Breakups are almost never easy. Often, there's a multitude of small problems adding up over time that ultimately lead to the end of a relationship. Sometimes, though, it's just one big thing, an action, or a realization, or you know, walking in on your significant other having sex with your roommate. That'd pretty much do it.

Over on Reddit, men talked about the one thing that happened or that they found out that made them end a long-term relationship right then and there.

1. For houndofhell96, absence did not make the heart grow fonder.

That being away from her didn't bother me. I went to college two hours away from her, and didn't feel a thing. It wasn't really out of the blue, but it definitely played a big role in my decision.

2. Pizzaboxers realized he was just happier without her.

Everytime she wasn't around I was happy

3. Osmo512 learned that, in some cases, a person is doing the very thing they accuse you of doing.

For a year, she accused me of wanting to cheat on her. Then I found out she was seeing someone on the side.

4. Balsamic_jizz loved the idea of the relationship more than the actual person.

That after 3 years I didn't actually love her at all, I just loved the idea of being in a stable relationship.

5. BENTANALAPAGAN wasn't into becoming a dad.

That I was going to have to have kids to stay with her.

6. Pro_tool learned that his girlfriend had some very different views on relationships from his.

She had a boyfriend in another country and thought it was ok

7. Butternuttie's girlfriend wasn't who he thought she was.

She had been an escort the entire time. So many lies. Put my health at risk too. She literally told me she wanted to have my children and build a future with me the week before I found her account and messages to various johns asking pricing for services. I still want to puke when I think about it.

8. Acidpants220 couldn't handle the demands of his girlfriend's issues with mental health.

That she had no real control over her anxious impulses and overall mental health. I was about to drive down an visit her, a 90 minute drive, and I told her "My goal is 10am, but maybe as late as noon if [unlikely thing that I anticipated might happen] happens." And she couldn't handle the uncertainty in the slightest. She kept asking me when exactly I was arriving. When I repeated my answer she seemed to accept it, but then asked when exactly I was arriving in different terms, or said she was asking because someone else needed to know when exactly I was arriving. She brought it up over and over, at least 5 times over a the course of what should have been a Skype date; She really couldn't accept that I had a general idea of my arrival time, but couldn't say for certain.

I was a really small thing, but spoke volumes about where she was with her mental health; right then was the moment where I knew I couldn't date her any longer.

9. You-create-energy's girlfriend needed too much validation.

That she constantly needed to be told how beautiful she was, and not just by me.

10. For theCHAMPdotcom, the realization they wouldn't make a good pair came when they started discussing a future together.

When we got serious and started discussing marriage type things.

Major conflicts on big issues like how to raises kids, our sex life etc.

11. Work had to come before love for zugzwang_03.

That in order to stay together, one of us would have had to give up our dream career.

There were a lot of small things which simultaneously eroded our relationship, but they all stemmed from this one key incompatibility. Once we fully realized it, I knew we were over.

12. Pestoroll's girlfriend's violation of his privacy was just too much to handle.

That while I was out of my apartment, she snuck into my bedroom and read through a journal of mine. She got upset over some trivial things in it.

13. JAYDEA found out his girlfriend had been leading a double life (and not as a spy).

She gave me too good a lapdance.

Actually, I found out she was a stripper after about 5 months of dating--because of a lapdance. She claimed she was a hairstylist and a part-time bartender. She was beautiful, always made-up and hair done perfect. She was a nice girl, very sweet and had a bubbly personality. She loved beer and expensive shoes. We got along great except I could never actually believe her when we talked about her job.

She always worked late; she would never spend the night. I almost never saw her on Friday or Saturday nights. She always had way too much cash. For a bartender, she didn't know much about alcohol and was pretty shitty in the kitchen. She dressed very well but also had some of the trashiest clothes that she never wore and didn't seem to fit with her personality.

Then one day, during some foreplay, she gave me a lapdance. It wasn't a cute and giggly lapdance that you would expect from most girls; it wasn't even something you would expect from someone who had experience grinding on their SO. It was 100% stripper-grade. Seriously, no civilian could give a lapdance like that. It was surgically erotic but she was so detached while doing it. It was like a switch flipped and she went into stripper mode. As soon as she started, I knew. Everything suddenly clicked. I didn't immediately break up with her but I kinda just let it fizzle out.

THEN almost 2 years later, after a long night out, a friend and I ended up at a strip club and guess who was there? She recognized me and, of course, I got a lapdance. While she was grinding on me, she was making excuses about how this was a temporary fix for her credit card debt (when we were dating, she bragged about how she would never purchase anything on credit because she didn't believe in credit cards). I said that's too bad and then gave her another $40 to give my friend a lapdance.

She started texting me as soon as we left the strip club saying how she had a great time and missed me but I just didn't want to deal with it.

For the record, I wasn't upset that she was a stripper (I've dated a stripper before), it was that she lied to me for nearly 6 months.

14. TheAnalThrasher had an epiphany while reading a screed his girlfriend had written about how bad a boyfriend she thought he was.

I got sent a novel length text berating me about how i don't treat her right, not being good enough, etc (which in hindsight i wasn't being the best). I only read about 1/4th of it but that was enough. Just had an epiphany that i wasn't happy with her. Never really looked back on it.

15. Youreallmeatanyway knew that both people have to be mentally healthy for a relationship to be healthy.

That she's never going to get a handle on her depression and she's going to drag me down with her if I let her.

16. There was no way konorM was going to get past this.

When I came home and found her in bed with my roommate. Ended right then and there.

17. Centersolace got tired of his needs being put on the back burner.

Realizing she didn't actually care about my happiness or well being. It was always what I could do for her, and that I never did enough.

Every time I tried to talk about my life or my problems she'd always snap "quit reverting things back to yourself." "you always revert things back to yourself."

Our relationship lasted seven years, almost to the day. But I'd rather be alone than be actively dismissed like that.

On Sunday night on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver dedicated his long segment to the mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an Ivanka Trump™ brand Made in China pashmina: The Kushners.

With the glorious magic of nepotism, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have become Donald Trump's closest advisors. And because they are more aesthetically pleasing pair than the president and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, people have applauded them to be "moderating influences" with literally no proof that they are.

A simple dive into what we know about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner quickly points out that even if the young pair are more liberal than Daddy, they haven't pushed him leftward. Even though Ivanka Trump met Leonardo DiCaprio to talk climate change, Donald Trump proceeded to appoint a climate science denier to head the EPA.

While people might think that Ivanka Trump is different from her dad because of her nice hair, she only pretends to be more chill while saying nothing of substance and some straight-up lies.

"It seems that when it comes to lying about easily observable facts, the apple doesn't fall far from the orange," Oliver points out.

Ivanka Trump told us herself in her 2009 memoir just how much the Trump brand matters to her and how much truth matters to the Trump brand.

Jared Kushner, on the other hand, is often seen and not heard. Like, literally not heard. Does anyone know what his voice sounds like? As Oliver shows, he may or may not sound like Gilbert Gottfried.

"If they are the reason you are sleeping at night," Oliver concludes, "you should probably still be awake."

"And if you need help doing that, Donald Trump may be currently airing out his balls in the Lincoln bedroom."

Lately, the internet has been obsessed with these painful budget blackhead peel-off masks commonly advertised on Instragram and Facebook. The masks, usually made with charcoal, promise to pull all the gunk out of your pores, and may just take your top layer of skin off with it.

In the past, vloggers have filmed themselves applying and attempting to endure the pain of removing the sticky face mask. YouTuber Nicole Skyes decided to take things to a whole new level by covering her entire body with four bottles worth of the mask and ripping it all off on camera. Ouch.

It seriously hurts to watch.

"Hopefully it doesn't peel off my spray tan," exclaimed Skyes before covering herself in the cheap liquid mask and waiting two hours (WHY?!) for it to dry.

Girl, forget the spray tan. You better hope that you don't get your skin ripped off by this sh*t.

Despite taking the precautionary measure of shaving her entire body prior to applying the mask, removing it proved too painful, and Skyes ended up washing off some of the mask in the shower.

However, the entire thing wasn't a "wash."

"On the bright side, my skin feels super, super smooth," said Skyes. Yay?

Beauty is pain, I guess, but maybe stick to skincare that won't make you feel like you're being "scratched by 10,000 cats," thankyouverymuch?

President Donald Trump will soon be reaching his first 100 days in office and the Associated Press recently released a full transcript of an interview with him about the occasion. However, during the course of the interview, there were 16 instances of Trump saying something the AP deemed too "unintelligible" to transcribe.

For example, when asked about how holding the office of president had changed him, Trump responded, "Well the one thing I would say — and I say this to people — I never realized how big it was. Everything's so (unintelligible) like, you know the orders are so massive."

When the AP asked Trump about making the switch from business to being the president, he said:

You have to love people. And if you love people, such a big responsibility. (unintelligible) You can take any single thing, including even taxes. I mean we're going to be doing major tax reform. Here's part of your story, it's going to be a big (unintelligible). Everybody's saying, "Oh, he's delaying." I'm not delaying anything. I'll tell you the other thing is (unintelligible).

Unsurprisingly, people had a lot of thoughts on Donald Trump's "unintelligible" interview. Twitter pretty much exploded.

The AP says it used ellipses or a notation that the recording was unintelligible in places "where the audio of the recording is unclear." We're not sure if that means there was a problem with the AP's recorder, if Trump was just mumbling, or if he actually wasn't making any sense at all. But one thing's for sure: Twitter has a lot of feelings about our "unintelligible" president.

Oh, hello, here's a woman using her boyfriend's balls to blend her makeup. Why, you ask? Well, because the people involved are very young (she's Johnna Hines, 18, and he's Damon Richards, 20), testicles do kind of look like everybody's must-have makeup applier (i.e. Sephora's beauty blender), and apparently Richards is a fan of doing things like putting his balls right on her head, so why not? They're already there, might as well make use of them. Also, there's the factor of internet fame, because what better way to go viral than by using testicles to apply foundation?

Speaking to BuzzFeed, Hines said, "He's always messing with me so he started putting his balls on my head. I made a joke about using them as a beauty blender and we literally just looked at each other and started laughing and made the video from there." This, folks, is how collaborative art is created.

WARNING: THIS VIDEO SHOWS ACTUAL, REAL, LIVE TESTICLES. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Hines' unusual makeup tutorial video has now been retweeted almost 25,000 times on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, it's caught the attention of some makeup artists, namely Manny Mua and Bretman Rock.

Both makeup artists retweeted her video, leading to a great deal more coverage (yes, that was a makeup pun).

Reactions to the balls-as-beauty blender stunt were mixed.

But all that really matters is whether or not it worked. And you know what? Apparently it did.

And Richards couldn't be more proud of his nuts.

Tennis superstar Serena Williams delighted the internet last week when she announced that she was 20 weeks pregnant. Now, she has us squealing with glee once again. On Monday, Williams posted a selfie to Instagram with a moving letter to her new baby.

Williams captioned the photo:

My Dearest Baby,
You gave me the strength I didn’t know I had. You taught me the true meaning of serenity and peace. I can't wait to meet you. I can't wait for you to join the players box next year. But most importantly, I am so happy to share being number one in the world with you.... once again today. On @alexisohanian bday. From the world's oldest number one to the world's youngest number one. -Your Mommy

Aww! Not only is Serena Williams a champion in tennis, she's a champion at moving us to tears. She's going to make a great mom.

A Sikh man at the Science March on April 22 won the day with the ultimate sign—not about science, actually, but about racism. Sikhism is a religion that originated in India. Adherents, both male and female, wear turbans. The Sikh Coalition explains that the turban asserts "a public commitment to maintaining the values and ethics of the tradition, including service, compassion, and honesty."

Computer scientist Sasha Aikin shared a photo of the clever protester, and while we don't know his name, we do know that we have him to thank for flying and not crashing.

"Are you nervous to see me on your flight? See other side," Side A reads.

And the kicker?

"Worry not. The software I wrote for this plane is bug free."

This guy is a senior software engineer for planes such as the Boeing 747-400 and 777.

"Goooooo Science!"

It's a perfect poster: a condemnation of prejudice and a celebration of science, both of which are much needed in Donald Trump's America.

The sign went super viral, receiving over 37,000 retweets and 77,000 likes.

Sikhs have been victims of hate crimes since in the decade and a half since 9/11, and have unjustly removed from airplanes because of the color of their skin. Along with Muslims and other religious minorities, there have been an uptick of incidents since the election of Donald Trump.

Just last month, Deep Rai, a 39-year-old Sikh man in Kent, Washington, was shot in the arm, in what is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Here's to standing up for science and marginalized communities—with a Sikh sign to boot.

Unless you've been living under a rock inside a cave on another planet, by now you know that Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez are an item. Yep, J. Lo and A-Rod. J-Rod. Alennifer Ropez. Whatever. It's on. And, of course, people want to know all the deets! So Monday on her show, Ellen DeGeneres tortured Jennifer Lopez with all sorts of questions about how the couple met.

After a bit of small talk, Ellen gets right to the point, saying "Let's talk about Alex, I'm very excited for you."

Ellen continues, asking, "Where did you meet and how did this happen? Tell us all about it. It's really important for us to know."

Looking like she'd love to bop Ellen right in the face (but in, like, a friendly way), Lopez implores the audience, "You guys don't want to hear about all this." To which the audience responds with cheers and applause. So yeah, I guess they want to hear about it. Duh.

So here's what happened: Jennifer Lopez was at a restaurant. Alex Rodriguez walked in. She finished her meal (soup and salad), and saw him outside, where she tapped him on the shoulder and said "Hi Alex." He responded, "Hi, Jennifer." And that's about all Ellen managed to get out of Jennifer Lopez about the their relationship. Oh, except we also learned: "Mama don't sleep over on the first date." (Mama is Jennifer Lopez in that statement, in case that's not clear.)

And then Ellen finally put poor Lopez out of her misery (because boy howdy, J.Lo did not want to talk about her new relationship) by having someone dressed in a Yankees uniform jump out of that side table that she always hides people in, and scare the unsuspecting Lopez.

All right, Lopez, you're off the hook. THIS TIME.

A prolific and popular tweeter who goes by the handle @Dril thinks McDonald's needs a marketing shake-up and he's definitely, definitely thinking outside the bun. (Yes, that slogan is from Taco Bell not McDonald's, but it's very wise). Because @Dril doesn't think the Hamburglar is scary enough for 21st century fast food, he's pitching the idea of the, ahem, "McShitter."

His wild rant has found its way to the blogosphere and Imgur, where it's getting even more popular.

Will McDonald's be forced to respond?

Right off the bat—no, McDonald's is not going to respond.

Scary.

That slogan is certainly to the point.

I'm sure you are, @Dril. Now all we do is wait, patiently, for the fan art. Until then, kill time by learning how the Hamburglar got his stripes. He's so scary.

Alison Chappell from Leicester, England, managed to post a scathing review of her cheating ex-boyfriend within a glowing review of the restaurant where she learned he was cheating on her, the Daily Mail reports. This might be the most well-mannered public shaming in internet history.

The review, which has since been removed from Facebook after multiple news sources picked it up, is an absolute gem:

"Really nice bar, lots of atmosphere and good Sauvignon Blanc," she wrote. But she then continued: "Unfortunately halfway through said wine my boyfriends phone bleeped with a Tinder message...."

Being a no-nonsense gal, Chappell ended it right there. "He consequently got dumped and we drove back to Leicester," she wrote.

But regardless of their "very uncomfortable car journey" home, she would "recommend this pub definitely." But under this condition: "best to go with someone who isn't a lying cheating s**t head as you'll have a much nicer time than I did."

Duly noted, Alison!

Then the story gets even better (and British-er). Because the restaurant posted this wonderfully over-the-top response:

Alison responded:

And then Sutlers Pub and Alison Chappell and Sauvignon Blanc lived happily ever after. And no cad, bounder or scallywag ever disrespected the maiden again.

The President of the United States bragged in an interview how his ratings compared to coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attack.

In a widely (unintelligible) interview with the Associated Press, Donald Trump rambled through questions about GynaChina and policy, but really perked up to talk about his obsession with the media, and the media's obsession with him.

The president was super stoked to share how his TV ratings compared to a horrific terrorist attack. He boasted:

On any, on air, (CBS “Face the Nation” host John) Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It’s the highest for “Face the Nation” or as I call it, “Deface the Nation.

TRUMP (continued) It’s the highest for “Deface the Nation” since the World Trade Center.Since the World Trade Center came down. It’s a tremendous advantage.

Congratulations, Mr. President. He is super proud of himself for getting as much attention as a terrorist attack that killed thousands of people.

This isn't the first time that the president has exploited 9/11 to make himself feel awesome. On 9/11/2001, as Ground Zero was still burning, Trump took the opportunity to brag about how he now owned the tallest building in Lower Manhattan.

On the day itself, he didn't express horror or grief, he bragged.

Today, he is President of the United States, striking countries he can't remember over chocolate cake.

I'm just going to leave this here.

Nine years after Heath Ledger's tragic death, fans are still obsessed with his work, his life, and his demons. One particular urban legend holds that his fatal prescription drug overdose was related to his work on The Dark Knight, which he had recently finished shooting when he died. Some fans believe that he was so disturbed by months of immersion in the psychopathic character of the Joker that he ramped up his use of painkillers to cope, with disastrous results. It's a wild theory, but it seems much more compelling when you're watching the movie.

Now, that idea has finally been shut down once and for all by Heath's sister, Kate Ledger. She was in New York City on Sunday for the premiere of the new documentary about his life and career, I Am Heath Ledger. Speaking to reporters, she finally addressed those lingering rumors.

I was really shocked, because that was him having fun. Every report was coming out that he was depressed and that [the role] was taking this toll on him, and we're going, honestly, it was the absolute opposite. It couldn't be more wrong. He had an amazing sense of humor, and I guess maybe only his family and friends knew that, but he was having fun. He wasn't depressed about the Joker!

Heath certainly seemed to enjoy playing the Joker, and fans felt the same way about his performance. He was posthumously awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. But there's no question that the role was challenging for him. He told The New York Times in 2007 that filming The Dark Knight had taken a toll, adding that he was having sleep problems:

Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

However, I Am Heath Ledger establishes that Heath had struggled with sleep problems for his entire life. The toxic combination of drugs found in his system after his death included sleep aids, which his family says were used by the 28-year-old to maintain an overly rigorous work schedule.

Maintaining that he did not have an opioid addiction, the Ledgers say he simply did not understand the dangerous interactions of the different medications he was taking, and suffered the consequences in the worst possible way. It was a tragically senseless end to the life of an immensely talented young actor.

A mural of Michelle Obama dressed as an Egyptian queen that popped up on an apartment building in Chicago last week has become quite controversial because the man who put it there is being accused of stealing the image from another artist.

Last fall, an Ethiopian art student based in New York named Gelila Mesfin created a portrait of Michelle Obama based off this one that appeared in The New York Times. At the end of October, the 24-year-old posted her original artwork to Instagram:

This past Friday, a nearly identical portrait showed up on the side of a building on the south side of Chicago as a mural, The Washington Post reports. However, Mesfin had not been contacted about nor credited for the painting.

Though Mesfin was initially flattered to see her artwork turned into a mural, she soon found that the person who painted it, artist and urban planner Chris Devins, seemed to have profited from it, as he raised $12,000 on a GoFundMe page. Devins also appeared to suggest to local media that the concept for the portrait was solely his idea.

"I wanted to present her as what I think she is, so she’s clothed as an Egyptian queen," Devins told DNAinfo on Friday.

Just hours after Devins' Michelle Obama mural went up, word got back to Mesfin. She condemned Devins' use of her artwork without crediting her in a viral Instagram post.

Mesfin's Instagram quickly spread and sparked a storm of outrage on social media.

Though Devins was apologetic, he said he didn't know it was someone else's work. He told The Washington Post that he never intended to rip off Mesfin's design and that he came across the image on Pinterest, and was unable to track down the original artist. He says that all the money he raised went to painting the mural.

“I didn’t find out until she complained online that it was her image,” he said. “That’s why I didn’t give her any credit.” (Apparently, he's never heard of Google's reverse image search?)

Devins has since released multiple statements apologizing to Mesfin and crediting the original image of Michelle Obama to her. The two are currently negotiating a resolution to the issue. Mesfin has asked her followers not to insult Devins while they work it out.

“I understand why he did it. At the same time, I was just surprised,” Mesfin told The Washington Post. “It would have been fine if he had just said that he got it from me.”

Last week, Katy Perry flexed her cosplay muscles with a Guy Fieri-inspired look...

...and now she has slipped into something even spicier.

With a nude-ish body suit and tight French braids, Katy Perry transformed into Kim Kardashian—giving you yet another Kardashian to keep up with.

Look! They're identical hair twins!

(Note: How is there not already a Katy Kardashian? You'd think that Kris Jenner would name one of her girls Katy, which is already a K-name, before she'd switch out a C for Khloé. What a mystery.)

Katy Perry tagged all the Kardashians on her Instagram pic, making it a family affair.

The picture got over a million likes, and a few particularly big ones.

That's three fire emojis and three kissy-face emojis, amounting to high praise from Kim Kardashian herself.

Katy Perry dressing up like you is a real next-level selfie.

Blockbuster went bankrupt in 2010 and closed most of its remaining stores by 2014, leaving those of us who came of age in the era of home video rentals with a deep, cavernous void in our souls. Sure, we can now watch literally anything we want online. But what about the comfort of browsing those iconic blue VHS cases for hours trying to choose the "perfect" movie?

It's simply not the same.

So we can all probably relate to this autistic man from South Texas was bummed about the Blockbuster in his neighborhood closing. To cushion the blow, his parents did the sweetest thing imaginable.

They👏 recreated👏Blockbuster👏in👏their👏home👏

And then they surprised him with it.

And he looks very, very happy about it.

The man's brother, Javier Zuniga, tweeted out photos of the mock-Blockbuster (Mockbuster?) on Twitter and people are losing it.

The tweet has gone viral, of course. And everyone is in emoji-tears over the family's sweet gesture.

In case you were wondering, according to Zuniga, their local Blockbuster just closed this past weekend.

Which means... there have been people who had access to Blockbuster stores this whole time?!?!?

If true, this gives us even more reason to cry (this time for selfish reasons).

Clearly we all need a Blockbuster in our homes. And a good cry.