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Over the last few years, I’ve gotten into making sourdough. It’s the closest thing to a hobby I have. It takes up hours of my time, but in the end, we have delicious bread. And no one’s mad when you show up with bread. Even if it’s not a perfect loaf, people are oddly impressed. At the end of the day, if it tastes good, who cares if it’s shaped like a beanbag chair?
As far as I know, it’s not a hobby I’m judged for.
Some hobbies are, though. As this thread reveals, if you have one of these hobbies, there’s a decent chance someone is quietly judging you for it.
At the very least, a few of them can be pretty telling about the type of person you are.
1. “Collectors of those lifelike baby dolls. They freak me right out.”
2. “People who like to say their hobbies are things like ‘finance’ or investing always make me feel like they’re either making money simply for the sake of making money or are on some performative ‘grindset’ BS and don’t want you thinking they spend a single minute of their day not being ‘productive.’ Not throwing shade on anyone who invests just to be smart with their money, but I wouldn’t consider it a ‘hobby’ in much the same way I wouldn’t consider shopping for groceries to be one.”
3. “Anything that involves street racing or revving cars so loudly that people in restaurants can’t hear their conversations.”
4. “K-Pop. I know they are not hurting anybody, but I’m being super judgmental of those adults acting like 13-years-old about those bands.”
5. “Climbing Mount Everest.”
6. “Brand fanaticism of any type. If you collect Nike, Stanley cups, Labubus, Lululemon, Funko Pops, Yeti, whatever, I’m judging the f*ck out of you. Companies are not a personality.”
7. “Sports betting.”
8. “Runners!!!!! How do you know someone is a runner? Because every second sentence that comes out of their mouth is about them running.”
9. “Internet stan accounts.”
10. “Crawling through caves. I can’t get my head around why you’d want to put yourself in danger, especially if you have a loving family.”
11. “Jeep owners and their f*cking ducks.”
12. “True crime. The type of folks who have favorite serial killers and the like. I can’t imagine what it must be like for the family or a friend of the victim and see all that sh*t out there.”
13. “Astrology.”
14. “Collecting expensive sneakers that never actually get worn.”
15. “Is listening to Joe Rogan a hobby? Because that.”
16. “Not that I know many people that do, but golf. I feel like there’s necessarily a huge amount of hubris in claiming and sterilizing such enormous amounts of land just so you can play an honestly fairly boring game.”
17. “Pokémon resellers who act like children in stores.”
18. “Being an adult and smoking weed but mentioning it frequently. Especially holding it above those who don’t.”
19. “Competitive eating.”
20. “Alternative therapy and just generally being a ‘seeker.’ Annoying anti-science doofuses who think they have it all figured out (even though they’re constantly jumping from one fad to the next).”
21. “Dog breeding.”
22. Disney adults who pore over the collectible consumables. Popcorn buckets, pins, ‘sippers,’ mouse ears, figurines, etc. — this sh*t is literal junk designed to drain your money.”
23. “Signing up for MLMs and selling subpar stuff to friends and family.”
24. “Motorcycle riders who join a club and wear those stupid-ass jackets.”
25. “Unpopular opinion: your entire personality being fitness. I love to work out; it’s my major hobby, but I’m also a human navigating the world, and you cannot make it your entire focus. And people who do and are so weird about it annoy me.”
26. “Taxidermy.”
27. “Anything that involves harming animals for sport.”
28. “Crypto.”
—R0by
Nate is a writer and stand-up comedian living in Chicago. He enjoys finding the internet’s funniest corners so you don’t have to.
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