Some visitors undoubtedly thought Chris’ tale, other people simply enjoyed the chance to have fun.
Chris says Reddit users are “much more sceptical” than people on Twitter, whom he thinks are “very willing to use the tale on its face”. Why do we think stories that are ridiculous by anonymous strangers? The most-retweeted articles on @redditships chinalovecupid quizzes function (at the best) clueless and (at the worst) abusive boyfriends who variously have actually terrible company tips, bully their partners, sleep in nests and also egregious relationships that are age-gap.
“People tend to be more prepared to accept that guys do strange things,” says “CartoonsHateHer”, an entirely anonymous cartoonist that has been producing troll articles for a long time and it has authored a novel about her escapades, The Troll Handbook: 100s of accounts, hundreds of bans, 100 of posts, one girl that is bored. Continue reading