i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • ugh
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    2211 year ago

    Creative writing presented as truth

    • @PetrichorBias@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Oh man, this is something I definitely hope to never see again. I’m so tired of the unbelievable TIFUs, AITAs, and/or OffMyChests with thousands of upvotes that had obviously-fake stories.

      The worst one (in recent history) was that TIFU with the student who slept with their professor’s daughter.

      Part 1: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1379pge/tifu_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/

      Part 2: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/137u9bk/tifupdate_by_hooking_up_with_professors_daughter/

      Part 3: https://libreddit.de/r/tifu/comments/1391lmj/tifupdate_i_cuckolded_my_professor/

      I hope this kind of bullshit never happens here.

      • 70ms
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        241 year ago

        And all of the rage bait posts too (including in those subs).

      • @Skiv@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        It will, there will always be charlatans looking to get their jollies by lying for an audience.

          • @Dr_Chocolate@lemmy.world
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            41 year ago

            I thought that was actually the point now. Just make up the craziest scenario you can think of and then get rated on it.

            “AITA for having sex on the space station with a Russian cosmonaut and accidentally creating an international incident?”

          • @systemglitch@lemmy.world
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            21 year ago

            Fucking A they were. No one can convince me otherwise. There was a style of writing that became obvious with the writers idiosyncrasies seeping through all the time with some very uncommon phrases and words being used that normal peons simply do not use.

            And then there were the writing themes that would create engagement over a week-long period to boot by these same writers.

      • Another Llama ⓥ
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        61 year ago

        Those are pretty annoying, and 90% of them are brand new accounts created for the sole purpose of posting their fake story :|

        • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 year ago

          There are entire discord servers based around competing to make a bullshit post that gets the most popular hahaha. It’s sooooo easy.

      • @JoeChio@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        /r/nosleep went from genuine scary but plausible stories to literal vampire fanfic porn. One of the worst pivots in reddit history.

        • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          I watched that happen in real time, such a bummer because there was some really cool and creepy writing on there at one point

      • @SolarNialamide@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        Holy shit lmao. I’m literally autistic and even I can’t believe anyone would be naive and gullible enough to believe the first part, let alone the second part. Thank God everyone got it was fake at part 3 but come one.

      • –Phase–
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        The worst part about this is that even though most of the people in the comments can see how painfully fake this story is, there’s at least some people on the first post arguing in ernest about the story’s “plausibility”. Tells you everything you need to know about redditors, really. And that’s not even getting into the tens of thousands of upvotes this drivel got even when everyone was actively making fun of the story for how fake it is in the comments.

    • ChamrsDeluxe
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      171 year ago

      Or pics being grounds for sob stories and creative writing prompts to get more upvotes on theur shitty pictures. That’s why I unsubbed from r/pics and subbed to /r/nocontextpics. Cool photos, no sob stories.

    • *without context.

      I don’t mind that kind of thing provided it’s in the right place and/or labeled as satire.

      I mean, that’s basically what The Onion is. Bullshit presented as real news, for laughs.

    • @Porcupine@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Hard disagree! As long as it’s entertaining and well-written, I don’t care if it’s fake. I’m just here to have fun.

    • Paradox
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      11 year ago

      And subs that then enact rules that say “dont question the story,” prompting more of that crap