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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It got to the point of feeling like Facebook with strangers. Good for you for graduating college/sucks you broke your wrist/congratulations on getting pregnant, but let's be real: I don't know you and I don't care.