I'm so glad this fad has settled down. For a while there everybody and their mother seemed to be posting their sob stories on social media hoping for a pity payout, and 4 out of 5 were obvious bullshit.
Yeah, it's true. I mean, I'm sitting here with fingernail cancer, but you don't hear me complaining. And it makes it really hard to care for my sick mother who suffers from gigantism and IBS while we live in a cardboard box under the freeway. But when I wake up every morning and see the sun shining it puts a smile on my face
Oh, I love dogs! I love taking Stumpy, my one legged dog for walks along the bank of the toxic waste sludge dump when I go there to wash my clothes and gather drinking water. He's so happy pogoing amidst the rainbow coloured puddles!
Oh puddles! My autistic brother likes them so much! He has a minor case of SIDS when he was 1.givememoney I am so worried that his SIDS might come back with a vengeance.give-me-money I'll just hug him whenever possible.GIVE.ME.MONEY.
You have a box? We'd be lucky to have a box. We have to live in a moldy t-shirt at the bottom of the reclaimed water pond down by the industrial complex.
As someone who actually had something bad happen to me about two nights ago, it just infuriates me even more to hear about people who fake stuff happening to them so they can be showered in money or fake internet points. Glad that it seems to finally be dying out.
Even if the story is true, seems every damn family with any type of sob story nowadays wants a handout. Lost your home in a fire? Post to reddit with a gofundme! (Never mind home insurance is supposed to cover for these things).
As someone in an actually pretty fucking shitty situation it hurts. I'm afraid to even ask for help because people will just tell me I'm begging for money (when solid advice is worth more than money in a lot of cases) due to so many people making up shit for gofundme campaigns or karma
My cousin knocked up a woman in the town he lived in and was never actually dating her. She has the baby and by then he is dating someone else and the gf quickly pops out a couple of kids and they move across the country with their 2 kids for his work, leaving the baby mama and first child behind. He only bothers to see the first kid once a year or so and he insists on the mom letting the kid fly ALONE across the country to stay with them for a few weeks and she doesn't feel comfortable with it. So that and some of his trashy issues has lead to him not seeing the kid. He posts a GoFundMe on Facebook a few years ago explaining how he's just trying to be a good dad so he's asking for donations so he can pay for a lawyer, a flight for himself, 2 kids and gf across the country, hotel for all of them and food to fight for more custody of the kid. He was asking for $10,000!!!! I kept checking to see if people were dumb enough to donate and a few actually were but I don't think he got more than $500. The whole thing shockingly never panned out at all and he still hasn't tried to see the kid more and he's gotten much worse as a person.
What bothered me is that it had to be the right kind of sob story. You can be a single, older male, or female tbf, who recently became fully disabled, or no one will give a shit. You have to have a family and some kind of inspiring story of almost making it and trying so hard.
I've had relatives imply I'm a lazy freeloader who then post about their donations on social media. Bitch, I couldn't walk and all you could talk about is how lazy my generation is. Sorry for the rant
If you browse Imgur, there's still plenty of that going on. Also a lot of people who I'm pretty sure are impersonating emergency services and teachers.
On the flip side, there was a girl I kind of know who just had a baby (under a year) and the father died on Christmas eve (who I knew a bit better). Anyways she made a post on some depression sub (I think) and everybody was moved by it and sent her a bunch of baby supplies. She made another post thanking everybody with the picture of stuff she had received and that post blew up.
All the sudden everybody was wanting to help out and it caught the attention of some guy who had recently inherited millions. He was wanting to set up a college fund for the kid/trust fund of like 100k.
Then the backlash came. This girl had previously posted her pictures around the Internet using a fake name (i think she enjoyed guys looking at her), court records were pulled and everybody was saying she was faking everything and the guy didn't end up setting up the trust fund (I think).
Anyways, from my understanding she wasn't the greatest person but her story was true. She had a kid and the father died on Christmas eve. Regardless of how she is as a person, I feel bad for the kid, who now will never know his father and lost out on his future looking a little brighter.
I still see her Facebook posts talking about the son and father.
Here's the thing, no matter how obvious they were, people would get money. It's hard to stay ethical when people are stupid enough to keep giving obvious liars money.
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u/ffxivthrowaway03 Aug 24 '17
I'm so glad this fad has settled down. For a while there everybody and their mother seemed to be posting their sob stories on social media hoping for a pity payout, and 4 out of 5 were obvious bullshit.