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[Calandrino]

It goes without saying this never happened. One of the most popular genre's of made up stories on reddit I've noticed is the "racist gets his comeuppance!" story. They have to know redditors foam at the mouth for this shit and post it to farm upvotes.

In this instance I think it's less a fantasy about beating up racists and more a fantasy about beating up disabled vets.

 

[Corpun]

This never happened. One of the most popular genr of made-up stories on reddit I've noticed is the "racist gets his comeuppance!" story. They have to know redditors foam at the mouth for this shit and post it to farm upvotes.

Up there with the Karen gets owned posts. Don't have it saved, but back during WuFlu, some Redditor made an extremely fake and gay story about how he owned some Karen in a Target parking lot by bagging her daughter because he had a motorcycle and corrected her misinformation that motorcycles are dangerous death machines.

 

[thejackal2]

This redditor is a personal cow of mine. This is just a sample of their insane lack of self awareness and general autism.

 

[AnOminous]

Don't have it saved, but back during WuFlu, some Redditor made an extremely fake and gay story about how he owned some Karen in a Target parking lot by bagging her daughter because he had a motorcycle and corrected her misinformation that motorcycles are dangerous death machines.

But they are. There's a reason ER personnel call them donorcycles. I've known maybe one or two people who got killed in an auto wreck, and over a dozen motorcyclists, and of those who didn't die, many got severely fucked up. If you hit a deer in a car, unless something weird like it coming through the windshield happens, you're probably going to be okay even if your car is totalled. If you hit a deer on a motorcycle, odds are good you die.

 

[Steam Deck Verified]

It goes without saying this never happened. One of the most popular genre's of made up stories on reddit I've noticed is the "racist gets his comeuppance!" story. They have to know redditors foam at the mouth for this shit and post it to farm upvotes.

Which is bizarre considering they call out and downvote any commenter saying "I would never let [random abuse or tomfoolery in linked story/video] happen to me, I would punch them" as being an armchair power fantasy that would never happen in real life, yet they completely and totally believe some obviously fake power fantasy about punching out le pathetic toady racist thanks to a guy named D'Shaun (lmao).

Worst is when, in response to a crime story involving children, someone posts "if someone hurt, killed, or raped my child/niece/nephew I would kill him slowly and painfully," and then a bunch of fags will come out of the woodwork to condescendingly call the user an "internet tough guy," armchair vigilante, they wouldn't actually do anything irl, cycle of violence doesn't solve anything and rehabilitation and mercy are the way! kek you childfree fuckers always say you'd shoot anyone who messed with your dog but you legitimately can't imagine the biological urge to protect an innocent young relative without thinking it's roided-up bullshit? I can't even imagine someone hurting my baby niece without seeing red.

 

[Roland TB-303]

But they are. There's a reason ER personnel call them donorcycles. I've known maybe one or two people who got killed in an auto wreck, and over a dozen motorcyclists, and of those who didn't die, many got severely fucked up. If you hit a deer in a car, unless something weird like it coming through the windshield happens, you're probably going to be okay even if your car is totalled. If you hit a deer on a motorcycle, odds are good you die.

They’re also obnoxiously loud and their owners are obnoxious faggots. Trying to enjoy some peace and quiet at home? Sorry can’t, the faggot neighbour is revving his shit bike for no reason at all. Want to sit in the backyard and relax? Can’t again moron, faggots with no regard for anyone else but themselves are speeding up and down your quiet street in your quiet neighbourhood with their shitty dirt bikes that don’t belong on the road.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Redditors fall for a AI generated picture of "Trump sleeping at his own trial" and almost 55 thousand updoots come the way of the poster.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c586c6/imagine_sleeping_at_your_own_trial/

Thousands of comments are the expected snappy gotachas and orange man bad TDS. Thousands calling it bullshit and obvious fakery burried.

Anyone with the slightest bit of common sense would realize that if this was true TDS networks like MSNBC would have already run it. Also the trial is taking place somewhere where pictures are not allowed to be taken in the courtroom so there is that.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Redditors fall for a AI generated picture of "Trump sleeping at his own trial" and almost 55 thousand updoots come the way of the poster.

Not AI, IMO. It's a well-timed picture of him blinking. It shows how a lot of the crying about AI is overblown, because photographers have been generating fake shit for narrative purposes for almost as long as the medium existed.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I thought it could also be just a regular picture photo-shopped. It shows that redditors are extreme low IQ creatures and will fall for anything which is the main point.

 

[Corpun]

I thought it could also be just a regular picture photo-shopped. It shows that redditors are extreme low IQ creatures and will fall for anything which is the main point.

These are the same people who haven't noticed that every media photo of Trump has always been an extremely unappealing or bad shot to make him look like a disgusting fat retarded slob who probably drools onto his expensive suits. They have no ability to notice this trend.

 

[ForTheHoard]

Not AI, IMO. It's a well-timed picture of him blinking. It shows how a lot of the crying about AI is overblown, because photographers have been generating fake shit for narrative purposes for almost as long as the medium existed.

That's not too bad. He's probably the first republican since Reagan that hasn't been photographed shoving food in his mouth like it's a cock. He might actually have a campaign internal policy specifically banning penis shaped food.

I still think that's why Obama used a utensil to eat in public. There's a picture of him eating ice cream out of a waffle cone with a spoon to avoid this very dilemma.

 

[Convallaria majalis]

So I skimmed through highlights and did a search, and didn't find this guy posted here yet. So, without further ado, I present TreesAreScary.
He posts constantly in standardcels, incelselfies, etc. with a picture of himself and two other people he knew in high school, asking people to SPECIFICALLY tell him what is wrong with his face. Multiple times. Obsessively. He has another account as well, but I can't find it in my search; it's not as active and it's just as repetitive.

https://old.reddit.com/user/Treesarescary/submitted/

I found him going down the rabbithole of /r/gangstalking one boring day, somehow got looped around to his account, and dug in. He's been going at it for several years now.

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And it goes on for pages and pages. What an odd duck.

Spoiler: Post by /u/nicotine-in-public

So basically, I was a "lolcow", if you Google the name "treesarescary" you will see a guy posting a collage with three faces on it asking why the other two look better looking, this was my obsession for a very long time and it actually made me pretty infamous on reddit at one point, eventually these guys on the Internet (let's call them the Discord Guys) found me and invited me to their group chat, they seemed ok at first and I found them pretty funny, but two years ago, they managed to find out my hometown and the names and identitys of the other two guys from my collage, and they began harassing them and messaging them and made plants to do a big "prank" on my hometown every summer

Last year 4 of the Discord guys actually physically came to my hometown completely unannounced (they never told me about this "prank") to set up a stall shaming the two guys from the collage and handing out professionally designed leaflets shaming them in a very absurd creative way, the two guys obviously didn't like this one bit and went straight to the police thinking that it was ME who was behind this whole thing, this actually led to me getting arrested back in January for accusations of harassment which was absolutely traumatizing as fuck because I'm very agoraphobic and had to be driven to a police station, thankfully charges against me were dropped because there obviously wasn't any evidence of me being behind these antics, the only thing I ever did was just make the collage and ask people to rate me and the two guys because I was jealous of them and wanted to know why they looked better than me

Even after knowing I got arrested, these fucking Discord Guys still won't stop and are already going to send these flyers with my face on to like 50 random addresses in my hometown, and they also keep saying they're going to accuse this one guy from my hometown of raping his own 6-7 year old son (keep in mind everyone from my town thinks it's me doing this) and they use this threat to basically control me because that's like the worst fucking thing you can do to someone and that WILL get my house bricked in at the minimum, as far as I'm concerned, I absolutely cannot do a fucking thing to stop them, they ARE going to do this and they probably won't stop until my life is completely turned upside down or i kill myself or something, I live in a small town so word gets round fast

I just don't know wtf to do, if I go to the police and give the police their names they will literally ruin my life in a week, and I can't move out either because I'm autistic and I don't have the organization or the means to just move out of my town, I genuinely feel like I have absolutely no other choice but to just end my life or risk getting arrested again (I'd rather die than go through that again)

Link to Reddit post on /r/LegalAdviceUK / Archive

When I saw this post, I wondered if he had a thread since he refers to himself as a lolcow. Sorry to quote a four year old post, but looks like treesarescary has gotten himself into more trouble with randoms on Discord.

I don't know what these dudes could even do that would be worse than what they already have threatened him with if he turns their names in.

 

[quaawaa]

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[biggnigghog]

With a "friend" like this, who needs enemas?

 

[Blarmed&Dangerous]

With a "friend" like this, who needs enemas?
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I would have done this to my college roommates in a heartbeat, and they me.

 

[BoJack Horseman]

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Ahahaha. These retards gave him $80,000 worth of stickers.

Think this YT comment sums it up nicely:

>He joined a discord server called "Redditors United" where prolific redditors with millions of karma turned out to be 16 year old Indians

Not surprised in the slightest. Indians learn how to be shitters since a young age:
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Even Reddit agrees (post).

And lately feels like some of this content farming is leaking onto Twitter / X, with the amount of low quality replies and reposted/stolen memes that maximize engagement. Given that people get paid for impressions if you give Musk $8 a month, it makes sense Indians set their targets on there now that they have an actual chance to make some chump change out of it.

 

[holyhandgrenade]

In this instance I think it's less a fantasy about beating up racists and more a fantasy about beating up disabled vets.

and then spending eternity in hell pissing in old mens mouths.

This post is ridiculously long for some reason and screenshotting it is too much work but speaking of predditors weird recurring fantasies yet another example of beating up children. tl;dr kid is bullying preditors kid supposedly and predditor kicks a small child. Obligatory this story is made up, but I hadn't seen the whole wall of text at the beginning of the post yet this psycho really thinks he did nothing wrong.

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TIFU by getting my son expelled from Kindergarten.​

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Prelude edit: Since this gained traction, I wanted to add a little more. It seems I mischaracterized my 'kick", as it was more sticking my foot out to put distance between him and my son. Nonetheless, there was a decent collision and he was knocked down.
Some people are stuck on the “smear campaign” I mentioned. I don’t have an arrest record, and Icould find hundreds of character referrals for myself, both professionally and personally. The narrative that I am violent and unstable (though without context it may certainly seem so) is without merit and was designed to force the school to act, which was the basis for my son’s expulsion. It would make sense to not want a dangerous man around children, if that were actually the case. Others seem to think that I feel what I did was ok. It’s not, and I’ve said so numerous times. Sometimes things happen and I’m ready to accept whatever comes my way, I’m not dodging accountability.
I retained counsel after the incident for two reasons. First, of course, if anything should come my way from this, whether criminally or civilly, but it seems unlikely as these people don't like involving outside entities into their business. Secondly, to see if there is any recourse against the school. For this reason, I’m not going to “name and shame” as some people here have suggested. There is CCTV everywhere, including the pickup area and playground. My attorneys have requested it we’ll see how that plays out. Also, we all do what we feel is best for our children, so fuck the people making private school comments and insinuating that somehow we all deserve to be in this situation because of where we chose to put our son.
As for the bully’s family. They have similar means to us and to my knowledge haven’t donated any more money than we have. I don’t know the parents personally, but something tells me I will eventually. Something also tells me the parents are going to be much like their son.
My wife is mad for several reasons, obviously. She’s not wild about what I did, but also that this is affecting other parts of our lives. Since this has happened, she’s been side-eyed at the grocery store, getting coffee, basically anywhere she runs into parents from the school. She is embarrassed, mad at the school, mad at my reaction, and mad everyone’s reaction as well. I don’t blame her a bit. The fallout from this will most likely be far-reaching.
My wife and I had a talk with our son, first about why he can't go back to his school. I took all the responsibility and he is very upset about it. I haven't told him that I probably can't be his baseball coach anymore. He understands what I did, and why it was wrong, but also thanked me a few days later when we were talking about it. We've turned this into a teaching moment for him. About how he did everything he could by talking to us, and it was me who failed him. We also talked about the appropriate response to things like this and how what I did wasn't ok.
There is a contingent of parents rallying around us, some publicly, others in private, but they are in the minority. I feel like I’m learning who our friends really are, which I guess is a silver lining to this debacle.
Lastly, we’re not moving. This may be a defiant stance by me, but I’m not going to let this be any more of a disruption that it’s already been. We’ve been in the neighborhood for a decade, our house is paid off, and I’m not going to let the way people perceive something drive us away from the life we’ve built. The public school we’re zoned to is a good one, and it will be fine.
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A boy in my son's class has been a known bully to a few others in their class. There have been incidents of this boy choking other kids with his hands around their necks, picking up sand in the playground and rubbing it in unsuspecting kids' faces, pushing kids down the playground slide, and just overall tormenting by random punches to the arms and shoulders.
My son came home and told me about the choking incident and I was concerned. Then I heard from other parents stories of how their children has been victims of this.
Then one day my son's demeanor changed. He was irritable, angry and throwing tantrums at every little thing. We were shocked by this because he's usually pretty chill and goes with the flow. Through some interrogation I found out that he has been the victim this little tyrant and has been hitting him randomly throughout the day for a while. I don't know if it's just a quick jab and it never gets noticed by the teacher or what, but I believe him because of this child's known history.
I emailed the teacher about the situation and let her know that I knew of other things that had happened surrounding this particular student. She said that she hadn't seen anything but that she would keep an eye out, not confirming or denying the other situations I referenced. This boy's behavior didnt change and he has consistently been hitting my son. At this point, and after talking with other parents some more, I am extremely distraught about this.
Now comes the FU.
At pickup everyday there is a drive-through pickup line, and a place to grab your kid when they are released on the side. There is a big lawn where they are released and there are lots of parents who stand and talk at pickup after the kids are out. This allows the kids a little extra time to play and get some energy out. While I am there talking with a mom from my son's class I glance across the lawn and see this boy swat my son in the back of the head. It wasn't friendly and it certainly wasn't called for. my son turns around with a pained look, holding the back of his head and the boy pushes him down. I excused myself from my conversation and started walking to my son, who at this point has gotten up and started running in my direction with this other boy hot on his trail. He's basically being hunted. My son runs into me, face first into my belly. I wrapped my arms around my son, look up and the boy is still running at him and---I kicked him. I put the sole of my shoe right in his chest. Not really hard, not "this is Sparta" style, but enough to knock him back and on his ass. Call it instinct, an unconscious motion, or whatever you want. I honestly don't even know if I meant to do it or not, it just happened.
This was in front of about 100 people. Immediately I'm swarmed by parents asking what the fuck is wrong with me, why would I kick a child, etc. I only spent about 15 seconds trying to explain before I realized that this was a futile effort. I quickly get my son's bag and we walk to the car.
By the time we get home, the principal has called my wife and is on the phone when I walk in. My wife is disgusted and mortified, and honestly so am I. It wasn't an ok thing to do, and "it just happened" hasn't been an acceptable excuse. Later that week, we were called into administration and told that they had no choice but to expel my son, admittedly through no fault of his own.
There was a parent-led petition to get this done, in addition to a smear campaign against me calling me violent and unstable. This is a private school, so there really isn't "due process" or whatever your would find in the public school system. It's a money and politically driven system, though I don't know if even building them a new science building would get me out of this one.
If it wasn't bad enough, this has affected lots of other things, because I'm my son's baseball coach too, and this has gotten around our league. My wife is beside herself and I don't even want to get into how that's going to play out.
So this is where we are. My son will need a new school for the fall, my reputation in the community and neighborhood is shot, and my marriage is now probably in major jeopardy. All for a bully.
TL;DR: I kicked my son's bully in the chest in front of a crowd of people and now he's not welcome back at school and I'm a pariah.
Edit: So I guess I need to clear some things up:

1. The "all for a bully" at the end wasn't meant to mean "all because of a bully". I'm taking responsibility for my actions, I was obviously wrong.
2. I didn't go into detail about my communication with the school about this issue. My wife and I met with the teacher 11 days before this happened. In that meeting it was reiterated that she has not witnessed what I was describing. I did not meet with any administrative people, but I cc'd the principal on the e-mail I sent to the teacher after our meeting, recapping what we had talked about. I probably should have met with the brass, but hindsight is 20/20.

L|A

 

[AnOminous]

Ahahaha. These retards gave him $80,000 worth of stickers.

Only on a site full of absolute retards could something as idiotic as "Reddit Gold" even exist. So you like some poster and pay money to give him absolutely nothing, the corporation gets every penny.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

/r/Genz getting butthurt about a (presumably photoshopped) toy that barely covers 1/4th of the typical shit they're into.

 

[Coolio55]

And lately feels like some of this content farming is leaking onto Twitter / X, with the amount of low quality replies and reposted/stolen memes that maximize engagement. Given that people get paid for impressions if you give Musk $8 a month, it makes sense Indians set their targets on there now that they have an actual chance to make some chump change out of it.

Do we have a thread for those indian/african facebook groups with bizarre AI art deepfakes?
If we don't, we should.