whatsoever.
Found This Screenshot On Instagram. Man Needs To Stop Listening To Podcasts 😭
This guy probably refers to Andrew Tate as “top g” (F*****g gag me with a fork)
Load More Replies...It genuinely scares me that there are individuals out there who are looking at people in terms of their ‘value’ and being so arrogant to think they are able to decide who has more worth than another person.
Yes, indeed. Reminds me of the Nuremberg Laws categorising people based on their degree of Jewishness and how "acceptable" they were to society. It's sickening.
Load More Replies...That's a lot of words for "no woman wants to have séx or go out with me and I'm bitter about it :(".
Sounds like women had sex with him, and were left deeply unsatisfied, then found another man who made them happy to settle down with. It’s not because he’s bad in bed or has a terribly personality. It’s because he’s too “alpha” for them.
Load More Replies...Everytime someone talks about bodycount, I wonder if I digged the holes deep enough...
Okay, this unironic use of "alpha" definitely needs to just stop. They just look like morons, instant interest killer.
They look like psychopaths tbh. No sane person talks and thinks like that.
Load More Replies...Who agrees this guy probably wears fedoras and think women treat men unfairly, and "not all men are like that".
He’s a nice guy, really. It’s just that no woman has given him the chance to show it, obviously.
Load More Replies...Don't worry. He's a virgin.
Load More Replies...I Can't With This S**t
After a person lands their dream job, they may complain about the hours. After moving into a big house, they may complain about the mortgage rate. After having kids, they complain about the sleep deprivation.
I believe the term for this is venting and it is an acceptable response to daily frustrations. It doesn't mean they wish they didn't have their baby or the job or the house.
Load More Replies...Wow...baby cried; advice is to not have kids. Holy s**t; what is this world coming to?
I don't know why you're booing this guy, he's right. Factually it is a polluted, overpopulated planet. I understand that you might not want to think about what that makes you; to create a child to live in an unstable world. But that doesn't make this guy wrong.
Load More Replies...They go on sosial media and complain about people complaining, about circumstances they could avoid if they wanted to😂 oh, irony. You are becoming dumber all the time
Or you were willing to accept sleepless nights, poop, poverty, prepared like f**k and then it turns out you only pop out tiny people with neurospicy brains who sleep only 3 hours a night for 4 years. Then you realise you must be neurospicy too and chronic lack of sleep tips you into severely mentally unwell. Then you get to complain just a little.
Load More Replies...This Is The One
I don't even understand what they're talking about here. Is the person complaining that he didn't turn enough? That he turned too much? I just don't get it.
He's turned slightly toward her, so there must be a thing between them. They're totally an item!
Load More Replies...To show you are interested you should touch noses and and scream. You're not close enough until you're tasting their lunch.
Did you just hatch in your room, grown, with unlimited wifi, never having to speak to another living soul IRL ....
I agree, when I am speaking to people I close my eyes and put my head down. Sometimes I even cover my ears./s
We love the internet as much as the next panda, but we hope this list has served as a healthy reminder to go take a walk, sit in the park, read a book, or do anything that doesn’t require an internet connection for a few hours. Some Vitamin D and fresh air will certainly do you some good. Keep upvoting the posts you find particularly hilarious or cringey, and let us know in the comments below what the most “chronically online” behavior you’ve ever seen was. Then, if you’d like to check out another Bored Panda article featuring more questionable posts from social media, look no further than right here!
Saw This While Scrolling
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As someone with obsessive tendencies I actually stopped playing one of my all time favourite games when it started invading my dreams because I didn't want to love it to an unhealthy degree. Now I only play it occasionally; I still love it and have completed it several times, but I can love it without becoming obsessed. (Autism, man. It's a whole thing).
Yeah...I don't think a lot of people on this app know what that is, though.
Load More Replies...What is going to happen to us when we are old? Will we fend for ourselves against the smart-nurses?
It's literally a bot, of course it's chronically online, where else can it be?
Mysterious, Tormented Fictional Characters = Autistic?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm autistic and there's a point here. A lot of writers develop characters using autistic traits to make the character quirky or socially out-of-synch, or intelligent with eccentricity etc. In many ways the characters will represent traits from our community but usually they won't quite get it right as being a full autistic person because usually it's an outside or stereotyped portrayal, and they're not openly owning their autistic identity so we just haven't had much good representation at all. And, I mean being mysterious and undiagnosable has been the unfortunate real life experience for a lot of us until we finally had the professionals who got it right or figured it out for ourselves. Adults are under diagnosed by 80-90% and misdiagnosis is SO common, particularly for women. I'd like to hear what other autistic people think here :)
It is very misunderstood and under-diagnosed in women. I have been displaying what I've learned are autistic traits since I was a child but I also have a high need for social interactions so I have learned to mask. (and learning to mask effectively has been a long and exhausting experience) I spent over a year looking into so many things about autism and I identify with so much of it. When trying to talk with medical professionals they dismiss me and just tell me I don't act/look autistic and one used a little autistic boy as an example as to why I couldn't be. They never listened to my experiences before judging, but then again they weren't specialized in it. It just made me feel like why bother if I won't be heard. I've seen traits that I have romanticized in stories but the negatives aren't shown, or are understated. I wish people would actually learn about something before judging or even writing about certain traits that aren't quite the norm. Inaccuracies do cause a lot of misunderstandings.
Load More Replies...This is exactly what a fandom I follow is like. Characters purposely written as lost, abuse victims, go through understandable trauma in the series and act correctly for these situations ad not at all autistic? Wel they are all totally autistic according to the fandom. One character shares stuff about his culture that he is proud of to his new friends? Well not only is he autistic but so are all of his people and their culture! And that includes the genocide and the ableism in his culture apparently.
oh wow wtf that's messed up yeah. have not run into this myself but i purposely avoid fandom these days bc it's all antis and negativity.
Load More Replies...I feel like this makes more sense when you know what characters they're referring to. I don't know all of these but the first example they named is Will Graham, and they kind of hit it on the head. Will Graham displays a LOT of pretty clearly autistic traits, enough so for it to definitely feel like coding. But he's never actually named as autistic--they act in the show exactly like how OP describes. He's some kind of bizarre medical anomaly!!! We've never seen anything like it before!!!! And etc etc. Without context this post does seem like it's saying "being mysterious and tormented equals autistic" but what it's actually saying is closer to "why are characters presented as mysterious and tormented when all they really do is show autistic traits".
Credit To @thesequalnobodywanted On Insta
Depends, for how long have they been not related to you? :p
Load More Replies...Hmm this comment actually kinda makes sense. If they're talking about kids who've been friends since pre-school kinda deal. I could see that relationship being as close as genuine family. So it does seem a bit weird. It's basically the same reason step-siblings being in a relationship seems weird. They're not actually related but it *feels* like they are because they've grown up together.
Not all childhood friends are that close by any means though. Of the friends I've had since primary school 2 are more like family 2 are just friends I sometimes talk to and one is an ex of mine, but we're still in touch... so... Oh btw, dating her definitely didn't feel "weird" or "incestuous"
Load More Replies...They do kinda have a point. The reason that you’re (hopefully) not attracted to your siblings is because you grew up together. That’s why sometimes people are attracted to their cousins that they haven’t seen in a while. The same psychological effect can be applied to childhood friends that grew up together. However, it’s not incest since it’s not a family member.It’s also a fact that the best (most long-lasting) relationships are when your partner is your best friend :P
While this is messed up, there is evidence that kids who grow up together are not attracted to each othe rromantically. SO in the Kibbutzim, kids were raised together from a young age in "children's houses". There was a problem that these kids were not interested in marrying each other. It was a serious issue, because there were few places to meet new people, and when marrying an "outsider", admitting a new member was always a complex process.
I don't have any negative feelings about other people dating their childhood friends, but I personally kind of consider my life long friends as kinda non-sexual beings, the same way as family members, even if some of them are objectively speaking goodlooking people, the possibility of dating them or sleeping with them just doesn't enter my mind. And if I think about it now, the idea of dating any of my life long friends, does have a similar kind of really uncomfortable feeling as the idea of dating my sibling/cousins, only less strongly.
When I meet someone I really like I almost always say "I wish we grew up together". How does that relate to incest? It just means I missed a lot of time being around someone I like! This mentality seems to stem from inbreeding which actually relates to incest.
Oh God
Am I the only one who thinks MLM means the sound the cat makes when it's drinking milk?
I want to know what the sound is. Is it like a slide whistle freee-OOOP or something?
Someone complaining that the gay community don't get anything and their relationships are just being normalised. Apparently, someone heterosexual used a sound that was 'made for the gay community '.
Load More Replies...I dare to ask: what sound? And can you stop that mlm? It is based on English words, so it's not inclusive to other languages!1!1!1 /s
From what I can glean from the comments, a song from the tv series Heartstopper.
Load More Replies...I have no clue what anyone was saying. Multi-Level Marketing has sound now?
Pandas, I don't normally post when I have no clue what's going on without researching. This time I'm posting because I saw other responses filled with the same bewilderment. My brain hurts just trying to decipher what was attempted here.
I've just had my eyelashes dyed and now I'm off to the cheese shop
Load More Replies...I had to stop reading these. Both Darwin and evolution have completely let us down.
I was told I was dangerously underweight by a doctor. Some people told me I was being “fatphobic” by trying to gain weight. Sorry my bad, just trying to stay healthy man
on the other hand i think its kinda cool that we've gotten to the point in our evolution where we actually have room for all of these ridiculous and unhinged ideas, because we can actually relax and just think instead of having to fight off viking invaders or whatever, but some people might disagree. have a nice day!
What have we done to this world and the people on it? These people will have votes in their respective nations, they’ll get to decide the future of their countries. 50% of every nation is below average, these people swim in the murky pool at the bottom of that 50%.
I've just had my eyelashes dyed and now I'm off to the cheese shop
Load More Replies...I had to stop reading these. Both Darwin and evolution have completely let us down.
I was told I was dangerously underweight by a doctor. Some people told me I was being “fatphobic” by trying to gain weight. Sorry my bad, just trying to stay healthy man
on the other hand i think its kinda cool that we've gotten to the point in our evolution where we actually have room for all of these ridiculous and unhinged ideas, because we can actually relax and just think instead of having to fight off viking invaders or whatever, but some people might disagree. have a nice day!
What have we done to this world and the people on it? These people will have votes in their respective nations, they’ll get to decide the future of their countries. 50% of every nation is below average, these people swim in the murky pool at the bottom of that 50%.
