Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Strawberries that look like apples are white inside and have no flavor


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I will never understand why potatoes - something that can be stored for months if properly done - come to my house from the supermarket and then start to go bad in a week.  And it's more than one supermarket.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I cant prove it, but I feel like a multitude of frozen pizzas have switched to shittier, cheaper ingredients


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Fruit and vegetables.  Lots of weird onions


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Chocolate. And chocolate based products.

Trying to sneak hazelnut and other alternatives into everything to cut down on actual chocolate content.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Onions. So many onions are rotting instantly once they get home. When you cut into them, many are already sprouting or have several layers of damaged, rotten, or woody material that needs to be tossed.

The worse part is that onions are more expensive than ever. If you are a home cook, an onion is used in well over half of the dishes we prepare. I used to be able to buy 4x onions and have them last a few weeks when stored properly. Not anymore…

I have also seem garlic quality going down as well. As an Italian American this is killing me.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Literally everything. Nothing lasts. Half of the fruit is flavorless and it's rotting even on the store shelf.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
I work in a grocery store, and several things have changed.

One : packaging is shittier. From the cardboard boxes being paper thin, to the cellophane wrappers being a joke, to the glue holding boxes together - it has all gotten lower quality as a cost saving measure for companies. Th

Two : quality of course, has gone down. I field lots of returns every week of people complaining about a "defect" causing their brand of snack or food to taste "bad"....them not realizing its just the "new normal" of the product. Common offenders are ice cream and desserts, and flavored crackers.

Three : quality control has fallen way downhill, and its widespread across major brands and different products. Several times a week, I get quality control issues ranging from boxes being half full compared to other boxes,  to packages being boxed up containing air, to defects like a whole box of sour patch kids missing the sour coating.

We try to catch what we can, but we get paid minimum wage and have a HUGE workload, so it often gets pushed onto the customer....and then I have to deal with it at customer service.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Tomatoes.  They're tasteless and are so hard they can be used for bocce balls. I'll eat real heirlooms only.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Yes! I work at one of the highest rated grocery chains in the US. We are known for healthier versions of foods. The last few years as prices have escalated, packages have gotten smaller and quality has also visibly diminished. I’ve even noticed food additives that my company never used to put in foods. It’s concerning as someone who has some bad reactions to foods additives.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Absolutely, and I thought I was losing my mind until I started seeing other people say it too. I’m in the US and the quality drop has been insane the last couple of years:
– Chicken – Used to be able to grab any family pack and it was fine. Now half of it is mushy, watery, and has that weird rubbery texture. It shrinks to nothing in the pan and sometimes even smells off even though it’s in date.
– Bagged salad & berries – This is the one that makes me the angriest. I’ll buy greens 4–5 days before the date and they’re already melting into slime in the fridge. Berries look perfect on top, and there’s a fuzzy science experiment hiding on the bottom the same night.
– Bread/snack “favorites” – So many things I grew up with quietly changed recipes. Same packaging, worse product. More sugar, more weird aftertaste, way less flavor. It fills you up for like an hour and then you’re starving again.
– Restaurants – Paying way more for food that tastes like it was made with the cheapest possible ingredients. Smaller portions, under‑seasoned, everything either super salty or weirdly bland, and “fresh” stuff that is clearly not fresh.

I know companies are cutting corners because of prices and supply chains and whatever, but as a regular person just trying to cook at home, it genuinely feels like we’re paying more for food that spoils faster, tastes worse, and has more junk in it than ever before.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Could it be due to the monopolization of one company — Sysco — supplying so many places now?


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Grapes! What the hell happened to grapes!


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Onions!!! The layers are just too thick. Anyone saw black Moldy onions?


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: My mom gave me peanut butter M&Ms for Easter.  I haven't had them in over 5 years.  They used to be one of my favorites, now they're nasty.  It mostly tastes like the fake color shell with an afterthought of peanut butter, and no hint of chocolate.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I'm in the boonies, toward the end of the supply chain, so produce is always pretty dodgy this time of year since most of it's out of season, comes out of storage, or ships a really, really long ways. If it's extra rough, there's always soup to be made.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Brother in law creates software for the massive warehouses storing processed foods in the USA. Hundreds of warehouses owned by    Mondelez International, Nestle, Sysco etc. it’s frightening. Thousands of pallets being moved autonomously.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Regulation has been cut way back, corporate greed is out of control, and we the consumers suffer the diseases and issues that come from a dirty food supply. Good thing medical care is free! Oh wait💀


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I had a burger from Shake Shack today and there were multiple little bits in the meat that I couldn’t chew and had to spit out. Little hard bits and little rubbery, slippery bits. It made me gag and I don’t think I’ll ever eat at Shake Shack again.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: All of it and everything. The Enshitification of Everything.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Strawberries. They look perfect huge, red and beautiful. You bite into them and there's nothing. No sweetness, no flavor, just strawberry shaped water. They optimized the appearance and forgot the point.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Yes, but I thought it was me. Now I'm happy to see other people noticing changes. I've also noticed calorie counts changing as well. The sliced store brand bread used to be 50 calories, then it increased to 60 calories, and now it's 80 calories per slice! It hasn't changed size, but has become softer/mushier in texture. It's making me wonder what are they doing to it? You can't buy the traditional ribs any more. Ribs have lots more meat and fat on them. Margarine becomes water when melted and has less flavor! The fruit is rotting from the inside out, instead of the outside in. Peppers are extremely hard and take longer to cook.

Also, chewing gum has changed. It melts so easily now! I miss when it didn't melt.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Not just you, stuff tastes flatter and goes bad weirdly fast now. Feels like everything got optimized for shelf life instead of actual quality.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: You know, it’s kind of like everything is beginning to suck and we need to rely on each other for things that don’t suck. Unity through plight I guess.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Something weird is going on with chicken. Not just woody breasts, but thighs maintain a texture more like raw even when cooked to temp.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I’m in the US and I can’t think of anything that *hasn’t* degraded in quality recently. Since we let dumb and evil people take over, literally everything sucks.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: It's not just recently. It's been degrading for decades.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Meat. I finally went vegetarian this year because I got so sick to death of gagging on woody, gamey chicken, ground beef full of cartilage and bone, massive stringy bits coming out of steaks... It's inedible.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Growing my own.  I don’t trust food in the US since they fired inspectors.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Salad, spinach, spring mix. All that sort of stuff lasts about 2 days before it’s soggy now.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I buy frozen broccoli and cauliflower florets and it's A LOT of stems and very little actual florets.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Most of the produce section anymore looks like complete ass.

Shitty looking strawberries where they hide the moldy and mushy parts or they are totally not ripe and are basically completely white and flavorless and bitter on the inside

Anything leafy- lettuce, romaine, leafy green mixes/spinach, bags of salad mix, coleslaw and shredded lettuce are all wet and mushy looking or yellowish/brown

I get that produce goes bad faster and counted as waste and spoilage to the store, but it’s not like it was stuff sitting on the shelf that didn’t get sold and went bad. I comes in that way and gets put on the shelf that way as “new”.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Not only is it lower quality at normal grocery stories, it's more expensive. I sometimes go to Wholefoods and the produce is definitely better, but you get what you pay for. I also no longer buy beef due to the cost.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Profits over people needs to be illegal 😑


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Chocolate in candy like KitKats and other candy bars. Tastes like nothing but sweet. No flavor.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I work in a restaurant, we get Tyson chicken wings from our supplier. I noticed in the last year the wings we get, although the same product, have been getting smaller and have been coming in with a lot more feathers still attached to the chicken. Thing is I do contractual cooking work so I’ve worked at three restaurants over the last year. One in Rhode Island, one in Nebraska, and one in Maine. I noticed it getting worse over the course of the year and it wasn’t location dependent.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: I’m glad somebody said this. I thought I had just lost all my taste buds and zeal for food and eating……


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Produce is declining significantly and people aren't talking about it enough. I work in a produce department. Our chain is currently rejecting all sweet corn due to being bad product but also being sold at $72 a case. Strawberries have generally been terrible, as has most other berries. Due to weather and conflicts, we either don't have them or they're just on the edge of going bad. At one point a few months ago, the company had to order brussel sprouts from the Netherlands. They were expensive and we spent a ridiculous amount of time taking off yellowing leaves and packaging the good ones. I could go on for a while. It is a much bigger problem than a lot of people realize.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
To anyone saying "food is seasonal, this is normal" - no the fuck it is not. We figured out long ago how to keep and deliver food out of season.

Rotting onions? Hard tomatoes? Meat with rubbery stuff you have to spit out? American food just sucks. None of that exists in countries with proper food production and regulations. I'm from Australia and I've never once seen any of the things described here, ever.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: One of the first things that went under the Trump admin was food inspection and safety. That was back like 1000 scandals ago so it's easy to forget


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: There's no way private equity ruined something as essential as food right? ...right?!


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: When unripe fruits started getting chemical baths to make them appear ripe… it was over for us


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: People over on r/Costco noticed that the Kirklands Bare Chicken Nuggets dupe changed their recipe quite dramatically recently. Many more ingredients and nearly double the sodium as prior formulation.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
We, like many people, buy the same products and items consistently.

We are also pretty poor, so we shop at Walmart.

My answer is honestly everything.

The GV cheese is all blah.

Don't even bother with GV brand sliced wrapped cheese singles. Although they do have flavor but unfortunately, the flavor is salt. They also don't melt.

The strawberries rot before you can eat them. You've got 2-3 days tops.

Two choices for bread, either floppy, flavorless, and useless, or slightly better BUT 7 dollars a loaf.

The chicken breasts, though. My God.

I don't know how they get away with selling it.

We have gotten multiple packs with pieces that look grey and stringy. Smells slightly fishy. Falls apart when handled?

No one wants to eat weird chicken, and I can't wrap my mind around it. It's chicken!


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: To me, basically everything is worse than it was 20 years ago. Obviously technology has gotten better and more powerful, but everything we're buying, from every source is just shittier and shittier.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Bread is growing mold before it even reaches its expiration date.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
FDA food inspections have faced historic cuts in 2025, with staffing reductions reducing oversight to their lowest levels since 2011.

 The cuts, stemming from budget actions and staff losses, have hit foreign, high-risk, and routine food-processing inspections hardest, leaving inspectors overwhelmed and reducing the frequency of inspections

You get what you vote for


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: The problem is that big American food companies like Hostess have switched to cheaper processes and lower-quality ingredients. The result is often lower quality .


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Those of us who grew up with the packaged foods in the 80's and 90's, know that today's equivalent name brand  foods have been tampered with in a bad way.

You can taste the cheaper ingredients.

Watched regular Oreo middles go down by half. until there's barely anything there anymore....

Food tasted better in the 20th century. 😜

And in every package, there's at least one or two cookies, that has a weird taste to it, just like fish oil.

Can't figure that one out, but it's consistently there the past year or so.

But the prices never go down.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Y'all can still afford to eat?


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
Is it just me or do we keep flipping time lines? Didn't your government fire all the proper regulators and what not? What do you expect? American food in general is becoming worse by the year, imo. Shit, even the CEO's won't eat it and call it "product" instead of food. Milk product, chocolate product. I don't know, but that should tell you something right there.

Mmm, products.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Chicken breasts are woody, gelatinous, and tasteless.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response:
I eat a lot of frozen prepared meals for lunch from Healthy Choice and Lean Cuisine (don't judge) and also buy frozen vegetables, and the amount of roughage in the form of stems and leaves has increased significantly in the past couple of years. Broccoli stems and green beans attached to sticks are the most obvious ones.
I've also started seeing more obviously spoiled vegetables. Not just really ripe, but actually rotten before they were frozen. It ruined summer squash for me for a long time.

For fresh produce, old potatoes and onions that would have been thrown away in the past are everywhere. It takes MONTHS if not over a year for root vegetables to get this bad.

Last thing is meat not being trimmed. I can tell the meat producers have stopped trimming excessive fat off, and are leaving joints attached to add a tiny bit of weight to cuts of chicken and beef.

I'm growing my own vegetable garden this year and planted fruit trees. I'm going to freeze and can as much of my own food as possible. I am also learning a lot about the urban gardening movement. For anyone in an apartment who might be interested, I encourage looking into it. There are some really creative ways to grow food beyond typical community garden plots.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: This thread made me realize that I’m not crazy nor paranoid.


Instruction: Anyone else in US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

Response: Elon fired food inspectors


Instruction: How can we stop the Epstein files from being swept under the rug like they’re being?

Response: Keep talking about it. Don't stop till we see justice.


Instruction: How can we stop the Epstein files from being swept under the rug like they’re being?

Response:
Pick up the fucking rug and expose every pedo left, right and center.

Let’s clean off Lady Liberty and trade her torch for a hammer of justice


Instruction: How can we stop the Epstein files from being swept under the rug like they’re being?

Response:
It will all come out a decade or 2 after Trump dies. Whilst Trump is on power, nothing will happen. When Trump finally loses power, the American government will think that it is too damaging to America's reputation to release it.

It will only be released when enough time has passed for people to be able to blame it on 'different times'. 'We have grown so much since this horrible time.' kind of deal.

In the future, a couple of people who are currently like 30 years old will go to prison for covering this up and they will be scapegoated, Trump will have his name disgraced and everybody will move on.


Instruction: How can we stop the Epstein files from being swept under the rug like they’re being?

Response: We all know the answer. Everyone is waiting for the right moment. The release will be inevitable.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response: Unrelated, but I read once that gasoline doesn't actually last very long, so nobody would be driving for more than a few years without refining capacity.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response: The TWD showed that without good burial rituals EVERBODY becomes a Walker (1st series with the CDC episode). In 28-weeks later, it showed most of the initial Ragers died from starvation, but there would be carriers. Not sure about 28-years later and the explanation about the Crawlers and the Alphas.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
in Walking Dead, the walkers decompose very slowly

in 28 years later, the infected are those who figured out that eating and reproducing = survival


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
It takes time to wipe out a population of 8 billion.

Also, cannibalism.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
In world war z there are a few chapters about how zombies would freeze in the colder climates and thaw out when it warms up, how everyone was on edge as spring comes, always leaving armed and afraid to catch a whiff of rot in the air

It’s a fun book and really done well


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
You might be interested in Daybreakers, it explores this but with Vampires instead of Zombies.

There's not a ton of backstory but the gist is that vampirism is contagious (if they don't kill you outright) so at some point a threshold is crossed where vampires go from carefully controlling their own population (as you expect Dracula and covens, etc) to a full on pandemic where vampirism rapidly goes global and vampires outnumber humans and humans are going extinct.

Which turns out to be the source of conflict, because the vampires are running out of blood.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
Feed by Mira Grant had an interesting take on this. Since all humans are infected with the virus, if they die for any reason they become zombies. They did kill off the original population of infected, but have to take extreme measures around any potentially lethal situation, even going to sleep when you're older and might die in your sleep.

I tend to agree with you that eventually you'd run out of infected through attrition. They would rot or just due due to misadventure.

The book World War Z (not the shitty movie they made) by Max Brooks has an excellent series of stories which go through the history and future of a post-infection world.

I've always thought it would be interesting to see a movie which takes place 100+ years after the initial outbreak. It would be interesting to see how culture adapted to the charges.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
Zombies do not "die off".

In TWD comics they do "rot away" and stop appearing, though. But the series explains EVERYONE is infected even after that, doesn't matter.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response: The zombies are making more zombies just as quickly as the normies are killing them.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response: Bugs and weather would destroy zombies. Or wild animals.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
For the Walking Dead, it is known for not making any scientific sense at all. The show is more about the interpersonal drama between the survivors, so the zombies can do whatever the plot needs them to do in that moment.

Literally everything related to science or biology in that series reads like a 3rd graders understanding of how things work. Bodies do not really rot, just desiccate and slowly fall apart, even when reduced to pretty much skeletons they still are able to produce force and move with no muscle attached. Somehow they are still able to accurately see and hear perfectly despite their sensory organs being destroyed. They behave more like magic fantasy zombies made by a necromancer, but the series tries to portray it as very serious sci-fi infectious outbreak. I think this was a mistake, because the more they tried to delve into how it worked the less it made sense and the worse the writers scientific education was shown to be.

It isn’t event restricted to biology, physics takes a hit too. The show is known for having one of the worst depictions of a Nuclear explosion in all of fiction. Look it up on YouTube and laugh.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
It's not possible. It's fiction. There's no genuine science to superheroes flying, either. This is where the "suspension of disbelief" comes into play. You don't think to deep into the concepts or mechanics because the story will quickly fall apart otherwise.

That all said, I like how The Walking Dead actually showed aging zombies in the show. Human bodies can't really take sitting out all day on those Georgia summer days, but they kinda showed that. Zombies started to age and some would actually stick to places or deteriorate.

28 Years Later has smarter zombies. I won't give away any spoilers, but it seems like many of them have found ways to survive in the ways that humans do.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
Realistically yes. In my uneducated guess, most zombie hordes would only really last a few years at most before gradually fading away.

Zombies, while undead or undead adjacent still rot. Depending on the environment and the weather etc. zombies are going to turn to a pile of mush  and bones, and then just bones  relatively quickly and easily.


Instruction: In stories like 28 Years Later and shows like The Walking Dead, how is it possible that zombie outbreaks can last for decades—wouldn’t all infected people eventually die off and the population be wiped out?

Response:
Did you watch either?

TWD and 28 years later both explain pretty straightforwardly how this is possible.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: It’s concerning when something that serious fades out of public attention, especially if people still feel like there are unanswered questions.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response:
Epstein’s network is still in place and they will always want more kids.

Never dropping it until Epstein files become Epstein trials.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: I appreciated Melania bringing it back up unprompted. It was a nice public service.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: I can’t decide whether the files are meant to distract us from global events or whether global events are supposed to distract us from the files.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: Kinda doesn't help that Trump and others are actively working hard to completely bury the Epstein files by gobbling up media companies that are critical of Trump and firing people at said media companies that deviate too far from the regime's "official messaging" or become a thorn in their side.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: when I was a teen, I watched a movie called Wag The Dog. It was a satirical political movie about some movie producer helping to fabricate a war overseas to distract the public from a scandal involving the President of the US. At the time, I sort of understood the satirical nature of the film and how, even though it seemed far fetched, the movie was hinting at how media plays a huge role in masking political scandals. This was 30 years ago.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: It’s like everything, people only care about stuff for a few weeks and then act like it never happened


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response:
Immensely disappointed in our system. But then again the same thing happens with the Panama papers. Actually the Panama papers never really even made it into Congress as a discussion. Let alone having a transparency act.

The nice part about this case is that there’s a law that was passed to mandate the release of all the files, with deadlines. That law will last until and unless it is repealed. So there’s a possibility of future admins and congresses to hold this admin criminally liable. They should be doing that right now. But right now maga controls Congress so any measure of contempt against someone like Bondi, for example, would probably fail.

I’m holding out very thin hopes of something coming next year after midterms


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: A lot of people in Iran have been sacrificed to achieve the objective of shifting attention away from those files.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: Nothing was ever going to happen to anybody in the files


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: Your administration started to attack the catholic church, to move the attention?


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: Truth will come out eventually, it always does. But there will be more pain before then.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response:
I am not from America. But:

I am still mad that the files still haven't seen any serious punishments.

I am still mad that the murder of Rene Good, Alex Pretti and several unnamed people in ICE custody is unpunished.


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: The pedophiles won


Instruction: How do you feel about the Epstein files not being in the news as much anymore?

Response: The victims deserve justice! The orange bastard should be put on trial. It shows just how corrupt everything in the USA is.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: When Whitney Houston sings (Dolly Parton's) I Will Always Love You


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: White Town, Your Woman


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Sabotage


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: [What is love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I)


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Everlong


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Return of the Mack, obviously. All time track.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Killing in the Name - Rage Against the Machine


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Jump Around - House of Pain


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Mazzy Star - Fade Into You


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Zombie - The Cranberries


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Bittersweet symphony


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Song 2 - Blur


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Wicked Game


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Gonna make you sweat by C+C music factory


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Smells like teen spirit


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Pepper- Butthole Surfers... this song will be an earworm for the rest of my life


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Offspring- Kids Aren’t Alright


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
The Cardigans - Love Fool

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Losing my Religion - REM


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: I Love You, Always Forever


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode from 1990.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Groove is in the Heart


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Nothing Else Matters


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

Also, watch their documentary!!!! I gained a lot of insight into them as individuals and the change they wanted to provide to people who had less than them.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Odd choice maybe, but Ordinary World by Duran Duran. It takes me right back to high school in the 90s. It comes on at work and I think back to the days. Man I miss the 90s.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: “Interstate Love Song” by Stone Temple Pilots


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: You are… my fire


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Faithless - Insomnia

I know somebody has recently done a cover of it and it’s naff, purely the OG version.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Pearl Jam - Black


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: You you you outta know.....


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Always Be My Baby


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Angel - Massive Attack and Jeff Buckley's music sounds like it's from the future.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Freshmen - The Verve Pipe


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: You Get What You Give by The New Radicals


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Enter Sandman by Metallica.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Closer - NIN their new remix with Boys Noize fucking crushed at Coachella last weekend


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Show Me Love - Robin S


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Everlong, Foo Fighters, and not just the song. The music video blew my mind.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Too many, the 90s were peak for music of all kinds. Coming from a rock fan, but pick your poison and the 90s had it.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Iris by Goo Goo Dolls


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Detachable Penis by King Missle


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Torn - Natalie Imbruglia


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: In the Meantime - Spacehog


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Freedom - George Michael


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Coolio gangster's paradise


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: No doubt - don't speak


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Ice Cube - Good Day


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Losing My Religion - R.E.M.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Tonight Tonight -The Smashing Pumpkins


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Freshman — The Verve Pipe

One Headlight — The Wallflowers


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: No Rain by Blind Melon


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Wonderwall - Oasis


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: "Fade into You" by Mazzy Star and Massive Attack's "Teardrop"


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Creep - Radiohead


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Smack My Bitch Up. I listen to it at least once every day!


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Closing Time


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Hey Jealousy - The Gin Blossoms


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Mr. Jones-Counting Crows.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Cowboy Junkies cover of Sweet Jane


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Duran Duran - Ordinary World


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Crazy - Seal


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: No rain - blind melon


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Can't touch this

Even with the goofy hammer pants and MC Hammer going bankrupt, you can't help but move the SECOND you hear it


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: What’s Up by 4 Non Blondes might be one of the most timeless songs ever written


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Time of your life - green day


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Pulp - Common People

Suede - Beautiful Ones

Presidents of the USA - Peaches

Crash Test Dummies - Mmmm mmmm mmmm


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Joan Osborne- One of Us. The message that we should treat everyone with kindness and understanding may not be super in fashion right now but is timeless.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Two Princes by Spin Doctors and Smells like Teen Spirit, Nirvana...


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Ironic by Alanis Morrissette

Semi Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind

Celebrity by Hole

Ray of Light by Madonna


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Cannonball by the Breeders


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Send me on my way - rusted root


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Can I cheat and say Sandstorm? It technically released in 1999.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Wind of Change by The Scorpions.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins. When released, it sounded nostalgic and that timelessness will carry it forward.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Stay - Lisa Loeb


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Born slippy


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Criminal by Fiona Apple


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Alive


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: All I Want for Christmas is You


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
Lightning Crashes - LIVE.

Selling the Drama - LIVE.


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Wonderwall


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response: “Losing My Religion” REM


Instruction: Which ’90s song do you think will always be timeless?

Response:
My Name Is - Eminem

Really that entire album is full of bangers.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: I was working at a video store, in the late 90’s and an acquaintance  showed up early…. Like at 11:00am.  He came up to me said “I’m feeling weird, my legs feel weird”. So I called my mom, I asked her to come help.  My mom took him to the hospital and he was just riddled with cancer.  Like everywhere.  He was maybe 20 at the time.  He didn’t have a great relationship with his parents, at the time.  My mom sat with him until midnight, when I got off shift.  I sat with him until he died.  It still hurts.  This was 25 years ago.  He deserved more time.  RIP


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: My friend (in 9th grade in the 80's) was on summer vacation at his Grandmother's house in NY. He was mowing her front yard when a pregnant woman went into labor while driving, lost control of her car, ran up into the yard and killed him.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: A guy I was at school with OD'd on heroin in the waiting room in court just before he was about to be sent to prison.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
A building I worked in had a freak elevator accident.

A woman was stepping onto it and it shot up suddenly and killed her instantly. I rode that exact elevator for years before and after. Really, really, shitty unlucky timing. Very sad.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
I know three people that died on the way home from a funeral. The first one (we'll say Bob) was leaving the memorial for a local high schooler that died in a car accident the day he got his license. Bob had a fatal wreck less than 1/4 mile from where the kids wreck happened, immediately after his funeral.

The 2nd and 3rd were adult sisters. Their grandpa passed and they carpooled with their parents to the funeral because it was an hour away. Half way home their car was hit by a semi and the sisters died instantly, but the parents survived.

Maybe this isn't the type of weird you meant but it was the first thing that came to mind😅


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: My grandmother was found dead on the floor of her bathroom. This was over 50 years ago and her house was over 100 years old then. The hot water was installed after the house was built and the hot water pipes were run along the wall inside the bathroom. According to the coroner, she must have been standing up in the bath and then bent over, hitting the hot water pipe with her arse. The shock of it caused her to stand up so quickly that she cracked the back of her head against the wall, knocking herself out. She then fell out of the bath, hitting the opposite wall with sufficient force to break her neck. My Dad used to visit her every second day to check up on her (His sister took the alternate days) and that's how he found her.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: In a hay baler.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Good friend from high school worked at the World Trade Center in NYC. Died on 9/11. I didn't find out til a reunion in 2014.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: I had a coworker who had trouble staying awake while driving.  We drove semi trucks to locations, and they made me ride with him to make sure he stayed awake.  Didn’t make sense, just have me drive.  He was finally let go, and a month later, he fell asleep in his private car and drove off the road and was killed.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
I knew a guy that seemed for all the world like a straight edge, dude, but was secretly into some kinky stuff.

He was playing around with autoerotic asphyxiation and accidentally strangled himself to death.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: The manager of a place I used to work at was on  vacation in Hawaii and while out hiking too close to restricted areas, he fell into a volcano and died. They never found any part of him. It’s true. And happens more than you would think. 😳 🌋


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Not my immediate circle but when my Dad was teens/20’s (he was born in 1940) they were all out drinking at a park / water quarry after closing & a guy threw his beer bottle against a big rock & a shard of glass slit his jugular..


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: I’m 68 and have lost too many from my circle of friends and family. Most have been natural causes but I had a cousin murdered. He was just over kind over sensitive guy, he took in a homeless guy who killed him. The murderer was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to the state hospital from the last 30+ years.  In an ironic turn, another cousin who is a psychiatrist was assigned to this guys case. He declined to treat him.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Was swimming in a marina and one of the boats had an electrical problem and she was electrocuted


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Liver failure at 26 due to substance abuse. Would’ve thought he was a 50 year old alcoholic or something. It was really shocking.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
A guy in the circle I used to hang out in posted a Facebook post about how he's never received a "whooping" from someone and he says if anyone has beef with me come on, so everyone can see who's walking and who's talking.

Basically the next day he burned to death in his car.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
I went to school with a guy that was run over by a snow cat.

Then a guy I went to college with was struck by lightning.

Other than that it was all pretty standard stuff, car crashes, suicide, avalanches, that sort of thing.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
Someone I was in primary school (circa 2002) with was found murdered in her (11yrs) family spa along with her 2 adult siblings (late teens (m) and early twenties(f)) who were babysitting her while her parents were overseas. The older sister’s boyfriend was later arrested. They were left with one surviving adult daughter who had moved out of home by then. Only a few yrs ago they lost her as well to brain cancer.

Some shady shit came out about the family and being in a catholic school I think they were somewhat shunned.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Slipped on an icy back porch and froze to death.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: One of my exes was recently killed in a murder suicide. Her son was physically attacking her so she shot him and then shot herself once she realized what she had done.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: my uncle. he was involved in a minor multi car wreck on a highway in Colorado. the officer was taking his statement and briefly looked down at his note pad then up to see my uncle briefly standing there with no head before falling over. a semi tire had come off and decapitated him. here's the twist, his vehicle had almost no damage, just some minor paint scuffing. he was the last one there and the last to give his statement because he was translating for everyone else.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: Literally.  Buddy of mine went to clown school.  And then killed himself.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response:
Dude was the life of the party, he'd spend 6 months home doing work and 6 months traveling and partying. Every room he walked into he lit up. He had the most gorgeous girlfriend and honestly was living a great life.

For some reason in Amsterdam one night he fell from the apartment he was staying at and died. No one knows why, although some allude to drugs.


Instruction: What is the weirdest way someone had died in your known circle ?

Response: More rare than weird, but my sister developed an allergy to her own platelets.  Her blood got so thin, she spontaneously started bleeding through all her veins.  She died of a massive hemorrhage in her brain, but all her organs were full of blood.  She was 13 years old.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
I was at his place when I broke things off with him. He had become increasingly controlling over time, and it had got to the point where he was trying to dictate which of my friends I could and couldn't hang out with.

As soon as he realised I was being serious about ending things, he bolted out of his house, drove all the way to *my* house, spilled some very personal secrets about me to my dad, then sobbed in my dad's arms for a while.

Prior to this, he had only met my dad briefly on two occasions, so it was just a bit weird to go running straight to him.

When my dad eventually told me about it, all he said was, "I hope that fella's medicated."


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: TLDR: I left a bunch of clothes at his house and never got the chance to get them back. He sent me a picture of what I’m 99% sure were his legs wearing my leggings with the caption “he’s busy sweetie.”


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Was in an abusive relationship for years. When I finally left my ex acted like I was abusive to him. I had finally had enough of his shit and had totally lost all love and respect for him through years his own actions. He then did the following:

Phoned repeatedly threatening suicide if I didnt come back to him.
Repeatedly told me he had attempted suicide but had been found in time.
Said he was going to jump from a very tall structure on the edge of town.

I said, "Go on then, you have been promising for months."
He said, "Wow, you really don't love me, huh?"
No shit.

Phoned me about a year after we broke up to tell me he had been stabbed. I said, "Good." and hung up.

He phoned again several months after that to tell me its ok, he approves of the guy I'm seeing now. As if I need this MF permission.

Phoned about 2 years later to beg me to agree to reconsider my stance on never getting back together. I said no. We are definitely never getting back together. He asked for 5 years apart and then revisit the idea.
This delusional clown thinks I just need 5 years of space from him to realise he's the one.

Not once, in any of these phonecalls, did he ask how his child is doing.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Threaten to sue me from his work email because he thought I had a 10 year old blanket of his. He’s an attorney.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
He sent me a hand made collage of pictures of him with our friends that he kept in the breakup, including pics of him with his new gf. On the back was a picture of his dad as a boy. In the package was an oblong wood block, poorly hacked in the shape of a pickle, half-painted brown. He said in the letter that he hoped these things made me think of home, and remember in Bad Santa where the kid made Billy Bob a pickle for a gift? Also he wanted me to know that his dad was very handsome when he was young. Yes, that was all in the letter.
Then he called and asked what I thought of the pickle.

Edit: I said it was weird he sent me a pickle and he said the girl he loved would have understood and clearly that wasn’t who I was anymore then he blocked me. Then two months later he unblocked me to ask me if I wanted to go skydiving.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
one ex called me up from a new number three or four years after we broke up to apologize to me for how our relationship ended, and admitted to me that she was cheating on me just before we broke up.

I paused for a bit, and then reminded her that I broke up with her because I knew she was cheating on me. she kind of acted like I hadn't said anything and just went on about how she couldn't let me go the rest of my life without knowing the truth, and I was like, "uh, you were frequently coming home from a "friend's" place geeked out of your mind on cocaine that you didn't pay for and immediately showering the moment you got home. you weren't getting away with anything."

she was convinced that I had no clue for years and clearly didn't remember how or why we broke up.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
She went and had a threesome the next day, and then figured that sharing this fact would bring us back together.

It was not a great success. I in fact did not want her back, regardless of however many threesomes she decided to partake in.

I'm assuming she's still out there, threesoming it up.

Good for her.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: An ex girlfriend, with her for Five years, lived together. We occasionally argued, like every couple does. Maybe not the happiest relationship, but we loved each other and had never talked about breaking up. She said she was going to her mother's house for the weekend. Didn't speak to her for a year. Not an answered text, phone call, nothing. Left all of her possessions at my house. I was of course worried for her safety pretty quickly. But it was confirmed by several of her family members, who I honestly thought of as family, that she was fine, just didn't want to talk to me.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Got in contact with me a few months after the breakup and I obviously asked why. said he missed me but he didn’t want to be anything, not friends or more, just that he would text me “when he wanted to” because he would “occasionally miss me and want to do things on his own terms (decide when we would text etc)” and he wanted me to keep the door open so he could contact me on his own terms, I felt super used and mostly disgusted with him


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
She finished our shower.

She broke up to me while we were taking a shower together. She just continued with her reasons while washing her hair.

Was so awkward, felt like I shouldn’t be naked in front of her anymore. She was fucking crazy.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: showed up to my location, harmed me physically in the parking lot, went into the apartment I was hanging out in and beat them up and robbed them. Then kidnapped me, poured my drink on me, and took me to my hometown and dropped me off in a walmart parking lot.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: This wasn’t me but my buddy. Took every single thing out of the house that could possibly be considered hers, including the ice trays. But left her beautiful floofy cat, Princess Jasmine. My buddy and that cat BONDED.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Went to the police and said I beat him up and stole $48,000 in cash from him. I was barely 20, 4’10 tall, and weighed 80 pounds. The man never and I mean NEVER had money like that.

As I was getting arrested, I had multiple police officers say they knew I didn’t do it.

The charges ended up getting dropped two years to the day after I got arrested. But it’s still on my record, has made me miss out on many opportunities, and has made people look at me differently.

Screw that guy.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: She made a movie of all our pictures and memories then announced it to the world at the end of the video.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
He kept leaving gifts for me on the doorstep of my parents house (he didn’t know where I lived because I moved in with my new boyfriend…)

My mom had to ask him to stop.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Oh man. Have I got a story. So I dated a guy for exactly a year my freshmen year of college. He broke up with me. He claimed it was because I was too controlling because we lived in my house and I drove him everywhere (he didn’t have a car and his dad lost his job and couldn’t pay for his housing so he moved in with me and he refused to get a license so I had to drive him everywhere) anyways I found out it was because an old fling from when he lived in Australia was in town and he wanted to shoot his shot. I was relieved because he was physically and verbally abusive.

He would have melt downs and destroy things and he would embarrass me to our friends as a form of retaliation. He would constantly tell me I was ugly and criticize my weight. He was absolutely awful and I was young and didn’t realize just how bad it was until I was free of him.
We break up and I continue on with my life. Six months later I start dating someone else and the second we are fb official he reaches out to the guy and claims I gave him an STD and he should watch out. I did not. This was incredibly awkward because I had just started dating this new guy so having a crazy ex pop out of the woodwork was a lot for him to process as well. I ended up getting tested and because I didn’t have an std nor have ever it was all ok and I moved past it.

Then he randomly contacted me demanding we suddenly share custody of the two cats he had adopted and then left with me when we broke up. When k refused he broke into my house and took them forcing me to go to his house to try to retrieve them. When I arrived I realized he had a sliding glass door that wasn’t locked so I simply opened the door and took my cats back. A few years pass and every so often he would randomly send me a text that very obviously made it seem like we were secretly hooking up. He clearly was trying to get me in trouble with my current partner. Granted at this time I had already blocked him on all socials and his phone number but he kept getting new phone numbers.

Then he randomly contacts me out of the blue and tells me that he was walking home one night and decided to throw a smoothie at a homeless man who called his purple American apparel hoodie “gay” and the homeless man had chased after him tackling him on a curb shattering his pelvis. He said he was wheel chair bound and needed me to get him groceries and transport him. He offered me money but I told him to F off.

About three years later he contacted me again letting me know he had explicit photos of me he’d taken without my permission during sex and that if I didn’t get the entire 6 grade class he currently was the history teacher for free admission into the aquarium I worked at that he would send them all to my workplace. I refused and resolved myself to just deal with any fallout if he went through with it. He never did. Every time he has contacted me after that I refused to respond and blocked him.

Cue him sending me a random novel long text about once every 2 years ever since then. So for 13 years he will randomly reach out on a new number sending me a novel about how his life is going wording it like I’m a dear friend who would care for update. Cue me blocking him wash rinse repeat. During that time he randomly contacted my family and asked them if he could LIVE in their home renting a room wtf?!?!?!?!.

Oh and he also at some point he invited me to Christina Ricci’s wedding to his brother?!?! Side note it’s interesting because when they broke up during Covid she claimed he abused her and some of the specifics are so similar to the crap he would do to me when we were together that I wonder if his crazy behavior is genetic.

The last message I got from him was this past winter and he detailed my location and that he was going to travel out to me (I moved 3k away from my home town and him) and come find me. He included a lot of details about my life and sent it at what was 9pm my time when I was all alone at work and it gave me a fn panic attack. I felt like he was already there watching me. At one point over the past 13 years I did respond once and I basically told him to never contact me again and that he was the worst human I’ve ever met and the only human I’d be happy to hear passed away and then I blocked him. So in no way shape or form is he under the impression I want to talk to him. It’s just crazy like his devotion is wild. We dated for a YEAR! A year my freshmen year of college and I’m now 36. He broke up with me so it really makes no sense it’s not like I dumped him and he never got over it. He left me! But holy shit dude wtf. Like the dedication. The delusion. I wonder if he does this to all his ex’s or am I special? He truly scares me.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
We were married, she was stepmother to my two kids, 11, and 8.  She was close to my oldest daughter.

Was asked for and agreed to be the maid of honor for her best friends wedding in a different state.

I wasn’t invited. No biggie I had to work and take care of the kids.

She was supposed to be gone a week.

Called me from other state and said the following;

“My mom is sending a POD for you to pack all my stuff inside, I’m not coming back.  “

The trauma she caused my daughter made me hate her.  That little girl went through years of therapy to heal.

I packed like 10% of her stuff and threw the rest away.

She called me all mad and I just laughed and said if you wanted it so bad, you’ve wouldn’t had been a coward and talked to me face to face.  Fuck you.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Maybe not as weird but just stupid. He broke up with me but then asked me to recommend him for a job at a place I used to work. Spoiler alert: I did not.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Told me he didn't see me the same way after having an abortion. We were together for 9 years...I had the abortion in the third year.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Claimed in court that I used military torture tactics on him.

He was in the military.

I was not.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Not mine, but something I witnessed with my current partner from her ex (who was quite annoyed she had started dating me).

He hacked in to her Nintendo Switch account to unfriend me and to rename her profile to Bitch.

Felt very much like a four year old beating his chest.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Showed up 6 years later with zero contact in between to tell me he didn’t love me anymore (no one asked).


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Called me while I was in a different relationship a year after we dated, to say he was sorry for how he treated me and he'd been thinking about me a lot. And that he was now dating a coke head who cheated on him all the time (oh how the turn tables)


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Called my work non stop.... HR number, office number , my bosses number , security office number. Would not stop at all. Fucking embarrassing. Wound up leaving the company I spent my whole life working for 20+ years, leaving the city I grew up in, and leaving the state. I'm only 38. Fuck her.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
my ex was abusive. i left one day while he was at work. took my cat and my roommates and went to a hotel. and i sent him a message in very clear terms that we were no longer together, then blocked him.

about a month later, i had just met someone new. he spent the night and in the morning we went to the front desk together to grab detergent for my laundry. my ex was sitting in the lobby. he saw us and started screaming, grabbing me, threatening both of us. my bf got him off of me and he (my ex) started recording. front desk made him leave. i called the police. they said they can’t do anything.

the next day, a friend sent me a video posted on tiktok. it was me, standing in the lobby with terror in my eyes and my bf’s arms around me while we told my ex to leave. he posted this with a long story about how i’m his girlfriend and i’ve been cheating on him. one million views and all of them believed him.

the hotel staff asked me for his tiktok handle so their legal department could try to get the video removed, since they were receiving so many calls every day asking if i was there and for my full name, etc. so to one million people, i’m a cheater. that bothers me.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Stole all the power cables in the apartment.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Insist he had a God given right to tell me he loves me still.

To be fair, he's correct. He didn't account for the fact that I could just choose to not be around him because of it.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: She tried to make me jealous by "accidently" texting me about her wonderful date she just had. Then tried to double down on it being accidental after I called her out.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Broke into my house and crawled in bed with me.  I had been out carousing with friends and was dead to the world.  Woke up and she was naked in bed with me.  She knew where my spare key was and had let herself in   I had an initial freak out.  She cried, we talked and then she left.  Moved my key after that.  No, we didn't one last time.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Started going to all the gigs of little local bands i love but she actively disliked while we were together.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Threaten suicide


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Kept texting me, showing up at my place, tried to convince me that this was the best relationship he's ever had (granted from his end yes, but from my end it was one of the worst and I told him so - many times).

Kept talking to any and everyone in my outer social circle he could reach for whatever reason. I come to find later that he was shaping the narrative of why we broke up. He said he was trying to marry me and did a proposal and then I shot him down because I didn't have feelings because I was cheating on him (this is not true at all, there was no proposal or cheating from my end).

I broke up with him because he cheated when I was out of the country visiting my parents for the first time in 5 years and came back two weeks later.

His housemate bros even told on him when I came back AND the girl who he denies hooking up with came and found me to tell me what he did after finding out I was the girlfriend.

Even after this, he wrote many letters/post it notes and stuck it all over my door, kept texting me whenever he was drunk for many years saying he wanted to marry me.

It got so bad to the point when I was visiting an out of town friend that friend decided to troll the ex's drunk state of mind by taking my phone and had a text-based throwdown.. Just so I can watch my fav movie in peace.

They showed me what they talked about after the movie ended and I've never laughed so hard.

In case anyone actually reads this, the ex kept changing numbers to text. It didn't matter if I tried to block. We also didn't have laws regarding digital harassment either back then to do anything about it.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
He made a wax casting of his dick that he planned to give me as a candle. Then he sent me a collection of his sexual fantasies all about fucking me with said wax dick casting.

He also tried to trick me into believing he'd slept with someone by leaving behind a series of fake clues throughout the house we shared. He put a pair of wine glasses and dishes from our wedding china beside the kitchen sink with an empty bottle of wine, left some towels with lube and massage oil either in the bathroom or by the bed (I forget which), rumpled the sheets up...

The weirdest thing, though, was that he somehow oiled his back half up and then laid on the sheets so it looked like someone covered in massage oil had laid on my side of the bed. Fucker ruined a nice set of sheets doing that.

So yeah, that was a bit odd.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Took me shopping like a year later. I think he had a guilty complex. I bought a waffle maker and a couple other things. Lol I still wonder about that to this day.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
After 2 years of no problems, plans for the future, best friends, love of my life cheated and then avoidant discarded me 3 weeks ago saging if he could hurt me like that he needed to listen to his doubts and be alone. . Said he still loves me and didnt even like the girl but slept with her again after breaking up with me.

Currently want to die


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: She kept sending me dick pics


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response:
Made out with a guy (he's a guy, I'm a woman) then called to tell me about it. But told me he decided he's not gay because he didn't like it very much.

I was like... okay???


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Turn up at my house trying to get me back


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: She immediately got a new boyfriend and redid the same hike that we had done the previous year with him. A hike that is 7 days long and requires a 6 hour flight to get to.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Threatened to sue me for any money he contributed to our shared expenses over the years. We were not married. He barely contributed to our expenses and didn’t have a job for a couple years.


Instruction: What’s the weirdest thing your ex ever did after the breakup?

Response: Got me drunk under the pretense of closure and branded me with kitchen utensils so "I'd still be his". I was walking as he'd cheated on me with my best friend (genuinely not her fault.) She died a couple of years later. I got a sick cover up tattoo and still think of her every day, she really had no safe choices available to her and could have been saved so easily. I think about this any time people tell victims of DV to "just leave".


Instruction: What do you call the phase in life when you don’t want to leave your house and you also don’t want anyone coming over?

Response: Adulthood


Instruction: What do you call the phase in life when you don’t want to leave your house and you also don’t want anyone coming over?

Response: Contentment


Instruction: What do you call the phase in life when you don’t want to leave your house and you also don’t want anyone coming over?

Response: Cocooning. It's the best.


Instruction: What do you call the phase in life when you don’t want to leave your house and you also don’t want anyone coming over?

Response: Peace. Relaxation. I love my vacuum and my air purifier. My cats don't like people.


Instruction: What do you call the phase in life when you don’t want to leave your house and you also don’t want anyone coming over?

Response: Depression


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Park Ranger.  While some people think of Park Ranger work “oh how lovely being outside in a gorgeous park” in fact you are usually managing the public’s self destructive behaviors when they come to unleash their inner selves in the parks.  Equipment and vehicle thefts, drunk drivers, drug dealing and use, fights sexual abuse, prostitution.. and a lot of families that let their guard down because they are “in nature.”  And oh yeah poaching, damaging the plants and wildlife, removing natural features, setting forest fires…


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Veterinarian


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: A lot commenters overestimate how fun I think their job looks.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Comic book artist.

You grow up loving these characters and it’s a dream to draw them but the companies prey on that and pay shit money with ridiculous deadlines.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Married to someone in tv production. Everyone thinks it’s glam, it’s actually LONG hours of soul crushing work overseen by people who are willing to sacrifice your health and happiness so someone can half-watch their shitty show while they scroll instagram.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Reading through this thread and it seems like literally every job sucks


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
The common denominator here is not the job itself, but being forced to deal with unreasonable assholes.

“Hell is other people” - Jean-Paul Sartre


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: I work in a chocolate factory. 16th year now. Everyday I sit in the parking lot for about 10 minutes going over the reasons why I need the job in my head.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Anything where your hobby becomes your life.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Working at a dog daycare. Sounds like getting paid to play with dogs all day. In reality its getting bit, covered in pee, breaking up fights, and going home smelling like wet fur for 14 bucks an hour


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: I worked for MTV in the noughties. From the outside, it sounds like pure fun - watching TV, music, events, VJs etc. In reality, I was babysitting irresponsible VJs who would be chronically late for flights and events, and throw all sorts of diva hissy fits. Clients who wanted me to procure drugs for them. 12-14hr days at event sites setting up and tearing down, living in shitty hotels. Having to “party” with clients to dawn then going to work the entire next day in the morning. I burnt out after a year.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Owning a restaurant.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Video game tester. From outside: “play games all day!” Reality: endless bug repetition, tight deadlines, low pay.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Pre k or nursery carer/teacher seeing young kids being bullied and having low confidence killed me


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Forensic Scientist.

Looks good on CSI or whatever, swanning around with your hair all neat.

Picking out skull fragments from the roof of the kids bedroom and reading the 1,000th story of domestic violence and sexual assault where the woman (yes you know it's the woman you cunts) has been absolutely fucking brutalised. That shit weighs you down.

The day to day is so mundane and the paperwork fucking sucks.

The 'exciting' parts are fucking horrifying.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Anything where you have to travel. Especially travel by plane.  People think, oh you get to see the sites.  Expense reports.

No.  At best, its just a verrrry long commute.  It sucks.  Unless you're high enough in the corporate ladder to fly private or first class.  I flied private once, it was glorious.  But travel is NOT vacation.

Living out of suitcases, limited wardrobe, packing unpacking, lugging everything around, the amount of waiting and rushing through airports and lines, always living in a constant state of discombombulation.  You don't know the food, you get jet lag, your nights and weekends are often gone, you don't see friends and family, its a lot of stress.  And when you do get home, you don't want to do anything but stay home and relax.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: worked at a vet clinic for two years. you don't go home and think about the puppies you saved. you go home and think about the one you couldn't.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: It’s not a soul crushing nightmare if you like this kind of work, but if you think being a lawyer is anywhere near as glamorous and action packed as you see on tv you will be very disappointed. It’s like 95% paperwork.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Acting, of any kind. Between doing a lot of takes to get any lines or scenes right, and memorizing way too much, and possibly being at the mercy of a director who will not know what they're doing about half of the time, usually something like 60% of it will not make it in the final product, which ends up creating the illusion of the job being less effort than it actually is. So believe any actors when they say that acting is not for the faint of heart.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Literally any job in the arts.

Every artist basically says the same thing - if you can do another job, do that.

Art is very hard!!


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: All of them


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Being in IT and having to explain 10 times a day to someone that the computer isn't saying 'password incorrect' for shits and giggles and you need to learn to type


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Wedding photographer: You might think it’s an easy job with a great salary, but in reality, it’s a job with enormous stress (since there’s no chance for a second take) and very demanding clients. And the days are often very long.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Every single one of them to someone. We didn't evolve to be the 9-5 slaves that the modern world forces on us. Someone, no matter what, will hate a job that someone else loves


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Trucking. It's soul-crushing when I tell people I was driving and sleeping in a truck for a while, hauling 53 footers. A common first response I get is "Ohh! I love driving. That sounds like so much fun!"


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Film/TV production. 12-18 boring, stressful, abusive, and life-sucking hours every day of the week. No time for sleep, family, friends, chores, or a life until the show wraps. Then it's either hop right onto the next one or stress yourself out not working/looking for the next one.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Marijuana dispensary.

You just hear/see the same thing from customers every single day, and it gets tiring. Most customers always come in wanting the same thing (highest THC percentage with lowest cost) and sometimes people are just downright rude. My partner works the door at a a dispo and he's had people throw their ID at him or balk at having to show him (this is a well known rule for ALL dispensaries in my state). There's people who like to say that they miss "the good ol days" and how weed was better back then. You would think that everyone would be jolly at the weed store but there's often a lot of cranky pants rude people.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Farmer. It’s romanticized to high hell. You have livestock? Great you don’t get days off or vacations. -30 degrees and wind blowing like hell? Well the power went out in the barn you gotta rewire the panel before the pigs get too cold.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Teacher.  Looks and sounds noble.  Have a handful un shaping the future of tomorrow.  Be a Keating, Kotter, or Feeny.  Be one of the beloved teachers you remember from growing up that had an impact.  Get summer and winter breaks.

In reality, it's apathetic kids, equally apathetic or clueless parents, and admim that has checked out and developed a mentality and expectation that you should sacrifice yourself for whatever hill they decide needs taking.

Add in low pay and long hours, and you become a shell of yourself.  I lasted 7 years.

Could add summer camp counselor to the mix.  Get to organize games and go on cool field trips.  In reality, it's roasting in the hot sun, dealing with new levels of drama that'd make a reality TV show look tame, and long hours.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Attorney. Its not fun. Its constantly dealing with other people's problems and none of your clients listen to you. When doing custody cases, its disgusting to see how many people use their children as pawns to get back at the other parent.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Being a flight attendant.
Travel the world, free flights, etc…
In reality, you’re working odd hours all the time, apologizing for things way outside your control. You see the worst behavior from grown adults. All you want to do is ask them what they want to drink and they won’t take out their headphones or worst yet they don’t use headphone to stream/facetime/scroll through socials. It’s public transportation, USE HEADPHONES but for the love of god take them out when you see the flight attendant smiling at you.
I do my absolute best to provide an elevated service (several compliments from high-value customers and my company) but holy hell the daily delays, catering issues, and stripping of basic amenities onboard just wears customers and your cabin crew down.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Pretty much anything in the entertainment industry.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: TV production. There were fun sides to it but the long hours and exploitative nature of the industry sadly won over.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Self-published author.

You are your own social media manager fighting against a sea of poorly written smut and endless query letters to literary agents that will (99% of the time) never be read. You will have to market yourself intensely in order to just get someone to read your work even if it's just for $1. Those that become famous are mostly due to luck and having lots of money to back themselves up to begin with. Have fun making all the social media accounts just for marketing purposes alone.

There is no guarantee you will suddenly reach Stephen King levels of fame. You will be forced to work a full time job whilst writing on the side because the money and sales are inconsistent and minimal at best.

Traditional publishing is a shit show of hypocrisy and poorly written stuff. What you want to write about is not what the public wants (for the most part). There are thousands of very talented writers out there and majority of them will never become famous. All writing competitions are pay to enter no matter what (sometimes it's outrageous how expensive the entry fees can be).

Currently, it's all Brandon Sanderson clones, poorly written fantasy smut that is somehow labeled as YA, Hallmark-level of romance stories, and not much else.

NOTE: this is a slightly biased perspective based off my own experiences. I just write for fun whilst working a full time corporate job.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Music festival/tourproduction. Work hard. Play hard. Burn out Hard.

(And if you’re a woman, you’re gonna be subjected to really gross bullshit from the man-children who dominate the music industry)


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Florist. I wouldn't say it's a soul crushing nightmare, but it's probably not what people think. It's a lot of heavy lifting, scrubbing, my nails were always dirty and green underneath, and dealing with the elements for deliveries. I busted my ass several times on slippery sidewalks while delivering to houses that hadn't salted their driveways. Oh and I saw more  ⚰  people than I can count. Can't even give you an estimate. It's not all birthdays and anniversaries, it's a looot of funeral deliveries.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Healthcare.  Without 100% of a doubt.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
I'm repair tech at Chuck E Cheese.

I don't just play games and have fun all day. I wotk hard so YOU can have fun and play games all day.

I have to do reports, adjust ticket payout so it falls into these very narrow windows, try to repair games they haven't made parts for in 10 years, and I've also cleaned up every bodily fluid you can think of.

Also I try to get my gameroom attendants to do some actual work while catching shit from the people above me on the ladder for every last little thing.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Blackjack Dealer


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
I worked as a hotel quality auditor. It had so many people say ‘that sounds fun, how do I get that job!?’

I asked if they were ready to stay in 4-5 different hotels a week and be pretty much hated by everyone on announcement of who you are to the hotel

That got most people turned off the plan, a few asked for more info and then I’d hit them with ‘ok so you need to do grunt work as a hotel employee for like 7-8 years first.

That was the thing that made people stop


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Event Management- so many people get into it thinking it’s all champagne and parties, really it’s ridiculous hours, terrible pay, lifting heavy shit and then having to smile while vacuous people get to drink the champagne


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Acting. Not just theatre but film/tv specifically. You get rejected most of the time. You have to have a tough skin to make it and play the long game. It can mess with your head getting rejected 80% of the time. And then you finally book a one line co star role for a shitty Netflix series and think yeah things are looking up for me and then go the next year without booking anything. It isn’t linear. I could go on forever.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Elementary school teachers.  Im exhausted.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Architecture.

Creative from the outside, massive amounts of drudgery for low pay from the inside


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
For a couple years, I delivered beer for a company called Silver Eagle (Texas) in one of those long trucks with the roll-up doors and I got so many comments from passersby….”oh the beer guy! What a fun job!”

Fucking nightmare. Shit pay. Early hours. Insane amount of physical labor moving hundreds of cases each day, your back is always hurting, body always sore. Hands dry af. Lots of shitty store/restaurant managers and combine all that with a work environment akin to a used car dealership. I was never so unhappy as when I had that job.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response:
Working a brewery. You think you're going to be designing exciting new recipes, making beer, talking beer with the patrons and coworkers, enjoying a shift beer after a great shift...

Then you realize 90% of the job is scrubbing stainless steel and really nasty chemicals. 9% hauling heavy shit around the warehouse. And market demands has you remaking the same boring hazy IPA that everyone else is making. Meanwhile, instead of talking about your passion with your customers, you realize most of them are just looking for something that tastes like bud light.


Instruction: What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?

Response: Airline Pilot.  Irregular sleep, a lot of time being alone in hotels, and a huge responsibility over people's lives.  Also constantly being evaluated.