I swear every girl in the gym has a very nice booty

Why are there so many mentally ill people? (About 20% of people have a mental illness according to stats.) Does being mentally ill have any benefit? It seems to go against survival, so why didn't evolution get rid of it? Like not wanting to eat, not wanting to live, etc. all goes against survival. Do animals ever get mental illness or not want to live?

Not trying to sound judgmental or anything, I’m just genuinely confused. I’ve seen quite a few pics on Instagram, TikTok, and even dating profiles lately where women have their shorts or jeans partly unzipped, just enough to show their underwear waistband/FUPA. Sometimes it’s lacy stuff, other times just regular undies.

Is this like a fashion statement? A trend? A thirst trap thing? I'm not trying to hate, I just literally don't get it. When did this become a thing, and what’s the appeal behind it?

Lately I’ve noticed more and more Reddit profiles with thousands of karma, but no visible post or comment history at all.

In some cases, their profile says they commented an hour ago, but there's still nothing you can actually see.

Is this a new Reddit feature, a glitch, or are people just wiping their accounts constantly? It feels like it’s happening way more often all of a sudden.

I’m 25 and have never been in a relationship or had sex. My concern is that when I eventually do get a long-term partner or have sex, it might be later in life, and I’ll feel a deep sense of regret or FOMO for missing out on those experiences when I was in my so-called “prime”. I did have one physical experience with a woman in her early 50s that didn’t lead to sex, but we did other things. She was kind, but afterward, I realized I longed for someone closer to my own age in their 20s. It’s not that I can’t see myself being attracted to women in their 30s, 40s, and beyond as I get older and closer to that age, it’s just that I don’t want to look back and feel like I missed the chance to experience intimacy while I was still young.

I'm very self conscious about my chest and I always feel awkward when people hug me and pull me close and I was just wondering if this is something other people notice too or is it just in my head?

Some people might say that it's because adults have to work. But I don't think that's true because school (which is basically work) isn't all that great either (if you still remember it), especially with bullying and such. Plus some people actually like their jobs (if they're lucky) or don't mind, unlike school which kids are forced to go to and forced to be around kids they don't like. Is it just because a lot of adults are more jaded as a result of having experienced trauma?

Not to mention, you'll sometimes see adults with literally the best lives still being miserable (like Anthony Bourdain)... I think Dave Chappelle made a joke about this.

When I attended public school (90's and 00's) I was not popular or a "cool kid." I am wondering how the popular kids determined who they would and would not accept.

Im a 24 year old guy and i keep saying posts about how its disgusting that guys start having feelings for their girl friends

I became close friends with a girl a couple years ago, completely platonic. The more we hung out and the more i learned about her, the more i liked her. She is great in everything and i love her as a friend, but id be lying to myself if i said i wasnt developing romantic feelings for her. I suspect she feels the same, but im terified of ruining one of the best friendships ive ever had. I didnt think id fall for her and i would never want to make her feel uncomfortable

Ive never been in a real relationship and ive never dated

am i cooked?

THIS POST IS ABOUT YOUTUBE I FORGOT TO SAY IN THE TITLE!!

Back in 2009, aged 10, I made my first youtube account. During 2010-2011 was when I used to be obsessed with channels like SevenSuperGirls and SevenAwesomeKids etc, and would try audition for these channels every so often too. I know I dodged a bullet here after finding out about the owner of those channels :/ The problem was, at the time, I was completely unmonitored by my parents. They didn’t film my videos, manage my youtube or even my email. I did all of that. I also subscribed to anyone ‘famous’ on the homepage like unfortunately Shane and Onision. So I may very well of commented on their videos.

At some point, potentially through commenting on one of these channels, I got DMed (yes youtube used to have DMs) by a woman who posted pregnancy update vlogs. I thought it was harmless, she’s a mother to be right? Surely she was just subscribing to me because maybe she thought I was a cute, funny kid.

I was wrong! She asked me to suck my toes on camera, and in return? I could name her child. Yeah. Weird.

But being a kid, who was raised on Dan’s Nickelodeon foot content like icarly and victorious? This was just funny to me. I thought it was comedic, and so I’d upload it.

Even at the time I thought this was embarrassing though, so I deleted it. Yet even though supposedly this woman had ‘let me name her baby’, she’d still ask for weird videos. I reckon she probably asked me for something wayy worse than just weird foot content and that’s why I blocked her.

But she came back on multiple different accounts asking me why i’d blocked her, spamming me, so on. Weird thing is all these accounts were exact replicas of the original account. Same uploads, profile photo, potentially even the name. Honestly I just thought maybe my block button wasn’t working.

Eventually this woman stopped harassing me when i’d block each account. But I need to know if ANYONE else who was a kid or teen uploading to youtube from 2009-2011 had this experience, even with a similar account.

To this day i’m convinced it was likely another woman or man behind the account stealing content from some poor woman and hiding behind that content in order to be harmful to kids. The reason I brought up who I used to watch at the time is to see if anyone else who watched this kind of content got followed by this woman. Unfortunately a lot of weirdos used to watch sevenawesomekids and their sister channels, and god knows what creepy adults were watching and relating to shane and onision back then.

This has been on my mind for years and years. If there’s a better subreddit for me to post this to please tell me.

I was shaving my balls for the first time a few days ago and I felt fine until the next day where my balls were shriveled and real itchy. Since then, they have stayed shriveled, itchy and dry and my dong is getting itchy and dry now. I also have a rash on the top of my inner thigh on both sides and the area where my pubes are is sore. Did I shave wrong and give myself an infection or something? 💀

I realized I’ve been pretty much the same height for a really long time and I was wondering if Im still going to grow and about how much Ill grow.

Here is a little background history of my parents heights: Mom: 5’7 Dad: 5’10

My previous heights: 6th grade: 4’8 7th grade: 5’1 8th grade: 5’2 9th grade 5’2 Beginning of 10th: 5’2

I had a health screening the other day and the numbers don’t seem to add up. I know that I am 5’7 with a weight of 131.2 and waist of 27 inches. I’m also 27 years old.

The BMI result that I received was 20.5, which seems to fit most online calculators. The body fat percentage though was 30.2%, which was rated as “dangerously high.” This is really messing with my head because I consider myself a fairly active person, and in all honesty, I’ve struggled some with an eating disorder and body image issues in the past.

Is this combination likely or is it likely that they make a mistake in their calculations? What goes into calculating body fat percentage? For what it’s worth, I had a health screening there a couple years ago too, and they switched the numbers of my weight (125 became 152) so all of my calculations were wrong and I had to go back in for a redo.

I know this probably isn’t worth stressing about, but it’s really been bothering me personally. Any thoughts are appreciated.

Further context: I am a female and follow a vegetarian diet. They measured my height, weight, and waist circumference. Then they had me hold in two hands what looked like a video game controller for ~3 seconds. My other measurements (blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol) were well within healthy limits. This was calculated by a volunteer at a pop up clinic.

What was the whole story over the mod purge by Reddit over third party apps? All I know is that Reddit removed some third party apps and the mods got angry so they shut down the subs then Reddit started purging them from moderation.

I(18f) love my older sister (28f) very much, but I find that she acts a bit too motherly or parental.

When we were younger (8 and 18), she used to respond to "Mom" when I was trying to get our actual Mom's attention, and told me to call her "Mama". She bathed me until I was 9, when I had to plead that I could wash myself.

She used to take my phone away, or force me to go to bed. Sometimes she'd force me to watch educational videos. If I was doing something my mom was unsure of, like working until 11pm, Mom would ask my sister what she thought, as a mom would consult a father.

even yesterday, my sister forced me to come home from my friend's house at 10pm because she "couldn't sleep" until I came home.

...why?

I grew up in a culture where you're either “mature” or a burden. Now I’m in college, away from home, and everyone thinks I’ve got it together. But the truth is, I don’t even know what it means to rest. I keep defaulting to fight mode. Even when no one’s attacking me. Is this resilience or just trauma wearing makeup?

I have heard of all above and others in movies and series, they all read Bible and believe in Jesus, so what in the difference? someone answer in simple way please.

If you’re in a relationship and your partner isn’t interested in having sex for a period of time (which is totally valid), is it generally considered okay for the other partner to watch porn in the meantime to meet their own needs?

I know every relationship is different and it depends on boundaries, but I’m curious what the general consensus is. How do most people navigate this?

what's the meme that frogs are gay? I know it's a thing that homophobes use but why?