Was this on Reddit? I know there are some communities there that actively reward users with upvotes for ragebaitey content.
Yep, defintely not a bad person
Submitted 8 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 8 months ago
can@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Oh you mean all of them?
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yep, reddit content… just thought it was intersting.
thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I know we are the BetterThanReddit website, but let’s not act like Lemmy is immune from this
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Lemmy isn’t any better than reddit is.
VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 8 months ago
People probably post ragebait here too, but there’s a built-in incentive on Reddit, particularly on subreddits like AITA or the Tenth Dentist, where users are encouraged to up vote the most ‘interesting’ posts, even if they find it offensive. Maybe the equivalents here also have this policy, but upvotes mean a lot more on Reddit than here—some subreddits require a high amount of karma to post, and posting something that’s guaranteed to get passed around and upvoted a ton can get people enough karma to make many more posts, have a buffer in place in case a different comment gets downvoted, or just want a lot of karma for bragging rights. Hell, you can even monetize upvotes now, in some cases.
Here on Lemmy, upvotes mainly just pass your content around for the sake of passing it around. Maybe there’s an algorithm that is more likely to push an unrelated post you made to the top, but the benefits for posting ragebait here aren’t as many as they are on Reddit.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 8 months ago
Gotta be trolling, right? Right?
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well, those pregnancy hormones can bring on some unhinged thought patterns but this is Disney villain levels.
PapaStevesy@midwest.social 8 months ago
Yeah, the fiancé misspellings give it away, too intentional.
MadBob@feddit.nl 8 months ago
It also seems like they want someone to reply “*fiancé” so people can reply in turn like “out of all the problems you have with this story…”
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It might be, but the wicked step-parent stereotype is unfortunately very grounded in reality.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, is that guy screwed. What a horrible, horrible person. And he’s having a kid with her so she’s going to be in his life even if he bailed on the marriage (which I hope he did).
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“AITA”
But yeah, I don’t think this is real.
theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It sounds too extreme to be real.
That said, my mother lost her mother when she was 4 years old. Her mom took her own life, my mom witnessed the aftermath and was already traumatized as hell.
My grandfather remarried and that woman did everything she could to get rid of my mom.
People can become better, and my step grandmother did. She apologized to my mom and owned what she did, and she was pretty good with me and my siblings when we were growing up.
The shit she put my mom through was insane. She told my mom that her mom was in hell burning because she killed herself. My mom and her step siblings got lice at school and she shaved my mom’s head but not theirs (12 years old too, so she got bullied on top of that humiliation), told my mom she looked too much like her mom and was ugly (and honestly, my mother was one of the most beautiful people around. When I was growing up I heard comments constantly, “Bro! Your sister is hot!” “That’s my mom jackass!”)
The list goes on and on. She succeeded in getting rid of my mom when she hit about 13. My mom’s youngest sibling was more than 10 years older than her, so she spent her teens moving around between her older brother and sisters until she married at 16, and has been on her own since.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, the evil stepmother trope certainly exists for a reason. I myself had… well there’s plenty of evil to go round. Can I interest you in a chocolate covered pretzel? If this one doesn’t ring especially true to me, that’s not to say these people don’t exist.
VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, probably Poe’s Law. Probably.
SternburgExport@feddit.de 8 months ago
I drink a lot. Mostly to forget.
But sometimes I drink so much, I don’t remember what I was trying to forget.
Now I remember.
I need a drink.
jokes aside please don’t let this shit be real
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 months ago
Bait
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
100%. People like this exist, but they’re rare and they know better than to admit to this shit blatantly.
slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are they that rare? And do they really know to keep things like this under wraps? It seems like our social filters have all gone out the window the last eight years.
She can’t spell fiancé correctly despite several attempts and having autocorrect. I think it’s entirely possible that she’s just dumb, selfish and insecure.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, there’s a reason fairytales like “cinderella” exist
clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Some people shouldn’t have children.
db2@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well that’s fairly rage inducing.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
You’d think they’d talk about this before she got pregnant.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not enough real world social engineering dating experience leads to this… as it did with me as well.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
So the poor guy can escape? Nah gotta chain him before you reveal how horrible you are.
discordatia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Everybody is like “This is totally rage bait!” and while, yes, it probably is, this is more common than you’d think. My step-dad tried everything to get my mom to give me up. And treated me like shit. She stayed with him and had two kids by him, but I grew up being treated like an afterthought by both of them. Now I’m 30 and no contact with my mom, meanwhile he’s six feet under. And he deserved it.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Man… excuse my French, but your mother is an asshole… I’m sorry if that hurts your feelings, I really am, and I take it back… I just had to say it…
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
A bitch
nifty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is she a telenovela character?
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or maybe a bear or something
Zagorath@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I like to think “faincé” use pronounced like “fancy”.
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
My advice is that she get help from a therapist that specializes in cluster B personality disorders. Preferably all of them 'cuz holy fuck.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
You hear about these people once in a while but to see one actually write it out for everyone to see is a new low
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
This is the animal part of the human brain. It is the enemy. In the vast majority of people, it is winning.
steeznson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Exactly! This is why fairy tales feature wicked step mothers.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is this loss?
slappy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Hey, shit happened to me as well… deadbeat obese mom…
Buuut, I wanted him to have his mom by his side… no matter how offputting and lazy she is… so, we make it work (kinda… not really… I do it for the kid, OK 😭?!).
Pinklink@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I have a shit mom and a great dad. They got divorced when I was fairly young. I still have a relationship with both of them, but thank god for my good dad because I’m not sure I would be an okay person without him. One good parent can be enough to keep you sane. So keep it up, you can do it :)
slappy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Giving a young person two sets of perspective is often as valuable as having a stable nuclear family. Good work.