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.
Many years ago I posted a true story on r/nosleep or r/letsnotmeet (forget which) bc I didn’t realize most of those stories are fake. It was frustrating to realize my weird situation that I wanted other people to know about and empathize with me about (bc the cops did nothing) was largely ignored.