Deep down, many people feel like they could actually make it as a comedian. While this is a widely misguided concept for the majority of the population, a simple scroll through the comments section on a random post will show that there is a lot of untapped talent out there.
The “Murdered By Words” Instagram page gathers the hilarious and sometimes savage comments people have left under other people’s posts. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites and maybe try your own hand in the comments section below.
More info: Instagram
This post may include affiliate links.
While we do think of comment sections as an innovation of the Internet age, in one form or another, they have existed since at least the 1500s. In what now we would call Germany, it was common practice (at least among the literate) to “post” one’s ideas in public places, often to literal posts.
The most famous example of this is probably Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, nailed to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany in 1517. Of course, this would only be the practice of people who could read and write and had the time and resources to buy parchment and ink. The internet is ultimately the tool that brought mass commenting to the majority of the population.
Good thing he has a bottle of water sitting right there on the table, he'll need it for that burn
While internet forums are generally older, the first “comments section,” as we might call it these days was created in 1998, for the digital edition of The Rocky Mountain News. This publication was a real trailblazer, as it also featured one of the first “advice” columns, where readers could ask questions.
This, perhaps, is what inspired them to open up the publication to reader comments, as a means of creating engagement and loyalty. This practice would soon become the norm, as newspapers, magazines, fan pages, and the first attempts at social media all began allowing people to share their thoughts on a post, article, or page.
It's not the first time something like that happened, and often the victim thinks the undamaged bible is proof of god.
She might wanna jump in the ocean to get some water on that burn (sorry I promise I'll stop now)
Now, comment sections are so common that there are entire genres of content based on asking for interactions. From posts that are just questions, to people “selecting” things from “what house you prefer” to favorite brunch items, people do love to share their two cents. This has spawned an entire cottage industry, like the list here, of finding and sharing the best comments.
Knew it had to happen eventually. Gun control? No f*****g way! More taxes? Hell yeah!
Indeed, if something has the option to add comments explicitly turned off, most people immediately wonder what exactly happened here. From trolling, and cyberbullying to intensely heated discussions, the anonymity of the internet often doesn’t exactly make for the most civil posts on controversial topics.
And how does that work for the rest of wildlife on God's created earth??!
Memo to US restaurants: Apologies for not being clearer when I said you need to “fücking communicate”. If you’re not willing to say what that commenter said, at least say “in the USA we pay our servers $2.something per hour and the tip is to cover the rest of their pay.” If tourists call you barbaric for that, remember that locals also call you barbaric for it. :)
And Congress for being even more barbaric, because they won't change it.
Load More Replies...
I’m Australian, I can’t believe that servers have to rely on TIPS , what crappy Employers
Every is ignoring the worst part of the tipping culture. The Federal minimun for a tipped employee is 2.13 cents an hour. That is . 22 less than 40 years ago. However, the price aof gas is 3.5 times what it was, rent is 3x.Even the cost of food you are buying is up by 3x ( or more ). So the amount of money that goes to the waitress is one third of what it used to be. So the average used to be 30% labor, so now labor is only 10%. What are the restsraunts doing with the other 20%? This is why tipping has gone fron 10-25% yo 20-25%. Demand govt raise the minimum wage (for non tipped too ).
The restaurants are paying for their increased costs like more expensive food due to everything else going up eg: petrol. It is a horrible idea working for someone who doesn’t actually pay you. They should just put up their prices, no tips and pay their employees.
Load More Replies...
"Do you know if I see this anywhere I' would walk out at once and never go back?"
Same. I've been watching YouTube chefs and figured out how to make all the yummy restaurant meals myself for cheaper.
Load More Replies...
Remember that wealthy elected officials wrote the bill that became law that makes $2/hr pay legal. F. U. C. K. them!!!
Surviving on kindness in this world is scary. Server deserve living wages like all workers.
Tips were designed to be an ADDITIONAL monetary show of appreciation for service ABOVE AND BEYOND what you should be able to expect from the waiters and restaurant staff, to be paid directly to the individuals who actually merited such a special show of appreciation, and NOT as a way of letting employers get away with paying their staff a wage so scandalously low that they are not able to survive without handouts from charitable customers!
Incorrect. Servers have always relied on tips to make ends meet. It was only recently that businesses were required to pay them a wage. Please stop spreading this myth.
Load More Replies... It does not get more antisocial, inhuman as this. Then again, at least in the US you can go buying guns because you are "free".
Did you know that apperently you all are responsible for their pay because we are to greedy to care that their life sucks?
I looked at that sign and thought it said swaddles. It does look like it promoting babies
I was a licenced auto mechanic for 45 years. I can count on one hand the number of "tips" I recieved.
I honestly didn't know anyone tips mechanics? I thought they get paid relatively high hourly wages.
Load More Replies...
Every time I read this I just cringe for the other 49 states well it's not quite 49. California is never allowed that well at least not in my adult memory. For a long time minimum wage for tipping was less than minimum wage for non tipped jobs but not to this degree. And it's all going up again in just a few days
And yet every developed Nation…apart from good ol’murica has figured out how to pay service staff a living wage, without causing businesses to close. Every single one. Your “argument” is flat out wrong.
Load More Replies...
Best tip for you is to go find out what empathy is and then develop some before trying to go out in society with human beings. Even animals have a sense of empathy.
Load More Replies...A number of media outlets have actually closed down their comment sections over the last few years for these reasons. Vice Media closed theirs in 2016, as did NPR. IMDB closed their discussion boards (but not user reviews) a year later. In all of these cases, difficulty with moderation was the number one issue.
Plan A is to save the bees. However, Plan A isn't going very well. Plan B (or Bee) is what you come up with as a crappy alternative in case the main one completely fails. Someone has to make the survival nutrition bars in case a hurricane shows up before a hurricane shows up. Someone needs to figure out a work around in case all the bees die before all the bees die.
Moderation is a tricky subject because the entire point of a comments section is to share a diverse set of opinions. After all, if literally everyone believed the same thing, there would be no need for anything but the initial post. However, as it so often happens, a small group of people can ruin things for the rest of us.
9th century Saxons have pathetic heat endurance skills compared to 7th century Bedouins
Research suggests that people who feel that their opinion is already widely supported tend to stay silent and often don’t even look at comments. This is perhaps why comment sections on any debatable topic can look so extreme, it’s only the folks with marginal views that take the time to write out what they think.
As is quite easy to imagine, once you get a forum full of folks with the most extreme opinions, conflict is almost inevitable without strict moderation. Since that requires hiring dedicated staff and developing a constantly evolving policy around what is and isn’t allowed, it’s not surprising that so many pages have slowly decided to forgo comments entirely.
Thank goodness that time is over Edit: I meant the quarantine
Google has been working on AI tools to help moderate, as it would appear there is a (sadly) growing market. However, a more human-centric approach has existed for a while, that is, the user-flagged comment option that you can even find here. In other words, comments that break the rules are simply reported and/or downvoted by other readers.
I thought sunglasses were part of the uniform? Did I get my information wrong?
This coming from the same morons who tried to cut my farms’ electric predator fence and set my livestock free into the middle of the damn desert in July.
to be honest, he is right, the kind of look parents give when they talk about their perfect child
Note: this post originally had 75 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
@nbfresh why did you go through and downvote literally every comment I have made in like a month? And reply saying that I am ‘just as bad’ as some mf saying the n word for liking dodgeball? I just want to talk?
just ignore it. It doesn't matter. People are stupid sometimes and its easier to just acknowledge that and move on with your day. As soon as you engage them, it just encourages s**t behavior. Trust me. I am an awful person.
Load More Replies...
I think these are all great and funny except for the one where a white person makes fun of another persons name. It's stupid and racist-not a "burn" at all... 🙄
These posts can teach a valuable lesson. Always keep your big mouth shut until you think through the implications of the statement you are about to make.
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts."
Load More Replies... @nbfresh why did you go through and downvote literally every comment I have made in like a month? And reply saying that I am ‘just as bad’ as some mf saying the n word for liking dodgeball? I just want to talk?
just ignore it. It doesn't matter. People are stupid sometimes and its easier to just acknowledge that and move on with your day. As soon as you engage them, it just encourages s**t behavior. Trust me. I am an awful person.
Load More Replies... I think these are all great and funny except for the one where a white person makes fun of another persons name. It's stupid and racist-not a "burn" at all... 🙄
These posts can teach a valuable lesson. Always keep your big mouth shut until you think through the implications of the statement you are about to make.
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts."
Load More Replies... 