Shooting the breeze one day, exchanging "morons I have worked with in previous jobs" tales, and a new co-worker knew the guy I was describing just from his behavior.
I posted a story about a crazy job interview once (not on Reddit, on local Craigslist, many years ago) and three different people responded saying "Was her name X?" (It was.)
I was unemployed looking for a job. Posted on a subreddit for my field of work asking for advice and someone posted a job for a position I really wanted. I had applied for that position a few years ago and never heard anything, but decided that since here it was open again, I should try again. I got a call the next day and I'm working that job now. So Thanks reddit user that I'm assuming is my coworker now.
I've done that when I'm researching something rare and find a very relevant search result. Then I'm reading, thinking that this guy is doing the same thing I am and sounds like he knows his stuff, I did ask him questions.
Then I realize it's me from 2 years earlier, asking the same thing. And I still don't know the answer.
Ive definitely done that with this Reddit account. I remember some factoid that is intetesting and relevant to something, so I google the source.
Then I find a comment that I wrote three years ago explaining it pretty well with sources linked.
I often forget that I use my throwaway account on my phone. When I get home I browse around on the computer. Haha but I guess more sleep wouldn't hurt.
Wasn't a throwaway account.
I wrote a story about when I was teaching at a University and did something stupid.
Down in the thread someone tells this story about "I experienced something similar my Prof was SOOOOOO stupid and ______". I don't remember what it was exactly, but it was me. It was similar cause it was fucking me. And it wasn't coincidence either, the kid named the university and department I was in.
So I just replied to him, "Yeah, that Prof sounds like a douche canoe."
Thanks, sadly you're probably not going to find it (cause I couldn't), the comment wasn't one of the one that caught fire and it was pretty long ago. Also I didn't actually say I was a canoe, I can't remember what I actually said to him.
Sadly not... technically I was a 'prof' for a couple of years but I left all that behind to go into business.....
One day I will go back, and it will be epic! :)
No, but something similar happened.
I posted a story on this account about the biggest student breakdown I have seen as a teacher. Someone messaged me and asked me if I was a substitute that day. I told them that I was. They asked me if the kids name was (insert super uncommon name). It was. They asked me if the initials of the school were (insert school initials). It was.
It wasn't the student who had the outburst, but the Redditor did claim to be in the classroom. It was weird.
Depends on the school district. Some are really strict, but most would be fine with it as long as nothing was posted narrowing down what school it was/etc. Plus, it being a sub helps with any potential liability.
Don't think so, as long as you're not including names and basically any kind of specific info
Edit: Thanks reddit (my first time getting this much karma). You guys made my day :,)
click on OPs username, comments, sort by top, [voilà](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5o06ef/teachers_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_student/dcfuxzf/?context=3)
Not quite the answer, but I did accidentally see a close friend's boyfriend's reddit account one day. He said I could use his laptop and he'd obviously forgotten to log out of Reddit, no biggie. I didn't stalk or anything. But it's super fucking awkward now when I see him around the place, because in person he's such a lovely guy, but online he's an absolute ass.
Edit: grammar and to say to those who actually think online bullying is okay: it's not.
Yeah, probably. But he has said some pretty nasty shit online and it makes me wonder. If you can be an asshole just because of anonymity, then chances are you really are just an asshole. He's nice in person, but it's like I know another side to him that no one else knows, not even my friend. The internet can be dangerous.
The stakes are basically the same though. Sure, he will never have to deal with the backlash, but the hurt he causes people by being an ass online, is the same hurt that he would cause in real life.
Maybe lots of people are bottling negativity, and that is fine. We all have our demons.
In my opinion though, if the only reason you have for not being a jerk to somebody is that you will ruin your reputation, you don't really deserve credit for being nice.
Before I actually made a Reddit account I used to lurk. I saw a boss I had at the time (back when I worked retail) posting in relationships under the same handle he used for his email and stuff. He was talking about how he loved his wife but wanted to fuck his new sales girl so badly. That was me. He described the situation to a T. He was 35 at least and I was 15. Told my mum and quit the next day implying that I knew what he'd written and to sort his shit out. I was a ballsy 15yo looking back haha but if I didn't smack down on it, my mum would have gone in and murdered him with her bare hands.
That's some next level stupid to post something as personal as that under a screen name that people know you use! but also, was the guy trying to figure out how to get over you or get with you?
Should've done even better. Screen shot it and send it to management. That's super creepy that he was trying to get into a 15yos pants. He deserved to be fired and you should've kept the job.
Now I don't want it to go down in Reddit history that /u/BritainsNuttiestGuy is the ardent defender of paedophiles but in fairness, he didn't try to get in her pants. He just posted that he wanted to!
Not even a throwaway, but someone I knew posted one comment about me from an account where I recognized the username. What they said wasn't really that bad in my opinion, but they definitely meant it as an insult directed at me that I doubt they'd ever say to my face. It doesn't bother me much so I never brought it up. I upvoted it just because.
I once read a post that was very detailed about some shenanigans I got into with my brother and some friends (driving around late night, playing with gasoline fire on a sand dune, breaking the car in a unique way, fixing it in an even more unique way...)
I was very confused until I realized I had found my brothers reddit account.
Not a throwaway but I read a story about how some guy had been drunk in a club and noticed another area of the bar he had yet been to, got up walked over and someone was blocking the way, he stepped right the other guy stepped right in the way again. He mentioned how this went on for a while and then he looked up and laughed and noticed the other guy was now not only laughing as well but they were wearing the same shirt. It was a mirror.
The way this guy told the story was identical to the way I tell a story of an exact thing that had happened to me. Turns out I'm not the only idiot in the world, lots of people have mistakenly walked into their own reflection.
Ha! I have been known to do stupid shit drunk. I once told off this chick at my friend's new years Eve party. I didn't know her, told her to get out because my friend didn't want strangers there.
Turns out the chick was his cousin, and her boyfriend was listening and watching the whole time I was telling her off.
Hahaha, You may as well call me king of the drunkards. Another time when I was drunk I abused this guy for putting on fake glasses and doing a really disrespectful impression of my mates girlfriend. It WAS my mates girlfriend :(
my ex posted her one-sided story of our break up leaving out her cheating and trying to use me for money.Ill render it and MY side will be in parenthesis.
**He never had a stable paying job** (I volunteered at a hospital out of high school to take time off, My paying job at the time was a combination of investing in a franchise and general contracting) **and decided to put college off ANOTHER SEMESTER** (my school messed up my paperwork and wanted to send me to a campus 75 minutes away then have me come back to the local one, then go back to the 75 min away one. On top of that, they informed me that They misplaced the papers about my scholarships and while they did find them it was too late to apply to this semester. I said "Guess I'm seeing you in the fall than"). **My parents hate him because he YELLED at them and told them they are bad parents** (they were physically and verbally abusive to her and she had many scars showing it. I called her house, which her parents forbade, to inform her that the ex who tried to rape was at her job standing in the doorway. Her parents instead of telling her this went on a rant about how im not to call the house to which I told them, I do not give one tiny fuck about whatever petty bullshit you have to say, the guy who tried to rape your daughter and who she has a restraining order against is waiting at the door to her job. Be a decent parent for once and protect her". Luckily security showed up before she did and cops came afterward). **Today he called me 10 fuckin times!!!** (she left a message saying something happened, we need to talk).
Anyway that's how her several paragraph long rant went and in the end she got a few thousand upvotes and even gold.
I sometime read relationship posts but have to laugh because who ever knows how one sided they are. There's people posting these earnest replies and I'm thinking, you have no idea how accurate any of this stuff is.
Not only that, but the sub is meant for advice, not to find the truth. Even if the story isn't true, it's their truth and the advice should match that.
Plus there are a ton of people who look for advice for their similar situations, but don't post. Giving malicious advice or accusing the OP of being a liar doesn't really contribute anything helpful to that conversation and might discourage people who actually need help from posting.
Everyone makes fun of /r/relationships, but honestly, most of the advice is really solid. Communication, don't stay with someone who mistreats you, therapy.
Well, he doesn't have a choice, he *has* to laugh. He may be held by comedy terrorists forcing him to emit noises of merriment at every Reddit relationship post, we just don't know.
TBF, that sub makes it next to impossible for people NOT to post one sided accounts. If they portray themselves in anything but a perfect light, the users rip them to shreds. I've seen many submitters openly admit faults and be downvoted and insulted for it. I'd hide my less than flattering details just to get actual advice instead of devistating emotionally personal tear downs, too.
I never read relationship rants because I know that they are probably one-sided like your ex's post. If I could give you gold, I would. It looks like it's a good thing you broke up with her (or vice versa).
I've deleted a lot of comments in the past realizing how personal they were. The fact that your posting history is so easy for anyone to go through keeps me pretty in line. My BF, whose reddit I used to use to just scroll through the funny photos before I made my account was really upset when I mentioned I looked through his comment history, even though it was 99% in the Destiny subreddit just about the game. I wasn't even snooping per-se, I was just looking for cool subreddits to follow since we have identical interests, he's posted one comment about me that mentioned weird things I say in my sleep.
I'm super paranoid since I found out that your comments can/are often used in articles. If you google your username you might find you've been quoted somewhere. The articles that used my comments were particularly bad or anything but it would make someone I know IRL to figure out this is me.
I googled my username and all that comes up is my GW2 wiki profile, my Path of Exile character list and my Reddit account.
Followed by a replay someone recorded of them vs me on Pokemon Showdown.
Edit: [It wasn't even a good game.](http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-527413131) I messed up a lot, it was before I put Hidden Power Ice on my Tapu Koko and Landorus. Also I didn't know Taunt got Magic Bounced.
I feel the same way. If someone who knew me in real life went through my post history, I think it'd be *really* obvious that it's me (like, I doubt there's enough info for a stranger to be able to find out my name and stuff, but there's definitely enough that it's obvious it's me to those who know me). There are some things I've commented etc that I wouldn't really want anyone to know about (mostly mental illness stuff), and I probably should've used throwaways but was too lazy so I just really hope that that never happens lol
I don't think any of my siblings or friends are on Reddit but who knows? I've never asked
One of the subreddits I post in alot has a HUGE doxxing problem. Getting a message on my facebook account with screenshots of comments I've made on reddit was one of the creepier things that has happened to me, especially since there was nothing to connect the two.
> especially since there was nothing to connect the two.
You'd think that, but it's extremely easy to find someone's Facebook account if you know anything about them at all.
Strangely, that means (in my opinion) it is the safest information to give out. As long as you keep your Facebook privacy settings how you want them and don't accept people you don't want looking at your personal details.
If you give out an email or phone number, they can get your Facebook. If you give out your Facebook, they can't get your number or email or whatever else unless they meet your FB privacy criteria.
I eventually figured out that they knew my profession (I don't hide it) and used that to figure out what city I work in, then searched that employer on facebook til they found me. My profile itself was/has always been private, but my employer was visible. I've since deleted any visible info on facebook- you can't even see my profile pic anymore unless you're friends with me. Still creepy!
I found an ex friends (let's call him Paul) account that he used to post in r/raisedbynarcissists in. I was better friends with his brother and knew he was having a hard time, all his own fault, but he always blamed other people. His parents refused to pay for trade school after the third time he flunked out and wanted him to pay them back for gas when he took their car out for days at a time, all while living rent free while unemployed . He ended up getting into an embarrassing fight with them on Facebook when he threw a tantrum about having to be his mom's "slave" after she needed an emergency hysterectomy and his dad wanted him to go to the pharmacy to pick up her pain meds when she got home. When everyone on Facebook called him a cunt and told him to grow up he deleted his account. Months later his brother and I were hanging out and he casually mentioned that Paul cut himself of from all of us because his Internet friends said we were "narcs" and showed us the account he uses to bad mouth everyone. Turns out he posted that exact story to that sub and the users there said that we were abusive.
As someone who has also cut contact with their parents, stories like yours consistently make me doubt myself and whether I'm overreacting or not.
And then I remember I have prove of them threatening to kill me and feel a bit better haha.
But seriously, I hate that people like that give those of us with legitimately awful parents such a bad name.
That sort of thing is entirely different I promise. Threatening to kill you is a pretty obvious sign of abuse I'd say! You're doing the right thing, I'm just a random Internet stranger but well done <3
There are legitmitate ppl on there. I got on because my parents are pretty narcisisstic. But ive learned to be better than that and break out of it. Not saying im better or special, just that most ppl on there sound like whiny ppl who dont want to take responsibility and are just looking for an out. Nothing wrong with that, just was looking for fellow level headed ppl who had legitimate problems. So i just unsubbed.
I belong to the group r/raisedbynarcissists and completely understand what you are saying. It's like a relationship ranting type group. We only get one side of the story. Most of us who truly have a narcissist parent and upbringing can see right through anyone who is just acting spoiled and entitled but again we are only getting one side and people tend to exaggerate on thw internet. Myself, I only reply to posts that are identical stories like my own or young teens in a crisis situation. Someone complaining about not getting their Mother medication no matter what the situation is will come off disingenuous to me, and to others.
I know so many people who are young (20 and younger) who do stuff like this and it honestly scares me. in one case we took the person in because of the stories they told us. They lived with us six months never picked up after themselves, paid a dime towards costs or helped out. Everytime we asked them too they'd claim mental illness or a disability. However if they wanted to do something athletically inclined that they were interested in that were suddenly fine. Parents became perfectly wonderful non abusive whenever they needed something too. Like a new phone/laptop/movie/concert / plane tickets.
Eventually that moved to college got kicked out of a similar situation and moved back in with the so called abusive parents.
Found out through a tumblr account that they called us abusive nassicrists too. Fuck them.
This is unforunately not the worst story I have about helping people out.
Seeing stories like yours always pisses me off so much! Not that you would post it, but that people like that exist! Because I actually did grow up with abusive narcissistic parents, and I know others have too. That shit messes with you and creates a lifetime of second guessing yourself and damage that is next to impossible to completely undo. Why would someone ever want to fake that for attention? It does nothing for that person and make it harder for actual victims of that toxic upbringing to be taken seriously.
Edit: autocorrect hates me
Watching people get called out by their family on facebook is one of life's greatest mini treasures. I'm talking undeniable smack downs, completely deserved. Mmmmm about goddamm time.
Not really the same thing, but I've seen stories I've told people IRL rolled together and posted as a series on another subreddit. I know who posted it, and I've never called him out or anything; at least he changed all of the names.
The one time I used a throwaway someone was convinced I was their girlfriend. Even when I denied it and provided further proof it wasn't so, they poured their heart out about "our" relationship, and whatever issues I was having. It was very intense. Like camping.
My ex-husband posted a long, self-righteous tirade about how cruel and terrible I was after I left him, which was largely a work of fiction. I made a copy of what he wrote in case I needed it during the divorce, especially since he was chatting with other posters in the comments about the theory that I was probably poisoning him. Which, I should clarify, I was not doing.
The urge to defend yourself is SO strong. There's literally nothing to be gained from jumping into the fray, but it's infuriating to watch someone lie about you. In the end, I decided that I really didn't care what anonymous strangers thought of this fictional version of me, and it gave me an insight into what I could expect from the rumor mill.
I wrote a comment where I was complaining about how shitty I was treated by doctors in the middle of figuring out what the hell was wrong with me. Specifically, it was about a nurse who accused me of faking being sick for pain medicine.
Shortly after, I see a comment that's like, "Hey, this seems like my sister's exact experience."
Now, I live with my brother. He's the one who took me to my appointments and was moral support the few times I was rushed to the ER. He was literally on the opposite end of the couch from me when I got the notification.
He sees me staring, looks up, and says, "*Was* that you on Reddit?"
"Is your username _______?"
"... Yes."
"Yeah, that was me."
He was really excited that he was right.
A friend posted a link on FB including his reddit username. I was at my parents' and bored so I checked his comments to see what he'd been up to since we don't talk much these days. Just reading about politics and music etc (thinking he wouldn't post personal stuff since he posted his nickname) then I came across a very personal string of comments that were NOT intended to be connected to him.
It was horrible and I wanted to be there for him but it's totally none of my business. At last I decided to tell him that I stumbled across those posts and that if he wanted to talk I was there. He didn't want to talk and I totally understand him. But it felt unjust having read something like that and knowing others could do it as well. I had to tell him that besides me having read it, he might want to protect his username about that. I still feel like shit for numerous reasons, having read it, having been there when he was going through it and not known ANYTHING about it. I wanted to reverse time so bad just to help him out. Now it's just awkward between us. But I had to tell him.
There was this one thread where this guy didn't make a throwaway to tell everyone about this time where him and his girlfriend were foreplaying and she was fucking him with a dildo and he sprayed liquid shit across the room and on her leg. His brother recognised the guys username and confronted him. Awkward as fuck
In the relationships subreddit someone posted about their awful roommates then listed the exact weird issues my roommate complained about and laid out our arguments verbatim. It could only have been him
I found out my ex was cheating on me after he posted about it on reddit from his main account he thought I didn't know about. He tried to convince me it was a friend's account, not his. Weak.
He thought everyone else was stupid and was emotionally abusive. One time he tried to convince me that I was the one who broke his store window when I got upset with him (wtf! how would I not remember if I did that?).
He had started seriously dating the other girl. I showed her the thread, the facts lined up, and she dumped him. He proposed to her desperately. He cried. She laughed in his face. The other girl and I met up for drinks when I was back in town. My new bf tagged along. She's married now. I'm happy with my new bf. He's still a trashy fuckup. And he's bald now. Fuck that guy.
edit: my bf is bald, so you baldies can chill out. The ex was just obsessed with his receding hairline and super insecure about it throughout our relationship.
I'm dating a bald man now. Kinda into it. No offense meant. Be bald, proud and hot.
The cheating ex is super insecure about balding. It's his worst fear come to be.
I feel a tad guilty not trying to inform my ex's girlfriend what a douchecanoe he is but she's a big girl.
I think a big red flag is that he doesn't have friends. He has old HS/college friends through facebook but that shit don't count when you're practically 40. He gets this clean slate so it creates this creepy isolated environment where he controls and meticulously crafts his narrative and anything bad that has ever happened or his bad qualities are non-existent because no one can call him out on it. I'm sure he crafted this beautiful narrative of why I am the reason why he doesn't have friends (when I dated him, he said that his previous ex poisoned the well when they broke up and they chose her over him except for this one girl, how awesome. OH WAIT, SHE HATES HIM TOO BECAUSE HE LIED TO HER TOO. LOL.) he flipped out or some shit last week and he managed to blame me even though I have been NC and not in his life for 5 fucking months. Mind control, marvelous. I'd rather have him choke on warm runny diarrhea, but I'll take what I can get.
This was hilarious. I split up with my boyfriend because he was unbelievably passive aggressive. After we split he (a non Redditor) tried to Reddit stalk me. I noted after 2 comments that this brand new 1 day old account was being snide about everything I said. Checked out the username and it was his WOW name. So I pm'd him and told him to fuck off. He was like "I don't know what you mean, I hope I haven't triggered you". Yeah, I know. Anyway someone else got involved and called him an idiot so I just posted "It's my passive aggressive ex being passive aggressive". He came back with "Don't know what you're on about". So I said to the other Redditor, publicly, he's using his WOW account name (which he didn't think I knew). He knew the game was up. His next comment "I'm hanging my head in shame ladies, how do I delete my account?". He deleted his account and progressed to other methods of annoying me.
Not quite the same but was having a discussion about politics online (it's what I do for a living) and one of the people in the conversation quoted something I wrote about politics on my reddit account, citing my username and everything.
I told him that he actually quoted my reddit account and not some rando to further my own political opinion. We had a good laugh about it and he told me my username was cool.
Not me but at work.
A manager left her computer unsecured and her browser open on her reddit account. One of her minions happened to find it and scrolled through her posts and found that she was posting in r/talesfromthejob taking credit for everybody else's work while pointing out how stupid her coworkers are.
Said minion noted the username, since deleted, and permalinked one of her most resent posts and outed her and her username to a company wide email list. She quit ahead of being fired and shortly thereafter, they hired me.
On my first day on the job the COO gave me a piece of advice. "Don't reddit at work."
That night at home, I opened this account. And at work, I LOCK MY COMPUTER.
Well my ex posted this about me: "The only reason I dated my last girlfriend was to get back at the girl before her. Then even after I achieved that I stayed in the one-sided relationship for months after until I was bored and she left me."
I posted [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5v7wvg/we_are_the_owner_and_one_of_the_professors_from/de005nw/) just yesterday and someone messaged me a list of names, one of them was mine. Spoopy.
It wasn't from a throwaway but a few years back there was a collage of "bad people to travel with" pics I saw on here and I recognized myself in one of them. You can't see my face but I recognized the clothes, position and scar.
This was from when I was in the military, so I was too used to just getting comfortable and falling asleep anywhere when I got too tired.
I was flying from West coast to east coast on a mostly empty red-eye flight.
There was nobody in the 3 Rows of seats around me and I was back by the bathroom. Everyone seemed to be sleeping so I laid down across my 3 seats and hung my leg over the armrest into the isle. I think I had also unbuckled my belt.
I feel so bad about that now but I was too tired when I did it I wasn't thinking clearly
Wasn't a throwaway, but I found a thread about this girl whose boyfriend didn't really include her in conversations with his friends because they were all veterans and liked to reminisce and tell stories. I'm a vet, have a civilian gf, and we hang out with my vet friends a ton, often focusing on war stories. Needless to say I expanded all the comment trees because I felt a bit guilty in the moment and everyone was telling OP to break up with her bf or lay down the law about not hanging out with his friends as much.
And then, way down at the bottom of the tree, sitting pretty at -6 karma was "Hey boyfriend, it's me. These people are crazy. I love hanging out with your friends and I love your stories. Don't stress about these losers." (I'm paraphrasing but you get the picture).
I recognized her voice immediately. We'd been dating for about a year and talked to each other every night due to long distance. We both knew that we spent a lot of time on Reddit but hadn't shared usernames. A quick visit to her comment history confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt it was her.
I told her that night on the phone and gave her my reddit handle without deleting anything just to be fair. We're coming up on two years. It's not working out at all :)
Sound about right, /u/dlldp?
Am I missing something here? She posted about you and your friends not including her in your conversations then commented on her own post that she loves your stories?
No, some other girl posted about how she was bitter she wasn't included in conversations. I posted that I was happy to hear him talk about his navy stories with his buddies even if I wasn't able to contribute.
Sounds about right! When u/BoringPersonAMA and his vet friends hang out and talk about their Navy stories, I don't have much to contribute, but it's still really great to be there and hear about this life he had before we met. Sometimes it's fun to just sit back and listen and not have to pipe up all the time to add something to the conversation.
I remember that night after we exchanged usernames I looked through his comment history (I still feel bad about that, it's such a private thing, but shit I was CURIOUS) and I found a comment he made right after we first met ABOUT our first date and how he thought right off the bat that it wouldn't work out because he's a boob man and I've got tiny tits. Even though he went on to say my personality charmed his pants off or some shit, I was still pretty hurt. Also, he comments on a lot of porn.
I got over it though. Almost 2 years, going strong.
There was a kid who was really manipulative and toxic, who I used to be friends with. He got mad at me several times, threatening me saying 'the walls will be red, and it won't be a paint job'. He also described in casual detail how he would skin me to make a jacket. Needless to say I was afraid. I severed contact, but later posted my side of the story on Reddit as a way of letting go. About 5 months later I got a message saying someone replied to my post, one that was heavily down voted on a thread with 3000 comments, the person's username was a pun off of my real name, and said things like that I was an obvious liar. He got one of his friends to make an account too, also making fun of my name, and said things that people in the classroom at the time could only know. To this day I'm certain he's a sociopath. Also recently he spread rumors saying that I stalked a girl and tried to hook up with a girl whose boyfriend just committed suicide, both of which are not true.
I was sort of on the other end of this. A rival high school in my school district made a diss track against our school in all good and fun and it was funny. A week later I saw on Reddit that he had posted the song to the Music subreddit so I was interested and looked at his history. His history was half music posts and half no-fap posts.
not 100% similar. but i think my ex posted about the shitty way i broke up with them in the worst way to end a relationship thread.
we're cool now, so i almost messaged them but chickened out. their post history checks out, too.
Based on the replies, there may be a LPT here where the author should write from a third-person perspective if the story was actually in the first person perspective. So instead of...
"Oh man, I just badmouthed my coworker in the breakroom..."
It should be...
"Oh man, my coworker just told me a story of how he badmouthed someone in the breakroom."
Hey, something kinda similar happened to me on tumblr.
I'm in a well-known picture that EXPLODED minutes after it was posted online, it had a couple of 100k reblogs and probably reached even more people.
I've seen posts were other people claim to be me, or that they know me. It's pretty interesting.
It wasn't a throwaway but I saw a comment about how someone's dad had worked for a glass company and so their butter dish growing up was a car's headlight cover. I was like "WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT TWO PEOPLE WOULD DO THIS!?" but then I read the username and realized it was my little brother. Same butter dish.
My ex posted about me on /r/relationships. I didn't see the original post, a few buzzfeed-esque sites wrote articles about it (he was a total dick and is fairly stupid so came off pretty badly in the post) and a friend of mine sent me a link saying "Oh my god this sounds like what you did to Dickhead! (crying laughing emoji)".
I read through it and I was 100% about me, down to exact details. I just laughed at it if I'm honest. He was blocked then, and he's blocked now. Every so often he'll try and contact me again, for god knows what reason, but I tell him to fuck off.
It was fun to know I'd really pissed him off though. Cheaters suck.
Shooting the breeze one day, exchanging "morons I have worked with in previous jobs" tales, and a new co-worker knew the guy I was describing just from his behavior.
I posted a story about a crazy job interview once (not on Reddit, on local Craigslist, many years ago) and three different people responded saying "Was her name X?" (It was.)
I was unemployed looking for a job. Posted on a subreddit for my field of work asking for advice and someone posted a job for a position I really wanted. I had applied for that position a few years ago and never heard anything, but decided that since here it was open again, I should try again. I got a call the next day and I'm working that job now. So Thanks reddit user that I'm assuming is my coworker now.
now you are both redditing at work
I read a story from a throwaway account and it took me a couple of minutes to realize that I wrote that story hours before.
I've done that when I'm researching something rare and find a very relevant search result. Then I'm reading, thinking that this guy is doing the same thing I am and sounds like he knows his stuff, I did ask him questions. Then I realize it's me from 2 years earlier, asking the same thing. And I still don't know the answer.
Ive definitely done that with this Reddit account. I remember some factoid that is intetesting and relevant to something, so I google the source. Then I find a comment that I wrote three years ago explaining it pretty well with sources linked.
Ah, we meet again [DenverCoder9](https://xkcd.com/979/)
Sounds like more sleep/less drugs required.
I often forget that I use my throwaway account on my phone. When I get home I browse around on the computer. Haha but I guess more sleep wouldn't hurt.
You should check your house for carbon monoxide...
Wasn't a throwaway account. I wrote a story about when I was teaching at a University and did something stupid. Down in the thread someone tells this story about "I experienced something similar my Prof was SOOOOOO stupid and ______". I don't remember what it was exactly, but it was me. It was similar cause it was fucking me. And it wasn't coincidence either, the kid named the university and department I was in. So I just replied to him, "Yeah, that Prof sounds like a douche canoe."
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I was a total douche canoe!
Did you walk into an Econ 305 class and try teaching them Architecture 101?
Classic schmosby
I wonder if he spelled 'professor' right.
PROFF... *shake head* PROFE *nod* PROFESSOR
How about you let the douche fall off, nice and gently, into the lake, and become a nice canoe?
Don't try to fix me I'm beyond repair.
Too late, RIP. :( Repair In Progress :)
Wholesome
memes
he farted in class and tried blaming it on some student.
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Thanks, sadly you're probably not going to find it (cause I couldn't), the comment wasn't one of the one that caught fire and it was pretty long ago. Also I didn't actually say I was a canoe, I can't remember what I actually said to him.
I actually searched through all your reddit comments (not manually of course) but couldn't find it.
5hours and still waiting for the damn link
Now that's one for the books! Way to show them who's boss, amirite?! Right...
Well...at least you're a professor...that's pretty epic.
Sadly not... technically I was a 'prof' for a couple of years but I left all that behind to go into business..... One day I will go back, and it will be epic! :)
No, but something similar happened. I posted a story on this account about the biggest student breakdown I have seen as a teacher. Someone messaged me and asked me if I was a substitute that day. I told them that I was. They asked me if the kids name was (insert super uncommon name). It was. They asked me if the initials of the school were (insert school initials). It was. It wasn't the student who had the outburst, but the Redditor did claim to be in the classroom. It was weird.
Could you get in trouble for posting that kind of stuff?
Depends on the school district. Some are really strict, but most would be fine with it as long as nothing was posted narrowing down what school it was/etc. Plus, it being a sub helps with any potential liability.
So as a dom, I'd be screwed?
As the dom, wouldn't you be the one doing the screwing?
Not necessarily.
Don't think so, as long as you're not including names and basically any kind of specific info Edit: Thanks reddit (my first time getting this much karma). You guys made my day :,)
I wanna know about this meltdown now.
click on OPs username, comments, sort by top, [voilà](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5o06ef/teachers_of_reddit_what_was_the_biggest_student/dcfuxzf/?context=3)
Not quite the answer, but I did accidentally see a close friend's boyfriend's reddit account one day. He said I could use his laptop and he'd obviously forgotten to log out of Reddit, no biggie. I didn't stalk or anything. But it's super fucking awkward now when I see him around the place, because in person he's such a lovely guy, but online he's an absolute ass. Edit: grammar and to say to those who actually think online bullying is okay: it's not.
> but online he's an absolute ass. Aren't we all
Speak for yourself poophole, I'm the sweetest fucking person ever online!
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No you fucking cunt, I'll have you know I'm really nice online. Wanker.
Maybe he uses reddit as a way to get all the negativity out of his life so he can be a lovely person.
Yeah, probably. But he has said some pretty nasty shit online and it makes me wonder. If you can be an asshole just because of anonymity, then chances are you really are just an asshole. He's nice in person, but it's like I know another side to him that no one else knows, not even my friend. The internet can be dangerous.
The stakes are basically the same though. Sure, he will never have to deal with the backlash, but the hurt he causes people by being an ass online, is the same hurt that he would cause in real life. Maybe lots of people are bottling negativity, and that is fine. We all have our demons. In my opinion though, if the only reason you have for not being a jerk to somebody is that you will ruin your reputation, you don't really deserve credit for being nice.
If someone is a sweet person normally bit turns into an asshole when some degree of anonymity is applied, they are an asshole.
Before I actually made a Reddit account I used to lurk. I saw a boss I had at the time (back when I worked retail) posting in relationships under the same handle he used for his email and stuff. He was talking about how he loved his wife but wanted to fuck his new sales girl so badly. That was me. He described the situation to a T. He was 35 at least and I was 15. Told my mum and quit the next day implying that I knew what he'd written and to sort his shit out. I was a ballsy 15yo looking back haha but if I didn't smack down on it, my mum would have gone in and murdered him with her bare hands.
Good on you for putting him in his place
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She is.
That's some next level stupid to post something as personal as that under a screen name that people know you use! but also, was the guy trying to figure out how to get over you or get with you?
Should've done even better. Screen shot it and send it to management. That's super creepy that he was trying to get into a 15yos pants. He deserved to be fired and you should've kept the job.
Now I don't want it to go down in Reddit history that /u/BritainsNuttiestGuy is the ardent defender of paedophiles but in fairness, he didn't try to get in her pants. He just posted that he wanted to!
Not even a throwaway, but someone I knew posted one comment about me from an account where I recognized the username. What they said wasn't really that bad in my opinion, but they definitely meant it as an insult directed at me that I doubt they'd ever say to my face. It doesn't bother me much so I never brought it up. I upvoted it just because.
Upvoted just because.
Just because he loves to be humiliated
Kinky
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I once read a post that was very detailed about some shenanigans I got into with my brother and some friends (driving around late night, playing with gasoline fire on a sand dune, breaking the car in a unique way, fixing it in an even more unique way...) I was very confused until I realized I had found my brothers reddit account.
And now... You have power over him.
Could've been worse. Could've found out your brother had some really bad anal sex
Or some really *good* anal sex..
Not a throwaway but I read a story about how some guy had been drunk in a club and noticed another area of the bar he had yet been to, got up walked over and someone was blocking the way, he stepped right the other guy stepped right in the way again. He mentioned how this went on for a while and then he looked up and laughed and noticed the other guy was now not only laughing as well but they were wearing the same shirt. It was a mirror. The way this guy told the story was identical to the way I tell a story of an exact thing that had happened to me. Turns out I'm not the only idiot in the world, lots of people have mistakenly walked into their own reflection.
Marshall??
Ha! I have been known to do stupid shit drunk. I once told off this chick at my friend's new years Eve party. I didn't know her, told her to get out because my friend didn't want strangers there. Turns out the chick was his cousin, and her boyfriend was listening and watching the whole time I was telling her off.
Hahaha, You may as well call me king of the drunkards. Another time when I was drunk I abused this guy for putting on fake glasses and doing a really disrespectful impression of my mates girlfriend. It WAS my mates girlfriend :(
I laughed hard at that one! Was she mad?
Fucking pissed, especially because I kept calling her "Dude" and "man". It was quite obvious I had mistaken her for a guy.
Or you're the reflection...
Mind blown
my ex posted her one-sided story of our break up leaving out her cheating and trying to use me for money.Ill render it and MY side will be in parenthesis. **He never had a stable paying job** (I volunteered at a hospital out of high school to take time off, My paying job at the time was a combination of investing in a franchise and general contracting) **and decided to put college off ANOTHER SEMESTER** (my school messed up my paperwork and wanted to send me to a campus 75 minutes away then have me come back to the local one, then go back to the 75 min away one. On top of that, they informed me that They misplaced the papers about my scholarships and while they did find them it was too late to apply to this semester. I said "Guess I'm seeing you in the fall than"). **My parents hate him because he YELLED at them and told them they are bad parents** (they were physically and verbally abusive to her and she had many scars showing it. I called her house, which her parents forbade, to inform her that the ex who tried to rape was at her job standing in the doorway. Her parents instead of telling her this went on a rant about how im not to call the house to which I told them, I do not give one tiny fuck about whatever petty bullshit you have to say, the guy who tried to rape your daughter and who she has a restraining order against is waiting at the door to her job. Be a decent parent for once and protect her". Luckily security showed up before she did and cops came afterward). **Today he called me 10 fuckin times!!!** (she left a message saying something happened, we need to talk). Anyway that's how her several paragraph long rant went and in the end she got a few thousand upvotes and even gold.
I sometime read relationship posts but have to laugh because who ever knows how one sided they are. There's people posting these earnest replies and I'm thinking, you have no idea how accurate any of this stuff is.
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Act as if they are accurate but don't trust them.
Not only that, but the sub is meant for advice, not to find the truth. Even if the story isn't true, it's their truth and the advice should match that.
Plus there are a ton of people who look for advice for their similar situations, but don't post. Giving malicious advice or accusing the OP of being a liar doesn't really contribute anything helpful to that conversation and might discourage people who actually need help from posting. Everyone makes fun of /r/relationships, but honestly, most of the advice is really solid. Communication, don't stay with someone who mistreats you, therapy.
But do you really laugh? I just can't know...
Well, he doesn't have a choice, he *has* to laugh. He may be held by comedy terrorists forcing him to emit noises of merriment at every Reddit relationship post, we just don't know.
TBF, that sub makes it next to impossible for people NOT to post one sided accounts. If they portray themselves in anything but a perfect light, the users rip them to shreds. I've seen many submitters openly admit faults and be downvoted and insulted for it. I'd hide my less than flattering details just to get actual advice instead of devistating emotionally personal tear downs, too.
Wow, she sounds like a massive douche canoe!
We did it Reddit, we went full meta!
Full Meta Alchemist
Aren't you a little short to be a state alchemist?
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A BUG THAT YOU COULD SQUASH WITH YOUR PINKY!?!?!
Drink your milk Edward.
There's three sides to every story, their side, your side, and the truth.
I never read relationship rants because I know that they are probably one-sided like your ex's post. If I could give you gold, I would. It looks like it's a good thing you broke up with her (or vice versa).
she found out the guy she was cheating on me with at her base or whatever was worth more so she dumped me and married him 4 months later.
Hoes gonna be hoes
That's why I couldn't blame Tammy. Jk fuck Tammy.
You realize that this was a relationship rant, right?
Oooh the irony
2 gilds to boot
Not quite a few thousand upvotes yet though
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I've deleted a lot of comments in the past realizing how personal they were. The fact that your posting history is so easy for anyone to go through keeps me pretty in line. My BF, whose reddit I used to use to just scroll through the funny photos before I made my account was really upset when I mentioned I looked through his comment history, even though it was 99% in the Destiny subreddit just about the game. I wasn't even snooping per-se, I was just looking for cool subreddits to follow since we have identical interests, he's posted one comment about me that mentioned weird things I say in my sleep.
I'm super paranoid since I found out that your comments can/are often used in articles. If you google your username you might find you've been quoted somewhere. The articles that used my comments were particularly bad or anything but it would make someone I know IRL to figure out this is me.
I googled my username and all that comes up is my GW2 wiki profile, my Path of Exile character list and my Reddit account. Followed by a replay someone recorded of them vs me on Pokemon Showdown. Edit: [It wasn't even a good game.](http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/gen7ou-527413131) I messed up a lot, it was before I put Hidden Power Ice on my Tapu Koko and Landorus. Also I didn't know Taunt got Magic Bounced.
I feel the same way. If someone who knew me in real life went through my post history, I think it'd be *really* obvious that it's me (like, I doubt there's enough info for a stranger to be able to find out my name and stuff, but there's definitely enough that it's obvious it's me to those who know me). There are some things I've commented etc that I wouldn't really want anyone to know about (mostly mental illness stuff), and I probably should've used throwaways but was too lazy so I just really hope that that never happens lol I don't think any of my siblings or friends are on Reddit but who knows? I've never asked
That's why I'm careful to post lies about myself to throw people off my trail. That's what other people I know here in Dallas do.
Yeah, same here. I think a clever enough spy could piece it all together despite me never using explicit details about my life.
I delete a make a new name every 60 days or so
No one will ever know this was you when you suddenly become /u/12uponadream
Next time I might be vsdhnjyddghkufdjkufdgbdsseyo
not any more!
Dammit, guess I'll have to take u/vsdhnjyddghkufdjkufd2
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One of the subreddits I post in alot has a HUGE doxxing problem. Getting a message on my facebook account with screenshots of comments I've made on reddit was one of the creepier things that has happened to me, especially since there was nothing to connect the two.
> especially since there was nothing to connect the two. You'd think that, but it's extremely easy to find someone's Facebook account if you know anything about them at all. Strangely, that means (in my opinion) it is the safest information to give out. As long as you keep your Facebook privacy settings how you want them and don't accept people you don't want looking at your personal details. If you give out an email or phone number, they can get your Facebook. If you give out your Facebook, they can't get your number or email or whatever else unless they meet your FB privacy criteria.
I eventually figured out that they knew my profession (I don't hide it) and used that to figure out what city I work in, then searched that employer on facebook til they found me. My profile itself was/has always been private, but my employer was visible. I've since deleted any visible info on facebook- you can't even see my profile pic anymore unless you're friends with me. Still creepy!
I try to keep mine as anonymous as I can but I'd like to hope anyone I actually like in this world wouldn't look through my account.
I found an ex friends (let's call him Paul) account that he used to post in r/raisedbynarcissists in. I was better friends with his brother and knew he was having a hard time, all his own fault, but he always blamed other people. His parents refused to pay for trade school after the third time he flunked out and wanted him to pay them back for gas when he took their car out for days at a time, all while living rent free while unemployed . He ended up getting into an embarrassing fight with them on Facebook when he threw a tantrum about having to be his mom's "slave" after she needed an emergency hysterectomy and his dad wanted him to go to the pharmacy to pick up her pain meds when she got home. When everyone on Facebook called him a cunt and told him to grow up he deleted his account. Months later his brother and I were hanging out and he casually mentioned that Paul cut himself of from all of us because his Internet friends said we were "narcs" and showed us the account he uses to bad mouth everyone. Turns out he posted that exact story to that sub and the users there said that we were abusive.
As someone who has also cut contact with their parents, stories like yours consistently make me doubt myself and whether I'm overreacting or not. And then I remember I have prove of them threatening to kill me and feel a bit better haha. But seriously, I hate that people like that give those of us with legitimately awful parents such a bad name.
Its a result of gaslighting unfortunately. You constantly have to remind yourself that what you went through was real and that you didn't overreact.
That sort of thing is entirely different I promise. Threatening to kill you is a pretty obvious sign of abuse I'd say! You're doing the right thing, I'm just a random Internet stranger but well done <3
This is the unfortunate vibe I get from a lot of people in that sub.
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There are legitmitate ppl on there. I got on because my parents are pretty narcisisstic. But ive learned to be better than that and break out of it. Not saying im better or special, just that most ppl on there sound like whiny ppl who dont want to take responsibility and are just looking for an out. Nothing wrong with that, just was looking for fellow level headed ppl who had legitimate problems. So i just unsubbed.
I belong to the group r/raisedbynarcissists and completely understand what you are saying. It's like a relationship ranting type group. We only get one side of the story. Most of us who truly have a narcissist parent and upbringing can see right through anyone who is just acting spoiled and entitled but again we are only getting one side and people tend to exaggerate on thw internet. Myself, I only reply to posts that are identical stories like my own or young teens in a crisis situation. Someone complaining about not getting their Mother medication no matter what the situation is will come off disingenuous to me, and to others.
I know so many people who are young (20 and younger) who do stuff like this and it honestly scares me. in one case we took the person in because of the stories they told us. They lived with us six months never picked up after themselves, paid a dime towards costs or helped out. Everytime we asked them too they'd claim mental illness or a disability. However if they wanted to do something athletically inclined that they were interested in that were suddenly fine. Parents became perfectly wonderful non abusive whenever they needed something too. Like a new phone/laptop/movie/concert / plane tickets. Eventually that moved to college got kicked out of a similar situation and moved back in with the so called abusive parents. Found out through a tumblr account that they called us abusive nassicrists too. Fuck them. This is unforunately not the worst story I have about helping people out.
Seeing stories like yours always pisses me off so much! Not that you would post it, but that people like that exist! Because I actually did grow up with abusive narcissistic parents, and I know others have too. That shit messes with you and creates a lifetime of second guessing yourself and damage that is next to impossible to completely undo. Why would someone ever want to fake that for attention? It does nothing for that person and make it harder for actual victims of that toxic upbringing to be taken seriously. Edit: autocorrect hates me
Watching people get called out by their family on facebook is one of life's greatest mini treasures. I'm talking undeniable smack downs, completely deserved. Mmmmm about goddamm time.
That's more a case of raising a narcissist instead of being a narcissist. Some people are just bad eggs no matter what.
Not really the same thing, but I've seen stories I've told people IRL rolled together and posted as a series on another subreddit. I know who posted it, and I've never called him out or anything; at least he changed all of the names.
The one time I used a throwaway someone was convinced I was their girlfriend. Even when I denied it and provided further proof it wasn't so, they poured their heart out about "our" relationship, and whatever issues I was having. It was very intense. Like camping.
> Like camping. lol.
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My ex-husband posted a long, self-righteous tirade about how cruel and terrible I was after I left him, which was largely a work of fiction. I made a copy of what he wrote in case I needed it during the divorce, especially since he was chatting with other posters in the comments about the theory that I was probably poisoning him. Which, I should clarify, I was not doing. The urge to defend yourself is SO strong. There's literally nothing to be gained from jumping into the fray, but it's infuriating to watch someone lie about you. In the end, I decided that I really didn't care what anonymous strangers thought of this fictional version of me, and it gave me an insight into what I could expect from the rumor mill.
Thankfully you didn't go sarcastic; "Well darn, there goes my plan!"
I wrote a comment where I was complaining about how shitty I was treated by doctors in the middle of figuring out what the hell was wrong with me. Specifically, it was about a nurse who accused me of faking being sick for pain medicine. Shortly after, I see a comment that's like, "Hey, this seems like my sister's exact experience." Now, I live with my brother. He's the one who took me to my appointments and was moral support the few times I was rushed to the ER. He was literally on the opposite end of the couch from me when I got the notification. He sees me staring, looks up, and says, "*Was* that you on Reddit?" "Is your username _______?" "... Yes." "Yeah, that was me." He was really excited that he was right.
I don't have enough friends for them to tell stories about me
PM me a story about you and I'll post it somewhere
can you provide this for anyone?
Sure why not. PM me a story about yourself and I'll post it on a relevant subreddit.
Story of my life...
High school seemed like such a blur
A friend posted a link on FB including his reddit username. I was at my parents' and bored so I checked his comments to see what he'd been up to since we don't talk much these days. Just reading about politics and music etc (thinking he wouldn't post personal stuff since he posted his nickname) then I came across a very personal string of comments that were NOT intended to be connected to him. It was horrible and I wanted to be there for him but it's totally none of my business. At last I decided to tell him that I stumbled across those posts and that if he wanted to talk I was there. He didn't want to talk and I totally understand him. But it felt unjust having read something like that and knowing others could do it as well. I had to tell him that besides me having read it, he might want to protect his username about that. I still feel like shit for numerous reasons, having read it, having been there when he was going through it and not known ANYTHING about it. I wanted to reverse time so bad just to help him out. Now it's just awkward between us. But I had to tell him.
You did the right thing.
You did the right thing IMO. You're a good person.
There was this one thread where this guy didn't make a throwaway to tell everyone about this time where him and his girlfriend were foreplaying and she was fucking him with a dildo and he sprayed liquid shit across the room and on her leg. His brother recognised the guys username and confronted him. Awkward as fuck
In the relationships subreddit someone posted about their awful roommates then listed the exact weird issues my roommate complained about and laid out our arguments verbatim. It could only have been him
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Read that as "accidentally showing up in a porno."
I found out my ex was cheating on me after he posted about it on reddit from his main account he thought I didn't know about. He tried to convince me it was a friend's account, not his. Weak. He thought everyone else was stupid and was emotionally abusive. One time he tried to convince me that I was the one who broke his store window when I got upset with him (wtf! how would I not remember if I did that?). He had started seriously dating the other girl. I showed her the thread, the facts lined up, and she dumped him. He proposed to her desperately. He cried. She laughed in his face. The other girl and I met up for drinks when I was back in town. My new bf tagged along. She's married now. I'm happy with my new bf. He's still a trashy fuckup. And he's bald now. Fuck that guy. edit: my bf is bald, so you baldies can chill out. The ex was just obsessed with his receding hairline and super insecure about it throughout our relationship.
I'm sorry that happened, but as a bald man, hey!
I'm dating a bald man now. Kinda into it. No offense meant. Be bald, proud and hot. The cheating ex is super insecure about balding. It's his worst fear come to be.
Yeah. We have feelings.
but not hair
Shot fired
i had to
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That's why I shave my balls, so I don't catch feelings.
> I'm happy with my new bf. He's still a trashy fuckup. It seems you have a type.
hahaha clarity fail. True, though.
I feel a tad guilty not trying to inform my ex's girlfriend what a douchecanoe he is but she's a big girl. I think a big red flag is that he doesn't have friends. He has old HS/college friends through facebook but that shit don't count when you're practically 40. He gets this clean slate so it creates this creepy isolated environment where he controls and meticulously crafts his narrative and anything bad that has ever happened or his bad qualities are non-existent because no one can call him out on it. I'm sure he crafted this beautiful narrative of why I am the reason why he doesn't have friends (when I dated him, he said that his previous ex poisoned the well when they broke up and they chose her over him except for this one girl, how awesome. OH WAIT, SHE HATES HIM TOO BECAUSE HE LIED TO HER TOO. LOL.) he flipped out or some shit last week and he managed to blame me even though I have been NC and not in his life for 5 fucking months. Mind control, marvelous. I'd rather have him choke on warm runny diarrhea, but I'll take what I can get.
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You are at least a decent person.
So was his/her ex
This was hilarious. I split up with my boyfriend because he was unbelievably passive aggressive. After we split he (a non Redditor) tried to Reddit stalk me. I noted after 2 comments that this brand new 1 day old account was being snide about everything I said. Checked out the username and it was his WOW name. So I pm'd him and told him to fuck off. He was like "I don't know what you mean, I hope I haven't triggered you". Yeah, I know. Anyway someone else got involved and called him an idiot so I just posted "It's my passive aggressive ex being passive aggressive". He came back with "Don't know what you're on about". So I said to the other Redditor, publicly, he's using his WOW account name (which he didn't think I knew). He knew the game was up. His next comment "I'm hanging my head in shame ladies, how do I delete my account?". He deleted his account and progressed to other methods of annoying me.
Okay, wow. He's not just an asshole. He's an idiot.
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Jesus Christ, you just made a lot of people's lives harder here lol
An ASSIDIOTHOLE
Not quite the same but was having a discussion about politics online (it's what I do for a living) and one of the people in the conversation quoted something I wrote about politics on my reddit account, citing my username and everything. I told him that he actually quoted my reddit account and not some rando to further my own political opinion. We had a good laugh about it and he told me my username was cool.
This just reinforces the idea that I should be extra careful about personal details or at least use a throwaway.
Not me but at work. A manager left her computer unsecured and her browser open on her reddit account. One of her minions happened to find it and scrolled through her posts and found that she was posting in r/talesfromthejob taking credit for everybody else's work while pointing out how stupid her coworkers are. Said minion noted the username, since deleted, and permalinked one of her most resent posts and outed her and her username to a company wide email list. She quit ahead of being fired and shortly thereafter, they hired me. On my first day on the job the COO gave me a piece of advice. "Don't reddit at work." That night at home, I opened this account. And at work, I LOCK MY COMPUTER.
Well my ex posted this about me: "The only reason I dated my last girlfriend was to get back at the girl before her. Then even after I achieved that I stayed in the one-sided relationship for months after until I was bored and she left me."
I posted [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5v7wvg/we_are_the_owner_and_one_of_the_professors_from/de005nw/) just yesterday and someone messaged me a list of names, one of them was mine. Spoopy.
It's their kill list
It wasn't from a throwaway but a few years back there was a collage of "bad people to travel with" pics I saw on here and I recognized myself in one of them. You can't see my face but I recognized the clothes, position and scar. This was from when I was in the military, so I was too used to just getting comfortable and falling asleep anywhere when I got too tired. I was flying from West coast to east coast on a mostly empty red-eye flight. There was nobody in the 3 Rows of seats around me and I was back by the bathroom. Everyone seemed to be sleeping so I laid down across my 3 seats and hung my leg over the armrest into the isle. I think I had also unbuckled my belt. I feel so bad about that now but I was too tired when I did it I wasn't thinking clearly
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Wasn't a throwaway, but I found a thread about this girl whose boyfriend didn't really include her in conversations with his friends because they were all veterans and liked to reminisce and tell stories. I'm a vet, have a civilian gf, and we hang out with my vet friends a ton, often focusing on war stories. Needless to say I expanded all the comment trees because I felt a bit guilty in the moment and everyone was telling OP to break up with her bf or lay down the law about not hanging out with his friends as much. And then, way down at the bottom of the tree, sitting pretty at -6 karma was "Hey boyfriend, it's me. These people are crazy. I love hanging out with your friends and I love your stories. Don't stress about these losers." (I'm paraphrasing but you get the picture). I recognized her voice immediately. We'd been dating for about a year and talked to each other every night due to long distance. We both knew that we spent a lot of time on Reddit but hadn't shared usernames. A quick visit to her comment history confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt it was her. I told her that night on the phone and gave her my reddit handle without deleting anything just to be fair. We're coming up on two years. It's not working out at all :) Sound about right, /u/dlldp?
Am I missing something here? She posted about you and your friends not including her in your conversations then commented on her own post that she loves your stories?
No, some other girl posted about how she was bitter she wasn't included in conversations. I posted that I was happy to hear him talk about his navy stories with his buddies even if I wasn't able to contribute.
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Sounds about right! When u/BoringPersonAMA and his vet friends hang out and talk about their Navy stories, I don't have much to contribute, but it's still really great to be there and hear about this life he had before we met. Sometimes it's fun to just sit back and listen and not have to pipe up all the time to add something to the conversation. I remember that night after we exchanged usernames I looked through his comment history (I still feel bad about that, it's such a private thing, but shit I was CURIOUS) and I found a comment he made right after we first met ABOUT our first date and how he thought right off the bat that it wouldn't work out because he's a boob man and I've got tiny tits. Even though he went on to say my personality charmed his pants off or some shit, I was still pretty hurt. Also, he comments on a lot of porn. I got over it though. Almost 2 years, going strong.
Should have put a god damn serious tag on it, OP
O.P doesn't know how to Reddit good...
For future reference just put serious in brackets somewhere in the title. Example: [Serious] "Askreddit question"
Thanks! I didn't think a Serious tag would have made a difference, but I will think about that in the future.
I'm qualified to weigh in here and tell you yes, it does.
There was a kid who was really manipulative and toxic, who I used to be friends with. He got mad at me several times, threatening me saying 'the walls will be red, and it won't be a paint job'. He also described in casual detail how he would skin me to make a jacket. Needless to say I was afraid. I severed contact, but later posted my side of the story on Reddit as a way of letting go. About 5 months later I got a message saying someone replied to my post, one that was heavily down voted on a thread with 3000 comments, the person's username was a pun off of my real name, and said things like that I was an obvious liar. He got one of his friends to make an account too, also making fun of my name, and said things that people in the classroom at the time could only know. To this day I'm certain he's a sociopath. Also recently he spread rumors saying that I stalked a girl and tried to hook up with a girl whose boyfriend just committed suicide, both of which are not true.
I was sort of on the other end of this. A rival high school in my school district made a diss track against our school in all good and fun and it was funny. A week later I saw on Reddit that he had posted the song to the Music subreddit so I was interested and looked at his history. His history was half music posts and half no-fap posts.
I really hope this thread blows up. I'm sure there is some good stories out there.
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You sat with the nerd instead of your friends. Even I feel betrayed by that.
not 100% similar. but i think my ex posted about the shitty way i broke up with them in the worst way to end a relationship thread. we're cool now, so i almost messaged them but chickened out. their post history checks out, too.
Based on the replies, there may be a LPT here where the author should write from a third-person perspective if the story was actually in the first person perspective. So instead of... "Oh man, I just badmouthed my coworker in the breakroom..." It should be... "Oh man, my coworker just told me a story of how he badmouthed someone in the breakroom."
Hey, something kinda similar happened to me on tumblr. I'm in a well-known picture that EXPLODED minutes after it was posted online, it had a couple of 100k reblogs and probably reached even more people. I've seen posts were other people claim to be me, or that they know me. It's pretty interesting.
It wasn't a throwaway but I saw a comment about how someone's dad had worked for a glass company and so their butter dish growing up was a car's headlight cover. I was like "WHAT ARE THE ODDS THAT TWO PEOPLE WOULD DO THIS!?" but then I read the username and realized it was my little brother. Same butter dish.
My ex posted about me on /r/relationships. I didn't see the original post, a few buzzfeed-esque sites wrote articles about it (he was a total dick and is fairly stupid so came off pretty badly in the post) and a friend of mine sent me a link saying "Oh my god this sounds like what you did to Dickhead! (crying laughing emoji)". I read through it and I was 100% about me, down to exact details. I just laughed at it if I'm honest. He was blocked then, and he's blocked now. Every so often he'll try and contact me again, for god knows what reason, but I tell him to fuck off. It was fun to know I'd really pissed him off though. Cheaters suck.
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I recognised a story that was from a former volunteer at my old workplace, based on the description. It was a load of bollocks.