Comment on Deserved honestly
Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI mean, it’s usually safe to assume no when it comes to greentext, but who knows. Definitely both of them aren’t real.
Comment on Deserved honestly
Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI mean, it’s usually safe to assume no when it comes to greentext, but who knows. Definitely both of them aren’t real.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
source?
Fuctangle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The likelyhood that both people went on the internet to describe the same event in roughly the same format with similar specifics of phrasing (eg. “hooked her finger in my Pyrex dish”) in the same order is very low. It’s likely one is a directly based on/inspired by/referencing the other. That’s how plagiarism is detected, and how people behave on the internet for internet points. You’d have to do more digging to figure out which one was first.
Similarly any given story on a forum, especially ones with clean narratives and high contrast characters, is likely just creative writing and not completely true. Some include enough details and evidence to make it plausible, and there’s enough cases of authors owning up to their posts being an outlet for creative writing, so who knows. But with this one, the heightened gender and social outcast fantasy with an antisocial twist, reads like an average misanthropic 4chan poster doing some misogynistic daydreaming. But again who knows. Just applying some healthy skepticism and reasoning.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This kind of overlap usually means they’re both talking about the same real incident. When multiple people share similar accounts spelled out with specific details, it makes it more plausible that something actually happened. Some healthy skepticism is good, but given the precise matches and consistency, it’s pretty reasonable to think these stories are probably based on real events, rather than that I made the 4chan one in photoshop after seeing this post
rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s pretty common for people to write greentexts where they pretend to be the other person in a scenario and write from their point of view in order to point out how strange the behavior in the original post was. It’s intended to be parody, not something you actually believe.