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Laura Radavičiūtė

84 Comments That Were Downvoted To Oblivion For Good Or Completely Random Reasons

While the internet does provide a reasonable amount of “distance” from the consequences of one’s words or actions, it’s still not entirely a free for all. Make a single typo and at least one netizen will take to the comments section. But some folks are much more ambitious when it comes to getting internet users up in arms.

So we’ve collected the best posts from a group dedicated to sharing comments and threads where someone managed to royally tick off the rest of the internet. Get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, comment your thoughts and, in the spirit of the list, downvote the ones you think deserve it.

#1 Downvoted For “Correcting” Twitter To X 😂

#2 Such A Juicy Story. Man Posts On Aita, Complains About Room Mates Pregnancy Becoming His Problem…turns Out…

#3 The Downvotes Are Swarming In

Netiquette is basically the unwritten rulebook every internet stranger is expected to memorize the second they create an account, and somehow half the internet still failed the pop quiz. The term itself is a mashup of network and etiquette, and according to Emily Post's (great name) own etiquette guide, the golden rule hasn't changed since forums were black and green text on a black screen: treat people online the way you'd treat them face to face. Simple in theory. Wildly, spectacularly ignored in practice.

Part of the problem is that comment sections strip away everything that normally keeps human conversation civil. No tone of voice, no facial expression, no body language, just naked text that can be read a dozen different ways depending on the reader's mood.

#4 Downvoted For Being A Nerd

#5 Guy Writes Sh**ty Vows And Wonders Why His Fiancee Left Him

#6 To Oblivion And Beyond

That's why a genuinely well meaning "just curious why you'd do that" can detonate into a forty reply argument about someone's life choices. Online safety resources point out that this lack of nonverbal cues is exactly why written communication online causes so many more misunderstandings than a conversation would in person.

#7 Found In R/Mildlyinfuriating

#8 Wearing Pink Is A Good Way To Start Fights Apparently

#9 On A Young People Reddit

Then there's the classic all caps meltdown. Typing in full capital letters online has been interpreted as shouting for so long that it's basically internet law at this point, and plenty of people still don't get the memo, showing up to a group chat sounding like they're personally furious at punctuation itself. Combine that with someone who refuses to use a single paragraph break and you've got a comment nobody actually reads all the way through, yet everyone still argues anyway.

#10 From Aita, This Stepmom Cancelled Her Stepson's Birthday Party Because He Facepalmed [-2k]

#11 Highest Downvote Count Ive Seen

#12 On A Post About A Parent Punishing Both Of Their Daughters For One Of Them Disabling Parental Controls

Anonymity is another huge culprit. Hiding behind a username with a cartoon avatar seems to unlock a version of people who would never dream of saying half these things to someone's actual face. Throw in the fact that screenshots exist forever, and that deleting a post doesn't actually delete it from someone's camera roll, and you get an entire genre of viral content built from people who forgot the internet has a memory like an elephant with a grudge.

#13 That's Kinda Sad Not Gonna Lie

#14 That's A Lot Of Damage

#15 Smartest Teen Girl Indeed

Oversharing ranks right up there too. Somewhere along the way, a chunk of the internet decided that any thought, no matter how private, personal, or frankly none of anyone's business, deserved a public audience. Add unsolicited advice, a stranger explaining someone's own life back to them, or a full blown diagnosis based on three sentences of context, and you've basically built the entire internet argument starter kit.

#16 A Decent Title

#17 From A Post On R/Teenagers

#18 I Died A Bit Inside Reading That

Sarcasm deserves its own mention, mostly because it dies almost instantly in text form. What sounds hilarious out loud can read as genuinely mean when there's no wink, no smirk, no vocal inflection to soften it. A joke that would get a laugh at a dinner table can start a full blown pile on online, complete with people who missed the joke entirely and are now personally offended on behalf of a total stranger.

#19 Old Got Removed For Including Users, Sorry

#20 On A Post About Leaked N*des

#21 Guy Apparently Never Had A Childhood

And of course, there's the constant tug of war between free speech and just being kind of a nuisance about it. Plenty of people treat every comment section as a debate stage, showing up uninvited to correct grammar, relitigate old arguments, or drop a hot take nobody asked for. It's the kind of behavior most guides to online conduct warn against, right alongside the classic advice to just take heated arguments offline before they spiral completely out of control.

#22 And So He Did

#23 On A Male R*pe Victim Post

#24 Trains

None of this is exactly rocket science. Most netiquette guides boil down to the same handful of ideas. Think before posting. Remember there's a real person on the other end. And maybe don't say something online that wouldn't survive being said to someone's actual face. Yet every single day, somebody somewhere decides those rules are optional, and the rest of the internet is more than happy to let them know exactly how that decision landed.

#25 On A Post About A Man Finally Opening Up Emotionally To His Girlfriend

#26 Found One That I Believe Fits The Sub!

#27 13 Year Old Guy Gets S*xually Harassed, 17 Year Old Responds "Wish It Was Me."

#28 Made A AI Frieren Post, Gets Downvoted In Comment

#29 Not To Sure About, You Recon It Was Deserved Or Not

#30 They Did Not Like That Fact

#31 Daily Reminder That People Like This Exist And Have Rights

#32 On A Post About An Older Male Basically Being A Massive Creep

#33 Downvote Baiting

#34 Bro Did Not Know About The 4th Person Rule

#35 What An Ahole

#36 Being Nice To A Woman Doesn’t Make You A Simp

#37 Pit Bulls And Redditors

Keyndoriel
It's all from r/banpitbulls , most of whom genuinely want to euthanize the entire breed.
Edit here's r/pitbullhate for more proof of degeneration.

#38 On A Dutch Subreddit

#39 Most Real Reddit Story

#40 Downvoted For Being Selfish Asf

#41 I Guess People Must Like Biden Then

#42 Lmao Get Rekt

#43 On A Post About Ab*sive Parents

#44 On A Post In R/Peterexplainsthejoke

#45 Don't Encourage S**cide

#46 Got Downvoted For Being Transphobic

#47 On A Post About Op's Husband Spreading Her N*des To Highschool Friends, Facebook Friends, Popular Subreddits

#48 Understandable

#49 Response Comment For "Did She Fall Asleep?"

#50 Unsuspecting Person Wanders Into A Satire Sub

#51 On A Post About Alex Trebek’s Death

#52 Context: Guy Refused To Give His Sweatshirt To A Woman Wearing A Bikini

In the original post, a woman in a skimpy costume (OP described it as a bikini) came over to OP's house with some friends. OP didn't know her. While waiting for her friends, the woman asked to borrow a sweatshirt because she was cold and OP refused.