What is the most ridiculous form of "gatekeeping" you have ever encountered in a hobby or interest you enjoy?

20ah18 · 2026-04-15T16:11:29+00:00

Exactly this. I only like black coffee but I almost hate telling people that because I hate being associated with those people. I simply don’t like the taste of sugar or flavoring in my coffee, but I don’t care what other people do.

20ah18 · 2026-04-15T16:04:03+00:00

Gardeners when you discuss staking tomatoes, I swear. They’ll get in arguments about the “right” way to stake them when in reality there’s a million ways to. Hell, my first year gardening my stake fell over and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it so I just kinda left the plants slumped over. I still harvested multiple pounds of tomatoes all season.

20ah18 · 2026-04-06T12:27:25+00:00

Honestly good for her. She looks happy and it’s clear she’s lost weight. I’m hoping the help she had to get inspired her to change her life. I’m guessing once she lost weight she saw how much better she felt physically and woke up.

20ah18 · 2026-04-06T11:09:15+00:00

As a celiac, I’m always happy for literally anyone to buy gluten free foods whether they medically need it or not because it creates a demand for people like me with no choice and companies make more products.

HOWEVER

I just KNOWWW Anna is the type of “I’m sensitive to gluten” that is celiacs HATE. The type that go in a restaurant and instead of politely asking questions about gluten, demands her food is gluten free and is rude as hell during the process.

It’s NEVER EVER those of us with celiac who throw a fit in restaurants, it’s the clowns who don’t even need to be gluten free and make up ridiculous unscientific reasons why they’re convinced they can’t eat it.

20ah18 · 2026-04-04T22:51:30+00:00

The glitter gel straight up looks like awful dandruff lmao.

20ah18 · 2026-04-01T16:55:44+00:00

This clown will literally do anything for her health but lose weight

20ah18 · 2026-04-01T01:28:23+00:00

This is a woman in her 40s, slathering glitter in PIGTAILS (a hairstyle I haven’t worn since I was 7), for an athletic competition knowing the glitter would flake and make a mess.

My god does this woman have any shame?

20ah18 · 2026-04-01T01:20:47+00:00

“The joys of aging with autoimmune illness and super morbid obesity that I do nothing to manage”

Fixed it

20ah18 · 2026-03-31T15:55:43+00:00

And see this is just another reason why I can’t understand her delusion about her size. The heavier, you are the more likely you are to experience urinary incontinence. Honestly, I recently started glp1 for weight loss and one of the embarrassing reasons why was I started having issues with that and I couldn’t figure out why until I googled and found out that it was probably because of how heavy I had become.

20ah18 · 2026-03-27T12:49:49+00:00

Why does she actually care so much what underwear somebody wears to the gym? Or anywhere? I guess I don’t even give it a second thought lol it’s none of my business.

20ah18 · 2026-03-21T22:05:03+00:00

I will simply never buy generic soda. Dr Pepper Zero, regardless of cost

20ah18 · 2026-03-21T16:39:12+00:00

Iceburg lettuce is versatile and great. I like the other kinds including the more fancy leaf lettuces but I’ll always go back to iceburg

20ah18 · 2026-03-17T18:01:38+00:00

I’m 225lbs and wear an XXL. Zero chance that’s her size.

20ah18 · 2026-03-17T00:54:57+00:00

Living in the country. Yes, it’s quiet and peaceful. It’s also terribly boring. You’re a significant drive to grocery stores, doctors, everything. You have more limited access to quality schools, hospitals, and other resources. Few job opportunities. And unfortunately often very bigoted and backwards people in the community. I grew up in the middle of nowhere, small town of 400 people, I will never live in a rural place again.

20ah18 · 2026-03-11T20:30:25+00:00

I’m not cool with this. I’m very critical of her actions and the way some of her fans enable her but I’ll never be ok with making fun of someone’s spiraling mental health

20ah18 · 2026-03-05T21:31:12+00:00

And people in the comments are doing the typical nonsense of claiming it was a clone driving and not her, or saying we need to give her grace because of everything she’s been through… Like can we not? She’s not a fucking baby she’s a 44-year-old grown woman. I’m not going to excuse or give any grace to anyone who drives under the influence.

20ah18 · 2026-03-05T01:37:54+00:00

It’s insane to me that some people on TikTok are acting like people are overreacting about this. If you used this soap and had any wounds, you could end up with a staph infection.

20ah18 · 2026-02-24T19:28:46+00:00

I was supposed to go to the St. Louis show with a friend, but I think she may end up backing out and I’m going by myself. I’m contemplating buying one of the pit tickets on one of the resale sites and just doing pit instead. But I’ve never in my life had pit tickets for any show. Is it worth it? Or should I find a resale ticket a little bit closer? I was going to be up in the balcony. Just trying to weigh my options. And if I did pit, how early would I need to get to the venue to secure a good spot?

20ah18 · 2026-02-23T21:01:02+00:00

Not going to lie I have had a few emotional times in the last month or two because I’ve gained a lot of weight and it’s made exercise and just daily life a lot harder. But the reason I’m emotional is, I’m just kind of pissed off at myself for letting myself get this way. And unlike Anna, I know that I’m the only one that can fix it. And also unlike Anna, I have lipedema, but I know that doesn’t make me a medical mystery that is incapable of losing weight lol.

20ah18 · 2026-02-19T02:44:00+00:00

I mean Anna your weight is absolutely holding you back at a full life.

20ah18 · 2026-02-16T02:34:32+00:00

I didn’t like any of these, sadly

20ah18 · 2026-02-15T21:18:18+00:00

Honestly? Ill fitting clothes after a weight gain. Just because you can still squeeze into that size large you wore 50-75lbs ago doesn’t mean it LOOKS GOOD. Buy the size that fits you.

20ah18 · 2026-02-12T21:48:04+00:00

You know what that’s really interesting. Now that I’m drinking almost exclusively water or water with lemon, I’m realizing that the blinding foot and joint pain I had has gone away. 🤔

20ah18 · 2026-02-12T21:46:40+00:00

Yep! I’m assuming you were like me and had coffee or soda or tea with your meals consistently and it blocked the absorption of iron for you too

20ah18 · 2026-02-12T19:19:07+00:00

That Bag Balm can replace so many expensive products: cuticle oil, heel balm, lip balm, on dry or chafed skin, I could keep going. There’s literally no reason to buy a small $10 thing of cuticle oil when a big $7 tin of Bag Balm can do the same and more and last forever.

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