Some people just need to be put in their place when they tell straight-up lies on the internet. We would recommend just not trying to bullshit your way through life in order to solve this problem, but it gives us so much schadenfreude-y entertainment that we're not going to do that.
Check out /r/QuitYourBullshit and Fail Blog for even more stupidity!
There's something about the anonymity of the internet that allows people to feel completely comfortable lying to other people. Sometimes they lie as a scare tactic, for example, providing bullshit anecdotes to scare people away from vaccines. Some people lie to mine Reddit karma. And then there are the weirdos who simply want attention. Unfortunately for these bullshitters, there are tons of internet users who are just waiting to call them out for their deceptive stories. And we love to see it.
If you go literally anywhere on the internet, you're guaranteed to come across bullshit, fake news, and straight up liars. Some very online people just can't help themselves and lie about the weirdest stuff. Why do they do it? Does it give them satisfaction to get away with lying to strangers on the internet? Or are they just trying to get the world record for Reddit upvotes? Whatever it is, it's pretty gratifying to see liars get publicly called out in forums like r/quityourbullshit. We've got some pretty cringey and amusing examples of times deceivers got what they deserved.
Hey, we get it...we all like to embellish the truth from time to time to make our stories a little more interesting. But the trouble starts when the lie wasn't even believable in the first place or someone can easily fact-check your story. The following people clearly didn't think things through very well!
