There’s a very specific type of person who sees normal everyday life as a giant opportunity to make things slightly more confusing for everyone around them.

These people are pranksters, tricksters, petty masterminds and professional agents of mild inconvenience. Sometimes their actions are fueled by tiny revenge. Other times, they simply wake up in the morning and decide the world needs a little more chaos. Honestly? The internet loves them for it.

There’s something endlessly entertaining about people dedicating enormous amounts of creativity and energy toward jokes, pranks and tiny acts of nonsense that accomplish absolutely nothing productive.

Some people chase success or personal growth. Others spend their free time becoming low-level agents of confusion purely because they think it’s funny.

This collection of 23 stories is full of people doing the absolute most for jokes that barely benefit anyone except themselves.

Some of these stories lean into petty revenge, in which someone responds to a minor annoyance with an unnecessarily elaborate reaction. Others are fueled by absolutely nothing except boredom and the desire to make life more entertaining.

In a world where everything constantly feels serious, stressful and overwhelming, harmless chaos can sometimes be weirdly refreshing.

Sometimes the internet doesn’t need heroes or experts. Sometimes it just needs a group of deeply unserious people making life a little more absurd for everyone else.