As you might know by now, I’m a story faker on Reddit, or I was. I haven’t even opened Reddit in days and I’m detoxing.
However, I wonder what are your opinions on fake Reddit stories. Some people seem to take them very seriously, but I don’t know what a bigger amount of people think about it. Do you care? You don’t care? You find them entertaining? Or it makes you upset when you discover a story is fake?
What if you realized a story that deals in heavy topics turns out to be fake? Something that real people might have real trauma about?
I’m kinda beating myself for making so many fake stories and I’m overthinking a lot about what people really think about it, maybe I’m making it a bigger deal in my head than what it really is.
If it’s a one-off story being told in a comment, I don’t care. If it’s one where it becomes obvious that it’s fake while reading it (e.g. the jumper cables guy, or the Hell in a Cell guy), that’s great.
When it’s problematic to me is when it’s posted as a thread purporting to be asking for advice about a topic, or one intended to be controversial. I don’t want to waste my time writing a thought-out response to a post to help someone, only to find that it was fake all along, or debating solutions to a non-existent problem with people.