i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!
Creative writing presented as truth
Oh man, this is something I definitely hope to never see again. I’m so tired of the unbelievable TIFUs, AITAs, and/or OffMyChests with thousands of upvotes that had obviously fake stories.
The worst one (in recent history) was that TIFU with the student who slept with their professor’s daughter.
Part 1: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1379pge/tifu_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/
Part 2: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/137u9bk/tifupdate_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/
Part 3: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1391lmj/tifupdate_i_cuckolded_my_professor/
I hope this kind of bullshit never happens here.
It will, there will always be charlatans looking to get their jollies by lying for an audience.
I sometimes wonder if Reddit was hiring writers to write those posts to drive engagement.
Those are pretty annoying, and 90% of them are brand new accounts created for the sole purpose of posting their fake story :|
/r/nosleep went from genuine scary but plausible stories to literal vampire fanfic porn. One of the worst pivots in reddit history.
The worst part about this is that even though most of the people in the comments can see how painfully fake this story is, there’s at least some people on the first post arguing in ernest about the story’s “plausibility”. Tells you everything you need to know about redditors, really. And that’s not even getting into the tens of thousands of upvotes this drivel got even when everyone was actively making fun of the story for how fake it is in the comments.
Or pics being grounds for sob stories and creative writing prompts to get more upvotes on theur shitty pictures. That’s why I unsubbed from r/pics and subbed to /r/nocontextpics. Cool photos, no sob stories.
nocontextpics and the cat sub where you could only type .Cat was the only picture hevy subs I stayed on. Far to many sob stories on the other ones.
