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I was looking at the site for quite a long time and had no intention of ever becoming a member.
I started noticing the same people commenting with a similar sense of humour as me. Then one day, there was an 'Ask Pandas' that caught my eye. One of my favourite commenters had put out a plea for help. She had reached a crisis point in her life and was not in a very good way. There were very few responses and most not very helpful (it was the early days of
ask pandas).
Then she just... disappeared.
I found myself wondering what had happened (not normal for me at all), months went by. Then out of nowhere, a hilarious comment from her. I had to register to reply to her comment and let her know that I had missed her humour, we started a discussion about mental health and before I knew it she had roped me in to giving advice to others, and sharing my comments & opinions (correcting people was all my own doing).
She's gone from BP now (I keep in touch in other ways), but I decided to hang around.
i want to talk to people, and make friends:) (and also i was bored bc i got no phone:< )
i used to actually use bp for a pretty long time before i got an account. i then decided to make an account just cuz.
I got WAY too tired of having a perfect comment and not being able to share it. To be honest I thought that even then I would still be one of the people that nobody knows, but at least few people on here have seemed to notice me, personally I like the change. :)
I came up with many perfect comments too! I don't think I have had any ideas like them since I made an account.
i typed in the word bored in google and this came up and i just liked the website
have a nice day
there were some comments i wanted to upvote
I don't remember how exactly I found the site, but I read stuff on bp for like half a year before I made an account. I was lonely and bored and wanted someone to talk to.
It popped up on a random Google story feed. I clicked on it, read it, then began my descent down the rabbit hole. I found oldsters like myself all the way to HS students commenting on things that actually made me think. I came to really love this community because there's (typically) room for everyone at the table, and of all the dozens of people on here, there's only a handful who are just plain mean and they're easy enough to ignore.
Yeah, this has to be one of the only non-toxic chatting sites out there
Cat memes
I was using 9gag for memes, but it became a bunch of social media without memes, and an extremely toxic community. I found this, and it's way better.
Unfortunately BP is beginning to turn into reposts every other week and reddit stories :(
I would look up stuff like “Overprotective parent stories” and found BP that way. One day I wanted to comment something because I related to the article or something. BP was my introduction to social media and I use it behind my parents’ backs because my mom doesn’t want me on social media cuz she thinks I’ll post my address and stuff…
i was searching up things i was interested in ( dumb people, amazing comments, etc ) and i kept seeing this site for things i like. i started noticing that other people could comment and i noticed that you can become a member so i joined. in other words, i kept bumping innto this site so i decided to join it
Well the short answer is… I was a very bored trash panda
welli was constantly on it but i never made an account because my mom doesnt like us using things that we can talk to ppl on. eventually, i just decided to make one. I'm currently loving it so yeah
I was on here for a while and was sick of not being able to upvote stuff and leave comments.
I was incredibly lonely as I had just started at a new school with no friends
this is completely unrelated and you have probably never heard of me or know who I am but, I read your bio and WE HAVE THE SAME YT TASTE! I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF ANYONE WHO LIKES MC YT AND LIKES THOSE YOUTUBERS!
My school district banned almost everything except for this site. I want to talk to cool and fun people. I was pretty much bored because I didn't have a phone so I couldn't contact my friends at school. Also, bp makes me feel better...sometimes...when there are no trolls, lol.
BP has interesting and educational articles and good commentary to follow up.
I hate my job and need laughs to keep me going.
I was looking at memes and saw that there was a huge collection of them on a post here and one thing led to another.
i looked up a certain comic, found demilked and bp, used demilked until i tried bp
I used to just look on BP, but I wasn't logged in, there were comments I wanted to upvote and comments I wanted to make so I logged in
One of my best friends introduced me to boredpanda during Sophmore year math class
I had been using for bp for a while and i remember i saw this particular thing that i wanted to comment on and i literally made an account just so u could comment lol
Because I wanted to say things. And say things that people appreciate. And hey, it worked! 3.6k points in 7ish months.
I find I like to comment on random stuff from time to time. This is a website where the replies aren't 90% trolls/racist/misogynistic/transphobic/homophobic/intolerant in the other countless ways to be intolerant. (Of course there are exceptions, but most pandas seem like good people).
The general positivity and friendliness of the comments compared to other social media .
I was actually on Pinterest and finding pins with lights nos to bp, and I wanted to be able to pick fights with the racist guys commenting on here
Idk I was on here for a couple years not being a member, and then I wanted to comment or something and made an account
I was trying to upvote a pic of a baby snake and i couldnt so i just made an account
I’d been on Bored Panda without an account for a while using my reading kindle that was so low-power that it couldn’t run google - yes, google - properly, but somehow had a web browser option and could run Bored Panda. At some point someone said that Wales was a principality in the comments of a British memes video, and I decided to get an account purely so I could tell them that Wales is a country now. A silly reason, but hey.
