A thread on 5ch’s “Everything Live G” board asking users to describe “traits of people who are boring to be around” drew a flood of responses. The answers largely boiled down to four patterns: “they criticize but never offer an alternative,” “they won’t act until they’ve checked how the internet reacted,” “they only ever talk about themselves,” and “they just agree with everything and never state their own opinion.” Notably, as the thread went on, a wave of self-deprecating replies like “wait, isn’t this just… us?” turned the conversation on its head — what started as griping about other people ended up boomeranging back as a joke at the posters’ own expense.
It's not that they're bad at conversation. They're not the quiet type either. And yet — isn't there always that one person who leaves you thinking, "Somehow, being with them is just… boring"?
● No matter what you suggest, it's always "Yeah, but…"
And on top of that, they'll cite "this is what people online are saying" as if it were their own personal experience
So many people on Tabelog (Japan's restaurant-review site, like Yelp) leave reviews like "food was great but a staff member had a bad attitude, so low rating"
Well… that's basically us though
Yeah, this is probably it
Insanely boring
People like this can't function in a group to begin with
People who never voice their own opinion
and never listen to the other person's
If you're going to complain, just go do things alone
Which is to say, basically us
But try telling them "this place is cheaper than that one," even if it's a lie
is that your everyday behavior forces people to agree with you
but for trivial stuff like which restaurant to go to, I honestly don't care, so I'm pretty much fine with anything
There are also people who say "anything's fine" and then complain about it afterward, you know
That way I don't have to keep it as an option next time, so there's no more agonizing over choices
This summer in Hakone I went to the "Hakone Open-Air Museum" for the first time since a school field trip
I knew going in it'd be boring, and sure enough it was, but now I've got at least another 10+ years before I have to consider it as an option again
Is it the Open-Air Museum specifically that's bad, or are museums in general just not for you?
Background and Talking Points
Threads asking users to profile “people who are boring to be around” are a recurring staple on 5ch and aggregator sites — this isn’t a psychologically grounded classification, just a grab-bag of subjective anecdotes gathered on an anonymous message board. What stood out this time was that many of the traits called out — “criticizes but never offers an alternative,” “won’t move until checking how the internet reacted,” and so on — closely mirrored posting habits commonly seen on the Everything G board itself. Sure enough, replies like “well, that’s basically us” and “so it’s just us, then” kept popping up, turning what started as criticism of other people into a running joke at the posters’ own expense. It reads less as a genuine character study of other people than as a piece of self-referential anonymous-board humor to be enjoyed as such.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Everything Live G) thread “Traits of “people who are boring to be around” — Worst Offender No. 1.”
