1. The title implies that there’s a lot of reading
2. There is a lot of reading
3. There is a lot of scrolling
4. You keep wondering if the list is going to get better
5. It doesn’t get better
6. They tend to split one sentence into at least two separate items; often more
7. Every time you think it’s going to improve it doesn’t
8. Whenever you think there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, you end up getting disappointed
9. Just when you think it’s starting to get good, it fails you
10. You’ll see one reason you like or can relate to and think that the rest of them will follow, but they never do
11. The sentences are incredibly repetitive; just reworded
12. Long lists tend to be monotonous
13. You almost always know whatever compilation you’ve begun reading is dumb but you finish it anyway, inevitably wasting your time
14. It’s impossible to come up with a legitimate list of that many reasons that are actually solid and not at all redundant.
15. Every five reasons or so there is bound to be an irritating ad
16. Ads are annoying
17. Unless they’re about cute puppies
18. And kittens
19. They often back up one thought with another or several in a whole entirely separate point which in reality is not even a sentence on its own
20. Halfway down, you begin to understand how thesaurus works
21. There are a lot of synonyms
22. Sometimes there’d be a sentence in the middle stating a fact completely outside of that which the list originally intended to explain
23. The writers of said lists don’t want to waste their own time proof-reading their stuff so they end up being full of typos
24. Long
25. Lists
26. Do
27. Things
28. Like
29. This
30. For
31. Effect
32. Just
33. To Get
34. A few
35. Extra
36. Points In.
37. Because they don’t really have anything substantial to say
38. Towards the end of the ‘List’ you forget what the list is even about because it didn’t make sense the entire time
39. You start getting aggravated with the article; renaming it to things like ’50 reasons I should have never given this the time of day’
40. You inevitably get aggravated with yourself for having started to read the article in the first place.
41. Most reasons are stupid
42. As well as excessive and unnecessary
43. Avoid all long lists.

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