If someone is going to insult someone else, they better make it a good one. Insulting someone is never a nice thing to do, objectively, but sometimes it is needed. Some people deserve to be insulted for the things they do and say, and other people are just way too easy to insult that it would be a crime not to.

The issue with insults, though, is that so many of them are so overused. No one is actually being offended by the old, overused insults anymore; people need something more hard-hitting. This is where rare insults come in.

Rare insults are never before heard, unusual yet very specific insults that were cleverly crafted for one person or one kind of person. These insults get down to the small details of a person; they are made to offend and confuse. Here are 26 rare insults from Reddit's /r/rareinsults that surprised everyone with how obscure they are.