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30 Hilarious Tweets From People Who Are Struggling So Hard We Can’t Help But Laugh And Cringe
Life's a (beautiful) struggle. And since we face hardships every day, the question is not how to avoid it — we can't — but rather how to cope with it. One thing that might help is reminding ourselves that we're in this together. Nobody is exempt from problems. Big and small.
To do just that, let's take a look at the Twitter account 'Struggle Tweets.' Its content is a bit hard to define and often prompts the question "WTF?" but if I were to describe it in a few words, I'd go for "funny", "cringy", and "weird."
From a poor man's meal to a surprising relationship turn, here's a collection of posts you didn't know you needed.
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#1
Refusing to be taken down and laughing about it on Twitter is actually not the worst way to cope with life. Far from it. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), people react differently to uncertainty and those with a higher intolerance for it may be less resilient and more prone to low mood, negative or down feelings, and anxiety.
The organization also provides these simple steps that can help you feel in control:
First of all, be kind to yourself. Some people are better at dealing with uncertainties than others, so don’t beat yourself up if your tolerance for unpredictability is lower than your friend's. Remind yourself that it might take time for the stressful situation to resolve, and try to remain patient with yourself in the meantime.
You can also reflect on past successes. Chances are you've overcome stressful events in the past, so give yourself credit for it. Reflect on what you did during that event that was helpful and what you might like to do differently this time.
Also, work on developing new skills. When life is relatively calm, it can be a good idea to try things outside your comfort zone. From standing up to a difficult boss to picking up a hobby, taking risks helps you develop confidence that comes in handy when life veers off course.
Limit exposure to the news if you think it's affecting you. When we’re stressed about something, it can be tough to look away, but compulsively checking the news only keeps you wound up. Try to limit your check-ins and avoid the news during vulnerable times of day, such as right before going to bed.
Let go of things that are out of your control. When uncertainty strikes, many people immediately imagine worst-case scenarios. Try to get rid of the habit of ruminating on negative events.
Furthermore, ask yourself: if a friend came to me with this worry, what would I tell her? Imagining your situation from the outside can often provide perspective and fresh ideas. Trust your gut!
#10
Lilly Rose Poppy 2 years ago
I've done this before. It was my guy best friend asking me for relationship advice for him and my girl best friend. I'm dead.
Engage in self-care. Don't allow stress to derail your healthy routines. Make conscious efforts to eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep. Many folks find stress release in practices such as yoga and meditation.
Seek support from those you trust. People tend to isolate themselves when they’re stressed or worried but social support is important, so reach out to family and friends.
#12
Sonja_kitty 2 years ago
That's what happens when you go into a relationship with the mind set of forcing the other person into said relationship.
#14
SykesDaMan 2 years ago
This is not a spoiler, because it happens in the very first minutes of the movie, but still, if you don't wanna know anything about the movie you should stop right away. Heck, you should have stopped at the "This is not a spoiler" part.... You've been warned! Alright, you do know that the dog isn't really dead and it's alive and well right? You know how movies work, right? :)
As mentioned before, focus on the things that are within your control. Even if it's something as simple as meal planning or laying out your clothes the night before a stressful day. Establish routines to give your days and weeks some comforting structure.
However, if you continue to have trouble managing stress and coping with uncertainty, ask for professional help. Psychologists are experts in teaching people how to develop healthy ways of tackling stress.
#16
Mewton’s Third Paw 2 years ago
Probably because she wants to date an adult who can take care of him or herself.
#21
chi-wei shen 2 years ago
Sometimes I think that to be able to afford health care in the United States, you have to be really rich.
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#24
Guillaume Derode 2 years ago
WTF is wrong with people. If I want to do a haistyle, I'll do the hairstyle, regardless of anyone feeling offended by it. Are we really going to bar people from doing things because of the color of their skin? Even if that color is white? The world's gone mad.
Burs 2 years ago
Exactly. This gatekeeping of certain thing just for being white (more often than not done by white fake woke people) is absurd. A haircut is a haircut and it belongs to all humans. Or should people with dark hair be banned from dying blond? People with curly hair not allowed to straighten it. Or people with straight hair not able to curl it.
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Lady Cadaver 2 years ago
Why does it have to be "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION", why can it not be "CULTURAL APPRECIATION"?
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 2 years ago
Why can’t it also just be hair in a video game 😝 but seriously, I love your comment
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.V. 2 years ago
People from all over the world have done their hair like this for centuries. European, African, Asian, Princess Leia...
Alina Vacari 2 years ago
I literally was confused, because was thinking of Princess Leia. How exactly are her buns offensive... ahahah
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Kimi Tomminello 2 years ago
Those buns are pretty common in Asian styles as well. I'm sorry but this is one that I will personally push back on. Do some freaking research.
Chich 2 years ago (edited)
people need to pull thier heads out of their asses. Getting offended is not a life style. If it is, you are a sad little potato.
Mewton’s Third Paw 2 years ago
Imagine policing the hair on someone else’s head and telling them what to do with their own body.
Deutschland Mädchen 2 years ago
Uh, I've seen a lot of white people who look so cute in space buns. Never could pull it off myself though. Didn't know it was a racial thing
Melissa Wong 2 years ago
Everything is racial in the USA, EVERYTHING. These are same people that s**t on whites if they eat Mexican or Chinese food.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 2 years ago
Years ago I had a show and had my hair done in three French braids (because it was so short that a single or double braid wouldn't have worked). Well, guess what, apparently I was now appropriating corn row hair styles. I rolled my eyes so hard they almost popped out of my head.
Bacony Cakes 2 years ago
*indiana jones boulder scene but with your eyes*
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Sarah Sparkles 2 years ago
Some whit people have afro like curls. My white friend in high school had red hair just like that. If she took it down she had a huge fro. Not everyone has one type of hair per their race.
Loty 2 years ago
If you extend this retarded logic further then you should ban people of african descend from wearing pants becuase it's not culturally appropriate.
Catie Marie 2 years ago
I *love* making ppl take things to the logical extreme to make a point :)
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Troux 2 years ago
I love how unhelpful everyone was. I have enough time to talk down to you, but not enough to explain why.
Catie Marie 2 years ago
I think I've finally grasped that "do your research/educate yourself" really means "I have absolutely no way of proving my point, I just feel like being contrary". It's so infuriating
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 2 years ago
I think the worst part of it is that all the people saying she can't wear them cause she's white have a lot of upvotes and she gets like 3
Ivana 2 years ago
I don't believe in policing hair styles. Like dreadlocks, white people had dreadlocks throughout history. Double buns show up in black culture, Mexican culture, Chinese culture, Native American culture, etc. Honestly feel that borrowing from other cultures is a huge benefit of interconnections, like sharing foods, adopting traditions, styles, etc. Why do we have trade in the first place? It is to exchange goods and practices.
Rod Egret 2 years ago
Just checked the origin of the controversy (hair style in Animal Crossing) and it is sadly ridiculous.
just another drone 2 years ago
Does this mean black people are not allowed to use hair straighteners anymore?
ZAPanda 2 years ago
So I can answer this because I've asked African academics what they think. The answer is: Ideally they should not, because that signifies subordination to whiteness and therefore mental slavery.
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Shawn Upchurch 2 years ago
People can wear whatever hairstyle they want. This is so absurd. So you are a racist now if you wear your hair a certain way, wear certain clothes, eat certain foods?? These arent for you white people, educate yourself!
RoseTheMad 2 years ago
I am so f*****g sick of this hairstyle bullshit (and cultural "appropriation" in general, most times its actually APPRECIATION). Take braids for example? Vikings wore f*****g braids, the celts wore f*****g braids. They were white. Certain asian countries wore braids, plenty of european countries wore braids. It's a HAIRSTYLE and what someone does with their hair isn't going to harm a person regardless of their skin colour. A hairstyle isn't even CLOSE to racism, it's not like a girl wearing space buns or braids is going to suddenly join the KKK for f***s sake.
the annoying theatre kid 2 years ago
my 9 year old neighbor has an afro and she's white so how do we know op doesn't have curly hsit
Joshua Wachtenheim 2 years ago
The people who are saying “white people are excluded from wearing space buns” are quite racist.
Zuzanna Rzeszewska 2 years ago
By same logic, please don't appropriate my culture by wearing a tie, or dying your hair blonde. It's not your culture.
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. There are very few examples of malicious cultural appropriation.
Alex Smith 2 years ago
Pardon my ignorance but I dont get this at all. I have hair. I have long hair. There are so many rules on how to wear my hair. I am not allowed to braid it a certain way. I am not allowed to dread it. I am not allowed to wear buns (from this post above) but its hair. Braids are awesome. Small braids are awesome. But, you get these people that say educate yourself. I am on how to make my hair cute and out of my face.
ZAPanda 2 years ago
correct. The argument is it's cultural appropriation, or theft of culture. Same as you mustn't wear dia delos muertos stuff at halloween, or mexican hats, etc. Why? Because due to whtie colonial dominance over most of the planet, whites are defacto in power and can therefore appropriate or steal whatever they want, without consequence. So, now, the argument goes, a morally good white person would not do that as it is colonial theft, therefore, you should not. Etc. I have no opinion on this argument, just giving the argument.
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JelliTate 2 years ago
I think it’s the hair’s texture that the people are referring to.
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Emmydearest 2 years ago
I'm very well aware of cultural appropriation but those "space buns" or how they are called are definitely not a prerogative of black people. Just like dreadlocks or braids aren't. From Scandinavians to Ancient Greeks, many cultures sported dreadlocks, elaborate braids, lateral buns and so on. That being said, I'm very aware of the discriminations that black people had and still have to suffer about their hair ("not professional enough", etc...) but at a certain point some battles are more damaging than productive. For me it becomes quite risky, you know. We tear each other apart about a trivial technicality while we don't fight for much more vital matters. But i don't know, I clearly talk from a point of privilege, being a Caucasian European myself...
Peter Buckley 2 years ago
Common hairstyle amongst women throughout Europe, kind of a little Dutch girl trope.
Brett Layton 2 years ago
Also give up any foods not native to your local region ( appropriating food / culture) , dont go out into the sun if youre pale( youre appropriating skin color) , and of course if youre not serbian or American youll need to give up your wifi and cell phone as well ( appropriating technology ).
Christy Smith 2 years ago
Some ppl are so quick to scream CULTURAL APPROPRIATION, so they can be a f*****g SJW, look at me fighting for the little ppl, dumbass who gets off correcting everyone regardless of the situation.
the annoying theatre kid 2 years ago
further in the thread someone was like when you get animal crossing they should ask your ethnic background so they can ban certain hairstyles for you and someone commented "imagine being like 8 and your nintendo switch asks you what your heritage is lmao"
Katinka Min 2 years ago
Over the decades, I have seen this hairstyle in countless Mangas - on Asian characters. Why do Americans always think they own every f*****g thing they have ever seen???
Jessica Cifelli 2 years ago (edited)
Are they still space buns if they look like how Baby Spice of the Spice Girls had them in the 90s? If so then I have been guilty wearing them as a white girl. Oops
Auntiecorn 2 years ago
You haven't been guilty no matter how you wore them. This hairstyle stuff is taken too much over the top and just plain b.s.
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SobyKay 2 years ago
This gives me rage, like when ppl shouted cultural appropriation at Justin Beiber for wearing dreads. Not even a Beebs fan but I was like let the boy wear his hair however and leave him alone! This cultural appropriation mislabelling has gone too far. I wore traditional skirts and long braids as a white woman in Africa and got nothing but compliments from the locals, they were even happy I enjoyed their common styles so much. Not once did anyone say I shouldnt dress like that or wear my hair like that b/c Im white. I swear some ppl are so bored they're just looking for a cause to get behind that isnt even a cause!
Sandra Givens 2 years ago
I always assume the kids wearing these are Disney fans and emulating Mickey and Minnie. Those little double buns have been common in Japan and China for decades, if not centuries, so claiming them solely for Black hair is ignoring many of years of hairdressing history.
Just saying 2 years ago
It seems that in America there is a prejudice against natural and traditional black hairstyles, which is crazy. So anything that breaks this prejudice, such as white kids adopting braids or computer games like the one above, is a good thing. Not as ideal as society just saying 'you know what, wear your hair how you want, that's ok', but we know things don't work like that, so anything that normalises black hair do's so that eventually no-one even thinks to comment negatively on them has to help.
Axolotl King 2 years ago
I see the two sides of this: on one hand, people should be able to enjoy hairstyles regardless of skin tone, on the other, if it would be a cultural appropriation type thing (judging from the comments I'd say in this case it isn't) then that's valid
Axolotl King 2 years ago
Then again, OP was just admiring the hairstyle so
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Random Anon 2 years ago
This is like reading the contemporary equivalent of a boomer chat group. Both have lots of self-righteous imbeciles on high horses and both are just as entitled.
Samara Morgan 8 months ago
Black Americans are getting more and more entitled. Some of them hate whites so much they want to see us suffer and die.
Jennifer Lee 2 years ago (edited)
Appropriation only matters when you are making money off of someone else's culture and thereby taking a sale that should have gone to someone of that culture. For example, a non-Native American making and selling jewelry, beadwork, or pottery with designs that are specific to a tribe and their artifacts. Many communities depend upon sales of their native crafts so anything made and sold outside of that community by non-native people is essentially counterfeit.
Veronica Romero 2 years ago
Waaaa??? Biiitchhh I've been calling them f*****g Bear Ears for like 15 yrs.
Jody Whitmarsh 2 years ago
So melanin challenged people can't bind their hair because it's culturally divisive? That's like saying long blonde straight hair is ONLY for white people now.. y'all take those wigs off! How f$ing stupid! European nations have been knotting, braiding, and bunning their hair for millenia.. it's to keep it out of the way while working and preserve it when regular cleaning isn't available. And sometimes, it's even a ritual bind. The Irish have a thing called a lovers knit and it looks a lot like what people would consider a Black braid. Having more than two braids is very common for Scandinavian cultures. Side buns can be seen on women in old Dutch paintings... This craziness needs to stop already
Gabrielle Martin 2 years ago
Obviously these people aren't familiar with the "Jew fro". My older brother had an afro for years. So what?
Stephen Taylor 2 years ago
Too many people are easily offended these days. And cultural appropriation is bull crap! Stay in your lane, and mind your own business!
Linda Mermaid 2 years ago
I’m a 66 y o white woman. I’m gonna deadlock my hair, dye it rainbow colors just to see how much shjt I can gather.
Your (kinda) friendly neighborhood Otaku 2 years ago
So apparently we're now racially profiling a hair style? The hair style is so cute tho, but we really don't have to racially profile something just because it's common in one race :(
ZAPanda 2 years ago
The argument is it's cultural appropriation, or theft of culture. Same as you mustn't wear dia delos muertos stuff at halloween, or mexican hats, etc. Why? Because due to whtie colonial dominance over most of the planet, whites are defacto in power and can therefore appropriate or steal whatever they want, without consequence. So, now, the argument goes, a morally good white person would not do that as it is colonial theft. Etc. I have no opinion on this argument, just giving the argument. --- That being said, let me tell you what happens in Africa if you wear traditional African clothing or hairstyles (outside a university). You get greeted with ululation and excitement. Why? Because you're saying you want to be african.
ZAPanda 2 years ago
no, it's not communism, it's virtue signalling. Two different things.
Load More Replies... Guillaume Derode 2 years ago
Honestly, I couldn't care less about whether or not a bun is an afro or a space bun. You don't own my hair and if you're offended by that, tough luck. I consider myself to be progressive, but there's a limit to nonsense. This is the biggest load of claptrap I've seen this week. And now I'm going to get dreadlocks, just to piss you off.
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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago
I would eaat it. I luv pizza sauce as much as i like my sleep. Alot
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Call Me Mars 2 years ago
I was enjoying this until most of the tweets were cropped so I couldn't read them. Can somebody please fix this?
Troux 2 years ago
There's no fixing it. You have to click the grey 'Struggle_Tweet' text on the bottom left of each picture, which will take you to the original tweet with the full picture.
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Museo 2 years ago
The reactions to the "space buns" restore my faith in humanity. We are not lost. ;)
ZAPanda 2 years ago (edited)
I get the impression there's a very vocal and select group of people who feel bad about being white (understandably, I live in africa and can see the devastation of colonialism first hand), BUT the way they deal with it is, instead of coming to countries which were colonised and pillaged and helping with their hands to ACTUALLY do something for brown folks, what they do is pose, preen, and attack people on social media, trying to be as spectacular as possible in their outrage. Nevermind black people NEVER APPOINTED THEM as their official spokespersons in the west. African people are quite capable of saying what we think of whites if it is required. You know, with liberation movements, BLM, etc..
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 2 years ago
The last like 20 tweets were cropped and I couldn't see them
Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago
What was "hilarious" about any of them? They're all very stupid, actually.
Call Me Mars 2 years ago
I was enjoying this until most of the tweets were cropped so I couldn't read them. Can somebody please fix this?
Troux 2 years ago
There's no fixing it. You have to click the grey 'Struggle_Tweet' text on the bottom left of each picture, which will take you to the original tweet with the full picture.
Load More Replies... Museo 2 years ago
The reactions to the "space buns" restore my faith in humanity. We are not lost. ;)
ZAPanda 2 years ago (edited)
I get the impression there's a very vocal and select group of people who feel bad about being white (understandably, I live in africa and can see the devastation of colonialism first hand), BUT the way they deal with it is, instead of coming to countries which were colonised and pillaged and helping with their hands to ACTUALLY do something for brown folks, what they do is pose, preen, and attack people on social media, trying to be as spectacular as possible in their outrage. Nevermind black people NEVER APPOINTED THEM as their official spokespersons in the west. African people are quite capable of saying what we think of whites if it is required. You know, with liberation movements, BLM, etc..
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 2 years ago
The last like 20 tweets were cropped and I couldn't see them
Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago
What was "hilarious" about any of them? They're all very stupid, actually.
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