40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves

It's easy to dwell on bitterness after someone wrongs you. But we must be careful not to drown in all that negativity. Instead, we should focus on channeling our energy into growth, which is a much healthier and more fulfilling response to adversity.

Dedicating ourselves to the pursuit of our goals during challenging times not only uplifts our spirits but also demonstrates resilience and character. Of course, that's easier said than done. But many still manage to pull through, so let's take a look at their inspiring achievements.

Reddit user Fronzie7 asked everyone on the platform, "Frank Sinatra said, 'The best revenge is massive success.' What's a real-life example of this?" Their post has since gone viral and now has over 2.2K comments. Here are the most memorable ones.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Brendan Fraser getting the Oscar this year after being black listed from Hollywood for over a decade for speaking out about being sexually assaulted.

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B-b-bird 1 year ago

Hope he will receive formal apology

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Ron McNair had the police called on him when he was little because he was black and reading in a library. He grew up to be an astronaut and the library he was kicked out of was later named after him.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

So, is he allowed in the library that's named after him?

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We managed to get in touch with Fronzie7, and they agreed to have a little chat with us about the thread they started. "I got the inspiration for this post while browsing r/AskReddit," they told Bored Panda.

As the replies poured in, Fronzie7 started recognizing a few recurring themes, but "most of the stories involved romantic relationships."

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves My mom. She, like the rest of her family, were all dirt poor. For them, it was traditional that they wouldn't go to college and would instead focus on finding a decent at best job as quickly as possible while also getting married and starting families young.

My mom was different. She decided instead to go to college and while she did drink on occasion, she stayed clear of the drugs that had ruined so many of her cousins lives. She told me that her entire family looked down on her and said that she was wasting her time. Well now she is currently the only one who owns a house and has a stable, well paying career. My generation of cousins saw her success and are now following in her footsteps.

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Shark Lady 1 year ago

What a great role model, breaking a generation mold is not an easy path. I'm glad that she has inspired the next generation to keep working towards their futures.

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Tina Turner. She got away from an abusive husband with virtually no assets and went on to become a solo superstar!

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Lucille 2 1 year ago (edited)

Queeeeeeeen. Simply the best.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Italian industrialist, builder of tractors, made a mint out of it and rewarded himself with a new Ferrari.

Ferrari broke down. Needed a new clutch. Wealthy industrialist waited patiently for his new clutch to arrive, and after many weeks it finally showed up - same clutch he was putting in his tractors, more than twice the price.

A little bit annoyed at this, he rang Ferrari to complain. They told him "go back to building tractors, leave supercars to us."

And Lamborghini was born...

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troufaki13 1 year ago

Unpopular opinion... I don't really like these kind of cars 😕

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However, while the need for revenge can be understandable, experts say it doesn't bring us any good.

"It's not healthy, but like many other human needs, it's also normal," said Harold Takooshian, professor of psychology at Fordham University in New York.

"Like hate, revenge is something that takes a toll on the person who feels wronged, as well as the [person's] enemy. It is inherently unhealthy because it takes a psychological and physical toll on the person. Venting those feelings of anger and hostility does not decrease those feelings," he explained.

"It may give you a cathartic feeling, but it doesn't last."

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves When Lady GaGa was in college, some of her classmates had a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta, you'll never be famous".

Pretty sure she proved them wrong.

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troufaki13 1 year ago

Ι wonder how those people feel right now...

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Michael J.Fox has a great story about when he started out. Some big wheel at the network didn't like him for the role of Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties. He was too short, not cute, not heart throb enough, you're never going to see his face on a lunch box. But the producer cast him anyway and the show shot to number one and stayed there.

Fox sent him a Family Ties lunch box with his face on it and then Back to the Future 1,2,3 lunch boxes.

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Juan Something(downvotevictim) 1 year ago

Michael J. Fox is an absolute legend.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves My teachers, I had several that said I would never do anything, that my learning disability was to massive of a hindrance.
Im graduating from grad school.in August. With a specialty in helping special Ed kids

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ShyWahine 1 year ago (edited)

And you totally proved them wrong - well done!!!! You will be a tremendous role model and inspiration in the lives of your students. Wishing you continued scuccess!

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For the most part, Fronzie7 agrees with this. "I think that revenge isn't always the best motivation," the Redditor said.

"In my opinion, it's better to simply focus on yourself, and it'll eventually still prove others wrong."

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves John Gurdon was sent home from school with a report card , and on that report card was a note to his parents from the headmaster pleading with them to not let him go into the science field to waste anyone's time. “Several times he has been in trouble, because he will not listen, but will insist on doing his work in his own way. I believe he has ideas about becoming a Scientist; on his present showing this is quite ridiculous. It would be a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who have to teach him.” is what the report card said. Today, That report card is the only thing he has framed in his office, which is in a building that is now been named after him, after the many contributions to nuclear transplantation and cloning. He also has a nobel prize. Also he has been knighted. He has received many honors and awards in addition....... And the only thing he has framed is that report card telling him not to waste anyone's time by trying science.

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Sue Wade-Walters 1 year ago

"...doing his own work in his own way..." Key traits for the inquisitive mind of a scientist.

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#10

A very personal one. My ex was very abusive. He tried to get me to think I "am not mentally capable" of living without him (I'm disabled, but I always tested at a genius level and did decently well at work and school). So now he's gone, and I'm furthering my career and absolutely thriving.

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happyplants28 1 year ago

Good for you! That’s awesome!!

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves The guy who invented Ring cameras went on Shark Tank and was rejected by everyone. They all thought it would fail….we’ll you know the rest

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

What's the rest? Oh, wait, hang on while I switch screens to see who is at the door...😉

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So how does someone cope with a burning desire for revenge? The first, and arguably most important, step is taking responsibility for your emotions.

By entertaining the need to hurt somebody, you're actually hurting yourself. You're allowing yourself to be hurt twice, physically and emotionally.

So it's probably best to try and let go of those feelings and seek other ways to deal with your emotions.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves George Lucas got the ownership of the toy rights to star wars because they don’t think it would be successful. He made an absolute killing on those.

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

My friend's brother had tons of the original toys, boxed and in mint condition. In '95, he sold them, because it had been nearly 20 years, and Star Wars wasn't coming back. The next year, Lucas re-released A New Hope. Mitch is still kicking himself over that.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Sylvester Stallone as well. Casting agents told him he was too stupid looking and he'd only get small roles as the thug who got beaten up. He said he literally went to every casting agent in NYC and got rejected by all of them.

Even after he wrote Rocky and found producers, they didn't want him to star in it.

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Heather Resatz 1 year ago

I love this man!!!

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves I worked as CFO for a private company, and after 5 years of poor ownership and family-meddling I was let go with no notice or severance, while they owed me tens of thousands of dollars in back-pay, expenses, revenue share etc. I was on the verge of bankruptcy. I won my lawsuit and have a judgement against him and his company which I know I will never collect on.

7 years later I started my own company in the same competitive space. Following his most recent divorce he's about 2.7 million in debt. My company was just valued at 100 million as we move into our 4th year.

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Lucille 2 1 year ago (edited)

I cannot relate but you go badass person!!

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Jennifer Hudson lost American Idol and became more successful than the winner.

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sbj 1 year ago

This is often the case with singing talent shows just look at One Direction, they came 3rd

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Julie Andrews was very popular as Eliza Doolittle in the stage version of *My Fair Lady*. However, when the film version was being developed, the head of Warner Bros. Studios, Jack Warner, decided that she wasn't well-known enough. They wanted a big-name star in the role, so Audrey Hepburn was cast instead, despite needing her singing to be dubbed over.

With the role no longer available, Andrews was instead took on the role of the titular character in *Mary Poppins*. The film was a **huge** critical and commercial success, and earned Andrews both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for her performance as the magical nanny.

In her Golden Globe acceptance speech, Andrews referenced her snub for *My Fair Lady*, saying: "My thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and who made all this possible in the first place, Mr. Jack Warner.”

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ShyWahine 1 year ago

Brilliant! How to throw shade with class....

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Harlan Ellison sent every writing award he received to one of his old professors that said he'd never be successful.

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Damon 1 year ago

A boy and his dog is a favourite of mine

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#18

Using my throwaway for this.

Been with my partner for 10 years. 10 years of gaslighting, being told that I am forgetful, pathetic and not going to ever be successful. My kids (not his) are now grown up, and at 50 I was diagnosed with ADHD and now being assessed for autism. That same year I achieved my Masters degree, and got myself medicated, and worked hard with my kids to help them onto their life paths as they became adults. This was over the last couple of years.

Little does my partner know, that I am about to kick his gaslighting, narcissistic self out and while I am now verging on poverty, having been manipulated to give up my career to support him and my kids (as he, apparently, couldn't take on any of the emotional or practical roles to assist) I can assure you, dear strangers of reddit, that in a years time I will be successful and happier than I've ever been.

Proving Sinatra right.

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Mary Reeves 1 year ago

DO IT !!!!

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves "Groups of guitars are on the way out,” a recording executive at Decca told the Beatles in 1962. “We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”

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KB 1 year ago

If you ever listen to the tape DECCA received you can sort of see their point. It's not good

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Erin French, chef-owner of restaurant *The Lost Kitchen* in rural Maine.

Co-owned a restaurant in the town of Belfast with her husband; a very tumultuous relationship ended with him changing the locks on the building with all of her equipment inside.

She licked her wounds, leased space in an old mill building in her tiny hometown of Freedom, and built from the ground one of the best restaurants in the country, with a coveted reservation that is fabled for its difficulty to get a table. Has her own multi-season documentary on TV and is absolutely killing it in the culinary world now.

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I'm a Jimmy 1 year ago

Redemption story, to be sure. But during her marriage/first restaurant, she worked constantly and became addicted to alcohol and pain killers. It isn’t surprising the marriage fell apart. People often achieve success through obsession, and it can be difficult for those around them, and for their own health.

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#21

I was told my place as a woman was to marry a rich man and have kids. I’m now the first person in my family to have a degree and they sing a different tune.

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Lucille 2 1 year ago

My dumb a*s was literally thinking for a sec that the husband and kids sing in a different key than her

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Blockbuster laughed baby Netflix out of the room with their idea. Then later, grown-up Netflix killed blockbuster.

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Juan Something(downvotevictim) 1 year ago

Netflix tried to sell to blockbuster in 2000 but blockbuster declined. They also offered to run blockbuster's online ventures, but were once again rejected.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves My ex was going to divorce me after I retired to try and get a percentage of my retirement pay. Evidently this had been a plan for a while. Her best friend sent me screenshots of her plan and I used it for my divorce. She got nothing, I'm happily married to my best friend, financially stable, with all the free time I could want.

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ShyWahine 1 year ago

Thankfully her best friend considered you good people, sent you screenshots, and the judge awarded her ZERO. Happy retirement!

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#24

My wife has one, she started an embroidery business and started to have success, her sister decided to buy a machine and steal all of her designs to make a quick buck. Obviously pissed my wife off.

Well less than a year later her sisters shop gets 1 order a month and is basically dead. My wife’s shop gets 150 orders a day, has two employees and makes 100k/month.

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Cyber Returns 1 year ago

Customers most likely see the sister's shop as a cheap knock off

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#25

Well, Michelangelo's rival was the one that recommended him to paint the Sistine Chapel, because Michelangelo was a sculptor, not a painter, and he thought that our boy would fail hard at painting the ceiling.... and uh. Well. *laughs a*s off.*

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Juan Something(downvotevictim) 1 year ago

Didn't even say anything about being a founding ninja turtle, his nunchuk skills, or his affinity for pizza.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves When I was 13 my uncle called me an ungrateful little Bi*** and said I will amount to nothing, be a little sl*t and proceeded to push me against a door that had a nail sticking out which stuck into my back. Many years later, I completed college, worked my way to a government career, bought a home, didn’t fall into the trap of having several kids and being on welfare like most of my family. He literally pushed me into success.

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James016 1 year ago

Your uncle is a psycho who needs to be locked away

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#27

The band Lynard Skynard named themselves after a teacher named Leonard Skinner who told them they wouldn't amount to anything.

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

Skinner went on to become Asst. Director of the FBI. No, wait....😉

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#28

When I was at university I had a friend who had a spare car parking space under his apartments, and as parking was difficult to find in the area I asked if I could park there and he said yes, so I did, for about a month until he told me to move it on Tuesday (tomorrow) as he was going to rent it out to someone. I told him I wasn't around until Wednesday morning, we had some sort of text argument but I literally said thank you, i'll be happy to pay how much you want for the day but I'm not physically back within 24 hours.

Anyway, I get back Wednesday morning, and i've got a flat tyre. I was young, I thought it was just an abnormal thing, so I pump it up and drive off, and while travelling at 60mph lose the steering and nearly crash. Tyres flat again, it's got a puncture wound. He's clearly put a screwdriver through my tyre, so an AA callout and £150 later the tyres changed and i'm fuming.

Cut to 6 months later, I didn't say anything to him (whats to say?), and there's a party at his one bedroom flat and i've been invited, weird but okay. We turn up, i'm enthusiastic to see him, neither of us bring up the car, I feel like he thinks he got away with it, that I don't know it was him. (I was told by a friend after the incident that he did do it).

As the party is in full swing, I stole his microwave glass tray, his oven metal grill from inside the oven, I stole at least 4 left shoes, I took the power cable to his wifi router, and I took the plastic stop c**k from inside his toilets cistern just before we left. It was a massively successful revenge. Apparently he was complaining to mutual friends for months, I never told anyone about it, I just nodded my head and said "oh thats a shame".

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Amelia Earhart 1 year ago

Swiping the left shoes was brilliant.

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#29

One of my best friends in college was unpopular. The guys on my floor thought he was a dork and dismissed him. Five years after graduating he joined a dot-com as employee number 3. As the company grew he hired his friends, me included. Ten years after graduation he retired on his dot-com wealth. I love reconnecting with people from college and letting them know that RB retired at 35. The subtext is that if they’d been nicer to him they could have made millions.

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Elchinero 1 year ago

Who?

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Guy in my class in middle school was always sleeping from staying up late playing Halo 2. He was really good, like travel to tournaments and win them on weekends good. The teacher said “enjoy your video games now because you’ll be flipping burgers for life”.

He bought himself and his parents houses at 19 from youtube/streaming money.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

I have flipped burgers all my life, too. I don't work in a restaurant. I just like to make myself hamburgers.

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#31

Lucille Ball auditioned for the part of Scarlet O'Hara in "Gone With The Wind." After getting rejected by the studio producer, she met Desi Arnaz and became one of the most influential stars in the world.

THE REVENGE: She founded her company Desilu and set up shop in the same office the producer rejected her in.

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mhoulden 1 year ago (edited)

Desilu was quite a company. They recorded I Love Lucy on film and kept the repeat rights. They bought old studios for their productions. Lucille Ball personally commissioned the first series of Star Trek and Mission Impossible.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves In the 1960s, Ford wanted to buy Ferrari. Just before they closed the deal, Ferrari slammed the door on them and let themselves be bought by Fiat. Ford, then, designed an entirely new supercar, beat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of LeMans from 1966-1969, and Ferrari hasn't won that race since against any other car manufacturer.

And for the icing on the cake, 50 years later, Ford entered again after not competing since the 70s, and won again.

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ThatG 1 year ago

Except Ferrari won this year :p

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves I used to be a forensic scientist until I had to leave because of an abusive boss. I changed careers and now I make more money than he does and I am valued by my new boss and team.

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ILoveMySon 1 year ago

More money is great but happiness is priceless.

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#34

Moved out of my abusive mother's and stepdad house at 18. Had my own apartment at 18, bought my own house at 21. They kept telling everyone I was a drug addict 😂😂😂

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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago

"They can't possibly be a happy successful person after the horrible upbringing we gave them! Better slander them for good measure."

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Carol Burnett , her star placement on the walk of fame or the TV executive that tried to keep her from hosting her show because Variety Shows is a “ mans job “ .

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

I love the story about how finished 3rd place in a Carol Burnett look-a-like contest, so she hired the winner, Vicky Lawrence.

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My story: I dated a girl in college who seemed perfect. Gorgeous, sweet, smart, really really rich, and killer in bed.

After two years together and me basically becoming part of her family she abruptly broke up with me and told me flat out that she couldn’t see us together long term because she had a family and social network that would never accept her marrying someone outside of their social class and, I suspect, racial group (I’m hispanic and she was white).

I never got that impression from anyone in her family or our friends group so it was a complete shock which I did not take well at the time, but as I was firmly in the group I kept in contact with most of her family and our by then joint social group.

Very shortly after we broke up she was dating a lacrosse player from our school who was the prototypical J Crew model; tall, blonde handsome af and of course, very well off. Our friends knew it was a bad breakup on my end and would always tell me how big of an idiot she was but whatever, it just sucked a*s for a while.

Long story short I struggled, but eventually moved on, graduated and began my career which started slow but ramped up after 5-7 years to the point where I was rubbing elbows with her dad and his social buddies on a frequent basis, and they were always totally cool with me.

By then she wanted me back, but by that time I was engaged to my now wife and it was a complete non starter.

All in all, that was 18 years ago, I am now quite successful both in career and finances, married with two great kids, and she’s a two time divorcee who desperately wants kids but can’t have them (abortion complications from said J Crew relationship) and struggles financially while living at home.

When she came crawling back it certainly felt like revenge to turn her down, but at this point it’s more me feeling bad that she never found happiness or at least not yet (we’re in our early 40s now).

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

For a minute there I thought I might need to comment on him happy she has fertility problems, but he redeemed himself saying he more feels bad for her.

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Working on the Shrek movie was a massiv punishment as executives didnt believe in it and would shrek underperforming Animators.

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Kaf C 1 year ago

i nearly had a stroke reading that 💀

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#38

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Sony and Nintendo were working on a console together before the N64 came out, intending to utilize Nintendo's gaming hardware combined with Sony's sound tech to create games with more immersive sound capabilities than have been seen before. Partway through development and immediately following Sony's announcement of their partnership, Nintendo backed out of the deal, which if you're not aware of Japanese business etiquette, is kind of a d**k move. Nintendo backed out to work with Philips to put Nintendo games on the CDi, which resulted in the worst-received Nintendo games of all time. Sony, out of spite, went on to make the PlayStation, one of the best-selling consoles in gaming history, and cement themselves as a massive player in the console wars to this day.

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James016 1 year ago

I would get a PS5 over an Xbox just for Gran Turismo. I loved the first 2 when I had them. Now I have an original Wii console I got 16 years ago. It still works.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves There was a multi-millionaire, like $100s of millions-aire, from where I am from that applied for membership at a country club was turned away because of some random rich country club rule. Anyway a few years later the country club was wanting to expand its golf course and was going to buy up the neighboring properties. This guy decided to go ahead and outbid the country club and buy up the properties himself. He turned into your generic McMansion suburbia, but still. That's the sort of passive-aggressive f**k you money I one day hope to have.

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

How does one turn into a generic McMansion suburbia, exactly?

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#40

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves My wife is always talking s**t about how good she is at candy land. When our daughter was old enough to play we bought the game and I won 4 games in a row. I’ve never done m**h but I imagine that is what that rush feels like.

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75points

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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago

Hey, if Candyland is what you're good at, you're still good at something.

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#41

My ex cheated on me with my best friend of nearly two decades, they both got back on drugs together despite being clean for years. I’m engaged to a great man and we have a son, she’s now trying to apologise and come crawling back.

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Mary Reeves 1 year ago

Accept the apology, DO NOT let her back into your life. Believe me, I know

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Freaks and Geeks got cancelled by by NBC. Judd Apatow then made it his mission to make every single teen actor on the show a massive star both in front of and behind the camera.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Linda Cardellini: Scooby Doo movies, and ER, Bloodline, Dead Like Me. James Franco: Golden Globe winner for best actor. Seth Rogan: too many hit comedies to count. Jason Siegel: How I Met Your Mother, Despicable Me series, the Muppets, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Bad Teacher, Friends with Benefits. John Francis Daly: Bones, The Geena Davis Show, Focused mostly on writing (SpiderMan: Homecoming, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Vacation, Horrible Bosses). And of course Judd Apatow has written or produced about half of all smash-hit comedy movies since then.

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Sports commentators criticized Lamar Jackson for holding on the Ravens and said that he’d never be able to get a deal done without an agent. As of a few hours ago, he signed a new contract worth $260 million. He’s now the highest paid player in NFL history.

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24points

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Lucille 2 1 year ago

I wish I could throw a ball in any way shape or form

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#44

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves I went to a Christian college, not necessarily by choice, but whatever. Sex is a big no-no.

I got involved with a girl I shouldn't have gotten mixed up with, wanted to end it, she told me she was pregnant and forged enough evidence to truly convince me. Turns out she wasn't, but, whatever.

Out of stress and anxiety, I told my roommate about it. He blabbed about it too his girlfriend, who then reported me to some school counsel that ended up expelling me for "sexual immorality", JFC.

I thought my life was over. Ha. Far from it.

I hustled my a*s off, finished school online (eventually), got an awesome job, hit 6 figures pretty quickly, met my wife, had a kid, bought a home, and I'm doing better than ever.

Last time I heard, he was a struggling shift manager at a Domino's store near the school we went to. Married that snitch of a wife too but I guess that's punishment enough for the rest of his life.

He reached out to me for some career advice a few years ago, and I just gave him some interview tips and wished him well.

Good riddance.

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21points

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Jenn Smith 1 year ago

Glad you overcame! Religious zealots of every stripe, are the absolute vilest!

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#45

Brian Acton who applied for a job at Facebook but was turned away, goes on to create WhatsApp and sells it to Facebook for $16 billion five years later.

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Elchinero 1 year ago

"Brian Acton"?

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#46

Dreamworks. The founder of Dreamworks was treated badly at Disney, and he left them to start his own company. Now we have The Last Wish, and Disney can't compete.

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AndThenICommented 1 year ago

Don Bluth as well

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#47

J.K. Rowling was rejected over and over. Eventually she got signed and made like a billion dollars. All those who passed on her missed a great opportunity.

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Jenn Smith 1 year ago

She created such a beautiful storyline. It hurt so many fans, to see she was so quick to hate, exclude, and judge so harshly, the very people that looked up to her.

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#48

Leaving a job where my boss told me “we pay you what you’re worth” to make 1.5x what they did 12 months later and 2x a year after that.

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Lexekon 1 year ago

Funny thing, I left a job years ago where it was known I was making half of what I should have been paid. I didn't even leave it because of money, but because office politics undermined the respect my position had held up to that point. Loyalty does not last in a vacuum.

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#49

So awhile back I applied for a role...and I was qualified but the feedback I was given from one particular person was almost personal..."You're not ready." "The knowledge isn't there" "You're just not what we look for in a person for this role" among other things.

I honestly didn't want this particular job but I was gunning for something higher for YEARS and thought this would be one of the steps to get there.

Fast forward a year, my absolute dream job opens up a role. I'm f ready. It was be a huge career jump, the kind of jump that doesn't typically happen. Think "Steps on a ladder"...I went up a few steps (more than the 2)

Welllll come to find out the woman who interviewed me for the other role also applied for this job.

I got the job not her. I'm in a much much higher position than her, etc and we work together in some capacity but it's still just "chefs kiss" lol

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#50

the tv networks who turned down showing breaking bad on their networks.

amc picked it up and never looked back.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

They turned it down? They must be on meth or something.

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#51

Had some one that’s known me since I was 9 years old talk down to me all the time telling me that I’ll never amount to anything, that nobody will ever love me and that I’m gonna die alone and miserable. I am happily married with 2 kids and I have a great house I bought last year. I’m still relatively young and am so incredibly happy with life. My life’s trajectory right now looks amazing and I’m so exciting for what’s coming.

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18points

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Xenon 1 year ago (edited)

Who the hell says shite like that to a 9 year old? Edit: missed the part where they've known the op since 9. Sentiment still stands crappy for anyone to say that.

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#52

Taylor Swift’s re-recorded versions of her albums just recently surpassed the stolen versions in total number of streams. And she’s currently on the highest-earning tour of all time

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18points

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Ken Beattie 1 year ago

I had to look this up because I hadn't heard about it (not a Taylor Swift fan). It's a s****y story but it's great that she's found a way around it. Nice to see an artist getting ownership of her songs back, even if it's in a roundabout way. Just a pity it's necessary in the first place :(

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#53

My hair stylist divorced her first husband. During that time he told her she would never do better and would fail without him. In the following years she started her own business and became very successful. She bought a home with a carriage house. He fell on hard times, ruined his credit, had a s**t ton of debt, and had to reach out to her for help. She's a great person so she allowed him to live in the carriage house despite him being an a*s during and before the divorce and despite her being remarried. She won, he lost, karma is a b***h.

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Lexekon 1 year ago

I am truly happy things went her way. I also like the idea of karma, unicorns, and dragons. That said, good or bad, we often don't get what we deserve either way.

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#54

In college 40 years ago, I was in a business fraternity. During rush, we decided not to let this guy into the fraternity. It turns out he was number one in his class and became the CEO of a large public company. We made the decision cause one person felt "shunned" by him. We were so stupid.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

Because fraternities are stupid- particularly their admission practices.

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#55

Ex-wife cheated and left me to shoot dope with a loser so I took the kids and rebuilt our life, found a better woman and better job and am thriving while she’s homeless and in and out of jail.

Probably not the greatest example per se but I’m happy with it

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Jenn Smith 1 year ago

Yay for you and kids!

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#56

The guy who won the $2 billion Powerball jackpot. Financial experts: “Only stupid poor people play the lottery”. Sure but, he got rich without screwing anyone in the process.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

No, it's the lottery operators who do the screwing.

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#57

got dumped by a girl, spent months being sad, and found out she was cheating the whole time which sent me down further. At one point I said f**k this, went to the gym consistently, started growing myself mentally and being a kinder man. It took a while but my social media is now blowing up and i secured multiple modeling gigs and i recently started dating an actress. So that's cool

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Lexekon 1 year ago

Happy for your success, hopefully the actress is actually a good partner for you, not just playing a role....

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#58

Hillary Swank.

She played Steve's girlfriend or some nonsense like that on Beverly Hills 90210.

She said in an interview that basically she got the call that she was being cut, I forget the reason. Shortly after that she got the Boys Don't Cry role and two Academy Awards later...

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#59

Malaysia kicked out Singapore with a unanimous decision to not allow Singapore ethnically chineese to participate in Malaysian politics. Fast forward half a century Singapore is ome of the richest country in SE Asia almost everyone are millionaires and quite low poverty.

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Cat Chat 1 year ago

Obviously all done with revenge in mind, of course 🙄 many of these are far stretches.

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#60

Not really revenge, but in general Bill Gates was obviously not a cool kid, probably didn’t have many friends and wasn’t popular or massively liked. Now one of most successful people of all time. Go nerds

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40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Adam Sandler. Loren Michaels fired him from SNL because he wasn't funny, I assume.

Just won the Mark Twain prize for comedy. Worth $400 million. Successful movie after movie.

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Cat Chat 1 year ago (edited)

This is why one she fact check before posting assumptions. A quick Google search shows that not being funny was NOT the reason. Actually my first result, at the time of the article doesn't give a reason. But the 2nd result mentioned Adam said it was for all the pranks he and Chris Farley pulled backstage (both fired the same year). Edit to add: my 1st result did say Lorne was told to "shake things up (so someone was going to go), but gave no specifics as to why he chose Adam and Chris

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#62

Dave Mustaine went on to have quite a career after getting fired from Metallica.

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James016 1 year ago

40+ years later and he still bitches about it.

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#63

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves Post Malone becoming absurdly famous for writing songs about a girl that left him.

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sbj 1 year ago

The same can be said about many other songwriters

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#64

40 People That Got Revenge By Becoming The Best Version Of Themselves David Tepper, after being passed on for partner multiple times at Goldman Sachs, decided to go work for himself. A few decades later he bought his ex boss's house (Jon Corzine) in the Hamptons for $43 million! He then proceeded to demolish the thing and put up an even more expensive mansion.

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Steph 1 year ago

Being that decadent proves only poor self-esteem. Nothing else.

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#65

My highschool gf cheated on me, lied to me about it, dumped me a couple days later, and f****d about 80% of my friend group (women included). The following summer I dropped 40lbs, got a new wardrobe, and stacked my finances. She's wanted to get back with me ever since. This was a decade ago and I have turned her down at every turn over the years.

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LC Greenwood 1 year ago

I call BS

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#66

Guy my dad went to high school with got bullied regularly by one guy in particular. Fast forward some years later and the guy not only has his own dealership but has an ad air locally. He ends the commercial with something like, “ask for [bully’s name] when you get here!” as an ultimate disrespect. Not too long after, word gets around that bully never really did anything after graduating and blew his head off some time after the ad aired.

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Amanda Cox 1 year ago

Humiliation, degradation, and suicide are not wins, they are their own form of bullying.

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#67

Adeles song Rollin In the deep when she sings Turn my sorrow into treasured gold

Also Fleetwood Mac when Stevie nicks wrote " I'll follow you down til the sound of my voice will haunt you" and she is, almost 50 years later, still out there singing and I'm sure Lindsey hears her.

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#68

SpaceX after Roscosmos told Elon Musk to take a hike. Say what you will about him running Twitter into the ground, what SpaceX has done is just off the chain.

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Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)

Spending a fortune on yourself for meaningless joy rides while people starve. Off the chain indeed.

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#69

My gf cheated on me, so I dumped her and found a hotter one with a better job.

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Con O Cuinn 1 year ago

Seems quite superficial. Doesn't mention the new gf actually being a better person or anything

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#70

Obama dissed Trump at a correspondent's dinner to his face, and Trump must have used that rage to get even. Damn, I wish Obama had picked on Ted Cruz instead - he'd NEVER get elected.

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Charlie the Cat 1 year ago

Who would have thought that Trump would get elected. Shows the state of things in the US

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What do you think ?

Almarako94 1 year ago

Morals of all that Storys: never ever listen to people who don't believe in you, or take it as a challange. Also break up contact to those people as soon as you can to not let them continue to push you down.

Donkeywheel 1 year ago

Massive success is not revenge. Anyone thinking that is seriously broken.

Paulette Munro 1 year ago

A good life is always the best revenge.

Rohan Naik 1 year ago

Some of these are just hindsight bias. Honestly it seemed like company, person made decision to not go with the person, merger, product based on the information they had at the time. Thing, person, product, company went big, therefore the person, company who rejected them was dumb they should have just seen the future used their time machine and gone to the future and seen that their decision was stupid. Honestly, my take away is that people judge other people decisions on how it turned out not on the quality of their analysis based on the information they had at the time they made that decision.

Robin Roper 1 year ago

I'm loving the memes featuring that the folding chair was invented and patented in 1855 by a black man, Nathaniel Alexander. A folding chair was used in the recent Montgomery, AL melee when a black person used a folding chair to beat the a$$ of a white redneck who had first attacked a black worker to telling them to move their pontoon boat. If you're not in the US, look up Montgomery melee and you'll find videos. Bad behavior on both "sides" but the white redneck "pontoon people" were at fault and should go to jail. The memes are very funny.

Margaret Angela Thomas 1 year ago

Chattanooga, TN: young golf pro was turned down flat when he applies to play in a country club's fish belly white Pro-Am while he was in town. Tiger Woods. Valley Rook Country Club, Cheat A New Girl, TN.

Ralph Watkins 1 year ago

We had a local surgeon who was in a car accident. Sued the couple in the other car for millions. Said he could no longer do surgeries due to dizzy spells & unsteadiness. A few years later he got sued for botching a surgery. That family learned of the first lawsuit & easily won their malpractice suit. They then contacted the couple who lost the law suit against the doctor. They counter-sued the surgeon & now not only did he have to pay millions to the malpractice suit, he now owed millions back to the couple he sued.

Gavin Johnson 1 year ago

Ain’t it weird that folk mention how rich they are as the revenge? And now I’m successful because $$$$$….. how’s about, now I’m settled, happy, calm, I’ve contributed to my community, I’ve got a healthy relationship, I’m proud of who I am, I’ve got tons of love in my life, I have friends I can count on, I’m respected for who I am, I love my life?

A good life is always the best revenge. Walk with pride.

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Badulesia 1 year ago

"Revenge is for children and the emotionally r******d." - F. Herbert

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