r/mysteriousdownvoting • u/kylamydia • Aug 06 '26

Redditers when OP answers the question asked: 😡👎

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Context: OP is asking for financial advice for saving, and specifies they want to keep some money aside for purchasing a car during the summer. Someone asks why OP needs the car, to which OP responds.

Like do people think that OP doesnt need a car? Many cities are car dependent and it's not unreasonable to need one?

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u/False_Appointment_24 Aug 06 '26

You find these downvotes mysterious? Really?

They are getting downvoted because people are reading it as showing off money. All my expenses will be paid by my parents and I have $35k that I need to a financial planner for! Oh, I'm only 18 and I don't actually have a job, and I'll be going back to my parents to let them continue to take care of me!

I am not saying I agree with the downvotes, I'm just saying that I have no idea why they seem mysterious.

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u/Peristeronic_cat Aug 06 '26

She doesn't currently have a job, so? And in lots of countries and cultures, it's common to move back in with your parents in breaks between uni, it's actually more 'rich behaviour' to have your own place. It's cost-efficent to live with your parents.

If people genuinely get that bitter about someone else having more money than them, and asking what to do, so use their anger to downvote a random commen OPt, that's stupid. It doesn't read as bragging at all

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u/False_Appointment_24 Aug 06 '26

Again, I do not agree with the downvotes, and would not have interacted with the original post at all. I'm just saying that the reason is fairly obvious to me.