30 Cringey Times People Tried To Sound Tough Online And Made It Weird
I’ve never really been in a fight, which is probably why I’ve never felt qualified to announce how one would go in a comment section. Some people have no such reservations. Give them a minor disagreement or a shirt with enough room for a warning, and suddenly we’re all being briefed on what happens when they lose their temper.
That’s the kind of confidence you’ll find in r/iamverybadass. The subreddit collects posts from people who seem determined to convince strangers they’re intimidating. Sometimes it’s a dramatic threat. Sometimes it’s an oddly specific story about how they handled a situation.
Either way, I usually finish reading it with more questions than fear.
1. “Swiped From Another Subreddit”
2. “What A-… Oh, Never Mind, False Alarm”
3. “Because Of A Pilot Holding A Joke Book”
4. “Comments Full Of People Defending Him Too”
5. “Guy I Went To School With…”
6. “Glazed Him Hard”
7. “At A Hospital”
8. “He Knows Every Exit”
9. “Whatever You Say Musk”
10. “I Feel Like A Pronoun Pin Would’ve Been Easier”
11. “It Was The Yelling ‘Clear’ That Got Me”
12. “There Is Stupid, Then There’s This Stupid”
13. “Makes Me Wish I Had A Cervix”
14. “He Trained For 3 Weeks”
15. “Could We Get A Paul Brothers Ko Double Feature?”
16. “Does This Fit The Sub?”
17. “Ok Edgelord”
18. “This Post From A Public Snapchat Story In Central Pennsylvania”
19. “I Am Andrew Cuomo, Son Of Mario”
20. “This Made Me Laugh So Much For A Solid Minute”
21. “The Violent Left!”
22. “They Want To K*ll Their Neighbors So Much”
23. “My Friend Put This On His Insta”
24. “The United States Will Hunt You”
25. “No Idea Who This Schmuck Is, But He Was In The Right Wing Superbowl Show Yesterday”
26. “If You Have To Physically Block The Punch, It Didn’t Miss You”
27. “Cyber Truck Driver Left A Note”
28. “Mayor Of NYC Wanted To ‘Look Luigi Mangione In The Eye'”
29. “User Gets Tired Of ‘Zombies'”
30. “Dude 100% Tries To Fight Teenage Refs”
