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We all have our trashy moments in life, whether it be getting a little too drunk at your distant relative's wedding or becoming so lazy that you let your car become a literal dumpster, but some people are truly next level pros at bringing the trashiness. It seems like you have to achieve a certain degree of shamelessness in order to channel the garbage person within, and these people have certainly tapped into something impressively cringe. Hopefully these posts will make you feel better about those personal low points you'd love to forget. 

Hey look, we all experience brain farts from time to time, so we can't be too judgmental of the following people who unfortunately happened to have their snafus captured for snarky Reddit audiences to prey on.

The Onion has been dishing out satire since 1988. That's over thirty years. While they may have ceased to distribute an actual paper, their hilarious articles are very much in existence in the digital universe. And there are still stupid people who believe their (mostly) obvious joke headlines. 

You definitely do not want to mess with the following badasses because they will f*ck you right up. We're just hoping that no one got hurt in the making of these photos.

We all get comfortable in relationships and say some cringe things in jest, but some people take it wayyy too far. A distraught woman asked Reddit if she was the asshole for leaving her husband in the grocery store after he quite literally acted like a toddler and demanded ice cream in a baby voice. OP u/smallslicedskin further explained that this wasn't an isolated incident. Apparently, her husband had been incessantly using meme-speak like 'doggo,' 'pupper,' 'chicky nuggies,' and 'birb' for months. The bizarre affectation that had been driving OP bonkers caused her to finally snap in the grocery store and subsequently turn to Reddit for help. Scroll down for her story and some of the best responses in the thread. 

The internet is a sad, scary place that seems to be brimming with cringe. These cringey pics, however, are a special breed. These embarrassing posts are actually so cringeworthy and sad that they're guaranteed to make you feel more depressed than you already are. If you're into that sort of thing.

I remember back in the summer of 1995, I decided to be super spontaneous and hop on a one-way train from Montreal to Seattle so that I could finally see my favorite band in the world—Nirvana. I was only 12 years old, but everyone always thought I was much older due to my exceptionally high IQ score of 200, so I wasn't too worried. The two-week journey was grueling, but luckily I managed to win a hefty chunk of change along the way after beating two large Russian men at several rounds of poker (those Canadian trains can get pretty wild). When I finally got to the venue entrance just as the opening band (who happened to be Radiohead) began playing, the door guy narrowed his eyes at me and asked 'wait just a minute there, where's your ticket and ID?' I took the wad of poker winnings from my pocket and slammed it on the table. 'Sold out' the door guy said, smirking at me smugly. I totally was heartbroken. I racked my genius brain for a solution, but nothing came. Just when I was about to give up, someone tapped me on the shoulder from behind. I turned around and almost screamed at the sight of Kurt Cobain himself, standing there like a guardian angel. In one swift move, he grabbed the cash, handed it back to me, and gestured for me to follow him through the entrance. On our way through he looked at the door guy and said 'you're fired, dude.' I got to watch Nirvana from the VIP area and then I spent the rest of the night hanging out with the whole band backstage and they laughed at all my jokes. It was the best night of my life.

There are three kinds of liars on the internet. Those who spread fake news, con-artists who try to scam others, and those who make up laughably fake stories for no good reason. It's relatively easy to lie online, especially with the whole internet and its wealth of resources at your disposal. But some people are very, very bad at bullsh*tting. In the age of 'reverse image search', that stolen image some redditor is trying to pawn off as their own is just one click away from being exposed by internet detectives. And these days it's just as easy to google something as it is to lie, so if you're going to post a lengthy tall tale about your non-existent memories of hanging out with Nirvana, perhaps you should fact-check your own lies first. That way, at the very least it might be an entertaining story.

We've got some amusing and pretty satisfying instances of liars getting called out for their BS on the internet. But it really makes you think—Seeing as we pulled these screenshots from the internet, who's to say that the lies aren't also lies? Anyone could photoshop a fake callout of a fake lie someone told and post it to r/QuitYourBullshit for karma. What if we're all just caught in an inception of internet lies? What if we're actually in the matrix and I'm not even typing this right now? Anyway...here's some content.

There's been a lot of talk about incels and 'nice guys' over the past few years, and for good reason. There really are dudes out there who fervently believe they're entitled to the affection of women just because they treat them with a modicum of kindness. Sadly, they don't realize that being benevolent in order to get what they want isn't actually "nice." It's manipulative. And when the manipulation doesn't work? They go off the rails and reveal their toxic and entitled truth. These specimens from r/niceguys truly encapsulate this mysoginistic and cringey mindset. We hope they get the help they so clearly need. Or at least a really good talking to.

The idea that 'pee is stored in the balls' is a pretty established internet joke, but imagine if someone actually believed that this was true. Well, there are way too many people online who either ask for advice that betrays their general lack of anatomical knowledge, or worse, they spout obviously wrong information all over the internet. In this gallery, we've got a bunch of prime examples of stupid people who don't know how the body works and the embarrassing dumbassery they post. 

It's said that times like these bring out the best in people. And that might be true for a percentage of the population. But we're willing to bet that the sad souls below won't be contributing anything but cringe to society during this difficult time. Some of them (ahem, daft mask protesters) could even kill  their fellow humans. We'll never not be disturbed by this kind of trashiness, but these insane people remind us to live compassionately and with intelligence.

If you've ever spent time on social media, you're probably aware of the existence of "Reply Guys." The term refers to men who go out of their way to reply (unsolicited) to women's tweets or slide into dms with comments that are generally very inappropriate and very horny. While we're sure these messages are generally disturbing and annoying to recipients, we have to admit that the cringey ballsiness of the senders is incredibly entertaining. Twitter account @guyinthereply has set out to document these creepy messages, and their archive is filled with pure gold. We've put together some of the more tame examples but you can visit their twitter for the stuff that is decidedly NSFW. 

Life isn't always fun and laughs. Sometimes it's pain, humiliation, and cringe. And if you're human, chances are you've posted some embarrassing cringe at some point in your life. We've got a wince-worthy batch of mortifying moments and posts that made us go 'yikes' for anyone who wants to feel better about that cringey thing you said several years ago. 

Happy Tuesday, y'all. For people who had the fortune of having President's Day off, today feels like a dreary Monday. For everyone else - employed or not - it feels like, well, a dreary Tuesday. Instead of languishing in the doldrums, we recommend seeking some mood-elevating activities. While such activities are up for interpretation, we've put together these memes and tweets so you don't have to think much about it. You can just sit back, relax, and enjoy the stupidity.

People always warn against comparing yourself to others, but when you're given the opportunity to pinpoint the vast differences between you and human garbage fires, you'll end up feeling pretty freakin' great. These tidbits from Reddit and facepalm-inspiring social media posts are guaranteed to up your self esteem. If these don't have you feelin' like a snack you can check out these cringey pictures from hell.

In the age of GoFundMe, people are becoming super entitled and super shameless when they ask for help of any kind. These "needy" individuals are some of the worst offenders we've seen yet. We really hope these choosy beggars take a long and hard in the mirror, but we're not holding our breath for that kind of decency.

Any of you remember  the Whisper app? The application was designed to be a fully anonymous social media platform, in which users upload their thoughts as text, and place it upon a photo of their choice - or an image from the Whisper gallery. The anonymous aspect of the app definitely appeals to angsty teens, making many of the posts seem kind of melodramatic and immature. But as is the case with many social media channels, there are users who use it in a strange, chaotic, or straight up stupid way. Twitter account @whispers_finest painstakingly collects these Whisper moments, providing us with a daily dose of cringe and WTF. You can find some of their latest and greatest below, but check out their feed and smash that follow button for more (and raunchier) funny stuff.