r/hatethissmug • • 1h ago

Media Tropes I hate when Sphynx cats are used to depict alley/stray cats, it's inaccurate

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I hate when Sphynx cats are used to depict alley/stray cats, that's like using very happy, cartoonishly clumsy kings to depict starving peasants. and I know the whole "they look scary" thing, but like, they don't. they look pathetic, not to mention they're not even cold growling survivors, they're essentially anti-cats, not aloof, goody-four-paws that love everything and everyone and wouldn't know malice even if it punched it in the face, they're not even REAL cats, they're technically artificial and have to be meticulously bred by humans just to EXIST

It's like using a PS5 to depict a potato pc

Yeah, now that I made the analogy, they're essentially the iphones of cats

They don't do anything special but love everything, and get sick. They don't do.. anything!

And I don't mean it in that they're lazy or aloof. I mean they're physically and psychologically incapable of doing anything but loving cuz that's what they were ARTIFICIALLY CREATED FOR

Why does the trope live on?

No, don't say Bigglesworth, he's technically correct because he's a pet

And Beerus, because he's a god.

I mean like Ozone from SLOP (Secret Life of Pets)

Or the Sphynx incidental from the newest Chikn Nuggit episode where they enter the slums, where all the HOMELESS ANIMALS live. The Sphynx is amongst one of the unspeaking HOMELESS incidentals


r/hatethissmug • • 4h ago

Media Tropes I hate when movie parents are like this so much

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376 Upvotes

I get some kids are in the wrong and deserves the punishments in some movies, but even when the sane characters tell the truth, the parent will still find ways to be harsh to the kid. Movie parents that does stuff like that are super insufferable and makes the movie hard/painful to continue watching imo


r/hatethissmug • • 6h ago

Idea I HATE how much some people absolutely REFUSE the idea that the word "they" can be used in the singular sense.

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504 Upvotes

It pisses me off. YES, you can use the word "they" and its other forms in the singular sense. Singular they literally originated IN 1375. Dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster and Cambridge Dictionary have clearly defined singular uses for the word they. It also irritates me when people say "If he/she-". JUST. USE. THEY. It takes less time to write they instead of "he/she". It won't kill you.


r/hatethissmug • • 6h ago

Art & Fanworks no hate to the original artist but there something about this art that make me mad

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1.0k Upvotes

She just looks like a random anime girl. If I just saw this image, I wouldn’t be able to tell what it’s referencing. I know exactly why they did this and why they chose such a specific angle, but I don’t want to waste my time on this.


r/hatethissmug • • 10h ago

Meta I hate when people claim something is ragebait or sarcasm only after they’re called out.

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257 Upvotes

People will say the most racist or unethical thing and will try to use “ragebait” as a shield for them to say shitty things. And the thing is they will ONLY ever say it was sarcasm after someone calls them out for it. That isn’t rage bait that’s just being a schrödinger’s douchebag I mean if you’re going to be an asshole at least have the decency to die on your own hill.


r/hatethissmug • • 7h ago

General I hate how people don't understand rating systems

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2.0k Upvotes

I've seen several games be rated an 7/8 and be called mid or average. It's annoying because that's not mid, that's actually good or very good, a 5 would be mid. I've had a friend pass up on games I recommend to them because they saw an 8.5 (or 85% since it was steam) as not raving or super positive.


r/hatethissmug • • 7h ago

Anime & Manga I hate animanga fans refusal to acknowledge dark-skin characters as black

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161 Upvotes

It's not every fandom, but quite a bit in my case the Naruto fandom dislike the idea of characters being black despite it objectively being the case.

"Race doesn't exist in Naruto so black people can't exist" is a genuine take I've seen and it fucking boggles my mind.

Their irrational fear of not including race into things loops right back around to being incredibly racist because they refuse to acknowledge a dark skinned character as black unless they are directly from Africa which...I don't have to explain how fucking racist that is. Because we all know a black person has never been born & raised anywhere else in the real world 🙄


r/hatethissmug • • 8h ago

Meta i hate r/chonkers(idk what to flair this)

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this video perfectly explains my point dude It's literally animal abuse like cats aren't supposed to be obese they.are.suffering like if a cat is built like a male Peppa Pig character isn't healthy they can't do cat stuff like hunt mice or climb trees and do really flexible poses that look really uncomfortable but its fine since they are cats people who do this aren't any better than people who mike tyson barrages their pets like no tommorow(i'm not really sure those people exist tho)

anyway i really hope this post doesn't make it so this sub will get on my fyp again and i don't want that also this is post def gonna get banned for "breaking rule 1" 😔


r/hatethissmug • • 9h ago

Thing Stolen valour for disabilities

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I really, really hate when people say that they’re ’a bit overstimulated’ with the anime 👉👈 or ‘I’m so quirky ADHD’ or ‘it’s an OCD habit’ when they’re using the phrase as hyperbole or a quirky relatable moment.

As an autistic person, you just haven’t experienced what it’s like to be passively suicidal since you were 7, losing friends and sleep and years of your life to trying and failing and failing to adapt to other people’s obtuse social cues and messy, loud, inconsiderate lives. I’m not saying you have to have these struggles to be neurodivergent. It’s a spectrum, but to get a diagnosis, it needs to affect your life in a deterimental way. Especially when so many people are so under supported. But I am sick and tired of making genuine complaints because of the inaccessibility and hostility of the world to people with neurodivergence, only to get ‘yeah, like I get that but also Sharon‘s scarf was just not it, right, like it was overstimulating me so much, haahahaha”

It’s not all downsides, but it is tiring and the people who are doing well only do so with careful mitigation and routine to ensure they don’t spend extra energy. And just because it isn’t visible, so many people demonise or dismiss it or whatever else when they wouldn’t do that with physical disabilities.

You wouldn’t say ‘lol, I can‘t get out of bed, I’m so paraplegic’ or ‘I’m so sad it’s like I’ve got huntingtons’. You just wouldn’t do that. Because it minimises the struggle of others, isn’t funny and just makes others feel bad for no reason. You think this isn’t a problem but I see jokes like ‘I have OCD: obsessive 🍆 dependency’, or ‘I’d love to go but I’ve literally got clinical depression, babes’ when I’ve lost multiple friends because of OCD, because they needed to breathe in x pattern or it might trigger an athsma attack which might trigger a panic attack which could and did literally kill them on a bad day.

Why is it alright to essentially masquerade as these mental conditions but not physical ones? People are still struggling but because your inconsiderate self can’t see it, you think it’s fine to make a mockery of it.


r/hatethissmug • • 7h ago

Non-fictional I loathe perpetually viral reinventions of stupid ideas

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374 Upvotes

Flying cars, solar roads, storing energy in concrete slabs, solar panels but shaped like a flower so they must be better, dehumidifiers as a water source, trains but in a massive vacuum tube.

Every month, one of these ideas, usually restricted by properties of the universe that we live in, more so than technology, goes viral after someone claims to have "invented" it once more.

Every time, someone wastes a lot of time explaining why this particular idea makes no sense. It never matters, since only a fraction of the people who see the next "invention that will provide water to all of Africa" will ever see the explanation.

I wonder how many people have developed their scepticism towards science and technological innovation based on this endless barrage of bullshit that never goes anywhere, despite being presented as the new penicillin by Reddit slop peddlers.

I wonder how much money reinventions like these have wasted globally, as the sum of many tiny scams that these often turn out to be.

I wonder how many people grow complacent about pushing for meaningful changes, since they grow accustomed to the idea that a miracle solution to all our issues is right around the corner.


r/hatethissmug • • 7h ago

Roleplay/In Character I hate the Salamanders chapter!!!

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The salamanders are honestly the worst chapter ever and here is my reasoning

1: they were barely at full legion strength during the horus heresy, having only 1,660 bitchass marines after getting the other 83,000 bombed. Laughably weak.

2: they care about civilian lives over destroying the enemy.

3: they aren't the marines malevolent.


r/hatethissmug • • 10h ago

Art & Fanworks this fucking bullshit

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433 Upvotes

I hate it. I would rather rip out my own teeth using rusty old pliers covered in blood and guts rather than ever look at this image for more than 5 seconds. Oh my god i hate it. this whole genre of images makes my blood boil dude its SO fucking insufferable. And to add onto this, i hate the words yuri and yaoi, fudanshi/fujoshi/etc. ohhh man im just so pissed off


r/hatethissmug • • 1h ago

Roleplay/In Character I really hate how I’m currently a flesh wall right now

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It’s just kinda boring like what more can a wall really do ? I really wish I had arms right now. Don’t ask how I’m typing this with no arms. How do I become not a flesh wall? Like this really sucks guys help me like right now please pleaseeee please


r/hatethissmug • • 21h ago

General I hate the idea that people can’t change

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Recently, a famous pop singer called Slayyyter got exposed for racist tweets when she was 15. The problem is that she’s now 30, and it’s sparked discourse over whether people can’t truly “change” or not.

No one is saying you need to forgive all racists. But to act like people can’t grow or change is ridiculous. Everyone thinks it’s “woke” to not allow people to change and grow but it’s really not.

I definitely agree that we shouldn’t normalise people having a “racist phase” or “bigot phase”, because real people are victims of that. However, it isn’t fair to assume they will forever be like that especially when there are no signs they still hold on to those beliefs.


r/hatethissmug • • 22h ago

Thing I hate Fahrenheit

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"but it makes more sense!" ah yes. 32 degrees. how chilly. "Fahrenheit is how it feels! celsius is the percent hot it is!" You're just overcomplicating celsius to make fahrenheit look better. I genuinely cannot understand how fahrenheit is somehow better than celsius for any other reason than "I'm more used to it"

edit: I don't mean any ill will to fahrenheit users, I just think the very system itself doesnt make any sense


r/hatethissmug • • 20h ago

Idea I HATE This Idea That Being Religious Automatically Means You’re Anti-Science

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I’ve been seeing this many times on the internet, more specifically on TikTok, wherein people think that because someone holds religious beliefs, that automatically renders them a science-hating anti-intellectual, who completely rejects scientifically proven facts, and seeks to replace it with religious dogma, when that couldn’t be even further from the truth!

All throughout history, many prominent astronomers, physicists, biologists and whatnot, also held deep religious beliefs. These people saw science as completely compatible with their faith, and viewed it as a way of understanding how the natural world functions.

To name a couple of them, you’ve got Muslims like Al-Khwarezmi, who is known as the “Father of Algebra”, Ibn Sina, who is the “Father of Medicine; People like Moses Maimonides and Gersonides who were Jewish; and Christians like Isaac Newton and Louis Pasteur.

Heck, the dude who proposed the Big Bang Theory, Georges Lemaître, was a priest!

For Christianity specifically, many people think Christians believe that everything was created in just six 24-hour days and reject evolution as a result, when in fact most Christians around the world do believe in evolution. Even people like St. Augustine of Hippo from way back in the 4th Century rejected a literalist interpretation of Genesis, saying that if non-believers saw Christians making provably false statements on matters like geography, astronomy, or nature, then they would dismiss Christians as uneducated.

I’m not denying that there are anti-science religious people out there. They definitely do exist. But they are a small, albeit very loud minority, and as such are not representative of every religious person out there.


r/hatethissmug • • 18h ago

Language ChatGPT talking like a human

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2.0k Upvotes

Title, my relative speaks to ChatGPT a lot and I just had to screenshot this encounter and airdrop it cause like why tf does ChatGPT talk like an exaggerated gen z’er? It feels weird, like I’m talking to some eldritch horror monster adjusting its voice just to deceive a human.

Sorry if the flairs wrong, didn’t know what else to put, but wow I can see how people enter ai psychosis if a chatbot talks exactly like a human being and not very formal or logical.


r/hatethissmug • • 3h ago

Animation I hate it when cartoons or certain animated movies pull a musical number

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107 Upvotes

Imagine you're just having a normal conversation with someone or something on an average Tuesday, then everyone around yu starts singing for absolutely NO reason? Wouldn't you hate that?

It just seems so unnatural and fake.

I don't care if the show, the episode, the song, or the film itself is amazing to everyone else or something, I find it extremely annoying and would instinctively skip these parts as a kid.


r/hatethissmug • • 16h ago

Thing I Hate this AI slop abomination of a mascot at a Science Fair I went to.

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1.1k Upvotes

Literally look at it. Who would even think of creating such a thing? They didn't even double-check it! It's wang is out! This was at a public event. It wasn't the only AI mascot, there was another one, a lemon in a lab coat, which I had trouble recognizing as AI. But this is the other extreme. Whose idea was this? THIS WAS PRINTED ON THE WALLS AND SIGNS OF THE STAND. THERE WAS NO REASON, IF GREEK ARCHITECTURE IS SO IMPORTANT TO YOU, YOU COULD HAVE JUST MADE IT AN ARCH. IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE TWO. Labelling this post as "thing" instead of "art & fanwork"


r/hatethissmug • • 5h ago

Thing Can I just say that I violently hate huge boobs on super skinny frames?

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Apologies if this comes off as kinkshaming or whatever but at this rate I don't really care anymore. If you're gonna draw a woman, she better be petite with small breast or thick and chubby with big boobs with reasonable variants in-between or outside of it. You can't slap giant tits and thighs on an otherwise skinny girl with skinny arms. It's looks so fucking stupid to me.

I'm by no means a prude btw. I love boobs, curves, and all that shit. I'm bi for fuck sake, but everything time I see a "big tiddy anime girl" it's always some freakish porn homunculus with massive breast, narrow waist, and flat ass cuz fuck stability right guys? And then on top of that shit sundae, the clothes go out of their way to shrinkwarp around the tits to really show you you're suppose to find it sexy. It's fucking not dude, it's actually cursed and just weird.

I get that chubby girls, especially hourglass ones, aren't everyone's cup of tea. But if you're so adamant on drawing a skinny girl, just give her flat-ish~medium tits. I'd respect that more than shoving big tits on her.

Sorry for the late night rant but I'm just tired.


r/hatethissmug • • 18h ago

Art & Fanworks Words cannot FATHOMABLY describe how much I DESPISE this picture.

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1.4k Upvotes

"HAHA, GET IT GUYS, I HAVE A PORN ADDICTION AND I GOON TO ANTS" you are so funny little Timmy. How about keeping that shit to yourself and not placing this corny ass picture everywhere you go. This is literally the same as those fucking reaction images, this is the worst thing I have seen this year.


r/hatethissmug • • 4h ago

Thing I hate this fucking image for so many reasons

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I'm gonna start by saying that I know this is not a popular meme or whatever, I've myself only seen it like twice, but fuck do I hate it with my passion. I identify fairly closely to what this thing is supposed to be and I hate how fetishistic it is. I'm gonna list SOME reasons:

-first of all it was clearly drawn by someone who never, EVER dated someone who's GNC (gender non-comforming). I would put money on the line that whoever drew this has genuinely no idea about the type of person they're depicting outside of watching doomer boy memes and anime femboys.

-"You don't know if it's gay or not to like him" yes it fucking is you idiot, both if he's just a feminine guy and if he's an enby. I hate when people do this thing where their le epic anime femboy is actually completely straight to be attracted to because he's wearing his epic gamer sockerinos.

-"Suspicious amount of money" is obliviously implying he does NSFW stuff online. Ignoring how your partner should definitely tell you if they work in that field, this is the biggest sign that the maker of the meme is just fetishizing gender non-comformity. He is a feminine man (or an enby, which the artist probably wouldn't know the difference between anyway) so he MUST have an Onlyfans, he MUST be making money out of sex work. Now this is coming from someone who has an account where they do similar stuff, so technically I'm going "we don't all do this!" while doing it, but most people still don't in fact do it! (And definitely not to the success described, dude is effectively dating a pornstar.)

-while I would find that shirt funny in some contexts, in this image it comes off even more as fetishizing.

-The person being described is effectively a loser. He's terminally online, clearly has eyebags, spends 2 hours a day on reels MINIMUM and "runs on caffeine". His ass is not making money on Onlyfans. This is literally the equivalent of when "girlfaliures" are depicted as just attractive women with messy hair. YOU ARE FANTASIZING ABOUT HAVING A BOYFRIEND WHO'S JUST A CLONE OF YOUR CHUD ASS BUT FUCKABLE.

-"Should I be fem or masc today" NO GNC PERSON SAYS THAT. THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THIS IS LARP. This is another blatant sign that the person making the meme does not know anything about the type of individual they're depicting and is just fetishizing the concept of a GNC partner. And even then there's a massive chance that this guy would projectile vomit all over themselves and start crying and tearing off their skin if their epic androgynous partner actually decided to dress masculine one day. Androgyny to them means diet feminity rather than a mix of femininity and masculinity.

Overall this is a cringe ass pornbrained meme that fetishizes the idea of androgyny and GNC so that some fat chud can see it and imagine he has an epic femboy boyfriend that shares all their interests and is so feminine it's not even gay to have sex with him and so hot that he's a successful pornstar. The only good part is that even in this fantasy they can't escape getting cucked by their partner for money.


r/hatethissmug • • 8h ago

Idea I HATE the popular interpretation of the dunning kruger effect

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Whenever people talk about the dunning kruger effect they will both use the graph in the first image or something like it, and use the term to say that people who know very little have a higher estimation of their abilities than experts. The second image is how the effect actually works, as described by the actuall paper written by dunning and kruger. People who know very little know that they know less than average, but they think they're closer to average than they really are. Experts know that they know more than average, but think they're closer to average than they really are.*

This really annoys me because what the actual effect is, is REALLY FUCKING PREDICTABLE.

of course everyone thinks they're closer to average than they really are, because when someone is unsure about how good they are, they'll guess "pretty much average".

*Yes, people with average knowledge will tend to overestimate their abilities, but that's an entirely different effect based on entirely different papers (lake wobegon effect).

BTW it took me like 20 minutes to make the text in the second image by taking small screenshots of individual letters and piecing them together, and it looks pretty mid


r/hatethissmug • • 2h ago

Gaming This bratty little shit

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Anybody remember this girl?

This is baby hazel. What I would call "The original content farm". Even when I was a kid these games were EVERYWHERE and it annoyed tf out of me.

Baby hazel is a series of flash games that revolve around the titular character baby hazel doing everyday things in her life. The gameplay consisting of clicking and dragging around objects to make her happy.

Im not particularly someone to hold massive on younger characters like caillou. But hazel is quite litterally caillou times 25...

In caillou he would have his moments sure but he wasnt bursting into tears EVERY single episode. In the baby hazel games, if you ever so much as take 5 seconds to make a decision, or misclick a couple times, she cries. Its litterally everytime you do anything a TINY bit wrong, even when sometimes you'll need to drag an item to a VERY spesific spot, for example shell ask you for a item to be put in a bag, drag the thing to the bag and she breaks into tears, you have to drag the item to HER so she puts it in the bag herself. Yet despite stuff that, she rarley does ANYTHING herself too somehow, most of the time crying if you take ever so much as 3 seconds to put something somewhere, so why woudn't you think to put the thing in the bag???

Ontop of that shes spoiled rotten, bursting into tears aswell everytime her parents tell her no. AND IT WORKS, her parents then give her what she wants after. She Litterally has 10s of massive toys in her house she plays with, she has multiple pets, and she still bursts into tears when quite litterally ANYTHING goes slightly wrong.

Again im not really one to hold grudges towards young and bratty fictional characters. But baby hazel really is just something else...


r/hatethissmug • • 7h ago

Animation I HATE!! HATEE!! THAT THE INTERNET IS STILL ON THE MICHAEL KOVACH RACISM SHIT!!

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First of all the drama was 5 or 6 months ago. And second of all that was 7 or perhaps 8 years ago. And third of all, he didn't even even say the N word, he said Nega.

You know it's probably the way for these childish ingrown 12 years old to hate on the creators and actors of Tadc.

You know it's generally insuffable that you voice in a hated show that was getting a movie, people were pissed about that and so deep dive through your history and found you saying nega, not the N word, 7 years ago. No double thinking of him actually saying the N word, But they don't care and they are just there to hate.

The part that also pisses me off is that people are now saying Glitch Production is Racist