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People who're desperately seeking the dark secrets of others. This never made sense to me for anyone to ask and a lot of the answers are usually things that aren't that dark to begin with, like someone hiding their alcoholism or using drugs. Those kind of things are unfortunately expected of people. What people who ask for dark secrets really want, is something so that they can have dirt on you to feel better about themselves over. It's always that.
Soft-ball questions that come out boring like "What's your favorite...?" or "If you had a time machine what would you do?" or "What would you do if you had a lot of money?" because they just come off monotonous to engage with.
Speaking of money, lots of money-related questions. You know, don't ask me what I'd do with a million dollars unless you're going to actually give me a million dollars. Otherwise, I don't like the idea of sitting here and typing a theoretical answer to something I'm never going to have.