Have you ever seen something so uncomfortable, you didn’t have the words to describe it? “Thanks, I Hate It” might be the exact phrase you’re looking for. Here’s what it means.

“Thanks, I Hate It”

TIHI stands for “Thanks, I Hate It.” It’s an acronym of a popular slang phrase on the internet, particularly on Reddit and other internet message boards. It’s used to respond to a photo, post, or story that makes the viewer uncomfortable because of its unnatural or unattractive nature. Often, TIHI images are heavily photoshopped to have strange, unpleasant details that will trigger a response. They can also be tweets or comments posted online.

TIHI can be used in both the titles of posts and in the comments under them. When used as a post title, it’s also used as a disclaimer warning that the photo may make you feel uncomfortable. In specific uses, TIHI is synonymous with another internet slang term, “cursed,” which refers to images or pieces of text that you may prefer not to have seen at all.

The Origins of TIHI

Compared to other internet acronyms we’ve covered, TIHI and its phrase are relatively new. But rather than having been created in internet chatrooms like other slang terms, it originated from the growing meme culture of the last few years.

While there is no confirmed source that can pinpoint exactly where “Thanks, I Hate It” came from, it has been used sporadically on the internet for the last decade to denote that something makes you uncomfortable. It became a more popular term around 2017 and 2018 when it entered the internet slang repository Urban Dictionary .

It was shortened when the Reddit community r/TIHI was founded in late 2018. The following year, the Urban Dictionary entry for the acronym version popped up online, stating that it’s the website’s “7th most cursed subreddit.” This is similar to other acronyms that have risen to prominence because of their respective subreddits, such as ELI5 and TIL .

Since then, it’s become quite common in places outside of the subreddit. TIHI is a frequently used acronym on social media sites like Twitter and TikTok, and is often used in personal conversations.

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TIHI on Reddit

As previously mentioned, the main place to find content related to TIHI is on the subreddit, which has over a million followers. It has since become the single biggest community for posting TIHI-related images, with some of the most popular posts on the forum gaining tens of thousands of upvotes and comments.

All the posts on the subreddit follow a particular format. Titles must start with “Thanks, I Hate,” followed by the thing depicted in the photo or story below. For example, if the image shows a cheeseburger, the title should be “Thanks, I Hate Cheeseburgers.”

Most of the posts on the subreddit are a mix of funny and strangely uncomfortable content. For example, one of the top posts in the community, with over 63 thousand upvotes and more than 500 comments, is this legendary image of a “Smooth Yoda” posted by user u/AnUdderDay .

Even if you’re not familiar with the concept of TIHI, the image above immediately looks strange and unnatural. That kind of feeling is what all TIHI posts try to evoke.

Sarcastic Meaning

One important thing to note is that the phrase “Thanks, I Hate It” is meant to be sarcastic. While one might be saying “Thanks,” they’re also stating that they don’t like what they just saw or heard. This is especially obvious when the phrase is typed out or spoken aloud.

There are certain circumstances in which TIHI is used outside of the context of “cursed” images or posts. In personal conversations, the phrase can be used as a witty retort to something you’re unhappy about. For example, if someone tells you that your destination has no cell phone coverage, you might say “Thanks, I hate it” in response.

How to Use TIHI and “Thanks, I Hate It”

While TIHI is used to denote an uncomfortable image, it can also be used when talking to friends or family members. Here are a few examples of both the phrase and the acronym in action:

• On Reddit: “Thanks, I Hate Wicker Baskets.”
• As a Comment: “That new horror movie? TIHI.”
• Spoken Aloud: “Another snowstorm. Thanks, I hate it.”
• As a Message: “I did not want to see that picture. TIHI.”

If you want to learn more internet acronyms, check out our pieces on NVM , ICYDK , and JK .

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There is nothing quite as English as cricket. Soccer is the fast yet simple game my country nurtured and spread throughout the world. However, cricket, slow and complex, is our national sport.

The English domestic cricket league, known as the County Championship, has been fading from sight in the U.K. for decades. It is a competition steeped in history and tradition, but pitched against the marketing of modern sports, appears stuck in a previous era. Games last up to four days, are often shortened by rain and frequently end in a draw. Devotees revel in hushed admiration at the polite and subtle combat between bat and ball, the artistic majesty of shots by the batsmen and the pace, swing or spin of the bowler.

Play is slow and quiet but that is the point. You have to concentrate to appreciate the game. An “over” consists of six balls by the bowler, he may well spend five of them appearing to offer a run-scoring opportunity to the batsmen when he is actually laying a trap for his final delivery.

This pattern of play does not attract young fans nowadays. Typically, the modern sports spectator is hyped up on their way into the arena, suffers sensory overload during the game and exits through the gift shop at the final whistle where they can deposit any remaining cash. Our sports are transactional in every sense with the “experience” just a commodity sold to us through the lens of youth and hyperbole.

English county cricket resists these tropes, and for many of us, that is its strength. In 2020, I published a book on my life supporting the game. I followed my team throughout my 50th year, a time when, like many men, I’d lost my way personally and professionally. I drifted back to the habits of my younger days to try and find meaning once more. The game offered me quiet comfort from a world that had left me disenfranchised. What had started as an interest in my youth had turned into my lifelong passion. But now it was my sanctuary.

It seemed I was not alone. The previous December, I submitted a piece to the Wisden Almanac , the bible of cricket. Around 500-heartfelt words outlined my case for the sport’s soothing nature. It did not get in. One reason maybe that a famous BBC broadcaster wrote a similar piece in that year’s edition on how, after the death of his mother, he felt a calling to return to county cricket and found solace by watching this wonderful waste of time. A few months later, sports journalist Ian Ridley brought out an excellent memoir on how the game helped his grief following the passing of his wife.

Those of us who value slow, subtle yet meaningful sports are dwindling, and though the game’s obituary has been written on many occasions, this year feels different. With media rights fees for international games starting to fall, domestic one-day formats deemed inadequate and participation rates dwindling, the English cricket authorities have gambled in a bid to carve out a different future.

They are introducing The Hundred , a brash new format that will only be contested by eight city-based franchises and played in less than three hours. Its introduction was postponed last year, despite the disruption of the pandemic, it will begin this August. For the first time in almost 150 years, the traditional counties will not be the focus of the domestic cricketing summer and their competitions have been shunted to unpopular ends of the calendar.

This would be akin to the national governing body of American football making the Dallas Cowboys play in the summer because a franchise from their newly-introduced XFL competition was now taking precedence in Texas.

Many county cricket fans feel “their game” and their teams will be eventually squeezed out of existence by the new competition. Some even suggest that is precisely the plan. There is definitely curmudgeonly resistance from existing fans not open to change. But on the flipside, this pandemic has surely shown us that not everything valuable is visible on a balance sheet and society must stop its willful blindness to the needs of older people.

Ironically, county cricket is well prepared for the unshackling of England after lockdown. Most of its avid fans were old enough to be at the front of the queue for the vaccine and the sparse crowds are naturally social-distanced.

The season started on April 8, and a couple of months later, I hope to sit in contented silence among a couple of thousand middle-aged spectators at Essex County Cricket Club and savor the subtle slowness of it all once again.

It will demonstrate that, while most senses are blunted by age, one’s understanding of what is really important only becomes sharper as the years go by.

Richard Clarke is a consultant in sports content, digital and social media. He is also a sports writer, columnist for The Cricket Paper in the U.K. and in 2020, published his first book, Last-Wicket Stand: Searching for Redemption, Revival and a Reason to Persevere in English County Cricket . His Twitter is @MrRichardClarke .

The views expressed in this article are the writer’s own.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage said that Home Secretary Priti Patel prefers to “pretend” the migrant crisis in the English Channel is not happening as another 49 illegal boat migrants have been brought ashore in Britain since Friday.

Despite rough weather conditions in the English Channel, the migrant boats continued to pour in, with 44 migrants arriving on Friday and an additional five making the perilous journey on Saturday.

French authorities were able to stop an additional 147 migrants from entering British territorial waters during the same time span, according to the Daily Mail .

Releasing footage of migrants being taken ashore by the Border Force, Nigel Farage said on Saturday: “Many more boats escorted into Dover yesterday, there were even some beach landings at Dungeness. The same goes for this morning.”

“But Priti Patel wants to pretend this isn’t happening because she did another tough speech,” the Brexiteer added.

Many more boats escorted into Dover yesterday, there were even some beach landings at Dungeness. The same goes for this morning.

But Priti Patel wants to pretend this isn’t happening because she did another tough speech. pic.twitter.com/XqMwspLgpq

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) April 10, 2021

Mr Farage has long been critical of the home secretary’s performance in handling the migrant crisis in the Channel, accusing her of being all talk and no action.

Last month, the home secretary announced a series of proposed reforms to Britain’s “broken” asylum system, including preventing migrants who arrive illegally from gaining UK citizenship or applying for leave to remain status.

Patel also proposed that migrants who travelled through safe countries, such as France, before entering the United Kingdom be subject to “boomerang” deportation in as little as 24 hours.

However, it is unclear how exactly the government would be able to enact such a reform, as it has so far failed to reach an agreement with the EU on the return of illegal aliens and failed asylum seekers. The British government has refused to adopt a unilateral turn ‘back the boats’ approach, as well.

Following Patel’s announcement, Farage said that “Nothing is going to change,” stating that the proposed reforms merely represented more “tough talk” from the home secretary but lacked the teeth to stop the crisis.

According to an analysis conducted by The Telegraph , the UK is on pace to see a record 20,000 illegal boat migrants being brought ashore this year, more than double the record numbers seen last year, which stood at around 8,500.

Currently, over 1,400 migrants have reached Britain by crossing the English Channel in small rubber boats from France, more than doubling the landings during the same time period last year.

Another 183 Illegal Boat Migrants Land in UK, Patel Vows to Reform ‘Broken’ System Yet Again https://t.co/NNVYNlpMy8

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) March 24, 2021

The latest crossings come as the international policing agency Interpol announced that it has arrested 195 smugglers and rescued around 500 people, including children, in a massive human trafficking bust carried out earlier this month.

The agency said that the operation “once again demonstrated how closely linked migrant smuggling and human trafficking are particularly in a global health crisis when the most vulnerable are desperate to escape hardship, and the criminal networks are just keen to turn a profit”.

One case highlighted by Interpol concerned a 15-year old girl from the Congo who sought “help” from people smugglers to escape a forced marriage. The girl was subjected to sexual abuse by the human traffickers on her journey before being rescued in Tunisia.

The Secretary-General of Interpol, Jürgen Stock, said: “These victims could not simply walk away from the horrific situation they found themselves in and the suffering they endured.

“This is why Interpol’s work does not stop here. We will continue to help countries untangle sensitive and complex cases, which, will undoubtedly generate more arrests in the months to come.”

Report: Illegal Boat Migrants Sign Slave Labour ‘Pact’ with Traffickers to Reach UK https://t.co/XwrAXiDP8m

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 21, 2020

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A zero-day vulnerability in Zoom which can be used to launch remote code execution (RCE) attacks has been disclosed by researchers.

Pwn2Own, organized by the Zero Day Initiative, is a contest for white-hat cybersecurity professionals and teams to compete in the discovery of bugs in popular software and services.

The latest competition included 23 entries, competing in different categories including web browsers, virtualization software, servers, enterprise communication, and local escalation of privilege.

For successful entrants, the financial rewards can be high — and in this case, Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade earned themselves $200,000 for their Zoom discovery.

The researchers from Computest demonstrated a three-bug attack chain that caused an RCE on a target machine, and all without any form of user interaction.

As Zoom has not yet had time to patch the critical security issue, the specific technical details of the vulnerability are being kept under wraps. However, an animation of the attack in action demonstrates how an attacker was able to open the calculator program of a machine running Zoom following its exploit.

As noted by Malwarebytes , the attack works on both Windows and Mac versions of Zoom, but it has not — yet — been tested on iOS or Android. The browser version of the videoconferencing software is not impacted.

In a statement to Tom’s Guide , Zoom thanked the Computest researchers and said the company was “working to mitigate this issue with respect to Zoom Chat.” In-session Zoom Meetings and Zoom Video Webinars are not affected.

“The attack must also originate from an accepted external contact or be a part of the target’s same organizational account,” Zoom added. “As a best practice, Zoom recommends that all users only accept contact requests from individuals they know and trust.”

Vendors have a 90-day window, which is standard practice in vulnerability disclosure programs, to resolve the security issues found. End-users just need to wait for a patch to be issued — but if worried, they can use the browser version in the meantime.

“This event, and the procedures and protocols that surround it, demonstrate very nicely how white-hat hackers work, and what responsible disclosure means,” Malwarebytes says. “Keep the details to yourself until protection in the form of a patch is readily available for everyone involved (with the understanding that vendors will do their part and produce a patch quickly).”

Other successful attacks of note during the content include:

• Apple Safari: Jack Dates, kernel-level code execution, $100,000
• Microsoft Exchange: DEVCORE, complete server takeover, $200,000
• Microsoft Teams: OV, code execution, $200,000
• Ubuntu Desktop: Ryota Shiga, standard user to root, $30,000

Previous and related coverage

• The complete Zoom guide: From basic help to advanced tricks
• Microsoft Teams and Zoom have a new challenger (This one’s, oh, take a look)
• New Zoom feature can alert room owners of possible Zoombombing disruptions

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Born into a family of royal origin, Cong Ton Nu Tri Hue of Huong Tra District in Hue, central Vietnam is one of the few people still able to make the Vietnamese royal multiple-fold pillow, typically found at royal shrines and temples across the town.

Called “trai dua” in Vietnamese, this multiple-fold pillow is made by attaching four or five rectangular cushions, each about five cm thick.

Hue is a granddaughter of Duke Nguyen Phuc Mien Lam of Hoai Duc, the 57th son of Minh Mang, the Nguyen Dynasty king who reigned from 1820-1841.

At the age of 17, she learned sewing and embroidery at the loyal palace. Here, she also learned about the royal multiple-fold pillow, which could support the head, back, and arms while reading, reciting poetry, or drinking.

According to Hue, multiple-fold pillow makers must comply with traditional rules: the king’s pillow must have five cushions, while those of the queen mother, concubines and mandarins must have four.

“Choosing the fabric color is also very important. Usually, gold was only used for the king, with concubines and mandarins using blue, green, and purple pillows,” she said.

Assigned to sew pillows for Bao Dai, the last king of Vietnam (ruling from 1925-1945), Hue paid specific attention to the size of the throne and stuffing since Bao Dai was taller than other Nguyen Dynasty emperors.

As a result, Bao Dai was very pleased with the pillows made by Hue. Many of his French friends ordered pillows from Hue as gifts for their families.

Besides making pillows for the king, Hue also sewed clothes for queen mother Duc Tu Cung. Photo by VnExpress/Ngan Duong.

While making royal multiple-fold pillows is not too difficult, it requires meticulousness.

“That day, the teacher spoke briefly, giving little direct guidance. I unstitched an old pillow and taught myself. The more meticulous we are, the tighter the pillow would be, retaining its smoothness, tension, and swelling without going flat, even after a long time,” she said.

The first step in making a royal multiple-fold pillow entails cutting fabric into equal sized pieces, then sewing them into kits. Next, measured amounts of cotton are inserted into each kit to ensure a stiff form. Finally, each is sewn together to create the pillow.

“A beautiful pillow has not noticeable stitches,” Hue said.

A pillow without a case. Photo by VnExpress/Ngan Duong.

In time, this type of pillows fell out of favor. Only occasionally is Hue asked to replace pillows still found at historical relics. Due to her fathomless experience, she was approached by a researcher wanting to restore certain Hue traditions.

Ever since, her pillow making skills have become more widely known, with longevity ceremony or decoration orders streaming in. Besides, Hue was invited to supply multiple-fold pillows for a scene in the ‘Phuong Khau’, a Vietnamese film about concubines in the time of King Thieu Tri (reigning from 1841-1847).

With the tradition slowly fading, the seamstress hoped to preserve the art by passing it down to younger generations. Her first student was her daughter-in-law, Le Thi Lien, followed by her niece. Today, all three support each other to create royal multiple-fold pillows.

“By helping my mother, I have gradually learned to make this type of pillows. It takes us five days to make one, though it may take a month for my mother if working by herself. All processes are done by hand, so it takes time and demands a meticulous touch,” Lien said.

Each five-cushion pillow is sold for VND1.8 million ($78).

Tuan Doan, a tourist in Hue, commented: “Her beautiful pillow is done very well. I am really impressed by the fact she is nearly 100 years old, still lucid and able to do needlework.”

Hue said though she has little time left to develop this profession, she won’t give it up.

“I taught my daughter-in-law the art to uphold the tradition and culture,” she said.