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.

  • 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster
    5·
    1 year ago

    beating yourself up over it won’t really help you, and all you can ever do is change your present and future, not the past.

    You should really talk to my wife about this.

    • Openmindedskeptic@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4·
      1 year ago

      Well, it’s easier said than done, and processing guilt/regret is also easier said than done lol.

      But hearing it a lot of times and telling yourself a lot and pretending someone else you love very much did the same thing and how you wouldn’t think nearly as badly of them for the same thing, helps.

      • 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s the reverse with her. She’s beating everyone else up for different things that happened ages ago, but she has to bring them up. It’s not one single big incident, they’re individual incidents, not related or anything… it’s just shit she remembers and just has to be the high and mighty judge, judging everyone else about their sins 😒. I mean, it gets tiring after a while. Yes, we know we screw up, we make mistakes, we are human, that’s what humans do.

        But, dare not point at her own mistakes, oh no, not only will you get a shitstorm of insults, completely unrelated to the problem, but also get accusations that this problem or mistake of her’s is not actually her fault, but everyone elses… that, or she’ll just start crying and play the victim.

        • vis4valentineOP
          6·
          1 year ago

          Why are you still with her?

          And yes I know is just a comment, maybe she’s great in other aspects of life, but this kind of attitude is a dealbreaker for me, I don’t care if they’re great in other aspects.

          • 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster
            3·
            1 year ago

            Because we have a kid together. I stay because of the kid. He likes having both of us at his side, not just me or her. Besides, I’m more of a mother to him than she ever was and he adores me, so I’m not about to leave him with her (the court will give custody to her by default, I’d have to fight for him, and that will cost, A LOT, which is burned money, he can decided when he’s 12 who he wants to live with, I’ll stay around till then).

            You are absolutely correct. Whatever postive sides she might have (there are, but they’re not that many to be honest) are completely overshadowed by her toxic personality.