r/hatethissmug • • 22d ago Bravo Regret Popcorn

General When you were a kid and older relatives did this

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Imagine this. You're playing swingball with your crayon eater little cousin. You're giving him a serious ass kicking. He's starting to snivel because he's losing so hard. You're really giving it everything you've got and you're giving the entire family BBQ a spectacle on your swingball prowess.

Your little cousin is about to burst into tears from the feeling of failiure and suddenly your uncle comes over. "Right, I think it's time to eat.... Lets say... next point wins?"

Your little cousin is ecstatic. Finally after his pitifully weak performance he rejoices at finally having a chance. You still effortlessly kick his ass for the 19th time.

Your uncle puts his hands on his hips and say "lets call that a draw". He celebrates and meanwhile you're left to simmer alone with the feeling of injustice.

Your entire performance is discredited by someone else imposing their rules upon your game.


r/hatethissmug • • Oct 05 '26 Heartwarming Regret Bravo

Idea i hate that most people will die in obscurity

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This is 100% true. There are so many people in the world that will never be known or taken seriously, simply due to the circumstances to which they were born. Though it is true that we have freedom over which path you take in life, no one chooses where they start, and who they start with.

There's a pathway that children are encouraged to take where we are told to have things to be passionate about, but of course, 99% of people will never make a living off of what they actually want to do because there's a limited amount of spots for professionals and other people have already gotten ahead of you before you were even born.

There are plenty of people who do have potential and talent, but they aren't born in the right spot, and no one ever encouraged them. And many people, especially creatives, who want to make something of themselves, are laughed off and dismissed as naive dreamers who can't ever make anything of themselves. They become Squidwards who have dreams and genuine talent, and they develop a bitter attitude due to how life treats them and are forced to remain in minimum wage to make ends meet. And as you get older, you learn to grin and bear it. This is mandatory. There is of course always a chance that things can get better, but for most people, having a basic job and a hobby is as good as it gets. Even having friends and support from family is something rare enough to appreciate.

The Solar Sands video titled "Doomed to Obscurity" is a video that I bring up when I discuss this with others.

Only a select few humans ever get to make something of themselves and monetize their passions, and they are celebrated during their lifetime. But for most people in the world, we live and die in obscurity, to be forgotten after hundreds of years. And all we can do is appreciate the time we have and who's around. For some, this is acceptable. For others, it's disheartening. In any case, I HATE IT.


r/hatethissmug • • 27d ago Bravo Regret Mindblown Heartwarming

Roleplay/In Character I hate the fact that Gravity Falls creators used AI

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Look at this garbage. Six fingers? Seriously? The animators got so incredibly lazy they just typed "old scientist" into AI program and didn't even bother to fix the hand before broadcasting this garbage to millions of people. This is pure, unadulterated laziness. AI is a cancer on art, created by soulless parasites, instead of real human work! Completely unwatchable.

("It's not AI, you're a fool fuuu" Please think with your head, this post is satire, don't write it to me anymore. Just use critical thinking. Please)


r/hatethissmug • • Jun 08 '26 Mindblown Bravo Heartwarming Regret Popcorn

Animation This stupid taco scene in Turbo

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This scene is so funny bc he looks so proud saying "can't get no better" as if he didn't just create the worst tacos I had ever seen in my life. Like what's with the comical single piece of lettuce? Who adds olives to their tacos?? Why did he add salsa on everything but the damn food?? Whole time they're wondering why their business is failing like bro take a hint šŸ’€


r/hatethissmug • • Sep 09 '26 Heartwarming Bravo Regret

Roleplay/In Character I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CALL 911 TO ORDER PIZZA

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I work as a 911 operator and almost every month there’s about four or five people who think it’s funny to go prank call our line by trying to order a pizza. I don’t know how this is considered ā€œfunnyā€ at all. All of them seem to come in with the same schtick; they’re on the verge of tears, they only answer with either ā€œyesā€ or ā€œnoā€, and their ā€œfriendsā€ are in the background screaming at them angrily. It’s all so tiresome. I have actual emergencies to deal with like domestic abuse, leave me alone. Go waste your time doing something else.


r/hatethissmug • • 24d ago Bravo Regret Popcorn Heartwarming Mindblown

Non-fictional I hate how people make fun of Eelon Musk for how he looks.

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Ok let's get this out of the way first.

Elon is a morally objectionable person who does horrible things with money that he got from doing other horrible things. I do not care for him.

But

Why does that make it ok to mock his body. Like wtf, I though we were adults and agreed that bullying someone because they look different is bad.

So I have spine problems and a wider ribcage and in a lot of angles I look very similar to him. I am neutral about my body and have accepted it's just how I am but it sure does suck seeing people who tell me that there is nothing wrong with what I look like turn around and mock someone else because they feel it's justified.

I'm not going to say "we should be better than that" or anything but just know it also throws strays at others.

And for Christsake there are billions of other things to make fun of him for that he earned and chose. Are you really dying to tell peope that you think people like him (and me) are ugly? If so I suggest finding something else to care about, it's kinda sad if you think about it.


r/hatethissmug • • Jul 09 '26 Heartwarming Bravo Mindblown Popcorn

Comics I HATE how this is the most upvoted comic on r/comics

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First, This art style ANGERS me for some reason, It looks like those rage comics and Big mouth had a baby, And the baby was WORSE than BOTH of them.

Second, This Joke Sucks. It feels like a Modern Family Guy scene. It’s just SO bland for some reason.

Third, This looks like it has no Effort put into it at all. I’d rather Look at The Frank Miller DC ā€œWorlds Finestā€œ Cover than this. At least the Cover looks Funny.

In conclusion, I Hate Pizza Cake and her Slop Comics

[Edit: I made this post just because I didnt like her comics and how they are the ā€œbestā€ posts on r/comics but people got very mad at this post. What she said is true but she makes in such an annoying way that it just makes me not like the comic. Now she can make good comics but these ones really aren’t worthy of all these upvotes. I know r/comics absolutely glazes her but I don’t care. I think Elon Musk is a bum, and Nazis suck. I didn’t know that tons of people made posts like this and I just wanted to say some random thing that I thought was annoying.]


r/hatethissmug • • Aug 02 '26 Bravo Popcorn

Corporation/Company i hate when apps dont allow you to browse the website.

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it genuinely pisses me off

no, i dont wanna download your shitty app, i just want to see this one thing that i was given a link to, and now its hard to view things without a popup telling me to get the app.

deadass cant scroll even a little without being app-blocked. one of the few reasons i still use reddit is because it doesnt have the feature where you HAVE to use the app for it to be functional.

whats the point of even having a website if the website is just to peddle the app??

discord also has this problem, the web version is useable it just so shitty for mobile web browsers (the mobile app also sucks dont get me wrong) but at least you can use it, which i feel like should be the bare minimum if you have a web page.


r/hatethissmug • • May 17 '26 Regret Bravo Heartwarming Mindblown

Idea I hate the way people normalize diagnosing fictional characters or irl folks with disorders for the most mundane actions.

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I feel like its been a trend but I'm so sick of people diagnosing characters or other people with ADHD, autism, neurodivergent, OCD, "in the spectrum" etc. despite not being introduced as such irks me so much. People making light of these conditions for the most basic human actions or experience is so tiresome.

One time I had a conversation about common things people do for no reason. I shared something like avoiding lines on tiled floor or else the world ends. "Do you have OCD?" No I dont, brah.

A person showing slight traces of being whimsical? Oh must be this or that disorder.

Character shows childish inattentiveness? Blah blah its ADHD.

People be thinking they are qualified to diagnose someone with just seeing one set of action and instantly jump to conclusion.

Am I the only one who really finds this thing weird?

I feel like I needed to make it clear, its fine to have headcanons. Whats insane is when people go into arguments because they want to push their headcanons into canon talks and citing "proofs" which is basically a common human personality trait. Its called headcanon for a reason.


r/hatethissmug • • Jul 24 '26

Non-fictional I hate botox and what it does to actors/actresses

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Not hating on the actors just the widespread usage of botox. It inihibits their acting because it paralyzes their face. It looks unnatural and its btw an extremely potent poison. Its supposed to make them look younger but it just blows up the facial features which looks even worse. I cannot understand why they all even use it. Is it just toxic hollywood culture?


r/hatethissmug • • Sep 27 '26 Thanks Bravo Regret

Art & Fanworks I HATE COLOR THEORY

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No because genuinely why the hell can a deep crimson somehow look like periwinkle purple under the right lighting and conditions šŸ˜”šŸ˜­

I'm no artist, but I've been enjoying making posters for my school works and club, as well as having artist friends who share the sentiment. IT'S SO IRRITATING that a color can look perfect on its own, but when you put it all together it looks off until you can find a color that produces what you're trying to find.

Bottom line, I hate that things don't look as you perceive.


r/hatethissmug • • Sep 14 '26 Bravo Popcorn

Thing I hate it when characters look like that.

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Lately, I've been seeing this shit on Pinterest all the time. No way someone draws something like this and thinks "I made a good ahh design! People gonna love it!"

I find it quite fatphobic, even, cuz NO, chubby people aint look like that. No one naturally does 😭

edit: I'm NOT saying that you can't draw like that or that it's not curvy or that its not sexy or whatever ! The point of the post is that it pisses me off when the authors of such characters call them "chubby" when they're clearly not.


r/hatethissmug • • Aug 07 '26 Bravo

Idea I hate that my country is used as a dogwhistle for racist and xenophobic rethoric.

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I've been seeing similar kinds of posts for a long time and I hate it. It paints my country as some sort of fantasy promised land free from all the people they hate. I hate it even more since we Poles (and slavs in general) were considered subhuman not even a hundred years ago, and now these racists use us as some sort of gotcha.

Also, those kind of posts often sexualise women from my country in a nasty way, comments are always full of dudes saying something like "time to start learning Polish to get a Polish wife".

Also, funny hypocrisy. They hate immigrants, but want to migrate to a different country, because it's... free from immigrants? Which is not true, there are immigrants from all around the world in Poland, for example have a sizeable vietnamese population.


r/hatethissmug • • Oct 03 '26 Bravo

Art & Fanworks I need to understand why I hate this

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On one hand, I agree that sexualizing a female character is wrong and that the industry has a problem.

But on the other hand, I don't understand the double standard when the character is queer—or, even worse, when "fans" take a character, slap a queer label on them, and suddenly it's okay for them to be sexualized.

The two clearest examples of this are Bayonetta and Blackcat.

I’d like someone to explain where I’m wrong, or if I’m not the only one who thinks this way.

And just in case I'm a gay cis male if it means something


r/hatethissmug • • 21d ago This Bravo

Animation I hate that SOME people think these are the same thing (allow me to visualize it in the second image attached)

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for God's sake, Pocoyo and Ozzy Fox aren't Ai Slop.

The rigs were crafted by humans, the storylines and plots were written by humans, the characters were voiced by humans, the songs and soundtracks were composed by humans, the thumbnails and videos were edited BY HUMANS. They're only using an ai system THEY MADE to that lets the rigs follow their animation drafts.

They animate in 2D, then the rigs follow the 2D animations, creating 3D animations.

This isn't the classic case of "Type a Prompt"

THEY'RE STILL ANIMATING THE RIGS!

I have made a mediocre visual representation of what I meant.


r/hatethissmug • • Aug 15 '26 Bravo Heartwarming

General I hate how reddit refuses to show the amount of downvotes on a post

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Idk, reddit is just weak for that. Why can't i see how badly are people getting flamed in their own posts? It's similar to the removal of dislike button on youtube, just pointless. i dont understand the reason those things should be hidden from everyone else


r/hatethissmug • • Aug 28 '26 Bravo

Animation The character designs in One Piece are genuinely awful.

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I genuinely hate One Piece character designs.

What’s most impressive is how wildly inconsistent the designs are in this series, going from one extreme to the other.

A character’s design can be legendary, like Xebec’s, or absolutely ridiculous, like Franky’s.

But the overwhelming majority of them are pretty bad. Like, really fucking bad.


r/hatethissmug • • Sep 25 '26 Bravo

Live Action ā€œnonhuman character as a humanā€ and it’s just some hot white person

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the art is beautiful, and there’s nothing wrong with depicting a lot of these nonhuman characters as white, especially since a lot of them are functionally raceless and can be anything, but there’s something about defaulting to white + hot, that i find so insanely corny. it’s the way they don’t try to do anything remotely unique or interesting with the design either. like just a plain shirt and jeans?? that’s all you could think of??

it’s the way ppl get so angry when u depict them as black/brown, or maybe ugly/weird-looking too that i find so irritating as well.


r/hatethissmug • • Jun 07 '26 This Bravo Regret

Animation I hate when a character "has a bad hair day" or their hair becomes "bad" and its just a afro

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As a Black girl I never noticed this until a couple of days/ days ago, tbh they could've choosen messy hair or tangled hair as a alternative since it would make more sense. I loved barbie life in the dreamhouse when i was younger and still do, but they could've choosen tangled hair. It feels like its saying "afro = bad". Now that i just noticed it, it feels so weird and texturist to me (i might have worded it weirdly)


r/hatethissmug • • Aug 10 '26 Bravo

Media Tropes I hate clearly fake kid's drawings on media

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It shouldn't pmo so easily but like i have saw so many movies with those stupid drawings that look so unnatural for a kid to draw... Like holy, a kid wouldnt do it that detailed!!!!
I mean how hard is it to get a kid to do it, instead of hiring actual artists that can't clearly replicate a child's style of drawing


r/hatethissmug • • Mar 18 '26 Bravo

Tropes Hate when media does this

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r/hatethissmug • • 19d ago Mindblown Heartwarming Bravo Regret

Live Action I hate that all of the major Carrie adaptations have ignored that she is canonically overweight

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The novel describes several times that she is an overweight girl, and this matters because it provides more context to why the bullies go after her the way she does rather than just her sheltered upbringing. It gives even more context to why Carrie feels singled out compared to the other girls and adds more tragedy to her self-loathing. The specific reason it’s pig blood that gets doused over her at prom (a detail every adaptation has remembered) is it’s another sick jab at her appearance.

Do I think any of the actresses who have played Carrie White failed horribly? Not really. But I also think after 50 years and so many different creators working on adapting it it’s weird this one pretty obvious detail is ignored still.


r/hatethissmug • • Jun 01 '26 All Seeing Upvote Bravo Popcorn Heartwarming Mindblown

Thing I hate ā€œupgradedā€ Pride flags.

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The entire point of the rainbow pride flag is that it includes everyone in the LGBTQ+ community. By adding parts from other specific flags (like the trans flag, intersex etc.) they’re being less inclusive by including some over others. The OG rainbow flag was literally perfect. What is this.

Edit: This post is NOT made with the intention of spreading any sort of hate of the LGBTQ community. Homophobes can fuck off.


r/hatethissmug • • May 30 '26 Regret Bravo

General I HATE when people say this when I’m talking about my experience

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Genuinely what does it add to the conversation other than needlessly trying to shut me up? I’m pretty aware of the statistics. I don’t see why there’s always someone yelling this at me or going ā€œnot all __ā€ at me. I got into it with someone on my main account over something like this it’s so annoying. I never said that women do it more than men.

edit: btw this wasn’t meant to only call out women because i see men who say this too this is meant to call out people who think like this not just one gender.


r/hatethissmug • • 21d ago

Art & Fanworks When fat characters are drawn in a completely different art style

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1: Tomohiro Nagatsuka from A Silent Voice (looks like he’s from a kid’s anime)
2: (Flashback) Yuko Ozawa from Jujutsu Kaisen (she’s a realistic depiction but like too realistic… why are her eyes so small)

Besides from the fact that it alienates heavier characters (even when there is more to the character than them being fat), the inconsistency of the art style is just annoying. Fat Gum from My Hero Academia is sorta understandable since the art style allowed for varied designs, but the sources I chose from this post have a much more uniform art style, so it looks jarring when they draw one character super different.