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Confidence is key to a lot of success in life, but it's not some magic solution that allows someone to circumvent reality. However, that has never stopped a certain kind of person who, by the looks of it, makes it their life’s mission to embarrass themselves publicly.
So we’ve gathered some of the best posts from this group dedicated to folks sharing and shaming people who were 100% confident about something they were completely wrong about. Get comfortable as you scroll through, brace yourself for some secondhand embarrassment, upvote your favorite examples and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments down below.
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#1
Well Maybe That’s Her Favorite Kind Of Yogurt
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#3
"No Nation Older Than 250 Years"
Gebidozo 2 months ago
The ridiculous stupidity of the original post aside, the concept of a “nation” is notoriously vague and tricky to define, considering how many diverse political, geographical, ethnolinguistic, and cultural aspects it attempt to amalgamate. Among all the modern nations, I think China is the closest to passing most antiquity tests. It has definitely been a nation in every sense for at least 3000 years.
The "Confidently Incorrect" subreddit has been around since 2017, and like much of niche internet culture, it was small at first before expanding into a shared belly-laugh of a community. What began as a simple concept, collecting screenshots of people being hilariously, confidently wrong, quickly took off. The internet, of course, is never wanting for people who have strong opinions and thin facts.
The subreddit has grown to hundreds of thousands of users over time and is now one of the default locations for humor that blurs the cringe-comedy line. Its material has a tendency to bleed into the mainstream, showing up on Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, and sustaining the internet's hunger for this sort of material in general.
#4
A+ Biology
Schrödinger's Douchebag 2 months ago
From the people who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
#5
Indian Billionaires
Gebidozo 2 months ago
Besides the obvious idiocy of confusing Native Americans with the inhabitants of India: since when does the presence of 10 billionaires testify of the wealth of the general population?? A society can have billionaires and still suffer from poverty. Ironically, India is a good example of that.
#6
Oh, Lavern
Brian Leahy 2 months ago
Seriously. The fact that there are people grown adults with jobs and children of their own who insist they hate pronouns or that we need to get rid of pronouns, etc. absolutely boggles my mind. It’s a part of speech, you literally can’t even say “I hate pronouns“ without using pronouns.
The "Confidently Incorrect" subreddit is one of the darker corners of the internet where there's schadenfreude mixed with humor, and everyone can't help but congregate to stare in awe at how brazenly incorrect someone is. The rules are simple, posts, comments, or screenshots of individuals declaring things with complete and utter certainty, yet being laughably, irrefutably wrong. It's not the mistake that's funny, it's the swagger, the confidence, the complete and utter lack of doubt that turns boring errors into internet gold.
One of the reasons that this type of content is so popular is because it hits a very human frustration, we all know someone in our lives who acts like an encyclopaedia human but speaks absolute muck. Watching random individuals getting publicly roasted for it online is vicarious. It's like seeing the obnoxious guy at the dinner party get fact-checked by the universe itself. There's relief and humor in watching overconfidence get deflated by the world, and that's what makes the subreddit so engrossing.
#10
Imagine Being Called Out By A Book
#11
Abigail Must See This Reply As An Instant Win
#12
Apparently Peeing Is A Type Of Birth Control
A second is the uncooked humor of contrast. Someone who says "the moon is nearer than Australia" with unshakeable conviction is not just wrong, he's so wrong it's an artwork. The gap between their conviction and reality is the humor. While a flat-out mistake, coupled with the recognition of ignorance, can be annoying, confidently erroneous posts demonstrate the human tendency to bluff or to pose, and it usually leads to something absurd.
#13
They’re Not Completely Off, I Guess
Schrödinger's Douchebag 2 months ago
The fact that OP anticipated some half-wit American would come along, but then still gets bamboozled.
#14
Trying To Act Smarter Than A Real Medical Professional
There's also a feeling of communal reassurance. As you scroll through the thread of unapologetically incorrect opinions, you can't help but feel just a little bit smarter by comparison. It's not sinister, exactly, it's more or less a harmless ego stroking. You might not know advanced physics or obscure trivia, but at least you’re not out here insisting with authority that “penguins are a type of plant.” The internet thrives on making people feel like part of an in-group, and laughing together at outrageous errors creates that bond.
#16
That's The Language 570 Million People Speak In *Latin* America
#17
My Friend, Who For Some Reason Doesn’t Believe Helen Keller Was Real, Can’t Do Basic Math
Michael Largey 2 months ago
I was born in 1950, and it's now 2025. 50 - 25 = 25. Hey, I'm 25 again! Thanks!
#18
The Holy Trinity Of Trying To Teach Someone What Prefixes Are
Upstaged75 2 months ago
Oh my lord....how do you get to be so stupid yet SO convinced you're correct???
Memetic potential plays a big role too. Most assertively wrong posts end up leading lives of their own, becoming jokes that cycle back in other corners of the web. The humor is easy to pass along, easy to understand, and contains low levels of context, great traits for viral content. To that degree, the subreddit is a part of the wider context of internet humor in which screenshots can go from Reddit to Twitter to TikTok, accruing chuckles along the way.
#19
Big Brain Move From This Fella
#20
Aunt Rap Runner
#21
Belgian Whistles
Finally, there is something disconcertingly endearing about fallibility being in action. Sure, it's funny, but it also serves as a reminder that confidence guarantees nothing and that even the most self-assured human can be an utter blunderhead. In a world where misinformation moves fast and individuals double down rather than backing down, there is value in seeing how silly that looks to others.
#22
Rule
Verena 2 months ago
Okay, this might be obvious for native daily speakers. But if English is a language you need to learn, the grammar books explain: I, you, he/she/it = singular; we, you, they = plural, plus any variation to indicate relation to persons or objects. For a non-native speaker the only logic to use "their" (as in plural) in above case is: He/she = he or she = 2 options for a person = plural. If the gender is clear, it sounds very odd to use the plural form as in "Joe owns a car. It is their car." A non-native speaker learns "It is his car".
#23
Why Don’t Tattoo Places Just Euthanize Their Clients
#24
All This Time I Could’ve Just Told My Teachers I Didn’t Agree With Their Math
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
The great thing about maths, and indeed science, is that they don't care whether you agree or not.
The charm of the "Confidently Incorrect" subreddit, then, is a blend of humor, catharsis, and camaraderie. It's a place where egos are deflated, facts prevail, and all the folks scrolling by get to experience just a tiny bit more grounded in their own fallibility, without sacrificing the pleasure of enjoying someone else's absurdity.
#25
I'd Like To Solve The Puzzle
#26
Just Turn It Off
#27
So Close
#28
Just Breathe, Just A Few Breaths
#30
Apparently Europe Has No Food And No "Tech"
#31
Had To Confirm This Is Really What They Mean. Damsel In This Dress
#32
Ducks Are Not Birds
#33
The Point Of Twins
Shelli Aderman 2 months ago
Again, reason number 3,452 on this list of why S*X EDUCATION MATTERS!
#34
Wireless PC's Don't Exist
#35
"An Authentic Italian Thanksgiving Dinner"
#36
Apparently Women Lose Their Autism After Having A Kid
#37
God Bless The American Education System
Upstaged75 2 months ago (edited)
And thank goodness for that! Although I would have been fine with Obama sticking around a bit longer.
#38
I Really Don’t Know How To Simplify It More For This Guy
#39
Metric System At It Again
Jrog 2 months ago (edited)
Eh, it's complicated. The software was metric because it was easier to code. Anything else was in imperial units. All the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo hardware was designed to specs in inches/pounds. The Shuttle was designed in imperial units, but they were "weird" because most of the design was made in metric units (for integration with international cooperation projects) and then converted to inches; so, they ended up with a lot of 64th in their fractions and plenty of mils on the sensitive stuff (.001 inch). After the 1999 Mars Orbiter f*ckup, all the recent projects (ISS, Artemis, SLS, Orion etc) have been in metric. Some subcomponents are derived from previous projects and may still be manufactured in imperial units, but anything critical has been switched over.
#40
Apparently (Red) Is A High School English Teacher. The Confidence In How Incorrect She Was. I'm Concerned For Said Students
#41
$15 An Hour = $100k Per Year
Debby Keir 2 months ago
C'mon, they get paid to sleep too - 24 x 7 @ $15 ph is well over 100k!
#42
Another Day Of Texans Overestimating How Big Texas Is
For context, this was a discussion on speed cameras in Europe.
To be clear - Texas has between 590k-680k miles of road (depending on which source you believe). European Union (not all of Europe, just the EU member states) has over 3 million.
#43
Chickens Aren't Animals
Brian Leahy 2 months ago
This guy probably also thinks that “taxonomy” is the study of tax codes…
#44
Blood Is Blue Apparently
#46
An Interesting Way Of Adding Percentages
#47
The Restaurant Listed Their Hours As 11 AM To 12 PM
JB 2 months ago
Everyone being confidently wrong. There’s no such thing as 24:00 in the 24 hour clock. There’s 23:59, then it ticks over to 00:00 at midnight.
Sue 2 months ago
I still can't convince our print company to print our invitations with 12 noon. It's much less confusing for people like this. If 12 is the meridian, it can't be am or pm, although I guess only for 1 second.
nottheactualphoto 2 months ago
Exactly! 12 is not AM or PM; it *is* the M.
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12 PM is noon = around lunchtime, because if any food is really good, you might say "please, more".
Jrog 2 months ago (edited)
He is wrong but the american 12-hour system is F**K*N STUPID. 10 AM, 11 AM, 12 PM, 1 PM, 2 PM... How does it makes sense? Some dumb English monk took the perfectly good Roman system, that had the "meridiem" as the threshold, without numbers, and decided to number it anyway but following the sequence of the previous timespan. Then, they decided to rename it "noon" after the roman Nona, that is not even mid day because it is actually 3 PM!
Jrog 2 months ago (edited)
Best part is, there isn't even consensus among the anglosphere on what 12 AM or PM is, with some style guidelines for major US government entities, scientific institutions using different conventions, and the NPL straight out advising AGAINST using both, preferring the 24 hours format whenever an hour within noon and 1 pm must be reported...
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ImdaPrincesse 2 months ago
I'm not sure if I agree with the 2400 is 12 pm. That's 1200H. Midnight is 0000H. So it's open from 1100H-0000H.
#48
Thats Not How Monitor Size Is Measured
#49
Can't Wait To Tell Skin Cancer About That
#51
On A Post Requesting The Calorie Count Of Fried Chicken That Was Sitting On A Scale Showing 60g
#52
Gas Doesn't Weigh Anything
#53
Neither Films Nor Geography Are This Guy’s Specialist Subject
Laura Lawson 2 months ago
To quote an old SNL skit, *points furiously at map* 'This is Scotland, this is Ireland. There's a whole fùcking sea between them!!' Kyle McLaughlin I believe.
#54
I Wonder What Could It Be
#55
But It's Less Sugar, Right Guys?
#56
On A "People Before 500 BC" Type Meme
#57
British Spelling
Beak Hookage 2 months ago
I had some braniac criticise a novel of mine because "it's full of spelling mistakes!" It was written in British English, not American English. Because I am not American. I'm still facepalming over that one.
#58
Well He's Not Lying
#59
Redditor Invents Time Travel
#60
Those Darn Coniferous Cats
#61
Sour Crowd
#62
Asos Giving Us Both A Discount Code And An Education
#63
That Is Your Opinion. You’re Entitled To It But It’s Also Completely Medically Incorrect
#64
Time Is Hard
Annik Perrot 2 months ago
Or just use a 24h clock. There, problem solved, as midnight will be 0h00 and midday will be 12h00.
#65
We’ve Been Pronouncing Chemistry Wrong This Whole Time
#66
And That’s Why I I’m Never Taking A DNA Test
#67
Switching From 24 Frames Per Second To 60 Would Make Movies Too Long
#68
Music Publication Gets Called Out For Incorrect Reporting By The Guy They're Reporting On
#69
This Comment
Beak Hookage 2 months ago
Well I've got this Spongebob figurine and it's made out of plastic, so OBVIOUSLY...
#70
Job Prescription
#71
Chemistry
Stardust she/her 2 months ago
In what way does reading about the periodic table help someone comprehend the anomalous expansion of water? What was the thought process here?
#72
I Turned Off My Car’s A/C And Now I’m Not Getting Any Cool Air
#73
Ah Yes, HO2
Stardust she/her 2 months ago
Huh? HO2? That thing isn’t even stable unless you place it under 450+ GPa of pressure
#74
The Education System Has Failed Ya'll
Dave Brown 2 months ago
I think we can all agree that the education system has failed, but differ on who it has failed.
#75
Some Would Say Its Not All Black And White
#77
Science Isn't For Everyone
Jonas Fisher 2 months ago
I can't even tell which person is less correct. Strictly speaking, there are no scientific facts. That's a huge strength of science. If the sun came up in the west tomorrow, scientists (after a moment of panic) would just roll that new piece of information into their facts about the universe and start figuring out where they went wrong.
#78
As Car Goes? Mmm, Delicious
BarBeeGirl 2 months ago
I had to read this aloud to realize they were trying to say escargot 😂
#79
It's Up North But Not America
#80
A True Genius
#81
English Teacher Misspelled Psychology After Calling Out Students For Spelling It Wrong
#82
Carbon Monoxide Is Not Dangerous
#83
Nobody Could Ever Have 1.5 TB Of Ram?
#84
That's Not How Averages Work
#85
Going To The Gym Doesn’t Change Your Physique
Kristiina Männiste 2 months ago
Welll... there are things you can change with exercise and things you cant change. Believe me - I would do things for narrower shoulders and wider hips.
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When Dunning and Kruger spent the day huffing paint and then had the nastiest 0rgy in history.
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