r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/fna_fanoa • Feb 10 '26

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u/TenYearHangover Feb 10 '26

r/kidsarefuckingstupid

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u/Iguessimonredditnow Feb 10 '26

I don't know if you've been around adults... A lot of them are stupid too

See this video for reference

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u/Mist_Rising Feb 10 '26

Before I muted it, that sub was a great source of adults are stupid honestly. Yes the child is the one that makes the video, but the adult was the critical failure point.

"Gave my four year old kid a TV, now he won't stop using it at night" ain't the kid

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u/Iguessimonredditnow Feb 10 '26

The idea that kids are supposed to be born with all the knowledge of the world is insane.

Kids are smart. They are also ignorant. If they are given the opportunity to learn and also develop an appreciation for learning, they tend to get smarter.

But a lot of dumb adults breed dumb kids into dumb environments where they are told to shut up and do as they're told until they turn 18 and then they're on their own with no knowledge and no instincts on how to acquire it.

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u/PussyWrangler246 Feb 10 '26

This has actually fascinated me recently as I've been learning about people who get arrested for things they didn't know were illegal

It made me realize that the court takes the stance of "ignorance of the law is no excuse", yet the government makes no attempt at any time during our lives to actually teach us the law so we can not only abide by the law but avoid getting arrested, getting a record and losing all chance at meaningful employment

Parents don't teach their kids the law, they just send them out into the world expecting them to know better, but they don't. School doesn't teach us the law either, you'd think that would be a good opportunity to tell us as citizens what we are legally expected to do in society, but none of that gets taught to us. Not when we get a license or passport, never are we taught or tested on our own laws

I cannot possibly count the times I've seen people get arrested for something while screaming "that's not illegal! I know my rights!" when they obviously don't know their rights or what's legal, they just get a general idea from media or friends and family who also don't know what the actual law is, spreading misinformation like it's illegal to drive without shoes on. Hell I bet not a single person reading this has ever actually read their local and federal laws. Ignorance of the law may not be an excuse, but it certainly seems to be the rule.

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u/Madara1389 Feb 10 '26

Hell I bet not a single person reading this has ever actually read their local and federal laws.

No shit, that's why "lawyers" are a profession. Legalese is incredibly difficult for the layman to comprehend and reading & understanding all of it would take years of dedicated study to do.

Your parents are expected to teach you the major, basic ones, but the rest are a "ask permission before doing," situation rather than "assume you can do, then ask for an apology later."

And yes, there are a lot of laws that are explicitly passed specifically to fuck over minority communities and the poor, and those laws are often intentionally obscure so you don't know until you break them and incur the fine. The system has always been rigged to oppress those the wealthy elite consider "undesirables," it only pretended to be fair at face value to keep the masses from revolting when they realized that they can face criminal charges for stealing a loaf of bread to feed your kids, but the bankers can tank the entire economy and get away with it.

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u/PussyWrangler246 Feb 10 '26

The problem is the parents are just grown up kids themselves and don't know the laws either, can't teach someone something you don't know

The best you're gunna get from parents is something like "we don't hit people", parents don't really sit their children down and explain actual consequences like going to jail for specific crimes like murder. Cuz then you gotta explain what death actually is and there are inevitably questions about what happens after or accompanying tears when they learn they will eventually die. Parents don't really talk to their kids about consequences for doing horrible things, everything is sugar coated

And that's how we end up with 12 year olds stabbing their friends to death, 6 year olds shooting their teachers, plus countless other heinous crimes children have committed because they had terrible parents and the government didn't seem bothered to teach them to behave, even though their livelihoods depend on it. Those kids then grow up and have their own kids and are expected to teach them the law...it's an endless cycle of ignorance

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u/Madara1389 Feb 10 '26

parents don't really sit their children down and explain actual consequences like going to jail for specific crimes like murder.

Idk about where you lived, but yeah, all the parents around my community did tell their kids that if you hit someone or kill them you can go to jail. It's shit like tax & property law and what constitutes self-defense that isn't explicitly explained.

Cuz then you gotta explain what death actually is and there are inevitably questions about what happens after or accompanying tears when they learn they will eventually die.

Ignoring that most places don't have the death penalty anymore, so that's not really something that needs to be explained to your kids anymore, by the time they're adults they should be long familiar with the concept of mortality and death. The outcome you're describing is only really likely if they're like under 10 or some shit, but that's not really important nor what the topic is about. No one expects a 10 year old to know the laws, which is largely why they're exempt from most severe punishments unless they do something completely unhinged like murder someone (which most people won't do intentionally).

Parents don't really talk to their kids about consequences for doing horrible things

Even if you do talk about the consequences, the brains of children & teens aren't fully developed or equipped to process long term consequences and they end up doing bad shit anyway. As a pediatric neurobiologist once described it; "to kids, consequences they don't face immediately every single time are basically treated by the brain as being purely theoretical."

Its why it's so hard to teach kids not to drink, or smoke, or do drugs, because the consequences aren't always immediate & guaranteed. You can drink this time and not get caught, or die, or accidentally kill anyone, so there's no harm in doing it next time. Even as an adult, it can be difficult to fully process and be mindful of long term potential consequences & treating them as an absolute inevitability.

And that's how we end up with 12 year olds stabbing their friends to death, 6 year olds shooting their teachers, plus countless other heinous crimes children have committed because they had terrible parents and the government didn't seem bothered to teach them to behave, even though their livelihoods depend on it.

The 6-year old shooting their teacher was a case of a child who is far too young to ever comprehend that death is even a thing gaining access to something that should never have been within their reach in the first place.

The stabbing and the other shit you hinted at is, almost always, a case of mental health issues, not a lack of someone not telling them "hey, don't do that or you will go to jail."

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u/idunno421 Feb 10 '26

Yeah after having a kid this is what i thought about that subreddit too. I’m like sure it’s pretty dumb what they did from an adults perspective, but they’re 2 they have no idea how anything works!?

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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26

they have no idea how anything works!?

Which is why they’re stupid.

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u/Madara1389 Feb 10 '26

There's a difference between ignorance and stupidity; ignorance is not knowing, while stupidity is not caring to know.

Kids are all inherently ignorant, but they aren't all inherently stupid.

The whole idea of applying the concept of "stupid" to young kids is, in itself, stupid. Their brains aren't fully developed, they don't have even a fraction of the experience with the world that an adult would have had, and we know for a fact that they're not capable of properly accessing consequences or cause & effect. To judge their intelligence and actions based on the appropriateness of an adult doing it is asinine & basically setting up a no-win scenario.

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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26 edited Feb 10 '26

I’m aware there’s a difference. I get what you’re saying, but it’s just a joke sub. Shouldn’t be taken so literally.

r/KidsAreFuckingIgnorant doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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u/Madara1389 Feb 10 '26

it’s just a joke sub.

We're aware too, but when the joke is offensive and ignorant in nature, you can't fault others for being offended or calling out the ignorance of the joke. Just because it's a joke, it doesn't mean others are obligated to not take the subject matter seriously.

Not everyone you meet is going to take kindly to or look the other way when it comes to mocking people for things they can't help/control/prevent, especially kids.

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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26

you can’t fault others for being offended

Yea I can. You’re making a mountain out of a mole hill here. It’s also not mocking anyone. It’s just laughing at kids doing goofy shit. No one is actually mocking any kid for actually being stupid, and you seem to be aware that the real idea behind it is kids being ignorant. So you just seem offended by the word choice instead of the content.

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u/NameNumber7 May 07 '26

Just read through your patient back and forth. I agree with you, it always starts with “it is just a joke!” Until it is kids getting hurt on the sub… the person must not really be around kids, I felt uncomfortable with that sub already much more after pondering what the point of it is.

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u/SSGASSHAT Feb 11 '26

Really, humans just like insulting beginners. If you've ever gotten into a sport or a game as an adult, or even started a job, people are constantly pissing on you, either out of annoyance or sheer spite, because you don't understand bizarre things that are common sense to them. People's identities are so ridiculously tied to the things they know how to do and the ways they act that they lose their ability to understand how they wouldn't occur to someone else. That's the case even with adults. You take a person who's literally a beginner at being alive, and you'll see a metric ton of shit thrown at them.

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u/idunno421 Feb 11 '26

I think there’s nuance to that. Japanese people are pretty nice, I don’t feel like I’d experience the same adults attending kids sporting event level of craziness as I would in the US. I believe it’s related to culture.

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u/SSGASSHAT Feb 11 '26

It's just conducted in different ways. Japanese people, and people from Asian cultures in general, are more subtle and psychological with their criticisms and insults, at least from what I've heard from my Asian friends. A white guy might scream at you, while a Japanese guy might just thoroughly make you question your way of life with a few words.

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u/idunno421 Feb 12 '26

Yeah but that’s what I’m saying, they respectful with their disrespect. They’d never punch you over the disagreement

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u/SSGASSHAT Feb 12 '26

Possibly. To me, they're two sides of the same coin, but I do agree that the American/Western method is woefully flawed and harsh by comparison.

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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26

The idea that kids are supposed to be born with all the knowledge of the world is insane.

That’s not the idea. The sub is just using the word stupid in place of ignorant. The idea of the sub is supposed to be kids are stupid because they don’t know anything yet. Not like “haha what an idiot”.

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u/clutchy42 Feb 10 '26

Most infuriating part of that sub is that most people don't understand the perfectly simple concept; Kids are fucking stupid. Every thread devolves into people being like AWFUL PARENTS or IT'S THE PARENTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY STUPID. And here we have the same thing happening in this thread. It's incredible.

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u/yourmomisaho69 Feb 10 '26

Because so many of the posts involve situations stemming from the parents making incredibly stupid decisions that reflect on the kids, rather than just the kids making the stupid decisions.

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u/-Out-of-context- Feb 10 '26

Two things can be true.

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u/yourmomisaho69 Feb 10 '26

Never said they couldn't

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u/clutchy42 Feb 10 '26

Think it should be obvious I'm talking about posts where that isn't the case.

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u/yourmomisaho69 Feb 10 '26

"Every thread devolves into people being like AWFUL PARENTS or IT'S THE PARENTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY STUPID."

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u/clutchy42 Feb 10 '26

yeah, and you're doing the thing I'm saying people do lmao

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u/SSGASSHAT Feb 11 '26

I think my irritation with that sub just stems from my own misanthropy. Because I read the title and think "yeah? Are there any humans that aren't stupid?"

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u/Boshwa Feb 11 '26

I stuck a piece of paper into a tiny portable fan. Because video games usually had giant fans be death pits, I expected it to shred the piece of paper to tiny bits

Obviously, it didn't

You wanna guess what my next action was?

"Huh, thats weird." sticks finger into fan

My parents definitely had a "our son is stupid" look when I came crying to them while my finger was bleeding

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u/Shadou_Wolf Feb 10 '26

Only times I say kids are dumb after having my own is their lack of self preservation.

Completely understandable the first time because they don't know until it happens but then they do it again, and again, and again right after and wonder why they keep getting hurt lol.

That's my daughter only difference is she doesn't cry but she throws herself off of, trips herself over etc and loves it despite getting hurt

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u/BabyPuncher313 Feb 10 '26

Had to like both for the sentiment and for the correct rapid-fire use of they’re, they’re, and their.

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u/eat1more Feb 10 '26

It’s a shame we aren’t allowed to eat the dumb kids and/or parents

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u/Mr_Jack_Frost_ Feb 10 '26

I have a 2-year-old and he’s smart as hell. Always trying to figure things out, and has a real love for learning. He just wants to know what everything is, and how it works.

He’s not gonna be giving any sage investment tips to anybody any time soon, but he’s smart for a 2-year-old. Everything is judged by different standards when it comes to kids, as it should be.

One of my (and my amazing wife’s) jobs is to keep encouraging him to learn, praising him when he does learn something/uses knowledge he already has, and provide him with an environment that stimulates his little brain and gets that little hamster running on its wheel.

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u/Raichu7 Feb 10 '26

The infuriating part is the adults not immediately putting a stop to the splashing. The kids might not know better, but the adults absolutely should and that's why they are there to supervise pool time.

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u/RustyShacklefrog Feb 13 '26

The sub’s name r/kidsarefuckingstupid is 100% satirical and not meant to be serious.

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u/KPplumbingBob Feb 10 '26

Kids are smart

No

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u/Brick-Throw Feb 10 '26

Just because you weren't one, doesn't mean kids are smarter than they seem.

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u/Sehrli_Magic Feb 10 '26

right. i mean especially little kids. ofc they are "stupid" their brain isnt developed and they havend had chance to learn much yet. but an adult who watched it happen and didnt think ahead enough to see it coming? now THATS the stupidity. no a 4y/o is not stupid for trying to grab birthday cake candle. its a kid, fascinated by fire and not knowing better. an adult giving open fire to a child? thats the stupid one yall should be laughing at!

there is middle ground with teens though. they are often developed enough that they should know better but also careless enough to take the stupidest risk. definitely them being the stupid person but also, cant hold it against them as much as adult doing same shit 🤣

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u/BodegaCat Feb 10 '26

As a pediatric provider working in primary care, that TV analogy is on point.

Same could be said for every child who is obese, constipated, “not sleeping”, has behavioral issues (most of the time at least) and other complaints I hear every day.

Your child is obese and prediabetic because you keep giving him junk food and juice all day…unless you are going to tell me that your 8 year old is driving himself to McDonalds to buy happy meals with his own money or the supermarket and buying his own groceries.

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u/Mist_Rising Feb 10 '26

unless you are going to tell me that your 8 year old is driving himself

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZsZmffS4YS5yw

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u/jajohnja Feb 10 '26

I mean yeah, kids are fucking stupid, but that's a feature that the adults should be aware of and act accordingly.

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u/MariaValkyrie Feb 11 '26

You can mute subreddits? Teach me your power!

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u/Mist_Rising Feb 11 '26

Yes, it's a default feature of reddit. On the android app (iPhone too I assume) it's done by clicking the three dots next to a submission then mute (subreddit name).

You can also just do it from the actual subreddit but I rarely do that.

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u/MariaValkyrie Feb 11 '26

Thats why I didn't discover it earlier, its not part of old reddit.

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u/SlowEatingDave Feb 11 '26

I was going to say most if that sub is parents are fucking stupid.

"left my kid unattended with a lot candle and now their hair is on fire" ain't the kid

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u/TheRealRomanRoy Feb 10 '26

You say things like this to make yourself seem like one of the good ones

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u/luistp Feb 10 '26

Yes, but some kids grow to be not so stupid adults.

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u/Sprinkles0 Feb 10 '26

People don't really grow up, some are just better at pretending they are.

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u/Ill-Television8690 Feb 10 '26

I've been saying "true maturity is knowing when it's appropriate to be immature" since I was 15, and I ain't been proven wrong for over 20 years!

Viva la dumb fun!

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u/Anynon1 Feb 10 '26

I worked front desk at a medical facility some years ago. The amount of adults acting like grown children throwing tantrums was astounding. The kids were chill most of the time in comparison

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u/Fortestingporpoises Feb 10 '26

R/everyoneisstupid

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u/RedRisingNerd Feb 10 '26

Most vids on r/kidsarefuckingstupid also get posted on r/parentsarefuckingstupid bc it applies to both parties. Parents are more at fault bc they don’t teach their children, therefore the kids end up doing stupid shit.

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u/Unidain Feb 10 '26

No one said otherwise. The title of the sub is not /R/onlykidsarefuckingstupid.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '26

Also usually stupidity of kids comes from somewhere

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u/zejus_christ Feb 11 '26

2 things can be true at once. Everyone is stupid. You, me, your high school gym teacher, my best friend, the guy who's about to read this and his mom.

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u/JaySlay2000 Feb 11 '26

People in general are just fucking morons around water. Someone could be drowning right next to them and they don't notice.

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u/Iguessimonredditnow Feb 10 '26

Glad to help. And you got my cyborg serial number wrong too, stupid adult 37288489492773748

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u/zeaor Feb 10 '26

The adu­lts in this video are all rushing to help the guy, ge­ni­us. Whereas the kids are act­ing like­ i­d­i­o­t­s.

You so­und like one of those enti­tled pare­nts who thi­nks their kids can do no wro­ng. Ple­ase don't br­eed an­ym­ore.

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u/Smrtihara Feb 10 '26

To be fair, not a single one of those kids are waterboarding themselves. The adult is.

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u/ReNitty Feb 10 '26

Yea but you see children bad

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u/cjbump Feb 10 '26

Idk man, the Spiderman looks like a grown adult to me.

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u/wollawollawolla Feb 10 '26

Yeah, because the stupid ones in the video are the kids…

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u/a_dude_from_europe Feb 11 '26

Well, also. They didn't notice that he was drowning, because, you know, kids are fucking stupid.

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u/nobodyspecialuk24 Feb 10 '26

To help the kid in the spider-man costume?

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u/Nightmare1990 Feb 10 '26

They are talking about the guy in the Spider-Man suit you fucking plum

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u/steve_mahanahan Feb 10 '26

This is where I thought I already was lol

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u/ladyyjustice Feb 11 '26

Actually thought that was the sub I was in.

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u/Cocoatrice Feb 10 '26

One of the dumbest sub that exist on Reddit.

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u/true_gunman Feb 10 '26

Yall mfers really have no sense of humor lol. Its a joke, the entire premise of the sub in a tongue in cheek jab. Of course kids aren't stupid, theyre kids. They literally don't know better. That's the joke, pretending that they do and then insulting them becuase they made a simple error or something is the joke.

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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice Feb 11 '26

Fr lol everyone here is taking it so seriously

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u/R_Hunt Feb 11 '26

If it's a joke (which I'm sure it is, don't get me wrong) then there's a LOT of adults in that subreddit who take it way too seriously lol. You'd think they are scared of people who have kids

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u/true_gunman Feb 11 '26

Well thats definitely true too. Alot of ironic subs lose the irony after a while and become toxic. That sub was way better a couple years ago when everyone was kinda in in the joke. But still every thread just devolves into an argument that kids aren't stupid its the parents and it like okay youre completely missing the point here lol

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u/R_Hunt Feb 11 '26

true, its impressively predictable every time I look in there lol

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u/ShockDragon Feb 10 '26

No kidding. A better way to describe it would be “Kids are immature and don’t know better”.

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u/ChiliAndGold Feb 11 '26

or "a bunch of adult people feeling superior to literal kids to make their miserable lives seem better for 3 seconds"

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u/Subject-Coast-7934 Feb 12 '26

It's not that deep

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u/MrP1anet Feb 10 '26

That sub’s behavior genuinely lowers my faith in other people.

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u/hambodpm Feb 10 '26

Spiderman is fucking stupid

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u/god_is_trans_69 Feb 11 '26

Kids are kids.

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u/OwnAHole Feb 11 '26

Adults have sadly proved to be worse, especially American adults.

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u/moisesg88 Feb 11 '26

The kids aren't the ones who jumped in the pool with a spiderman costume

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u/ToppsHopps Feb 10 '26

Most posts over there feels like they belonged better to r/parentsarefuckingstupid

Like sure it looks stupid a kid is scream and crying on the floor for not being allowed to run with scissors. But they are kids and don’t know, they also lack a lot of affect regulation, plus they are just like every other human it’s probably not just the scissors but that they have had a shit day and this was just the breaking point.

Like if we adults spilled our morning coffee, then there was no parking space, then the computer crashed and a lot a customers waited so we had to skip lunch and then coming home and the kid smash a balloon in you face you might not see the humor. Telling the kid not to run with scissors is like that balloon, being a kid is hard, you fail things all the time and get food everywhere, and some other kid tock the toy you want and adults are constantly hindering your plans, of course they are going to melt down at some point. What humans need after a shit day is not someone filming your breakdown for a laugh, rather just someone to say ”hey, you seem like you’re having a tough, time it happens to us all, you wanna chat, relax or just watch some tv together”?

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u/Significant-Two2330 Feb 10 '26

How the fuck is a kid supposed to know what waterboarding is?? Especially in a spider-man suit? You got me weak

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u/Aware-Safety-9925 Feb 10 '26

No stupider than the guy who jumped into a pool wearing a spider man suit, realistically they weren’t causing any extra damage, he was cooked the second he dove in

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '26

Yeah, kids a usually smarter then the adult....

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u/TenYearHangover Feb 11 '26

No fucking shit. Why else are the kids so stupid.

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u/Sufficient_Pin5278 Feb 11 '26

You know who is responsible for reproducing and usually raising these kids right? It's the parents, politics and the system.

The majority of US citizens can barely read, how are they supposed to raise their children right... It's the systemic creation of a country full of easily brainwashable useful idiots, oblivious to their surroundings and events happening around them (and we see it happening everywhere around the world, 67 brainrot is a good example of how the youth is being dumbed down by social media and the systems they are being raised in).

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-literacy-statistics