this is going to sound dramatic, but i don’t know how else to explain it without making it worse. i’ve been lying to people for years. not about something harmless or small—this was a big lie. something that affected how people saw me, treated me, trusted me. it was a core part of who they thought i was.

it started as a way to avoid dealing with something i wasn’t ready to face. at first, it didn’t seem like a huge deal. but over time… the lie snowballed. people built relationships with me based on it. they confided in me, celebrated me, leaned on me. and the whole time i just kept it going, because trying to untangle it felt impossible. like the damage was already done, so why make it worse by admitting it?

recently, i finally hit my breaking point. i couldn’t keep living with the weight of it. i dug into everything and basically forced myself to come clean—even if it meant ruining everything. i didn’t even get the chance to tell people directly. someone found out, connected some dots, and it all blew up fast.

now my phone won’t stop. texts, missed calls, long angry paragraphs, even some people trying to defend me (which just makes me feel worse). some are “devastated”, others furious, and i get it. i lied to their faces for years. some of them don’t even know how to process it. i don’t either.

i know i messed up. i know i broke a lot of trust. but i wasn’t trying to hurt people. i was trying to survive. and now i’m finally telling the truth, and it feels awful and freeing at the same time. but people are acting like i’m the worst person alive, and i’m honestly wondering if they’re right.

so yeah. and I guess I can tell you the lie now, that this whole post is AI, but you honestly probably believed it.

This subreddit has too much AI. I genuinely do not understand how there are posts with thousands up comments trying to help a fictional character in a story.

The tale tell signs of AI are easy to spot:

1. Em dashes (—) instead of (-). They are extremely common in these posts.
2. They're "blowing up my phone" or something similar. Usually involves extended family too
3. Text patterns like "And the worst part? blah blah" and many more
4. Perfect grammar and punctuation. They do not use common quotations. It's always the “ ” instead of " ". They also just quote everything far too much.
5. The ellipses are not just 3 dots like "..." they are actually the unicode character U+2026 ellipses "…" (who in the world is gonna use a special ellipses character and not just 3 dots??) Seriously, go to a popular post and copy and paste an ellipses in Google or even the one in this post.
6. it's typically a completely ridiculous and comically NTA story. (like the fucking breast feeding one?? WHY?? Probably a fetish post)

And there's probably more but if you just take 30 seconds reading to recognize any of these it's easy to spot. Do not waste your time helping these people, getting mad at the opposing party, or thinking any of these stories are real. I love reading stories, and this would be a great place to see what could happen but seeing 2500 people comment on ChatGPTs hallucinations hurts my head lol