45 People Shared Their Witty Comebacks That Made Us Believe in Instant Karma

There are a lot of obnoxious people in the world. Sometimes, they get their deserved comeuppance. Sometimes, they don’t. But it’s no fun hearing about such people getting away with being annoying or a jerk. We’d much rather tell stories about those people getting owned by karma, witty upstanding citizens, or life in general. That’s exactly what we are going to do here, and thankfully, these comebacks are pretty darn funny!

Tip Top Tragedy

When it comes to school, classrooms often have a student who is regarded as top dog. Because they are top dog, they feel as though they are right in just about any situation, and if someone else makes a mistake, they’ll jump on the opportunity to humiliate them.

That doesn’t work out very well when the top dog is wrong, however. There’s nothing like a teacher backing you up against the kid who is supposedly at the top. How the mighty fall.

Did You Call?

When you poke fun at a book, you don’t often expect the author to show up. This is especially true if the book in question is a physics textbook or something like that. And yet, that kind of thing can actually happen online.

We imagine that such an author could get all uppity and upset about jokes being made against their textbooks, but we also imagine that they understand how tedious their textbooks can actually be. Maybe they take it in good humor.

Surprise Mandarin

Groups of people tend to be pretty tribal. They’ll find groups of people who are different from them to mock and make fun of. That’s not a very good thing to do these days, because a lot of people manage to blend into multiple groups.

So making fun of someone in your own language, thinking they don’t understand, may be a recipe for disaster. You have no idea what language anyone may be able to speak!

Pour Cold Water Directly on Burn

The internet is amazing because it gives everyone a voice. But it also allows most everyone to hear your voice. And the more people who hear what you have to say, the more people have the opportunity to totally make a fool out of you.

Granted, the guy in this Reddit post definitely deserved it, but even so, we almost feel bad for him. It’s not every day that you get burned this incredibly badly.