bad advice

People on the internet seem to have the answer for everything. Influencers share exactly how much water you have to drink (with lemon, of course) to be healthy, parents share clever ways to manipulate children, and wannabe financial geniuses always seem to have hacks to help people game the system. And then there are these jokesters. While we can't argue that they're totally wrong, these little life hacks are an unholy combination of bad advice and good humor. And we're totally here for it. 

Ever find yourself wondering how you people got by before "life hacks" were a thing? It seems like everyone and their mom has a pro tip they need to share with the world. There are the TikTok users promoting liquid chlorophyll, weird Russian DIY hacks that seem highly unnecessary, and then, of course, wannabe wellness or finance gurus who think a little too highly of themselves. These self-proclaimed authorities can take their "wisdom" and shove it. Instead, we prefer to get our advice from more down-to-earth sources. You know, the comic masterminds ofTwitter - and memes. 

We all know that one person on Instagram who incessantly posts motivational platitudes about the importance of self-care on a pastel background, or clickbait articles that offer half-assed life hacks to everyday obstacles. We've got a bunch of chaotic and tongue-in-cheek memes and tweets that make fun of these clichés by offering terrible advice. No one should actually take these sarcastic pro tips seriously, but they sure are useful if you need a good laugh!

We've all taken bad advice at one point or another. Maybe it was from a misguided friend, the internet, or even from yourself. When people have problems, it's normal for them to seek solutions or validation that they're making the right choice. Unfortunately, there's a whole internet of advice, and a great deal of it is the opposite of helpful. These amusing tidbits while most are tongue-in-cheek) are not anything we'll be taking seriously anytime soon. 

The internet is full of genuinely bad advice. It's pretty rare to ask random strangers online for life advice and actually receive some life-changing insight. More often you'll get some vague platitude or 'life hacks' that are just plain wrong. We're all about the jokesters of the internet who satirize 'pro tips' and lifestyle wisdom with intentionallyterrible advice, and we've collected a bunch of hilarious examples of this for anyone who's skeptical of the real thing. 

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There's a lot of good advice in the form of life pro tips, and that just means that there's gonna be a whole lot more hilariously dumb and bad advice. Whether it's incorrect, dangerous or straight up dumb, there's a lot of bad life tips with zero shame. So if you like being eaten by wild animals and alienating everyone around you, go for it.

If your school was anything like mine, you probably didn't get much sex-ed in school. I vaguely remember mine consisting of our biology teacher standing awkwardly at the front of the classroom, pointing to diagrams of the male and female anatomy, clearly wishing the floor would swallow her up. The rest was down to our self- discovery and whatever rumors we heard that week. Some real education about healthy sexual relationships would have been useful because, as a teenager and young adult, you are vulnerable to pressures and expectations. A funny AskReddit thread asking people for the WORST advice you can give a virgin for their first time highlights how damaging the porn industry is on healthy sexual expectations. And, in turn, the amount of misinformation and dangerous messages young people are receiving about sex.

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Disclaimer: these life hacks are sh*tty and probably won't actually make your life better or easier. In fact, they might actually make it worse. We need to tell you this for legal reasons so that you don't sue us when you actually try to use them. Please don't sue us.