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It's pathetic how big-ass mainstream media resorted to slander and defamation just to drag people down to their level.

Why do people keep asking me how long I've been waiting for the bus?
Also, why do people keep asking me if I'm waiting for one? I'm fucking standing/sitting near the fucking bus stop.
Why do you want me to answer a question which the answer is so obvious? Why do you get angry when I don't respond?
I'm tired of this shit every day I have to take the bus.
WHY WHY WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Why do people keep asking me if I work in at Kmart WHEN I CLEARLY HAVE A NAME BADGE WITH A FUCKING KMART LOGO AND KMART SHIT ON IT AND I'M WEARING THE FUCKING UNIFORM WHICH IS BLACK AND BLUE LIKE HOLY FUCK JESUS ARE YOU BLIND?!?!?!!?!
WHY DO PEOPLE BLAME ME FOR THINGS I CLEARLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH. I'M JUST A FUCKING CASHIER I TAKE THINGS AND THEY BOOP. THAT'S MY JOB. NOTHING ELSE. I also work the layaway department, BUT THAT'S IT.

Also, this country is just a fucking shit hole. We're having a Trump-esque situation over here, where we have a governor who has zero experience in politics or anything. It's just bad. There's no money, debt is just huge, good things that happened we're just reversed. It's a mess. Productive people are leaving in huge numbers, leaving only the ones that can't do shit.

I don't know if my meds are really helping me as of late, I think I need to discuss new methods for quelling my anxiety with my doctor.

Touch screens are the devil

So I took some ear drops earlier to get rid of this annoying sensation in my ears but it burned so badly that I'm not kidding when I say it might be the second worst pain I've felt in my life, the only thing worse being when I sprained by ankle back in 2014. (at least when I had those lower back surgeries I had pain meds to keep me from feeling like total crap) I even had to call up my pharmacy and ask "is this stuff supposed to feel like someone just squeezed a ghost pepper into my ear?" and they told me it sounds like there might be something more seriously wrong with my ear if ear drops were able to cause THAT level of pain. (yeah this sounds "first world as fuck" doesn't it?)

But that's not the big part, this means I NEED to go see my ENT now, but guess what I'm uninsured, so this is gonna cost a pretty penny. And why am I uninsured? I'm still unemployed due to issues with trying to find a job around where I live, and more specifically finding a job that I DON'T want to regret later on. I don't want to be someone who takes a job solely because it means I'll have insurance and money, I want it to be a job that I'll actually find enjoyment in. Why do I say this? My brother once had a job he absolutely hated and it nearly made him suicidal, because it looked like said job was something he was being forced to keep because of worries like what our parents would think of him if he told them he wanted to quit. Thankfully he's fine now (this was years ago) but this still worries me regarding how I'll fare.

Add into this the fact I mentioned earlier I don't think my anti-anxiety meds are working anymore. For months I've had trouble sleeping, waking nightmares that are all about my anxieties, I keep getting frustrated with things beyond my control to the point where I know it's not healthy, and a whole bunch more I'm not sure I want to say here.

I said once before I feel like it's not a good sign when I keep coming back to a thread in the forums of an internet culture documentation site just to rant about my personal problems, like I'm creating a "personal pity party." I mean yes the fact that at least people here have SOME understanding of who I am helps, but there's always that stupid stigma of "why are you telling strangers on the internet this shit and not seeing a psychiatrist or something?" lingering in the back of my mind.

Yo, I do hope things start to pick up for you. If this place helps you, even in the slightest, do not hesitate to keep coming back.
I'm always willing to listen, too. I read everything.

Fortune, if you need some help paying for your medical bills, ever look into a thing called 'Medi-share'? That might be able to to help you.

Now my rant.

I WORK THREE FREAKING JOBS AND ONLY GET PAID FOR TWO OF THEM. I DON'T GET ENOUGH OF SLEEP AND ALL I WANTED TO DO IS TO FINISH MY NOVEL I HAD BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS DONE! I lost my car last month because the transmission gave out and it was not worth fixing it. I still don't have a replacement car yet and I'm stuck bumming a van off my folks so I can get to work. I can't get a break!

I think I know why I have such mixed feelings about Jim Sterling: I feel like there are quite a few times where his egotistical "acting" isn't really acting, it's Sterling actually believing he's more important than he really is. His whole deal of acting like a consumer advocate can also get pretty hypocritical as it seems he's only a consumer advocate when it's convenient for him, and when it's inconvenient he won't pipe up about it or he says the opposite, pissing off the majority (for example his opinion on Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 not being directly localized to the West or how he acts like social justice groups have "little influence" when the problem is that said groups are actively trying to have a major influence, as evidenced by things like when notable names like Zoey Quinn and Antita Sarkeesian went to Congress to argue that sexism against women is "hugely prominent" in the gaming industry).

I also dislike how he seems to act as if his own opinions are fact and how he's got this phony almost anarchist thing going on where he's constantly rallying against "big business" but yet ironically he's always feeding the corporate machine himself by still buying games from companies he regularly accuses of being "greedy."

I'd honestly say anti-fanboys are worse than fanboys. At least with a fanboy we'd have something in common that we both enjoy, even if I feel the fanboy could maybe tone it down a bit, but with an anti-fanboy they'd just be likely to shit all over me for liking something that they don't and accuse me of being some "shill."

Gaming has some of the worst I've ever seen from all sides, but yes I'm gonna be that guy and just say it seems Nintendo gets the worst anti-fanboys from what I've seen. I dunno if it's just people who still cling to the days of the Nintendo vs Sega rivalry or people who legitimately believe that playing games on PlayStation and or Xbox makes them seem more "mature" in the eyes of their peers, but for some reason the anti-fanboys for Nintendo are always the ones who are most likely to call people who like Nintendo games "immature manchildren who like kiddie crap" or say literally every game that's Nintendo exclusive sucks or "overrated" even though like hell they're ever gonna play said games themselves. Again I'm mainly going off personal experience here, I even remember back in high school I legit got laughed at by some fellow students for liking games like Mario and Zelda (never mind I also had a PS2 and enjoyed games on that console too).

Everyone who uses the term eSports unironically is either an idiot or very smart. The smart ones make money by playing, organizing tournaments or marketing the games in the process. I'd rather not say what kind of self righteous, delusional assholes the idiots are… whoops, I just said it!

Real sports are about blood, sweat and tears. And guts. Video games are entertainment, with or without a competitive element. As much as I like playing video games, I find it disgusting that people want to give gaming a facelift using pretentious bullshit terms like eSports. It's just as stupid as calling video games murder simulators.

I woke up this morning feeling like utter shit, and so far the rest of my morning has not been helping one bit.

I know this is gonna sound pretty ironic, but I'm getting so sick of seeing negativity in places where I normally would expect the opposite. That thread I posted as something of a joke in the "just for fun" section of the forum? That OP wasn't far from the truth. I really really want to be a positive person most of the time, but it's become really hard as of late. I need to officially and with no bullshit swear off going to certain sites from now on.

My birthday was this past weekend and honestly it wasn't what I was expecting. Now first off I know this is probably gonna sound like a really stupid and maybe even spoiled sounding vent, first off because I'm in the later half of my 20s so it probably seems silly for me to expect much from a birthday at this age, and second because the fact I bought myself a brand new game console this past weekend is what I really should be seeing as a big birthday gift to myself, but I dunno something about this year felt off regardless.

I guess it's because last year I did treat myself to a really good movie (Zootopia) and also got a surprise gift from a good friend of mine. Also around this time last year I felt like my anxiety was still being relatively well managed.

This year? Woke up feeling like crap again (I have some sleep medication that should help with that now though), just stayed home practically all day long, and no real surprises to speak of. It just felt like an average "day," and I've always held the belief that one's birthday is a day where someone should feel like it's a special day for themselves. Basically I guess I was just hoping for "more," which is why I admit this is likely making me sound "spoiled."

I can't stand anybody I know in real life, aside from maybe my coworkers since work is the only place I see them. I'm beginning to hate my old friends (I only just began realizing that they were all selfish assholes and I only kept going back to them because I was a desperate and lonely teenager) and pretty much loathe all of the people who open their mouths in my classes because MUH OPINIONS ARE IMPORTANT TO SHARE YOU GUIS.
I don't care I'm spending my college time in my dorm room. Why make myself miserable by hanging out with people I hate?
Blagh.

You shouldn't have to put "In my opinion" or "I think that" in front of things that are obviously opinions. Yet some people will accuse you of presenting your opinion as facts or as some sort of ultimate truth if you don't. Then they'll accuse you of being arrogant when they're just being deliberately obtuse. Fuck those people.

I think a vast majority of people are utter fucking scumbags and I don't see any way to think otherwise. I don't want to think like that, I just… do.

Remind me to not work for managers who are also mothers as they seem to have this sort of superiority complex to them. When you suck up the other managers while acting borderline authoritarian to the lower employees, I think you should reconsider your life choices.

If I need to be reminded of losing weight, I shouldn't be given an example or motivator in how some overweight 19 year old died of a heart attack. To put this in context:
I'm overweight and I need to get back into exercising again. What I didn't need as some motivator from someone close was how some guy died at a young age because he was overweight. I'll admit I could be bitching right here but I don't need that as a motivator, especially since this that just felt like fear mongering or scare tactics, even though there was genuine concern and all.

My university keeps sending me book adverts every split second! GAAAAAH!!! I'm trying to wait for an important email from my sibling so can you fucking not!?

I know the vent thread is mostly for frustrations but I just wanted to say how happy I am for how far I've come. From being a depressed lonely wreck, to being at peace once more.

University has been going so well and I've got As for all my first assessments. i've made a lot of friends and am work harder than I imagined I could. i can finally do basic things and I'm beginning to learn about who i really am.

I'm so happy right now and I hope this continues for as long as possible

I can't stand what KnowYourMeme has become, to be honest. When I first joined it was a pleasant place where there wasn't much political talk (at least none that took over the site for a long time). But after GamerGate started to gain traction, the entire site took a downward spiral into a sea of controversies, political debate and pointless rage. I know that this is a site for documenting culture, but there's a point where it went from simple documentation to an obsession with controversy.
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I wonder why I even stay on this site, cause I hate almost everything about it. The only things that keep me from just disabling my account are some good image galleries (mainly the ones with lewd art), and some of the fantastic users on this site (MistressFortune, Alcateia, DarthZino, Armesi, Cold Hard Crash, TechnoLad, Solid Snivy, Mangy Black Sheep, Artichoke, Snickerway, and many others are examples of why I love this site).

My gf will find the tiniest little thing to start an argument over – she says she doesn't want to argue but shes so insecure that one little thing just makes her completely doubt me. whats worse is we just had such a good weekend together when i was back home for the weekend. time away leads to a lot of pondering whether having a relationship like this is even worth it with how emotionally volatile she is. but i know if i broke it off she'd be destroyed – in all honesty she'd probably try to kill herself with all the shit shes had and how depressed shes been in the past.

I honestly hate myself for where I am with this right now. Too scared to break it off but feel like the longer it goes the more shes going to be hurt when it does all inevitably end.

Have you tried sitting her down and discussing her emotional outbursts?

I fucking despise Shadmans art with a passion. His art is some of the most vile, disgusting, heartless, edgiest, soulless works on the entire Internet. It's obvious to me that he only makes that art because he likes to get a reaction out of people, and not because he actually enjoys what he draws.
EDIT: I think this image perfectly shows how much of a fucking edgelord Shadman is

I'm gonna be completely honest and say this picture offends me, mainly because I have autism myself, and the picture feels like it's making fun of not only me, but everyone with autism (which is kind of hypocritical for me to say, because I enjoy the autism jokes for the female character in ME:A. But the main reason I like those is because it's making fun of the fact that the character actually looks like she has autism because of the shit engine, rather than making fun of an autistic character solely because they have autism).
TL:DR I hate shadman and I hate his art

Why hasn't KnowYourMeme made an entry about John Mulaney? Do you know how many animations I have seen that use his stand up? Pretty much any fandom worth there salt has at least one John Mulaney video (Homestuck, Undertale, Night in the Wood, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, etc). Seriously, simply look up "John Mulaney Animated", and you will see hundreds of videos using his stand up (though they usually use about two segments, which are the Salt and Pepper Diner, and Jake MacNameras Party).

@Burgandy
I certainly get where you're coming from regarding controversies and politics on this site, I've actually found myself not logging in as much because of that (originally I kept my visits short because the site had a trojan problem a couple months back, but it seems it's been fixed; now it's because more and more I feel like I just don't want to give my opinion on certain matters because I feel like "is it really worth getting involved in this crap anymore?").

Also as for Shadman, I also get what you're saying there as to me when Shadman's doing softcore sexy art of characters that are at least legal like this:

and this:

Then I go "oh that's nice." But when he's doing stuff like that Symmetra art you just posted or shit like bestiality art or outright lolicon then I feel like he's doing it more for the sake of wanting to be controversial and edgy on purpose rather than because he enjoys the art itself.

Well I hate shädman's art generally as well, and as someone with diagnosed Autism as well I got quite offende by some stuff around here lately, but I think shad is aware of the mess he makes:

I mean, this doesn't mean that he has the right to do this stuff as he pleases, it's disgusting.
Personally, if she wasn't a freaking lolita and shad wasn't making her autism the main reason for her sexualisation, it would be less disturbing.
And while i'm on a vent thread, I gotta say that, honestly, the association of Autism the mental condition with internet "autism" stereotypes once offended me more than it does today, because, frankly, I'm autistic and I got along other autistic kids and we aren't half of what the internets says or said of me (and i guess neither are tou), and everybody that suffers from Autism shouldn't be defined by some stereotypes that are older that this website.

I just stepped on my glasses.
FFFFUUUUUUU-

I decided that I'm going to get a PS4 rather than a Switch, purely for the fact that no stores in my area have the Switch. Every store that sells electronics is out of stock on the stupid things, and I'm just sick of calling in every day making sure they have it. At least the PS4 is in stock (and has more games as well).
I don't hate Nintendo, I'm just sick of them blueballing me with this shit.

I've noticed Nintendo seems to be "understocking" more as of late, probably out of fear of having another Wii U situation. Basically the Wii sold so highly that for the Wii U they opted to put a lot of units out right away, but this only backfired as the Wii U got off to a rocky start due to poor marketing, putting Nintendo's profits into the negative for a while. Now they seem so worried about having another Wii U situation that their new hardware launches of the past year have both involved the systems being sold out for months on end.

A quick vent so I stay on topic:

FFS E3 is right around the corner, just because Nintendo didn't make some big new reveal during a random Direct held in April doesn't mean they don't have anything big coming to Switch in 2017 or 2018. E3 is where companies save the big stuff, that's where you'll get your reveals. Expecting a huge reveal only two months before E3 is rather ridiculous.

They're restocking more soon. Particularly around the time of Mario Kart 8.

In a serious vein. I literally cannot choose a life path for myself. I don't know what I want, what'll make me enough money to survive as a real career, and what to study for a major. I feel really alone in all of this, considering all my friends and peers seem to have things planed out, or at least dreams. I cannot find myself. I don't know what will truly be good for me. Do I follow instinct? Ideas? Is there a test for me? What am I meant for in this world?

Another thing, is my grandma. Her, and my two ands and Dad have been at each other's throats over a pretty pressing issue. See, my grandmother owns six properties. Two in San Luis Obispo, four in LA. Three of the four in LA, are basically…hoarding houses. Filled with furniture, clothes, valuables. One of them might actually be structurally compromised. It's been the worst family battle I have seen to not only get the properties cleaned, but to battle the city over code violations, a tenant who died that owed a crap ton of rent money. And sadly, the battle over who gets what if the inevitable happens with my grandma. My Dad is convinced that my brother, two cousins and I will be the ones inheriting the properties. Two for my cousins up in San Luis, the four for my brother and I. So…now I have to worry about how to maybe in the future handling that.

On a lighter side. FUCK THE OUTRAGEOUS PRICES FOR ARTICHOKES HERE IN LA. It's literally our state vegetable. We grow it in the Central Valley. WHY THE HELL ARE THEY TWO FOR $5?!?!

Stupid mini-vent:

I hate it when a fan made patch for a PC game fixes one issue but then creates another. I found a fan patch for Tomb Raider 3 on PC that fixes issues with things like the controls and makes the game run in true widescreen as opposed to the fake widescreen the game proper uses, but now it's created a new problem where sometimes the sound will randomly glitch out and I have to close the game and restart it in order to fix the issue.

I still have this awful pain deep within me over the complete disapearing of one of my friends who posted on this site. Where the fuck are you.

I deserve to be alone and friendless, I'm coming to that conclusion after so many failures and emotional breakdowns….

I am very frustrated with how mankind treats nature. I don't know how you can be so egoistic and destroy the most complex and fascinating rythm of life and death in this entire universe just because you want a fat car and tasty food. I feel like that every step taken by scientists and concerned people to prevent damage to mother nature just resusts in some corrupt politican or company boss fucking up everything even more.

I'm worried I'm slowly losing track of my life. I keep thinking about all these problems I might have in my life like, will I be able to afford housing? Is my country going to be nuked to shit? Will my old fashioned but caring dad accept me for my sexual orientation? Will I be able to have a stable social life, will my legs explode from too little exercise, am I gonna get skin cancer from the sun, I WORRY TOO MUCH AND IT MAKES ME WORRY.

Its very complex the thing that i will talk but, i have very been BURNED with all the things that happened in this site (or specifically all the internet) in the last years.
In part with since the rise of the SJW's and the Alt-Right, this has become more and more troubled and complicated the situations that many places become very polarized. Even this site has succumbed to this (specially in some communities like the comment section) since the gamergate thing. In my personal opinion i have the sensation that all the things that happened (like gamergate ) were a things that going nowhere, as i see in this site many supported because of the corruption of gaming journalism and the sjws in the splotlight but lately in this site (some mods also) have a backlash to the movement and seems that this was for nothing (although gawker was killed off, zoe quinn and sarkeesian burieds and many gamers ignore this reviews now) as i see that nothing changed at all going nowhere for the rise of various factions (like the alt-right) and the fiasco of the last year election. And this site also has become more polarizing to everything, and more with controversies and /pol/shenaningans and also (and In my personal opinion) the last memes that i see are not as great as the older ones, i dont know is if they are becoming too weird or more offensive to the ''mainstream'' memes or i have grown up of this thing. And i see lately that there were less visits as i see, we have been divided by assholes and soapboxes now Sorry if this thing that i talk is complex and a mess but i only vented may thoughs of all this things that happened NOW

My 9 year old cat just died. Long story short: At the vet, it was discovered that he had a lot of bad teeth, a bad infection in his mouth and there were cancerous wounds on his ears, so first things first we let the doctors do some tests yesterday. He had a stellar health, no problems whatsoever.
Still they needed to fix his teeth and ears. Today was operation day for removing a few of his bad teeth. Unfortunately, during the anesthetic procedure he had a heart attack (possibly out of fear and stress) and then just after a cardiac arrest. They did CPR, but to no avail.
Today, early in the morning, my mom told me to take a picture just as a reminder as to how he looked before the ear operation. What's even worse is that the cat somehow KNEW! He snuggled with us so much yesterday after the blood tests we thought he was thinking "don't hurt me this much again, please!"
What a joke, a stupid fucking morbid joke.

Why can't I draw anything from imagination!? I spent so many years training nothing but observation drawing and unless I do a photobash that would make even a modern day concept artist lose faith in the art industry, I can't do any imaginative work!

Am I going to have to go back to that nightmare of a geometry book? Fuck you Scott Robertson! AND every asian artist ever!!

The fact that politics have all but taken over this whole fucking site, and how users are allowed to spread blatant propaganda and act like ignorant, insufferable fuckwits with no consequences just because they hold the same views as the admins is unbelievably scummy. And don't even fucking try to tell me this isn't the case, as I was recently told that mods literally aren't allowed to punish people for being toxic despite "Be Nice" being clearly listed in the site rules, because apparently the admins think the downvote system is "enough", despite how literally nobody gives a shit about downvotes. I'd love a proper explanation as to why the fuck we even have a banning system if, supposedly, we can't use it to weed out the toxic shitbags that are actively making our community a fucking cesspool? How the fuck does this make sense? Why have a ban system if we can't use it for the most obvious reason to have on in the first place? This is inexcusable and massively hypocritical, considering some users have been banned for being toxic in the past, but nooo it's suddenly not ok if it would interrupt the fucking circlejerk that's spread over everything that used to be fun about this site. But GOD FUCKING FORBID you bring up the circlejerk, or everyone gets triggered out of their fucking minds as if this was fucking Reddit. Stop the fucking constant flood of political """""memes""""", stop making the frontpage look like a fucking Salon article, stop allowing users to use a fucking memesite as a platform to push their fucking agendas just because you agree with them. I feel like I'm watching a site I used to love rapidly fall into a fucking death spiral because the higher-ups just couldn't keep their fucking political mouths shut, and it's made the whole community into a toxic shithole as a result. I'll probably get downvoted for this, but that doesn't mean jack shit since that should be "enough", right? I can just spout all the baseless shit I want and it literally doesn't matter, since apparently we have no fucking standards anymore. The worst part is that I can't just bring myself to deactivate for good since I've made friends here, and I still have a vague hope that this site might one day pull its head out of its ass and put an end to this fucking nonsense.

I swear as of late the internet has made me really hate the word "cringe" simply out of overuse. Ironically I find it cringe inducing whenever I see anyone put "cringe" in the title of something like a video on YouTube.

Where do i even start? :D Should have used this thread.

https://knowyourmeme.com/forums/riff-raff/topics/52311-wow-kym-discord-are-full-of-hipocritical-butthurts

Yeah, I honestly feel the same way about it. Although I still use "cringe-worthy" to describe something when It actually makes me physically cringe, I'm still pretty annoyed by how people continue to throw the word around to describe anything they don't like.

Politics has become a maddening feedback loop.

Every I look to the left and see liberals threaten violence on college campuses or blindly obstruct everything Republicans suggest or shit their pants over petty identity politics or pretend America has become Nazi Germany, I look to the right and see something equally stupid.

Every time I look to the right and see conservatives defend Trump's daily embarrassments or abandon their most central principles or fail to come up with anything worth passing into law, I look to the left and see something equally stupid.

And around and around it goes.

This so much.

I'll admit in being a person that doesn't like politics, a person that found both Hillary and Trump to be the same, and a person that thinks this ANTIFA left and alt-right stuff to be ridiculous. Honestly, both sides are pretty much autistic screeching personified. I'm not saying centrist are any better. Rather, I just wish the less extreme members of both sides could have some sort of debate or dialogue, even if the ideas or suggestions of one side is terrible, they could at least try and work something out over it. Maybe make a compromise or make a good argument why said idea is weak and terrible. Granted, maybe they are and I'm not seeing it due to being lazy in not bothering with politics.

At least I could laugh at the salt from both sides though when people on the Left and Right over Trump and such (though those laughs can eventually fade when it's the same thing on repeat).

I'm not feeling like myself lately. All this stress in my personal life is causing me to become a maniac. My parents are always fighting, always yelling, and any attempts by either of them to make up end up being all for nothing. I don't know how well I will be able to hold on to a job or if I'll be able to stay in contact with fellow users again if I do get a job. All this was making me develop feelings of jealousy and arrogance towards a few users. And yesterday, that wound up with consequences.

To any user I may have irritated, I am deeply sorry and I owe up to everything I did wrong. I'll be more gentle and friendly and respect the need for meaningful conversations from here on.

Today, I got into my first ever fender bender. It was minor and neither of us got a citation. My insurance will cover everything, but it's got me spooked because I don't know what it will do to my insurance rates.

I'm in this weird place where everything is actually going pretty well for me personally, but I feel more and more dissatisfied and unhappy, year after year. I'm becoming so upset, cynical, and disillusioned with the world that I think I'm starting to antagonize my friends [I even have real friends, look how lucky I actually am]. But then again, being constantly salty about something when I am personally doing fine probably means that there's something wrong with me. Again, would have been understandable had I been a fat neet living in my mom's basement, but I don't even have that excuse.

I dont know if i like this site anymore,
on one hand this site has done an amazing job at categorizing internet phenomenon, but at the same time i lost interest in most of the stuff that is discussed here, so i have nothing to talk about..