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Fan fiction is one of the building blocks of internet culture today. The combination of its boundless creativity and dubious plotlines has inspired much of the ridicule and weirdness on which a lot of online humor is based. Without a bunch of bored teenagers with access to Wattpad and a head full of ships, we'd probably still be unironically recycling jokes from Boomer comics.

While many wannabe authors might have moved on from writing Superwholock slash, their  legacy remains in our propensity for telling tall tales online. Some of these are more wholesome than others, as when Twitter user @standardtuber stumbled upon a series of stock photos featuring a happily partnered couple. She was so excited about her find that she created a whole headcanon for the pair, which her enthusiastic followers adding to it. Put that unsettling text you found on DeviantArt all those years ago to the back of your mind, because the (mostly) wholesome tradition of internet storytime lives on.

The world is full of horrible, painful experiences. At least, that's how it feels getting rejected by someone you like. There's no getting around being left out in the cold once in a while, but some experiences are more brutal than others. 

Dudes Who Are Down Bad is here to show the world that unceremonious dumping, ghosting and denial is a near-universal experience. Sometimes, it happens to entitled people who deserve it, others it's an embarrassing miscommunication and occasionally, it's just plain mean.  In situations like these, you can only tell yourself that there's plenty more fish in the sea, right?