Greatest Stories From Am I an Asshole? Subreddit
“Am I an asshole?” it is a subreddit where users tell a story of interpersonal conflict and ask who is to blame. Redditors give their opinion and the verdict becomes the most popular comment. While a crowd of 1.2 million Redditors may not be the perfect jury for deciding the right social behavior, reading these stories is dirty fun. Here are the best ones.
The most famous post on the subreddit. So it was on Twitter and Facebook, until everyone found out about this poor asshole who does not want to take his girlfriend out on a date. “Now that I think about it,” he writes, “she has become a little gloomy because I asked her to cook on dates instead of going out more often.” The entire internet made fun of this idiot who did not understand that he was treating his girlfriend like his servant.
His news was even better: this is not some early relationship, they have children together. He invited his girlfriend to one tapas dinner and then got so excited that he proposed to her. She said no. Then the post went viral, the girl saw it and got angry – as we learn from the update , in which the guy admits that he still makes his girlfriend cook every night . Breathtaking. As one commentator put it, “The way you talk about being fed a casserole for the thousandth time, as if you are serving a sentence in purgatory instead of being fed by a loving friend, is crazy to me.”
“AITA for sleeping naked on a blanket to teach my neighbor’s friend a lesson?”
Guy is sick of the fact that his roommate’s girlfriend rushes into his room without knocking (sometimes when he was still in bed, naked under the covers), even after he asked her not to. So one morning he lies naked on top of his blanket, she walks in to him, and now the roommate and friend think that our redditor is a bastard. (In the comments, he says that his lease does not allow the door to be locked and that he is “fun as springtime.”) By all accounts, he is a good guy here and needs a door stop. It seems a bit late for this.
“Aita for explaining to all my colleagues another reason why my fingers are missing?”
Read enough of them and you will find one in which you disagree with the majority opinion. Redditor “throwawaycwdrama” is tired of people asking about TCWD’s three missing fingers. So when each of the new redditor hires asked, TCWD gave different silly answers. The colleagues believed them, argued among themselves about the real reason, and got angry with the redditor for lying to them. The commentators mostly agreed that there is no asshole here, and this is all stupid, and this is just ridiculous! Asking a new colleague about their physical condition is rude! It’s ridiculous to freeze them because they don’t want to tell you! In this conversation, there was a lot of controversy about whether the colleagues were idiots, but for some reason “there are no idiots here.” UGH
Reddit has a fat shame issue and it appears frequently on this subreddit. I was ready to vote “YTA” – you asshole – from that headline, but then I read the story: “She doesn’t call me by name, she calls me” slim “and I even heard her say” go get a toothpick ” and she said something like “you need meat on the bones” and “you need to eat.” I only worked there for 8 days. I very kindly asked her to stop.
So the next time her co-worker said, “Hi Slim,” she said, “Hi, Chunky.” And the colleague was crying. Commentators generally agree that the redditor is not an asshole here, although a few wise ones have advised leaving the game with bodily shame and saying “Good morning, insulting stranger!” Or just say “Hi Slim!” back.
“AITA for not letting my best friend crash in my house after his wife died?”
It’s not about a friend torturing his hospitality – this redditor’s friend is trying to raise a three-year-old daughter alone after his wife’s death, and he asked the redditor to accommodate them for one night because he can’t sleep. at home surrounded by memories of his wife. The redditor says, hurray, “I tell him that she can stay, but he cannot, because in the end he has to get through it.” Everyone agreed that the redditor was an asshole; some don’t even believe this story could be real.
“AITA for telling the cashier it’s not a girl’s credit card?”
Mods were supposed to tell people to stop insulting this redditor, even if she’s clearly an idiot. (This is an important rule of this subreddit: don’t be an asshole, even for an asshole.) This redditor overheard a teenage girl say she was going to buy a pair of expensive shoes with her father’s credit card. She decided that this meant that the teenager was a spoiled child. So she followed the girl to the checkout and said to the cashier: “This is not her card.” Then the cashier was not allowed to sell the boots to the teenager.
The teen began to cry, and the editor took it as proof that the teen was spoiled: “I don’t think she was ever told no.” And then the girl bought boots on her card. Which really looks like a nail in the coffin for our editor. The cashier and the redditor’s husband feel that she was out of line for shaming this teenager. Reddit wholeheartedly agrees.
“AITA for asking my 7-year-old to name his new stuffed tiger tiger?”
The kid calls his stuffed tiger Tig, asks for his last name. Daddy suggests Beatty. The kid loves it, the wife is “angry.” The overwhelming majority of redditors decided: “Nakh”: no assholes here. Mom’s right, that name might have caused a little trouble, but so what?
Read more of the greatest assholes onthebest subredditpostspage and stay tuned for more stories here . Remember, even when answering an asshole, don’t be an asshole. The goal is to have fewer assholes in the world, right? (For a subreddit with fewer rules and sillier ideas, try Am I the Butthole spin-off? )
And think very well before posting your story to this subreddit. In the most popular topics, there are messages from moderators asking everyone to stop threatening and insulting each other. (They clean up bad comments pretty well, so if you get to a post after the first few days, it’ll usually only be relevant comments at the top.) And you’ll get a lot of direct messages from supporters and detractors. Author of “AITA for asking my brother not to bring his boyfriend to my wedding?” posted an update to their legally challenging post: “I want to thank the Reddit editor who sent me a private message and said he hoped there was a massive shooter at my wedding, so thoughtful !!!”