While popular movies and TV shows paint a dystopian future full of surreal landscapes, totalitarian governments, and post-apocalyptic scenes, it is more likely to consist of unappealing and mundane scenarios. In fact, once you look past the meticulously curated universe of social media, it may seem we’re already living in it. Senseless ads, broken machines, canned dinners, dreary headlines — we’re constantly bombarded with chilling reminders of the “boring dystopia” we find ourselves in.
While it may be hard to wrap your head around this phenomenon at first, you gradually get the hang of it. And then start seeing it everywhere you look. Here’s where the prominent corner of Reddit called ‘A Boring Dystopia’ enters the picture. “A subreddit for chronicling how Advanced Capitalist Society is not only dystopic but also incredibly boring,” as the moderators describe.
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When you think of it, the group seems to be the unofficial mirror of our society by sharing the most upsetting, ridiculous, and all too real examples of modern-day dystopia that prove something’s not quite right with this world. Below, we wrapped up the newest batch of their posts to give you a reality check and hopefully inspire you to fix the near future. So continue scrolling and upvote as you go!
Psst! When you’re done with this list, be sure to check out Bored Panda’s earlier pieces full of dystopian madness right here, here, and here.
#1 A Grim Reality Sets In
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#2 Ah Yes, The American Healthcare System™
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#3 A Jeff Bezos Mural With Surveillance Cameras For Eyes
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#4 Small Town Texas Politician Shares The Real Reason Police Are Armed
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#5 “The Circumstances”
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#6 Americans: We Need A Third Party! The Third Party:
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#7 When Your Boss Is A Robot
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#8 It Be Like That
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#9 Indeed
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#10 How Do You Prove You’re Jewish?
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#11 Think I’m Getting Scammed Here
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#12 Maximum Price, Minimum Quality, Ideal Suffering Of The Peasants
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#13 Explained Nice And Simple
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#14 A Boring Police State Dystopia
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#15 This Year, Give Your Special Someone The Gift Of Accessing The American Healthcare System
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#16 Accidentally Accurate
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#17 Flawless Logic
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#18 A Straight Up Scam
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#19 The Dystopian Duality Of The US
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#20 And Yet They Manage Our Life
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#21 Just Wow America
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#22 Little Girls Are Braver Than Some Of These Cops
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#23 Owing Money For A Book You Wrote
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#24 Attention: Homeless
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#25 The Rhine, The Yangtze, The Po
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#26 Comically Evil
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#27 Daaamn, What A Good Ideea
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#28 Ohhh
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#29 Corporations Will Save Us!
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#30 Who Else?
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#31 I Hope More States Do The Same
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#32 Instead Of Addressing The Wage Crisis, Quebec Has Turned To Child Labour
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#33 2meirl4meirl
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#34 Yeah… Not So Great
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#35 How
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#36 What A Dream
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#37 A Boring And Exploitative Dystopia
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#38 “He Has Some Pretty Old Ideas About Things”
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#39 Enjoy Another Recession And Global Warming Child
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#40 This Is Genuinely Disturbing
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#41 Necessities Are Now A Privilege Many Do Not Have In The USA
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#42 Is This Signs Of A Healthy Economy?
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#43 USA Be Like
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#44 The Reality Of Life In Hong Kong – Many Live In A Home No Bigger Than A Coffin – The Coffin Homes Of Hong Kong
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#45 Capitalism In Decay
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#46 He Really Just Came Out And Said It
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#47 And The Cycle Continues
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#48 You Are Your Landlords Breadwinner
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#49 America – Solving The Real Problems!
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#50 A Casual Reminder
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#51 America Is The Best Country In The World!
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#52 Welcome To America
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#53 I Wouldn’t Be Able To Afford A House Anyway, But Might Give A Try?
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#54 Maybe We Laugh So We Don’t Cry. Or Rage
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#55 Excellent Advice For Dealing With The Cost Of Living Crisis
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#56 Nothing Like Hearing Boomers Casually Reminisce About Their Childhood Only To Realize They Were Abused And Traumatized
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#57 There’s No Hate Like Christian “Love”
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#58 Just A Bench In The Richest Country In The History Of The World
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#59 50+ People Waiting In A Queue To Visit A Rental Studio In Amsterdam
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#60 Our Society Is Flawed And Rotten To The Core
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#61 A Boring And Dangerous School Dystopia
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#62 Absurd
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#63 Organize And Join A Union
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#64 It Sucks
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#65 “Just Vote!” Welp
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#66 I’m So Glad Joe Biden Codified Roe vs. Wade Like He Said He Would, Things Could’ve Been Bad Otherwise
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#67 Corporate Greed
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#68 Obscene
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#69 Better Watch What You Say Folks… Homeland Security Is Watching You
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#70 Can You See It?
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#71 Can We All Agree It’s Time To Tax Churches?
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#72 Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
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#73 Tax The Churches
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#74 You’re Supposed To Like Working
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#75 We Really Shouldn’t Have To Pay To Exist!
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#76 How Much Have You Contributed To The Modern Day Feudal System?
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#77 Enjoy Your Freedom!
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#78 The Whole Thing Is A Scam Oo
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#79 Lock Up The Poor
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#80 One Of The Worst Headlines Ive Come Across
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#81 Graph Goes Up Means World More Gooder
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#82 C’mon, People, Bootstraps!!!
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#83 Modern Fall
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#84 Planned Marital Obsolescence
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#85 Living Well Is Not Profitable
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#86 Can’t Have Shit
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#87 Varying Degrees Of Dystopia. Both Regimes Claim The Other Is Pure Evil. There Is, However, Only One Coin
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#88 Yeah.. Selling Vcr’s And Microwaves! I’m College Educated And I Make $15.00
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#89 “Nothing Happens” And There’s Micro Plastic In The Rain Now…
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#90 This Is Why We Don’t Believe Republicans When They Say They Care About Mothers And Babies
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#91 An Interesting Title
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#92 What A Tedious Cunt
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#93 Taco Bell Instructing Its Employees What They Can And Cannot Say On The Workers’ Own Social Media
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#94 A Kid Raised $500,000 To Buy Bulletproof Vests For Police Dogs
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#95 From Mad Magazine, 1968
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#96 People Using A Park As Designed? Unacceptable!
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#97 Just Shut Your Pie Hole And Shower. Anyway, Pentagon Heres Your $850 Billion Budget
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#98 We Have Reached Gas Prices They Thought Would Be Apocalyptic Back In 2007 (I Am Legend)
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#99 Sneaky And Evil
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#100 We Did It
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#101 Nobody Wants To Fish
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#102 Us Fascism On Full Display
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#103 Quality Healthcare
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#104 You Can’t Learn If You Are From A Poor Country
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#105 Well Isn’t This Horrifying
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#106 Basically
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#107 Gas Prices Higher Than The Federal Minimum Wage
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#108 Interesting Times I Guess
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#109 “Pepsi Family”
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#110 ‘Bout Sums It Up
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#111 The Hidden Cost
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#112 Then: ‘You Don’t Need Money To Be Happy!’ Now: ‘Actually, You Don’t Need To Be Happy At All’
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#113 We’re F**ked
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#114 We Need To Stop And Reverse The Fingers
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#115 Already Inside!!
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#116 Citizen Of World’s Sixth Largest Economy Needs A Meal That Doesn’t Have To Taste Good As Long As It Doesn’t Require Electricity To Make It
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#117 Thanks I Hate This Terrifying New Level Of Karen
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#118 The True Perspective
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#119 It Is 2023, The Fda Has Fined Nestle $320,000 For Using Cocoa Laborer Remains In Its Crunch And Kit Kat Recipes
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