Do you ever read things online and think, wow, that didn’t happen? There’s a whole meme about it online- a jeopardy category “Things that didn’t happen”. I’ll take “things that didn’t happen for $500, Alex.”
A woman posted that 18 month ago, she had a stillborn baby girl. I’m so sorry for her loss, but she said she was at a thrift store and saw a cute dress in size 18 months that she decided to just buy for the hell of it. If her daughter was alive, she imagined she’d be super cute in it. Nothing wrong with the story so far. But then she said a woman with four kids at the register demanded to know why she was buying a baby dress if she didn’t have a baby. I just don’t believe that happened at all. No one demands to know why other people in stores are buying certain products. Have you ever seen a person in a store without a baby buying baby things? I’m assuming I have, but either their baby wasn’t with them or they were buying for someone else. Have you ever encountered anyone in stores demanding to know why anyone else was buying anything? That’s just weird. The moral of her story was “don’t judge me, I had a stillborn”. And ok I get it. I go to 25 cent days at thrift stores where half the stuff is on the floor and people are pushing and shoving. No one demands of anyone else why they’re buying THAT. No one ever asked me why I was buying 59 pairs of jeans. People just don’t care. Sometimes I was looking at something and a person right by me seemed like they wanted it so I just walked away and let it go. But no “WHY DO YOU NEED BABY CLOTHES?!?!”
It’s rage bait. They get paid for engagement. So if you tell them that you don’t believe their story, not only are they benefiting financially from that comment engagement, but you technically can’t “prove that it didn’t happen”.
There’s another lady with kind of a large online presence, and she has a service dog. But she’s always recording people giving her a hard time about having a service dog, which makes it kind of sus. She seems to get into altercations with people constantly. If it happens once, I can see if someone was mistaken, but it seems to happen so often that I wonder if she’s either paying people to fake having a problem with her medical episodes or she does shit on purpose to instigate it. She claims that the dog alerts her to when she’s about to pass out, but she never actually passes out. In the latest video, a woman is telling her to move over because she’s just sitting on the floor in a high traffic area, and she’s literally telling her “Actually I’m having a medical episode! Actually I’m passing out!” And she never passes out. She has a lot of energy to argue with this lady who then says she’s going to call 911 if there’s really a medical emergency going on. I just don’t get why she has all this energy to set this woman straight but can’t actually just scoot out of a high traffic area. Or actually let the lady call 911. She seemed to think the lady was discriminating against her for calling 911.
I feel bad for the dog honestly.
I've seen so many people videoing themselves for purposes like this. It's all rage bait and I think a lot of people are picking up on that. I've seen others with "service animals" recording themselves after they did something to start an argument or like you said be in a high traffic area in the way and fake a medical problem. I don't even know how many accounts like that on Tiktok and Instagram I've blocked because I don't want to give them even one second of my viewing time.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easier to give them the benefit of the doubt if they weren’t claiming to pass out while simultaneously arguing loudly.
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