My list of 40+ fake reddit posts.

Hello, I hope you remember my, I'm the fake poster. I did a full confession on Reddit, I compiled over 40 of my fake stories. I had chosen AmITheAngel because it is the most adequate place to talk about fake stories on Reddit.

I'll also post the full text in here so you don't have to go to reddit. Here it is.

AITA for making over 40+ fake posts on reddit?

This is my confession, and at the end of this post, you will find a list of 40+ fake post I wrote on Reddit. But first, let me introduce myself, so you might have a little insight on what was happening on my mind.

My name is Valentine. For almost a year I posted over 40 fake posts on Reddit. There are a lot more, but these are the ones I've been able to find and recover.

Let me tell you about me. I'm 24 years old, I was introduced to Reddit by my nephew, and for the following years, I've been hooked to the platform.

I started listening to many Reddit story time podcasts. Started with the Pewdiepie reaction videos, then people reading answers from AskReddit, and then Relationships and AITA. It was always entertaining, and sometimes educational. I even got my boyfriend hooked into them.

Sometimes I asked Reddit for advice on things that happened IRL to me, but they always died in new with one or 2 comments. Then I had an Idea. I created another Reddit account, and posted a Fake Story. The engagement was immediate and most people believed the story, until mods deleted it.

But then something had grown inside me. Some days later I made another story, from another throwaway account. A little time later, another one.

Before I knew it, it became a habit. Something would pop inside my head, then I would create another account and write it down to post it on Reddit. I became more methodical, I used character counters, LanguageTool, Deepl Write to fix my grammar, I would research a topic to make it more believable. I created these characters, and started roleplaying as them, while I wrote it and interacted with commenters, I became my own characters for a short period of time. I would let ideas for stories rest on draft to make them better and fix mistakes.

It turned into a unhealthy habit, constantly my stories would get deleted by mods, someone would catch a little mistake to call out the fake, it would turn time-consuming, stress inducing, anxiety triggering. I didn't care about receiving hate on a character that was written to be a jerk, but the effort started to take a toll on my mental health.

This was never about Karma, awards, or followers. I gained nothing from this. I need to talk to a psychologist to try and understand my real motives since I don't really understand it myself, but I guess the engagement was addicting, my ultimate goal was to have my story read on my favorite reddit podcasts, and I did it a few times. A few times I said "just one more, this can be a hit" but you know how that ends, it's never just "one more".

My writing skills improved, a lot, you might not notice from this post alone because I'm not really taking care of my grammar alone, but I'm from Venezuela, english is my second language, and it really helped me to improve my english. I have so many ideas for books and stories to write, but I always freeze, still have many doubts about my storytelling, such as: Are my characters bland and boring? Are my descriptions good enough? Am I describing too much or too little? Is my story engaging? Do I know enough about this topic to write a story about it? Is my language too formal or too casual?

On Reddit none of that matters, I can write a complete story in minutes and people will find it engaging. I can make mistakes on my writing and grammar and nobody will care. Writing the stories I actually wanna write as full books is intimidating, and I feel bad for not trusting my skills enough to start actually writing.

But of course, now I feel as a psychopath, some people after reading my stories feel upset, emotionally distressed, I might have triggered some previous real trauma on someone, I'm playing with these strangers emotions for no real reason. And yes, I sleep well at night, I'm a heavy sleeper actually. I feel bad, and guilty.

I was hesitating making my list of fake posts public because the people that engaged on them might feel betrayed, played, and used. I spoke to many of them as if OP was a real person, some has told me their personal real stories, they trusted me. This is the most psychotic thing I've done, and is hunting me now. But maybe some people might feel better knowing these are fake since the OPs don't exist, and none of these fake people are actually going through an abusive or dangerous situation. I don't really know, the ideal situation is that the posts had never been written and posted in the first place, but is too late for that.

I tried to stop but I relapsed. I need coping mechanisms to stop me from the urge to create yet another reddit account and write another distressing story. Contrary to how Reddit makes it look, getting help for mental health is not easy, and BTW, not all mental health professionals are Therapists, psychologists exists too.

I might end up leaving Reddit entirely, the API fiasco certainly helped with that, I've used reddit a lot less since then, and I've been on Lemmy ever since.

BTW, I never posted a fake story on this, my main account, I posted here about my relationship and my crazy Mother in Law, that is 100% true, I'm not stupid enough to make fakes posts on my main. I'm not a liar IRL. I'm actually very honest, brutally honest actually, and yes, that many times makes me an asshole.

This is my confession, feel free to ask questions. I wanna turn some of these stories into actual books, maybe you can help me to choose which ones. I really wish other fake posters come out, that might be another stone thrown at Reddit's castle of glass.

And finally, I'm sorry. And please don't think anything on Reddit is fake, real life is sometimes crazier than fiction, I have real family stories that sound crazier than the fakest fake posts, and that's why I never tell them.

My list of 40+ fake reddit posts.

My list of 40+ fake reddit posts.

AITA for making over 40+ fake posts on reddit?

The Fake Post List: