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67 Posts That Showcase How Creative Humans Can Be When They Want Revenge
Most people have a sense of fairness that really gets put on edge when someone breaks it. This is one of the reasons why revenge stories are so persistent in culture. Achilles dueling Hector, The Count of Monte Cristo, John Wick, the list goes on and on.
So we’ve gathered some of the best posts and pics of people detailing a revenge story from around the internet. Get comfortable, take a moment to thank your lucky stars this didn’t happen to you, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences in the comments below.
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#1
Now Hit The Car And Leave No Note
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#2
One Of The Best Revenge Against Waste Dumper
Guy finds garbage bags dumped on his farm. Opens bags to reveal dumper's address... Then returns dumped garbage to his driveway
Papa 1 day ago
Some years ago I had a pasture rented that had a creek running through it. I went there once to check on my cattle and saw that someone had dumped a bunch of trash off the bridge into the creek. I found an envelope in it, with an address on it. I took it to a friend who was a reserve deputy. He called it in and they sent a deputy to "counsel" the person who lived at that address. I went back a few days later. Every scrap of trash had been removed, and it never happened again.
There is actual science behind why we love watching someone get their comeuppance. Researchers at Ohio State University asked 200 people to react to short scenarios where a wrongdoer was forgiven, punished fairly, or punished way harder than they deserved. The study, published in Communication Research, found that people rated the over the top punishment scenarios as the most fun, even though they admitted the forgiveness scenarios felt more meaningful.
Lead researcher Matthew Grizzard summed it up nicely when he said we enjoy stories where wrongdoers get more punishment than they technically deserve. Basically our brains know forgiveness is the mature choice while our hearts want the karma bus to arrive at full speed.
#5
How To Get Revenge 101
#6
Innovative Revenge
Beth Wheeler 1 day ago
Everybody bow to the queen for being so inventive in her revenge. I hope she got a really good lawyer.
Part of this comes down to something psychologists call the just world hypothesis, the deep seated belief that people generally get what they deserve. When someone cuts in line, steals credit for your work, or scams an elderly neighbor, it creates a crack in that belief. A satisfying revenge story patches the crack right back up. It reassures us that the universe still has some kind of moral accounting system running in the background, even if real life rarely works that cleanly.
#7
Locked My Cat In The Bathroom While I Made A Meal Because He Was Being Annoying. Revenge Was Had
#9
Maddad Petty Revenge
There is also a timing element to why these stories land so well. Psychologist Mario Gollwitzer studies what he calls the understanding hypothesis, which suggests that revenge feels most satisfying when the person on the receiving end actually understands why it is happening to them.
#10
Awesome Mom
#11
Madlad Waits 11 Years To Get Revenge For His Wall
That is why the best revenge stories always include the moment the villain realizes exactly who outsmarted them and why. According to research on this topic, that flicker of recognition on the wrongdoer's face is often the most emotionally rewarding part of the whole story, even more than the punishment itself.
#14
Not All Heros Wear Capes
Luke || Kira (he/she) 1 day ago
Reminds me of that guy who carried an universal remote everywhere and blocked Fox News on every public TV that played Fox News
#15
Saw This On Social Media…
Interestingly, actually getting revenge in real life tends to disappoint people far more than they expect. A study by social psychologist Kevin Carlsmith found that participants who got to punish someone who wronged them in an experiment often felt worse afterward, not better, because it kept the original conflict alive in their minds instead of letting them move past it. Reading about someone else's revenge, though, comes with none of that baggage. We get all the emotional payoff of justice being served without any of the guilt, awkwardness, or lingering resentment that comes with dishing it out ourselves.
#16
The Judge Needed Revenge
#17
Guy Parked Wrong, Shop Clerks Took Revenge
This is probably why internet revenge stories have become their own genre. They let us live out the fantasy from a safe distance. Nobody has to actually confront their nightmare coworker or petty landlord, we just get to enjoy someone else doing it brilliantly, then go back to our day feeling weirdly refreshed.
#20
After Years Of This Guy Using My Email As A Spam Account, I Got My Revenge. He Signed My Email. Up For Siriusxm Which Also Gives Me The Ability To Beep His Horn
There is a name for the pleasure people get from someone else's misfortune, schadenfreude, and it gets extra strong when the misfortune is deserved. A rude customer getting hit with a surprise bill, a cheating ex getting exposed by their own group chat, a bully getting outsmarted by the exact person they underestimated, these stories check every box our brains are wired to enjoy.
#22
Meirl
#23
Maybe This Will Teach Them Not To Park Like An Idiot
So the appeal really isn't complicated. These stories give us justice without violence, closure without confrontation, and a little proof that karma occasionally shows up on schedule. Scroll on and enjoy the show, you earned it just by putting up with your own petty grievances all week.
#25
Thats So Me LOL
#26
My Friends Parents Force Her And Her Siblings To Have A Picture With Santa Every Year. This Year They Got Revenge And Took This Beauty Home
#27
Meirl
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 day ago
Chinese can be very difficult for a Westerner to pronounce/speak correctly - my ex is Chinese and we were together 25 years, and while I can understand Mandarin, I still can't speak it worth a dámn XD That being said, it is NOT difficult to ask the person how their name is pronounced and then simply memorize/practice that pronunciation. Xiu was absolutely in the right to call Brittany "Bing Bong" XD (as an aside, "Xiu" is pronounced "shiuu" / "syyohh" or "sh-eeooo", kinda.)
#28
Revenge Of The Nerd
#29
It's Always The Dads!
#30
Last Week My Son Did This To His Little Sister (Top Left). Yesterday All His Sisters Took Revenge
#31
As Revenge For My Brother Wrapping My Christmas Present In Duct Tape Last Year, This Year I've Wrapped My Brother's Present In Concrete! Revenge Best Served Stone-Cold!
Earonn - 1 day ago
Not cement but for a friend's wedding we put little strips with letters into the tiny containers for camera film and I 'baked' them into a gypsum cake. We provided a hammer to crack it open and enjoyed 15 minutes of the couple trying to get all containers out. Then we stopped before it became too much for them. They could guess the text the strips of letters made when laid out: "THE MONEY IS IN THE HAMMER'S HANDLE".
#33
Really Expensive Revenge
BookFanatic 1 day ago
At least color some of them with red ink. Amateurs. (No, I never did that. Really. Nope.)
#34
Me_irl
#35
Forbidden Taco Revenge
#36
A Few Months Ago I Threw A Couple Tomatoes In My Compost Pile Underneath These Ladders, I Think They Want Revenge
#37
Kelly Scott 1 day ago
This is another one multiple people have been posting like it's their own.
#38
To Everyone At Work That Has Been Eating My Jellybeans..now The Fun Begins
#39
'tis The Season For Festive Revenge
#40
Nah This Is Actually So Diabolical
#41
Sweet Revenge
#44
My Coworker Decided To Prank Us, So We Exacted Our Revenge
BookFanatic 1 day ago
Wasn't there another BP post about how a computer monitor overheated and caught fire because of a similar prank?
#47
A Japanese Woman Discovered Her Boyfriend Was Cheating, So She Gathered All His Apple Devices And Dumped Them Into A Tub Full Of Water
#49
My Two Older Children Were Trying To Lay Out All Of Their Pokémon Cards, But The Youngest Kept Intervening, So They Duct Taped Him To A Chair
#50
Revenge Of The Newfie
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 day ago
The white-and-black coat color in Newfoundlands is sometimes called "Landseer"! This has been your Random Dog Fact from Lakota for the day XD
#51
I Mixed Carolina Reaper Powder Into Half A Tub Of Ice Cream As Revenge For Food Thief At My Community Freezer
#52
Sweet Revenge And A Lesson Learnt
#53
Revenge Of A Weaboo
#55
My Roommate Went Out Of Town And Came Back To 400 Balloons In His Room
He recently got his revenge when the other one left for a week. Literally everything in his room was wrapped and put back in the same place
#58
Absolute Nutter How’s That For Revenge?? In The Middle Of The Day And A Speaker Of That Size Too, Mental
Kabuki Kitsune 1 day ago
Later, OP found themselves wondering why they received an eviction notice...
#59
Never Arguing With My GF Ever Again
Luke || Kira (he/she) 1 day ago
Quentin Tarantino saw this post and has been requesting this for breakfast since then
#60
Boyfriends In House Flipper Be Like:
#62
The Brown One Always Bullies The Orange One. He Finally Got Revenge!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 day ago
I have 6 cats and I feel confident enough to state that a cat cannot place a lid on a storage tote on its own. Orange had human help with this XD
#64
A Prank Gone Wrong Or An Evil Genius In The Making?
#67
Park In A Spot At Least. Van Gets A Little Passive Aggressive Revenge
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Kayla Warren 1 day ago
The amount of people who believe the “if you put anything with potential allergens in a public refrigerator, you will go to jail“ is ridiculous. As long as your food is clearly marked as yours, you have no responsibility to list the ingredients. If someone steals it/eats it - that is on them. Seriously, people need to have responsibility for their own actions.
Kayla Warren 1 day ago
The amount of people who believe the “if you put anything with potential allergens in a public refrigerator, you will go to jail“ is ridiculous. As long as your food is clearly marked as yours, you have no responsibility to list the ingredients. If someone steals it/eats it - that is on them. Seriously, people need to have responsibility for their own actions.
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