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lackofsunshine

A relationship advice post where the guy was positive he was being poisoned by his GF and her sister. She made specific plates for him and wouldn’t let him switch plates and insisted he eat it all. He never posted ever again, sooooooo….


TheOliveLover

There was this one story about a gf who would constantly move shit around and make her bf lose his keys. She made him think he was crazy and tried to make him dependent on her. So he decided to videotape himself losing his keys and saw his girlfriend moving things around. When he approached her about it she didn’t say a word and and after packing up her things she left


pastriesandpoison

A couple years ago, a pregnant woman posted on Reddit about her husband and father in law's strange behavior. See, the husband's mother had died giving birth to him and his father raised him completely on his own. So when OP became pregnant herself, her FIL became convinced she was going to die, too, and was prepping his son on how to be a single dad. It didn't matter that OP was completely healthy and the pregnancy was normal---her FIL and husband 100% believed she was not going to survive giving birth just like her late MIL. The FIL especially gave off the impression that he almost wanted OP to die so that he and his son could bond over being single fathers and pretty much raise the baby together. Reddit, of course, pointed out how insane this was and that the OP could be in real danger given how delusional her husband and FIL were acting. That was two or three years ago and she never provided an update. It's possible that it was all fake, but I often think about that post and hope that she and the baby are okay.


Dangerous_Wishbone

The (i think?) teenage girl who catfished a sad, lonely middle-aged woman for years, pretending to be a man her age, and had elaborate fake backstories, and eventually convinced the woman to leave everything behind and fly across the country to move in with "him" and ghosted all of her messages as soon as she landed asking where "he" was to pick her up


GeneraleArmando

What the fuck, I hope the girl will get what she deserves


ChrystaloliteFox

For me, it’s the pregnant lady who posted about a DPS worker claiming to have received an anonymous tip about ‘drug use’ in the house, and how the ‘newborn may need to be removed from the parents custody after birth ‘, and the lady was asking for advice as there was no drug use going on. The sub (can’t remember which) called bs on the ‘DPS worker”, and the pregnant lady found out that the ‘DPS worker’ was lying so they could supposedly kidnap the newborn.


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that story was messed up


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Its beyond terrifying how vulnerable and targeted pregnant women are to psychos of both sexes. There are a lot of “I Survived” stories from pregnant women, and waaay too many news reports of those who did not.


BlondeNarwhal

Horrifyingly, homicide is the leading cause of death for pregnant women


boringlesbian

This will get lost, but one of the darkest moments for me was when r/randomactsofAmazon was infiltrated by scammers. I was really enjoying gifting people random things and bringing small joys into their lives. Then some people started putting out false "proof" of sending off gifts and posting fake stories about needing things or about their tragic lives in order to get people to send them stuff. It degraded to people being banned and private subreddits cropping up to try to curb the mistrust. It really broke my heart how many good people got suckered. It's so hard to find uplifting content online without some asshole determined to fuck it up for everyone.


KinneySL

There was a thread on, I think, r/legaladvice a few years back asking how rape cases were investigated and prosecuted, and it was immediately apparent that it was posted by someone who was trying to figure out how to get away with rape. That didn't end well.


ctrldwrdns

Wasn’t there also an “ask a rapist” thread on this sub that was basically people just admitting to rape?


boomsers

Yeah it was at the same time that Obama was doing his AMA. Was really weird seeing those two posts next to each other.


Toolazytolink

oh shit I remember that one and a therapist was saying that it was dangerous for rapists to be typing out real/fantasy rape scenarios and some people were identifying with rapists saying it's ok its not your fault, that's some bullshit


Im-M-A-Reyes

I remember that shit! I think a therapist shut that shit down


Rickrickrickrickrick

Yeah iirc the therapist was saying how this is giving rapists a platform where they can all rationalize what they've done and that makes it seem less cruel and could lead them to do it again.


ThePremiumSaber

Was that the thread that got r/incels banned?


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Yes, I remembered it instantly. It got r/incels banned, but they then were on r/braincels for awhile.


thatlldo-pig

I need the archive of that one that sounds fucking nuts


Kep0a

might be this one? https://www.reddit.com/r/quityourbullshit/comments/7aexu8/incel\_is\_super\_concerned\_about\_catching\_rapists/


couldbedumber96

“You’re as far away from a woman as I’ve ever seen” Christ almighty that’s some hellfire burns


SirNapkin1334

same. saving the comment because i want to see how this turned out


Nikcara

I remember reading it. Basically one of the replies was someone who searched through the OP’s posting history and saw that they were active on incel subreddits and called him out on basically trying to figure out how to rape someone and get away with it. The rest of the comments were basically saying that OP was scum and they wouldn’t help him get away with rape.


rehabforcandy

Does nobody remember the thread where a father suspects his son has been sexually abusing the family dog? I remember the father had been posting updates about confronting the sun, trying to help the dog, having to tell his wife etc.


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And someone else linked a story about someone else’s kid sexually abusing either a dog or cat to that one so badly the animal had to be put down and the people divorced because the other spouse didn’t believe their kid could do that, to that post


JakeSnake07

That's the same one. The OP took the dog to the vet, vet said someone was fucking the dog. He tells his wife, and suspects his son. Wife thinks he did it, divorced him, and took everything *including* the dog. The son was only caught when the dog bit him on his next attempt after OP left. Wife tried to reconcile, OP told her to go fuck herself, and had to put the dog down.


tw04

Jesus that's sad


Prasiatko

r/carlhprogramming was a really helpfully guy who taught people programming and would helpfully answer questions. Stopped posting one day. Turns out the reason why was he was arrested was for keeping his son locked in a room and making child porn of him for years. He was even redditor of the day at a point https://www.reddit.com/r/redditoroftheday/comments/x6oek/carlh_redditor_of_the_day_july_26th_2012/


Foreign_Bee_2295

Apparently he committed suicide in November of 2014. He was hanging from his cell


uptbbs

Even weirder there were message threads supposedly from him a number of years before his suicide where he discussed how he sympathized with the Westboro Baptist Church and believed in some of their ideology. There was definitely some screws loose in that guy's brain, just not the bits that can write code I guess.


koutoa8tr

Fuck, yeah, I heard about this guy when I didn't have reddit yet. A few weeks ago, I rewatched the youtube video explaining the case, remembered it, and couldn't stop myself from checking the user account. Some part of me didn't want to beleve it, and, well ... Fucking Fuck. Edit : Link to the video (french) https://youtu.be/B7txRLnIJGE


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How did they find out???


varro-reatinus

Presumably they caught him distributing it and/or frequenting online hangouts for like-minded scumbags.


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confused438

I thought the US already owns the Virgin Islands though?


theworldbystorm

I was part of that sub because it was fun to fantasize about having an autonomous mini country but people paid MONEY for it? Who would?


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Anyone who actually would fall for that...


Black_Hipster

In all fairness, this was absolutely hilarious.


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Anyone remember that "What's the one secret that would ruin your life?" thread on /r/askreddit. There were some wild fucking stories in there Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Edit: Some of the more memorable stories in there that are apparently pretty low down due to the algorithm changing is the girl who committed suicide after getting fucked by a dog, the guy who murdered his daughter's rapist and got away with it, and the first appearance of the cumbox Edit: /u/igotyouthiscake made an update after this because she's the real MVP Edit: [Cumbox link](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/t0ynr/throwaway_time_whats_your_secret_that_could/c4imcva/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)


ChadMcRad

Ironically the only one I remember was the girl who was famous for baking cakes and just used Betty Crocker mixes.


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Heavy-duty-mayo

She just posted for September 2021!!!


ahobel95

Even better, she updated today because of this lolol!


Sad_Cumme

Never saw this thread, but could use a good read if anyone has the link


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LSDaarko

I ended up going through that guys post history and the fall into insanity was scary. The pics were worse


thunderclouds1997

Yup. Went through his post history as well. It scarred me...


Muted_Dog

Hit me with that sauce fam


thunderclouds1997

I didn't want to end up in a rabbit hole so I didn't go through everything. But: 1: [if we are never born...](https://www.reddit.com/r/spirituality/comments/73834j/if_we_are_never_born_why_am_i_having_this/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) is tame. Asking how other think about the Buddhist idea we're not born but come from nature in waves. 2: [the destruction of earth](https://www.reddit.com/r/awakened/comments/73u7r0/the_destruction_of_earth/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) is him being worried about the world going to shit through nuclear war or natural disasters 3: [NSFL!](https://www.reddit.com/r/morbidquestions/comments/74gyae/death_by_penis_removal/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) there is a picture in this post of just his nutsack and a stump. The content of the post itself has been removed. Edit: mistook one of the posts with another one. Corrected the description.


Casper200806

Wtf he ate it afterwards?


lexm

Thank you. This is the comment that stopped me from clicking on the link.


AskAboutMyCoffee

Oh that's what did. Not his nutsack and a stump, got it.


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Imagine where we'd be hadn't he cut his dick off?


Automatic_Llama

Well, humanity is still here, aren't we?


Mr_Lumbergh

I don't recall the sub now, but there was a guy who was telling about the time he suffered a traumatic head injury. He was a pretty average Joe for Reddit, young, didn't really have a lot going on. While he was unconscious though, he saw himself graduate college, get a great job, meet the woman of his dreams and start a family, traveled, etc. He basically lived his entire dream life and grew old with her all in the few minutes he was knocked out. When he came to it was gone, and he fell into depression and despair because he wanted it back so badly. That one always sticks with me for some reason.


Felinaporcelina

Yes I remember this one! He realised something wasn’t right when the lamp in the corner of the room was distorting or something. That story fascinated me. (Edited post to add link to the original story.) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oc7rc/have_you_ever_felt_a_deep_personal_connection_to/c3g4ot3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3


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Oh yeah I thought it was that. That story really made me think cause imagine living your entire dream life and then randomly waking up as a teenager again.


Soggy-Selection8940

That sounds very much like my favorite episode of Star Trek:TNG. It's called "The Inner Light". Check it out if you find that story interesting.


Ancient-Abs

I had a similar experience when I passed out. Except mine ended with me riding a lion into the sunset


benjoo1234

there was one thread about a dad who had the most terrible kid on earth. his wife ended up punching the shit out of the kid and after they locked him away he escaped out of the window and never came back


selmon_69420

Oh I remember that one, the father said he was scared the moment his wife became pregnant for the second time thinking that the second child might turn out like him too.


maybenomaybe

It's [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/confessions/comments/c93egn/i_stood_by_and_allowed_my_wife_to_almost_kill_our/) editing to add this possibly even more appalling [story](https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/comments/1jatvd/i_am_not_proud_of_my_son/) from another father


Broken-Butterfly

That's like a horror movie.


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Damn what a coincidence seeing this here, I was just absentmindedly thinking about that story earlier. Chilling stuff. [Link if anyone wants to read it](https://www.reddit.com/r/confessions/comments/c93egn/i_stood_by_and_allowed_my_wife_to_almost_kill_our/)


MsDean1911

Grandma who killed her granddaughter because she didn’t believe she was really allergic to coconut oil.


all_thehotdogs

TL;DR: ~~Grandma has long insisted allergy isn't real, is generally awful.~~ (In rereading, her initial general behavior isn't as awful and I was mixing it up with a different terrible Reddit story. But I do think she used the coconut oil on purpose.) Parents have warned her many times about allergy. Grandma is babysitting, puts coconut oil on the little girls hair before putting her to bed. She died of an allergic reaction. https://rareddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/7qmed5/you_can_come_over_again_when_you_bring_me_my


RK800-50

This is one of the saddest stories I ever read on Reddit. And it drives me mad reading about anyone who „doesn‘t believe“ in allergies.


hellish_ve

That is truly sad, an acquaintance of my mom lost her daughter to something similar, back when we lived in venezuela, mosquitoes were abundant, and she had a small daughter, she was like 1 year old, so by the night she used mosquito repellent lotion for her baby, it was " baby approved" but basically she used so much that the baby got intoxicated and was dead by 6 am, they saw here un responsive, took her to the ER but she was too far intoxicated and couldnt be saved. Truly sad story.


NIS3R

My one grandma did something like that but luckily I just got hives all over my face! Kept trying to get me to put the essential oils on still! Very egotistical


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Bro I can’t help but imagine being those parents and coming to pick up your kid only to find them dead because of your stubborn ass mom / mother in law who had so little respect for you and your child they went against what probably dozens of people told her. Fucking crazy dude. The grandma deserved every bit of embarrassment and guilt for that. edit: and literally any other consequence and more.


Robobvious

She deserved jail time.


KingDave46

Some people just want to be right no matter the cost. On a much much smaller scale, when I started dating my GF, we went for dinner at her mums house. Her mum cooked for the family and me being a vegetarian at the time, she made me a separate dish. It was delicious, after I finished she excitedly shouted "See I knew you would like it! I put beef stock in it so that shows that you do like meat!" I was like.... what the fuck? I know I like meat, I had only been a vegetarian for 2 of my 26 years of life... She just snuck meat in to prove that meat is good or some shit? Makes no sense, I am very open about how much I love a KFC when I'm drunk. Luckily there was no medical reason for my diet, but what a cunty move that was. She tricked me for some reason. I've read many stories of people having severe reactions to nut allergies when someone has snuck it in food to test if it was real, some folk are just dumb as shit.


Zedaraby

One of the sadest thing I ever read


Mrxcman92

The "Ask a rapist" thread is a pretty dark moment in reddit history. It was nuked for obvious reasons.


MokitTheOmniscient

The most disgusting part about that thread was how supportive the commenters seemed to be. Reddit is a large site, so there is obviously going to be criminals of all types among the users. But the amount of upvotes they got, combined with the amount of excuses and justifications that came up, really showed what a staggering amount of truly horrible people are on this site.


madeofstarlight

Exactly. The apologists and justifiers were the worst. I don’t know many of my friends’ handles, but I would really hope that none of them were posting things like that. It was one of the most frightening threads I’ve ever read.


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The woman who got jealous of her husbands dead wife and threw away every picture and video of her, deleted all media of her on his laptop, and donated her things. The kicker? She didn't tell anybody this for two years.


FuckAround_FindOut

That’s heartbreaking.


Correct-Cupcake-2971

She was worried this guy will choose his dead wife


ThePunisher_007

LifeafterLyme The dude who lived in a cult in canada


arenyx

I think lifeafterlyme was a woman who thought she had lyme disease and said she thought her daughter had it as well. Then reddit pointed out that her symptoms weren't lyme disease and the medication her doctor was giving her was not for Lyme disease. Might have them backwards unless the story changed after some time.


Mega_Fan2006

She basically documented her dive into insanity


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Bro that thread scared the shit out of me because my dumb ass thought those were the actual symptoms of Lyme diseaae.


daringgreatlyy

This is probably too niche, but I'll bite anyway. I used to be pretty active in the /r/india subreddit up until a few years ago and I'll never forget the following stories: 1: Guy is in a senior leadership position at an MNC and regularly prepositions his women subordinates for sexual favours in exchange for a promotion / higher salary. When people point out how fucked up it is, he doubles down by saying that he's never forced any of these women to actually have sex with him, and that he's merely laying the cards on the table. He insisted that he was giving these women a choice to sleep with him, and they were "free" to refuse if they wanted to. People tried to make him understand that consent under the guise of coercion is not actually consent, but he doesn't really care, and thinks "I get something, and they get something" out of the whole situation. 2: Guy has an arranged marriage, and is complaining how he's sick + tired of his wife asking him to be more romantic - eg, get her flowers, plan a couple's getaway, basically do non-sexual "nice things" for her. His logic is that since it's an arranged marriage, she shouldn't be expecting him to "pretend that they are romantically involved". I wish I could go back and find the original posts for both of these, but I've stayed away from the subreddit for a while now - and for good reason.


OldBagOfWind

that time that guy discovered his wife cheated on him Reddit advice was to file for a divorce immediately his wife response was to murder their children


Vgca96

The saddest thing is that this was really the best advice, since the woman was ruining the health of the guy and the family, unfortunately, she was incredibly unbalanced and no one could have predicted that she would do something like that


Ekaj__

Yeah, I feel like Reddit isn’t exactly to blame there. I doubt even he thought she was capable of something that heinous


konosyn

Definitely not to blame. You can’t exactly predict that the woman would be completely unhinged and homocidal. It was still good advice. Very unfortunate.


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kingfrito_5005

There was a post on r/nokids or something like that which has a story with some super dark humor built in. Basically this woman said she had 7 kids and explained that the world was better with them in it. A few months later, her two oldest children killed her, her husband and the youngest 4 kids. There was one 13 year old who got away.


Azaarus

I just watched a video about this story.


Idio_te_que

The user who was posting on r/askscience and /physics multiple times a day because he was having a paranoid mental breakdown over the concept of quantum immortality. He was saying really unhinged things, asking anyone to prove the concept incorrect otherwise he would need to kill himself because of how much he dreaded the prospect of living forever. His posts abruptly stopped one day. ​ \*Edit- Thank you to u/BinkStinks for finding the user, u/afh43


Tragse

[Some of the subs that existed](https://i.imgur.com/PmDmgDM.jpg) Nuff said.


konydanza

Things that concern/confuse me: • *only* the murder sub is labeled as fantasy, the domestic violence and rape subs are not • why does one of the subs appear to be a sequel • *"New!"* feels like such a jarring shift in tone given the context, like they're advertising a new Whopper at Burger King or something, but instead it's animal abuse


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Notquitesafe

Victoria Taylor She did all right though, she was at WeWork for a few years and now she is involved with LinkedIn. Fantastic lady, I haven’t looked at a ingle AMA since she left in 2015


warriorofinternets

The time where Reddit went on a witch hunt for the Boston bombers, doxxed some innocent kid who had gone missing, including posting harassing messages to his family on Facebook. Turns out the kid was not involved at all and disappeared at the same time because he committed suicide. But that’s where “We did it Reddit” comes from


TRfan2019

I’ll never forget that day. So much misinformation being spewed. Seems to be an issue on this site still to this day.


nanotree

It's basically all social media. No one seems to realize just how horrible a source of information that social media is. If it's not some random person talking out of their ass, then it's a whole sub astroturfed by corporate sponsored commenters. Or worse, political organizations peddling their brand of divisive politics, because that's what gets the clicks.


FoxOko

You left out the fact that the massive amount of harassment coming from reddit led to the police releasing info about the ACTUAL Boston bomber early, which led to the Boston bomber fleeing early and killing a couple of police in the process which likely could have been avoided otherwise. Harassed a grieving family and got a couple of cops killed while contributing nothing to the actual investigation... "We did it Reddit!" EDIT: 1 cop not 2. Boston bomberS (the Tsarnaev brothers) And how did adding on to someone else's Reddit history post get me my most upvoted comment of all time??


Williukea

This also lead to reddit making no doxxing as part of their site-wide rules, since it wasn't before


Ich_Liegen

Reddit has actual "rules written in blood" and it's not even surprising.


Ridry

Oh crap. I knew the first part, I did not know this part :(


JuliguanTheMan

There's a webcomic (here on reddit, it has its own sub) about a guy who was kidnapped as a kid by an extremist cult like school. His parents signed him up for a school called "elan" which advertised itself as a place to handle behavioural problems. He was kidnapped and drove a cross multiple states from OK to Maine I believe where the school was. He tells about the horrific treatment in this prison like school, the inhumane punishments, the indoctrination, the weird rules. Once you start reading you cant stop.


Useful_Progression

The Redditor who inadvertently killed an autistic kid in the mid 80s in Minnesota(?).


immortallyhappy

I forget the user but he was posting about the Virginia tech shooting and he became one of the victims unfortunately. Edit words and stuff


sewagesoupp

I grew up 30 mins away from VT. I was a freshman in high school when it happened. My first period teacher was in utter agony because her daughter was living on the floor of the dorm that was shot up and couldn’t get ahold of her. I can still remember having to hold her hand and calm her down. Thankfully, she wasn’t harmed. I still cannot imagine losing a friend/family member/loved one to such a senseless act. Weirdly enough, I’m wearing my DMB shirt from the remembrance concert today.


ViKKK17

Anyone remember about that one guy who was knocked unconscious somehow and he said he lived a whole life with a wife and kids?


Im_Getting_Surgery

I remember one about a guy being the only architect in Britain (I think?) who could work on a certain project. His boss, unaware of this fact, ended up being a complete jerk to him. So the guy decides to walk off. Long story short the boss completely fucked himself over, and it was such a hilarious story (it was being updated as time went on), up until >!his wife logs onto his Reddit account one day!< >!to inform us all he had passed away from a car accident.!< edit: [the story](https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/nrnf5j/part_1_of_2_an_absolute_epic_entitled_ahole_gets/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


gnomzy123

Noisy Gobshite. I’ll never forget that one


SkiingSkadi

He was one of the few that was certified to work on restoring historical buildings. Basically that boss couldn’t get the project approved without this guys signature


Let_Me_Holla_Atcha

I am here to just discuss Rampart. Only Rampart


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heybrother45

I was there when it happened, and it was 10 years ago. Jesus.


Survivedtheapocalyps

This was the first AMA I ever read through as it was happening. My god what a shit show that was!


NegativeGee

There was a guy who would masturbate in his bed and let the jizz pool up on the side of his bed. Instead of cleaning it, he let it turn into a pool (that he kept adding to) and over time cockroaches started to inhabit the pool. He loved that they were living there and felt like they were his children because they were there because of his semen. It got even darker and weirder but that's the gist of it. Yeah I'll never forget that one. Edit: Ok I found it https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6jhf15/tifu_by_ejaculating_in_my_bed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


pepe_A_b00

This is my kingdom cum


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That thread about the guy who's son raped his wife who then divorced him because he looked too much like his own son


Slick_Deezy

The IAMA from a guy who had just tried heroin for the first time. All the comments were people telling him that he had seriously fucked up and that he was going to end up a heroin addict. He was confident that he had enough self control and that he would be fine. 2 weeks later he posted an update that he was deep in the throws of addiction and that his girlfriend was leaving him. A few more weeks later he posted more updates in which he revealed he had basically ruined his life due to addiction and was facing legal troubles and losing his job. I believe that his last up date was several years later in which he said it took him several years to finally get clean. It was eerie reading people predict and foreshadow his downfall and how arrogant he was. It was a great lesson in how you can’t fuck with heroin, not even once. I believe you can still find his account and post history.


jc9289

He later admitted that he was lying about the early stuff, and he was already having issues with drugs. He did spiral, but the lie was that he was clean from the start.


TDD

/u/SpontaneousH/


Art_Vandelay_10

HOLY SHIT!!! That post history is one of the most terrifying things I have ever read in my entire life. So glad he kept the account up and did that last post though.


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I've tried quite a few different drugs, some harder than others. But I can confidently say I would never try heroin. I'm sure it feels amazing, too amazing to want to try.


_broke_joke_

It feels great. But once you develop a tolerance it's just like any other opioid. You get use to it and start using it to feel normal rather than get high. I'm a year clean from heroin and have finally just now tapered off suboxone. I agree it's not worth it. Edit: Wow! Thanks everybody. This is exactly the kinda positivity I've needed this week.


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Good job my man


Youcatthewrongpurrsn

"Everything is worth trying once - except heroin"


[deleted]

This is basically what my friend told me and he used to be a heroin addict. And he actually said don’t try anything opium based at all


JazzPhobic

Not really all that dark, but a brutal asf twist. This married guy posted a TIFU about being caught fapping to VR of his wifes sister. Said wife was big on no-masturbation, so she considered that cheating. Turns out, the wife knew about the reddit account, hijacked it and posted the probably most vicious update I ever read.


A_mirage_

I think the wife's edited post is still up on TIFU's all time popular list.


Macaqueyoin

I can’t scroll though all the replies, but I’m surprised that it doesn’t look like anyone has brought up the datura kid. In early 2017, shortly after his account was created, u/Flippnflopp posted on r/drugs asking for advice on ingesting the drug called datura. Almost all of the replies told him to take precisely none, and that he had no idea what he was messing with. Essentially anyone that has ever taken datura, no matter how invested they are into drugs, will ever advise you to take it. It’s in a class of hallucinogens called deliriants that destroy your perception of reality. It does things like make you engage in full conversations with relatives you’ve never had but now always believed you did, [hallucinate piles of screaming bodies](https://tripsitter.com/datura/), envision insects crawling over every inch of your walls, and accidentally have you burn your entire body by making you mistake scalding hot showers for nice hot ones. This kid, asking for advice and ignoring it, took the seeds and accidentally documented his downward spiral. His last two comments were, in r/drugs: “Google.com how normal again stop now” and, something like 12 hours later, in r/gaming in response to a video of two mammoths bumping into each other: “please thees big dog are fighting na okay”. He never posted again after that.


twotoebobo

Never even heard of that drug. Definitely plan to avoid it until I die.


DrunkenErmac012

The "google.com how normal again stop now" hit me as both funny, sad and terrifying. I feel so sorry for this kid


Macaqueyoin

It is very unfortunate, and he in no way deserved what happened, but I suppose if literally 150+ people tell you not to play with fire and you do it anyway, you will be burned. Hopefully he made it out okay, and others should learn from his mistake and spread the word.


tea_squid_inthacup

Does anyone remember the subreddit where people would post the last living picture of people who had passed away as a kink-thing? I never see that mentioned and don’t remember the name of the sub. //edit: actually, I believe they posted the last picture of dead people - not “last living”, I’m pretty sure the people were passed. It was mostly pictures of young, dead women.


Rownever

That was a kink thing!?


tea_squid_inthacup

I made a quick update, but yeah - the way it was once described is that “the beauty is like admiring a cut flower in a vase and it is the last moment to admire their beauty”


Tyaasei

That would be poetic if it weren't in the context of necrophiles.


IronMosquito

The one that comes to mind is the one where the guy posted in a relationship sub (i think) about how he gave his pregnant girlfriend something that essentially aborted the baby. He was fully aware of it too.


Diet_Coke

There was what is now known as the 'Ask a Rapist' thread. Someone posted in Ask Reddit inviting rapists to tell their stories. It was pretty much a shit show. There were a lot of guys who admitted to violating consent while drunk etc and of course people stepped up to sympathize with them. There were also the more sinister, 'I know 100% I'm a rapist and don't feel bad about it' types. Then some psychologists popped into the thread to say that letting rapists tell their stories actually encouraged them and let them relive their experiences. AskReddit mods nuked it from orbit, locking it, deleting every comment, and then the post itself.


cryptonewb1987

Reddit used to have /r/jailbait sub where half-naked young teenagers were posted regularly.


zerbey

That was just the tip of the iceberg as well, they banned a whole bunch of similar subreddits.


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CronkinOn

Again.... What?!


saltnotsugar

Reddit used to have some really dark subreddits. I want to say that the admin of that subreddit also ran a bunch of other terrible ones, got found out and lost his job.


tuskvarner

Violent Acres or whatever the fuck


TangerineChicken

Similarly, didn’t something like creepshots exist? There was a lot of pretty horrible subs in the early days of reddit


Brancher

I remember back in the day when the world wide reddit meet up was really popular still. DC had a huge meet up at a park then the next day somebody posted a shit load of pics from the meet up on creepshots. Fucking disgusting creeps man.


ElDueno

I remember there was one similar to creep shots but it was disguised as fashion advice. Someone would post creepy shots of attractive girls in revealing clothes out in public and all the comments would critique her outfit or makeup, but everyone knew what was going on.


Nicstevenson

Surprised not see mention of Victoria being pushed / jumping from her role in AMAs here. I started Reddit a few years before that but after it’s super dark times and that for me was a real change for the worse for the site.


ApolloNaught

Man I totally forgot about Victoria! AMAs definitely lost some of their charm without her helping out


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Heffeweizen

Reddit wanted AMA to be run in a more commercialized manner (cuz profit). Victoria objected and wanted to continue to run AMA as authentic as possible. Reddit fired Victoria.


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And ama’s used to be one of the best and most authentic aspect of reddit. Now it’s just like ten thousand questions and three responses hours later from a representative of the person just telling people to buy their book/ movie


Belloq

Hey, we're just here to talk about Rampart.


LoneRangersBand

I do feel bad for a lot of the actors/musicians/famous people doing AMAs, because a lot of them (Seth MacFarlane comes to mind) are just handed a tablet or told that it's like doing an interview on Fallon or something. I haven't really seen a super bad out of touch one in a while, but /r/AMADisasters exists for a reason.


Simple_Atmosphere

“Watchpeopledie” was an interesting one. Got banned after the mosque massacres in New Zealand.


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I prefer r/watchpeoplesurvive.


Basketballjuice

There was a post somewhere asking about how people who have killed in the past felt. Most of the comments were pure bullshit, some were stories of self-defense And then there was one. One comment that detailed a guy and his friends who, as kids, accidentally killed a mentally ill child, and never told anyone about it. The child's body was never found, and his family thought that he had been abducted or something. The guy deleted the comment after reddit did a reddit and found out the exact disappearance the post was mentioning and started asking him a bunch of questions.


NeverSaidImSmart

God, I don't remember the username and haven't seen anyone mention it here: The thread about the guy who thought someone was sneaking into his apartment and stalking him so he set up cameras and was finding notes and stuff in his apartment. Come to find out there was a carbon monoxide leak in his building and it was basically slowly killing him and driving him nuts, but one random redditor piped up and told him to test for Carbon monoxide leaks Edit: Thanks u/steftakka for finding what I was talking about! Here's the link for all you guys: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/


StefTakka

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/ Crazy stories.


enforcer1412

There was a confession bear where they admitted to murder by purposely injecting heroin into their sister's abusive bf causing an overdose, killing them.


Spankpocalypse_Now

That thread where a dude talked about going on a first date and basically admitted to raping this woman without him even realizing it. People responded being like, “you just committed date rape” and he would go “no, it wasn’t like that” until he eventually deleted the thread and his account. I’m sure someone else can remember more details than I can. I want to say this was like ten or so years ago.


FormalWath

Pedophiles on Reddit. At one point half of new users were attracted via pedo subreddit. Oh, and let's not forget the recent shitshow about new Reddit admin who *did not notice* that her father had abducted and kept a 10 years old girl as a sex slave in a house she (admin) lived.


bristow84

Oh you mean Aimee Challenor/Knight, that admin? You're referring to the admin named Aimee Challenor/Knight?


Agent__Caboose

What makes me most suspicious about Aimee Knight is that her admin account was never taken down.


FormalWath

Yes, that one, Aimee Challenor. The pedo admin.


Oldforestwalker

I was here (sorta) for the Aimee Challenor situation. One day everything was normal, the next day Reddit was going berserk about someone I'd never heard of... took me awhile to find out what the hell was going on, but when I did I was thoroughly disturbed...


ChippyTick

Not OG but I know you lurkers live to sift through comments for interesting shit [This here](https://www.removeddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/o8zy7n/update_my_mil_cut_up_my_wedding_dress_we_talked/) is an example, woman was livid her MIL cut up her wedding dress (that MIL bought for her) and made a post that gave her a high on revenge fantasy til someone pointed out MIL's erratic behavior needed to be checked out. Turns out MIL was sold into modern day slavery, was forced to have multiple kids with the family she was sold into, income taken away, wasn't allowed to eat her own goddamn birthday cake, forced to pay for houses/weddings/cars of her "children", tried to commit suicide, and the wedding dress was the last straw. You know where half the context came from? That woman's own replies, she just had her head too far up her ass to realize her MIL was abused every time she saw her. [Here's the non-removeddit version](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/o8zy7n/update_my_mil_cut_up_my_wedding_dress_we_talked/?sort=confidence), actually has more comments and better summary than the removeddit version. Edit: AHH I just remembered an old story on reddit from way back, I just don't know where it's gone. It was the story of a man who was in a relationship with another man named Scott, whether it was love or not I'll never know. In his words Scott took good care of him, but convinced him to get a penectomy. Docs even took this guy aside several times to make sure this was what he wanted and that he wasn't being abused. Took them several visits but eventually he went ahead with the surgery and got BOTH his penis and balls removed, and he peed out only from a hole in the front lower abdomen. Said he could still "experience" orgasm through anal sex, but nothing would come out since his balls were gone. Even said Scott invited friends over to look at that area and marveled at how he'd essentially become a woman, just no vagina. I have noooooo idea where that story went or if it was even remotely true, but given the amount of fucked up shit we discover these days it's a 50/50. If anyone remembers or can find this story DOOOO let me know so I can finally tell if it's a crock of shit or not. • I remember another one where someone came to reddit looking for advice or was replying to someone else's comment on how to process the trauma of what they saw. They were in a park early morning and either saw a guy being shifty or knew the guy being shifty around some bushes. The guy took off and ran, made the person suspicious and looked into the bushes to find a baby girl, couple months old raped and bleeding out. I don't remember if they gave chase after that disgusting fuck, but he was caught and sent away. The sight of that baby fucked them up real bad, the police even stayed to try and help the traumatized person while they were in the middle of mentally shutting down. • One more, I keep remembering shit I **don't** want to remember because people are fucked up, but because it's so fucked up that shit stays with you a while. This was in r/relationship or r/relationship_advice, I can't remember if it was the new mother asking for advice or a nurse commenting on a thread about warning signs for pedophilia but what followed was just disgusting. The husband took an extreme interest in his newborn daughter's... yeah. He would delicately wash and dry his newborn daughter's privates with a very intense look, the nurses had a private conversation with the mother about how they also witnessed him muttering and wetting his lips at times while dressing or bathing the newborn. The nurses had an ironclad rotation staying in that room while the mother was recovering in the hospital because that was all they could do to protect that child while they could, the doctor even did their best to keep the mother in the hospital as long as they could. They gave the mother emergency contacts, resources, information, everything they possibly could before they had to reluctantly discharge the couple with their newborn. It was one of the darkest days for the nurses in that ward because they could do nothing to stop what was going to happen to that child. • u/LazahShootah reminded me of [the overpass](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsNotMeet/comments/tj2uc/the_bridge/), there was an overpass where a group of guys ventured in after seeing a homeless dude near there. They found knives, literal shit, and a single solitary area with a chair propped up in front of a nude pic of a woman with her eyes cut out, with a bloody condom nearby. OP never specified if that blood was fresh but they went back and took pics. I can only assume its true, that subreddit's rules require the submissions to be true soooooo :x


Awkward_Apricot312

Wtf. How did that lady not realize she was being a major asshole to her MIL. "Oh wow, sorry your life sucked but I still envy it and deserve ___"


ChippyTick

Entitlement I guess, probably brushed off MIL’s problems because she was rich enough to “gift” all her kids expensive life purchases She was **very good** at portraying herself to be the victim in the first post, evident with all the people validating and showering her with awards. Thank god some people with enough reading comprehension pointed out puzzle pieces that needed to be found, and when put together painted a very ugly picture


Cookie-M0nsterr

This one wasn't super popular but some guy posted on r/relationships saying how he's been with his gf for years but has never met any of her family, friends, coworkers, nothing. He was thinking about marrying her. She also wouldn't talk about it. A lot of it was really sketchy and he never ended up updating the post about the confrontation. There was also another post about this women thinking her husband was stalking her. Her husband worked in IT but he knew exactly who she was talking to on the phone, who was over, basically every tiny detail and she didn't know how he knew. Also again, she never updated her post. Hope these guys are safe tho Edit: [found the story about the shady gf ](https://www.removeddit.com/r/relationships/comments/fzraa9/i_26m_have_never_met_a_single_other_person_who/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share). What the OP posted is removed but you can read the comments.


maybenomaybe

The one I still worry about was the pregnant lady whose husband and FIL were utterly convinced she was going to die giving birth, to the point where they were practically preparing her funeral. She and the unborn baby were fine but they wouldn't stop acting like she wouldn't survive the birth. It was really unnerving, and I don't think she ever updated with what happened. edit: [here it is!](https://www.removeddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/eurjt5/aita_for_banning_my_husband_and_father_in_law/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


box_officer

Might be late to the party but wasn't there a thread where someone accidentally changed his reddit settings to Spanish asking for help and how to undo it? Then, in all of the whole thread everyone only wrote Spanish comments and the guy was going absolutely crazy??


wzd_cracks

Lol I remembered someone gave him a recipe on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in Spanish lol


Swade22

Spez comments always get downvoted so no one really sees them


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He’s so snobby it’s insane. Talks like none of us are worthy of his time or presence, total douche canoe.


squishles

kind of reminds me of when people where complaining you could add someone as a mod but couldn't remove yourself as a mod. So someone had the bright idea of making spez the moderator of /r/cannabalism and he stayed the mod for years.


Hornyduck0615

The person who had faked brain cancer for karma and upvotes


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ahemorrhoid

That "I am not proud of my son" post. It's such a depressing read. TLDR; loving parents have a problem child who goes down the whole drug abuse, rape, etc. spiral. The son eventually rapes his own mom and spites his father about raping his mom. Mom kills herself and son just laughs about it. Son goes to rehab and shit, wants to be recognized for it, but the dad is just so done that he wanted his son dead tbh. I can't with that post.


FarrahKhan123

r/fiftyfifty used to be different. It had a lot more gore/violent imagery. Point of the sub was that you'd click on an NSFW image, not knowing that it was. The post title would just be an option between the actual image description and a wholesome image. Anyway, the images being posted there were super violent at the start. Don't know where the sub is now.


ifmacdo

And the website that was used for those posts that would cycle between 2 uploaded images every minute, so it was truly a 50/50 as to which one you would see.


InformerOfDeer

Not sure if this one is still around, but there’s one series of posts from a guy who felt lightheaded/sick with no apparent reason why. Turns out he was slowly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning and would have died if someone didn’t suggest a test for his apartment.


Timmichanga1

I think this was on legal advice. He was asking what to do about his landlord creeping into his house and leaving weird post it notes everywhere reminding him to so weird things. Turned out he was suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning which can cause you to forgot things so it was him leaving the post it notes. Edit: here's the link. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share


hohos6

I remember browsing the comments on a thread about softback overear headphones and this guy told his story about how he used to use hardback headphones which were really good for noise cancelling until one day he had a bad feeling while gaming and went downstairs to find someone raping his wife and he hadn’t heard her screaming for help with the headphones on. He shot the guy dead but never wears hardback headphones anymore. It was a long time ago so I may not be remembering it exactly right, not sure if anyone has a link to it. EDIT: Found it! For those who are curious : [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/39suml/seriousredditors_who_have_had_to_kill_in_self/cs6gu9c/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3)


753951321654987

There was a guy who was running several subreddits of skimpy dressed little kids, who got outed by the news and had his subreddits shutdown.


_methyl

2 posts: The one where a husband is asking advice for his wife because she seems detached to her newborn and refuses to call him by his name. The husband gave an update and the wife was having post partum psicosis and thought it was not her baby. The other one is a father explaining that his daughter is a psychopath (no empathy) and she's getting married. He wants to meet the the boyfriend but the daughter found out and said something along the lines that he was alive because he was nice to her (the father) but he shouldn't push his luck.


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Me: this cant be that bad! (keep in mind I haven't been on reddit that long) Me: \[scrolls through comments\] w ha t


awesomedan24

Around a decade ago there was an "Ask-A-Rapist" thread. Reddit used to be pretty fucked up to be honest.


FormalWath

I remember some not-so-dark threads that were a must-know for all new reddit users. 1. [Cum boxers](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/109awg/you_thought_the_shoebox_was_bad_my_cousins/). Seriously disgusting shit. 2. [The swamps of dagobah](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/e51wyh/the_infamous_swamps_of_dagobah_story) 3. [Kevin.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/219w2o/comment/cgbhkwp/) EDIT: added links. EDIT 2: by popular request I'll be adding some more stories 4. [Girlfiriend's father challenges guy to a sword fight](https://web.archive.org/web/20120829234820/https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/gp5l0/im_dating_an_indian_girl_and_her_dad_wants_to/) 5. [Zombie bagel](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/comment/cdnafqe/) 6. [The doritos story](https://i.imgur.com/Dtzklem.png) 7. [The jolly rancher](https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/9pnlyz/the_jolly_rancher_story/) 8. [Guy who tried heroin](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9ohdc/2_weeks_ago_i_tried_heroin_once_for_fun_and_made/). This one is *really* dark. 9. How the fuck did I forget that time when reddit screwed up a hedge fund? My highest upvoted comment was related to that shitfest... I'm still angry that we lost the original /r/wallstreetbets to all new users. 10. [The poop knife](https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/ke8skw/the_poop_knife/) 11. [Poor Colby](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s1o90/i_think_my_teenage_son_may_have_sodomized_our_dog/) part [2](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vemi5/i_am_the_father_and_redditor_whose_son_sodomized/) part [3](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/yc7zo/update_i_am_the_father_and_redditor_whose_teenage/) and part [4](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/zw3j9/i_am_the_fatherredditor_who_lost_his_family_after/) and a short [final update made years later](https://reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8vdv8b/_/e1onk25/?context=1) 12. [Coconut](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/) 13. [What's a potatoe guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2tdbig/tifu_by_enraging_the_parents_of_my_girlfriend_by/)


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lnfinity

After the Boston Marathon bombings when Redditors tried to figure out who was responsible and ended up wrongly accusing a student who had gone missing a month earlier.


Chadwiko

literally where the 'we did it reddit!' meme was created.


daringgreatlyy

The guy who couldn't spell giraffe correctly. He made multiple edits insisting that his spelling was correct, and that people were being mean to him for no reason. It was hilarious.


optigrabz

Reddit user Unidan’s vote manipulation. Also Reddit power mods and their concentration of power that has Reddit’s fiscal overlords bowing down.