As you might know by now, I’m a story faker on Reddit, or I was. I haven’t even opened Reddit in days and I’m detoxing.

However, I wonder what are your opinions on fake Reddit stories. Some people seem to take them very seriously, but I don’t know what a bigger amount of people think about it. Do you care? You don’t care? You find them entertaining? Or it makes you upset when you discover a story is fake?

What if you realized a story that deals in heavy topics turns out to be fake? Something that real people might have real trauma about?

I’m kinda beating myself for making so many fake stories and I’m overthinking a lot about what people really think about it, maybe I’m making it a bigger deal in my head than what it really is.

  • oshitwaddup@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Realistically it probably doesn’t matter much. You could probably become one of those legendary posters where there’s always a twist at the end (e.g. the guy whose dad is always beating him with jumper cables) if you enjoy it but feel bad deceiving people, or put in your account bio that you like to make up stories.