Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youā€™ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this, and happy new year in advance.)

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    I feel personally attacked because I have a BELOVED dino plush that looks almost exactly like that one, only is, you know, a fucking plush toy not an eldritch horror. They took a perfectly fine toy and ruined it with a stupid chatbot, the girl did the smartest thing and just uses it as a normal plushy.

    Also if you listen to the video at the end you can really easily figure out why kids donā€™t like that toy, ITā€™S FUCKING ANNOYING. Kids donā€™t want to deal with your bullshit and fortunately they donā€™t yet know how to pretend to care.

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      This guyā€™s gonna be on whatever remains of Twitter in like 20 years vague posting about the missing missing reasons his kid doesnā€™t talk to him anymore.

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      ā€œIn the meantime, would you like to play a game or maybe hear a fun fact?ā€
      ā€œNo.ā€
      ā€œThatā€™s okay! Is there something else you would like to do or talk about? Iā€™m here to chat about anything you like!ā€

      Itā€™s like a deliberately written comedy scene of a character who canā€™t pick up on social cues.

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        Teaching the girl how to deadpan ignore annoying guys in her DMs for the rest of her life, I mean, valuable skill

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        The video is hilarious. The idiot AI man is so gpt-pilled he cannot figure out that this thing is just bloody annoying!!