A post made on /r/parenting today is now the second most-upvoted post on the subreddit:
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It was immediately uncovered as fake, simply by checking OP's post history:
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This has really intrigued me because there's no obvious reason (to me) why someone would bullshit like this. It's not engagement-bait, it's a fairly nice story about OP's kids and their friends hanging out at their house. There's no real reaction even possible to it other than "Oh, that's nice, I guess". So why make it up? What's OP gaining? Or for that matter, why upvote it?
But the plot thickens. If you look at the most upvoted posts on the subreddit, the
the eighth most popular post on the subreddit is extremely similar. Not identical, but similar enough that they're essentially the same "narrative":
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It's intriguing because I don't think the OP of the newer post is just a bot account. The rest of the activity on their account seems genuine (most of his other posts are thirstposting in porn subs). So why would they reword a post from two years ago and repost it?