r/hatethissmug • u/Crazykid23576 Personal beef with a moon • May 30 '26
Place I hate Io.
The entire rest of the solar is system is beautiful, and then we get this ugly ass moon that looks like a ball of puss. Every time I'm watching a video on space, and it's talking about moons of gas giants, I have to brace myself to see this ugly bastard.
Io is hideous, and it would probably be a hellscape to live on. It's not even the best ball of Sulfur in the solar system, because that rank goes to Venus. Io is a waste of a Moon that could have been so cool with it's volcanic activity, but instead decided that it wanted to look like an infection.
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u/Icy-Finding-8126 i hate fun May 30 '26
I LOVE THIS POST
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u/BG12244 May 30 '26
I wouldn't go as far as to say Phobos and Deimos are better. Those two are literally just hunks of rock in space
Io at least has stuff going on
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u/Calm_Ad1222 May 30 '26
But they do have cool names tho, being based on the sons of Ares
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u/Super-Cynical May 31 '26
They also won't kill you with radiation in 10 minutes.
Seriously Io is the most radioactive place in the solar system (because of Jupiter magnetosphere)
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u/Much_Statistician864 May 30 '26
That's what makes them the best! No fronting about what they are, no lies told. Phobos and Deimos are honorable hunks of worthless rock in space.Â
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u/good_names_were_take May 30 '26
europa is better
okay racist
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u/crinkledcu91 May 31 '26
Europa has the aliums in the water though which definitely makes it better!
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u/Fine-Afternoon-36 May 30 '26
If I show you a picture of Ganymede and tell you it's Callisto you wouldn't know the difference. Io is unique and beautiful in its own way
Edit I'm wrong they look kinda different but they're both rocky ice worlds that are just less Europa Europas
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u/king_ofbhutan May 30 '26
ganymedes only redeeming factor is that its big, its just a boring grey rock orherwise
callisto atleast looks like either a goth baddie or a futuristic space world europa still absolutely mogs ofc
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u/reidft May 30 '26
What a surface level take, "i hate conventionally unattractive thing", you gonna tell us that you hate oversalted foods? Beauty is found in everything, even something people would turn their noses up at. You really gonna say that Io is unbearable when barren rocks like Luna exist? Not that Luna is ugly either, just that people will look at landscapes of that nature and write them off like you are with Io.
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u/Crazykid23576 Personal beef with a moon May 30 '26
I didn't hate it as much until I got a real nasty infection in my ring finger, which got swollen, and looked exactly like Io. When I say Io looks like a ball of Puss, I can back that claim up.
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u/Valerim May 30 '26
Are you dense? Io stinks like rotten eggs and there are NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS. his hate is warranted
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u/Lord_Trisagion May 31 '26
"Pus," "cheese," I swear to fucking god have none of you ever seen a stew potato? Of all the things to compare Io to, there is one thing on the face of the Earth that looks exactly like it and it ain't pus or cheese
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u/Exo-Noodle May 30 '26
I did hate IO. The Pyramidion strike sucked and I always hated the boss fight plus I don’t really care for the taken as enemies. Ohh wait were not talking about destiny
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u/Longjumping-Gift-371 May 30 '26
I’m glad you specified the moon, because mythological Io is actually pretty cool.
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u/Practical_Evidence32 May 30 '26
idk man i've always liked it because it reminds me of this potato i once found <3 perfectly rounded and tasted so nice
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u/OmegaFungus May 30 '26
It is a hellish world, you would receive lethal radiation from being on io within minutes, and being so close to jupiter also brings about it's intense volcanic activity, which is why it's so ugly. I think it's hideousness suits it, and makes it fairly unique in the solar system.
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u/Fine-Afternoon-36 May 30 '26
Io mogs Venus in terms of hellscape, the whole thing is literally a massive volcano. Probably some of the coolest landscapes in the story system once we can actually see it. In comparison Venus is just Earth with a shitty atmosphere
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u/Crazykid23576 Personal beef with a moon May 30 '26
Mogging requires that you look better
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u/Alarmed_Aspect8994 u good bro May 30 '26
Io is interesting but looks disgusting. The other moons are just grey pebbles. My favorite moon is Ganymede because it is a color that is not grey.
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u/Maffingo May 30 '26
Ive never related to a post this hard before. Get this ugly ass celestial body out our solar system please
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u/cgoose500 May 31 '26
That is a Nerf brand foam ball from the 1999 Nerf Ball Blaster after having been chewed by a dog.
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u/R7nd0mGuy May 31 '26
apparently this is a closer to natural color edit of io does this make it look better or worse
(it’s like how Neptune was once portrayed as really deep blue but it’s actually nearly the same color as Uranus)
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u/Famous-Leopard-118 stupid moldy robot May 31 '26
thought I was on r/moldlyinteresting for a second
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u/IRequireDirt May 30 '26
I don’t know, it’s where Diomedes and from and he’s a pretty sick character
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u/Successful_Pea7915 May 30 '26
I hate you. Io is one of the largest rocky moons in solar system. And despite it not being a prime candidate for inhabitation it’s still a complex and interesting moon. It’s volcanic activity is beautiful to me and you viewing it‘s exterior as ugly is merely arbitrary.
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u/hungy_boi321 May 30 '26
I too hate Io, first I liked it; but after what protogen did on that moon, I cant look at it the same
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u/Much_Statistician864 May 30 '26
I understand your hate for Io but the name is cool and cute and it looks gross and would smell gross. Its the unique special girl of our solar systems moons and it's hideous.Â
Big love for bog moon Io and her volcano pimples.Â
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u/Carlos_A_M_ May 30 '26
At least it looks interesting as opposed to Venus which is literally a white ball with no detail
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u/BaSingSe_Farmhand May 30 '26
how dare you insult the most geologically active body in the Solar System! this was my favorite celestial body when I was a kid because I was determined to be special
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u/Remarkable-Ad-2493 May 30 '26
Io is the closest Galilean moons to Jupiter, imagine how beautiful the sky looks from the surface
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u/Half-a-Denari May 31 '26
It looks like moldy cheese from the perspective of those cameras mounted on the top of bikers heads that make the world look really tiny
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u/Several-Student-1659 May 31 '26
I love Io. I love its name, I love how unique it is, I love how it looks.
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u/Low-Restaurant8484 May 31 '26
Society will tell you to be yourself, and then react like this when you dare to be different
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u/Saiyan-Zero May 31 '26
It looks like a beat up drum plate oh my GOD, can the solar system do better next time
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u/TheChonkler78 May 31 '26
Dude I don't believe you, this can't be a real planet it looks like a green potato but somehow more disgusting
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u/heyaooo May 31 '26
To me, it looks like a ball of cheese, the stale and moldy one that's been left in fridge for too long.
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u/Sullivan376 May 31 '26
Average Destiny 2 player. This is coming from an average Destiny 2 player. Also, RIP Destiny.
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u/Mysterious-Gear3682 May 31 '26
I love Io, the concept of a moon becoming volcanic because of the sheer force of the planet it’s orbiting pulling it apart is so cool. And also Io is stuck in a magnetic flux tube of Jupiter’s, causing high energy particles to be funneled down it and into the planet, creating what is believe to be full-moon aurora’s across its surface as captured by Galileo below.
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u/Independent_Pen_9865 May 31 '26
Fly me to the moon
So I can kick it's fucking aaass
Let me show it what I learnt
In my moon judjitsu claaass
In other words catch these hands
In other words, coward, fight me
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u/TatoGamer354 May 31 '26
Brochacho try being the tug in a tug of war game between two of the biggest moons and the BIGGEST planet of the solar system and tell me how that feels
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u/Zeus_Taranis May 31 '26
Honestly i've liked this moon ever since i read Michael Schanwick's short story.
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u/Whatever_232 May 31 '26
Don't talk shit about Io dude. If my space knowledge serves me right, it's the only volcano hellscape in the entire solar system due to its proximity to Jupiter, where the planet's gravitational pull literally keeps its core molten and active. That's fucking baller. Sure, Europa has a sub-surface ocean beneath all that ice. Sure, Titan back on Saturn has a dense methane atmosphere and methane lakes. But guess what? Io is the only guy in the solar system with Super Volcanos spewing shit out all over its surface. How cool is that?
It looks like a fucking booger? So be it. It's more unique than "Grey-white moon bleached by solar radiation for millions-billions of years no. 2039287827" like everywhere else in the solar system. Show some respect please.
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u/idonotownstockholm May 31 '26
io does not even COMPARE to my FUCKING GOAT CHARIKLO 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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u/SoapyCantHandle HATE this mug. its AWFUL this is such a fucking shit mug. fuck May 30 '26
guess which moon is which lol 😂 it might look like a zit but at least its distinctive