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Correct me if I am wrong but most of those “personal stories” are pure fiction right?

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On Reddit I haven’t read a true story since the 💩🔪 story.

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I suspect some are AI and others may be creative writing exercises. Some portion are probably real.

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Many of the exaggerated stories are fiction. But there are plenty of Redditors posting pictures of things they saw locally and other information which some could consider sensitive.

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Based on your question I thought you were referencing subs like confessions, AITAH etc. Not pics of dumb animals or kids.

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Don’t get me wrong, I was referencing those too. In general, when I visited Reddit there were a lot of personal stories and pictures. These can often provide a unique pov which is not found in the news.

Lemmy is more a forum where people discuss the news. The comments are far more advanced and interesting than Reddit. But because people (including me) are far more privacy minded, I feel like they rarely post personal experiences. This might be an unfixable dillemma.

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I just assume they meant the cum box

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99% minimum

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We are neighbors! I’m at 1342!!! (jk)

(does anyone remember the subr*ddit where everyone pretends to be in the same town?)

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Liar. All Ohio zip codes start with 4

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I know I am wary of doxxing myself, there’s so many times I’ve withheld commenting because my stories are too specific. I’ve probably shared too much already and do think about just starting over with a new account sometimes. This is my 4th account by now?

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do think about just starting over with a new account sometimes.

That’s just a good practice. Change the handle with some regularity but it does get annoying to set everything up each time

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My name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroyo Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104. This is my confession. If you’re watching this tape, I’m probably dead, murdered by my brother-in-law Hank Schrader. Hank has been building a meth empire for over a year now and using me as his chemist. Shortly after my 50th birthday, Hank came to me with a rather, shocking proposition. He asked that I use my chemistry knowledge to cook methamphetamine, which he would then sell using his connections in the drug world. Connections that he made through his career with the DEA. I was… astounded, I… I always thought that Hank was a very moral man and I was… thrown, confused, but I was also particularly vulnerable at the time, something he knew and took advantage of. I was reeling from a cancer diagnosis that was poised to bankrupt my family. Hank took me on a ride along, and showed me just how much money even a small meth operation could make. And I was weak. I didn’t want my family to go into financial ruin so I agreed. Every day, I think back at that moment with regret. I quickly realized that I was in way over my head, and Hank had a partner, a man named Gustavo Fring, a businessman. Hank essentially sold me into servitude to this man, and when I tried to quit, Fring threatened my family. I didn’t know where to turn. Eventually, Hank and Fring had a falling out. From what I can gather, Hank was always pushing for a greater share of the business, to which Fring flatly refused to give him, and things escalated. Fring was able to arrange, uh I guess I guess you call it a “hit” on my brother-in-law, and failed, but Hank was seriously injured, and I wound up paying his medical bills which amounted to a little over $177,000. Upon recovery, Hank was bent on revenge, working with a man named Hector Salamanca, he plotted to kill Fring, and did so. In fact, the bomb that he used was built by me, and he gave me no option in it. I have often contemplated suicide, but I’m a coward. I wanted to go to the police, but I was frightened. Hank had risen in the ranks to become the head of the Albuquerque DEA, and about that time, to keep me in line, he took my children from me. For 3 months he kept them. My wife, who up until that point, had no idea of my criminal activities, was horrified to learn what I had done, why Hank had taken our children. We were scared. I was in Hell, I hated myself for what I had brought upon my family. Recently, I tried once again to quit, to end this nightmare, and in response, he gave me this. I can’t take this anymore. I live in fear every day that Hank will kill me, or worse, hurt my family. I… All I could think to do was to make this video in hope that the world will finally see this man, for what he really is.

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I snorted, I loves me some Breaking Bad copypasta haha

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wtf is this a copypasta lol

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It’s from the tv show Breaking Bad.

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I mean those personal stores on Reddit are all made up

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Most of them. The sonnet I wrote about wanting to poop when I was in the hospital with a bowel obstruction? I’m pretty sure that’s still there.

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The only post made while not actively pooping

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you know it. probably the only few days that year i wasn’t actively pooping 24/7

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Indeed. What personal stories?

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Even worse the majority of them are just reposts by bots scraping old personal stories people wrote, in addition to stories entirely made up by bots.

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