30 Screenshots Of People Who Caught Others Shamelessly Spreading Lies On The Internet And Stepped In To Shut Them Up
There’s only so much nonsense one person can handle. And just because the internet is not guarded by BS-detecting police, that doesn’t mean one can share it without hesitation. Especially if it misinforms, spreads fakery, or takes advantage of a situation.
The corner of the subreddit “Quit Your Bull,” which is home to 1.6 million members, is dedicated to collecting such bittersweet examples. From Elon Musk busting his alleged “brain coach” to the American Kennel Club calling out a false ad that claims that a particular type of dog breed is recognized as dangerous by AKC, these are some of the screenshots that got karma restored.
And next time someone claims you can say whatever you want online, tell them to try and see what happens. Hint: nothing good will ever come of this.
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Someone Is Awfully Busy With So Many Careers!
Guy Leaves A Bad Review For A Shop He Was Never Even At
Don't Need 5g When U Have The Fastest 4g In The Universe
Nobody was born BS-proof. We've all lied, said nonsense, regretted it, or maybe not. Sometimes the nonsense we shared did no harm to us or people around, and sometimes it really paid off. Like, white lies. These incredible little lies hold half honesty, half false chaos that spins the world around us.
It's a whole different story when we encounter serious lies. Like anti-vaxxers spreading false beliefs against Covid vaccinations on social media. In such cases, a lie targets the most vulnerable people of society who, for the lack of better information, find themselves in genuine belief that what they’re reading is pure truth.
Bored Panda reached out to Scott Berkun, the author of eight popular books on creativity, design, leadership and public speaking who was happy to share his insights on dealing with someone else’s BS. According to him, the first thing to tackle it is to expect it. “Fire alarms are good at detecting fires because they are always expecting them. We say some people have good BS detectors for the same reason. They’ve seen it enough times to sense it before the rest of us do.”
Idk How Restaurants Deal With All The Anti-Masker Bs Right Now
Anti Vaxxers Never Change
Restaurant Owner Smacks Down Bs Review
Scott believes that it’s not hard, but “it just means you need the habit of asking good questions before you accept what you see or hear. And learning what sources to trust more than others.”
Due to the rise of social media fake news, bogus claims, and lies, both little and big, seem to be spreading faster than ever. “Someday we will learn that technology accelerates everything, the good and the bad. Today is not that day. 300 years ago Jonathan Swift wrote that “Falsehood flies and the Truth comes limping after it” but everyone at Facebook at Twitter seems to have only recently figured this out.”
According to Scott, “Everyone should be taught media literacy like this.” Meanwhile, many seem to struggle to find ways to politely tell a person to quit their nonsense. Scott suggests “asking “how do you know what you know?” as it often does the job.” “It sets you up to say ‘Thanks, but I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.’”
Local Jackass Gets Corrected
Faking A Dead Man's Autograph
I Found This Review From A Local Haunted House Attraction. There Were Quite A Few Negative Reviews Just Because They Had To Follow Covid Guidelines
Disgusting people with their disgusting lies. It's a good thing these people never quite bothered to improved their minds to be capable of better lies.
On the other hand, “Sometimes it works to your advantage to keep quiet and let them think you don’t realize they are full of BS. You may learn more about them and their real intentions than calling them out,” the book author concluded.
Vegan Lies About The Benefits Of Being Vegan. Another Vegan Calls Them Out
Akc Calls Out Clickbait Twitter Ad
Boyfriends Steals £hundreds From Store, Goes Next Day, Gets Nicked So Girlfriend Sends 1-Star Review. As You Do
Faking A Wedding Pic For Karma
Elon Is Not Having It
They Did The Math
*sigh*
It's Just Full Of Misinformation
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation
Yeah I cringed every time someone goes on a righteous rant about cultural appropriation. Look, we Asians don't really care? In fact, we find it amusing and a bit of pride that someone from another culture is exploring ours.
There's a big difference between exploring and exploiting. Buying traditional dress items from traditional or local makers and supporting them is fine, but fancy expensive designers taking those items and putting them on a catwalk for many thousands of dollars is not. Neither is it fine to use semi-forced, subsistence level labor in Asia to undercut local tradespeople in their traditional crafts,
Load More Replies...Exactly. Cultural appropriation is when a person is disrespectful against another culture. Like wearing traditional clothes in mockery. Using clothes or food or items from another culture in a normal way is not a bad thing. Every culture had influence from others, thats how we grew. I am sick of a minority of racist people making a biss fuss out of "whites" doing certain things while they are ok with other people mixing cultures. For example how I would be critiziced by those extremists for wearing a kimono for being european but they would be fine with a japanese woman dressing in my traditional clothes.
I agree. Sadly there’s one very very specific group who makes that stupid argument the most, and you can’t even say who they are or you look awful.
Load More Replies...To appropriate is to take without consent or to set aside for a specific purpose. Cultural appropriation refers to the former. The example here is spot on. Something that has to be earned within a culture is appropriated if it is not earned. It's the equivalent of me, an Irishman, wearing a US Army Distinguished Service Cross Medal because I think it would look cool. Cultural appreciation is sharing their arts and can include wearing their fashions. Most cases of people screaming cultural appropriation are really appreciation, people need to think more and assess before they get involved.
When I was really young and lived in Japan, a bunch of really sweet Japanese women wearing kimonos dressed me and my mother up in kimonos as well. There is a big difference between appropriation and appreciation.
My Native Canadian ex explained it as so: Food, hairstyles, and fashion are fine, culturally significant or spiritual objects are not. Yes to braids and bannock and buckskin jackets, no to war bonnets, eagle feathers, and medicine bags.
What if a white went to a public powow dance where they sell tickets to the public & sell Native American clothes & toys for money? Native Americans sell stuff to non Natives for money. Dream catchers. Animal fur & feathers, medicine bags, items used for religious purposes.
Load More Replies...Also, are you buying traditional dress from a local craftsman and supporting them or are you using a costume to make money off of?
WELL DONE!!! (By the way, even "white people" can get culturally appropriated. Using Dies Irae in movie soundtracks is cultural appropriation. It's for the Catholic mass. It means, "Day of [the] Wrath [of God]." Of course, I put "white people" in quotes because I'm white, but most Catholics are not.)
Lets hear bout Bhad Bhabie and her explanation about culture appropriation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3rYXr5GFTU
The young gentleman in the tie and vest is totally fashion goals.
So the different between appropriation and appreciation is how offended someone gets? Get a grip, people.
So kind of like being allowed to speak sign language as a hearing person but not being allowed to give yourself a sign name?
In the below discussions, I do see one form of appropriation not mentioned. Using another culture for the explicit purpose of financial gain. For example, check out YaYaYa by T-ara. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLfRdyqxXJk
This is a large part of the problem, though. If some tribe members say it's ok, and others say it isn't, which ones do we go with? The majority? How do we know who the majority is? Is the majority the one saying that it is ok, or the ones saying that it isn't? If someone writes an article stating that doing a certain this is appropriation, do we go with that opinion just because that person has a forum? What if that person is really in the minority of their race/culture/ethnicity? How can we know? That's the problem. There needs to be some way to identify some type of consensus. Otherwise, we pretty much can't appreciate any other culture without fear of accusations of appropriation. And if we can appreciate other cultures, then we can't integrate, which means we segregate, which is not good
Just don’t use someone’s traditions as a costume or whatever and ignore anyone else who gives you shît.
Load More Replies...As an actual member of the SOCO Ute Tribe... we don't give 2 shits if you wear a war bonnet.
My ex, a Canadian Plains Cree, would disagree with you, and so would the elders in his tribe. Most have respect for their cultural traditions and values, thankfully.
Load More Replies...Remembering the times we played cowboy and indian. We wearing hats and feathers without anyone getting offended because we were neither cowboys nor indians.
That’s an example of appropriation though. Dressing up as Indians as a way to be a character in a costume rather than just learning something about native Americans and doing it because you like it.
Load More Replies...wtf? the replier thinks this a matter of how seriously we take certain cultural representations? please get this removed. it is not a correct definition at all.
'Cultural appropriation' used to have a much darker meaning that we shouldn't mix up with the more frivolous modern usage of the term. It was claiming another ethnic group's achievements for your own culture. Like when Europeans decided declared Great Zimbabwe was built by Hebrews, when china claimed hegemony over Tibet, or when the Nazis claimed Germans were behind the flourishing of classical Greece.
It’s them but sadly they aren’t the main ones who complain. It’s an actual marginalized specific group who complain the most
Load More Replies...What you're describing here is cultural appreciation, which is not the same thing. The second scenario is straight-up racism, and neither appropriation or appreciation.
Load More Replies...Guy Doesn't Even Know What Band He Saw
could have been the british band Attack! Attack! not the american band Attack Attack.
Third Times A Charm. Repost For Anonymity Editing
Someone Doesn’t Have Their Facts Straight
(Now Ex) BF Says He Is Getting Threats From Reddit Users Because I Anonymously Posted On R/Amitheas***le
Bill Gates Made The Coronavirus
Karma Farming Accounts
Lying About Donating Bone Marrow
It's A Big Conspiracy!
Fortunate Son Meets Travelin’ Band
Must've been on some of those good concert drugs at the age of 12 to have hallucinated that.
Clickbating About The Vaccine
Caught A Live One Today
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First One In The Wild
The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
Load More Replies...This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....
The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
Load More Replies...This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....