17 Struggles All People Who Hate People Will Understand

Misanthropy is the dislike of other people. Not the obvious ones like dictators and Piers Morgan – I’m talking straight everyone (well, almost). It’s a politically easy stance to take, as you’re not being prejudiced against any one sort of person – you’ve instead written off your entire species. It may often be said that you hate other people but hey, what’s wrong with that?

Here at Viral Thread, I am the resident realist (and some would say misanthropist) in an otherwise optimistic office. But it’s good to be the voice of reason and not to give into the social pressures which would have you behaving like everyone else. After all, why follow the rest of society to their inevitable downfall? People are fools. But holding this world view isn’t easy. Far from it. In a world that thinks your social circle should be wider than your bandwidth, being a misanthropist can be hard. So here are 17 challenges all misanthropists face.

co-written by Melissa Chapman

1. Meeting new people is hard. Because you don’t like people

2. You haven’t had a haircut in over a year because you can’t face the bullshit your hairdresser spouts

3. Anything that other people find cute or endearing you find vomitus

4. People always sit next to you on the train when there are empty sits and you’ll never quite understand how they reach this sick and wrong decision

5. Your hatred allows you to splurge in other areas

6. ‘Bitchy rest face’ is an excuse you use – it’s not really resting

7. Your best friend is probably Netflix – and a few other people that hate people too

8. You feel like you should make plans at the weekend so you scroll through your contacts but soon realise you don’t want to see any of these people

9. When out in public, you run the risk of hearing sentences so stupid you have to go home again

10. You breathe a huge sigh of relief when people cancel plans

11. You hate when people call you – why can’t they text?

12. Realising you have the place to yourself for the weekend is like winning the lottery

13. Fashion trends make you facepalm so hard you keep waking up in hospital – the man bun though, what the fuck was that?

14. Your own company is the best company – why can’t people be more like you?

15. The new Facebook adverts on TV literally make you want to kill people

16. Having a drink by yourself is so much better than going with other people

17. You’ve started using your I’ve-got-my-earphones-in-so-don’t-talk-to-me ploy and people who defy this rule are the worst kind of people

See – you get it now, people are bastards. And you know the worst thing? They’re fucking
everywhere

. If you needed anymore evidence for the flaws of people, just check out these 11 terrible modern trends they’re all adopting.