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As someone who has been around message boards and forums since the late 90’s one thing that has really surprised me is the degree to which people have started taking first person online stories seriously.

Reddit of course is full of them, as is Twitter and lots of other places. Meanwhile the incentives to successfully tell a just-so story that goes viral have never been higher. Youtube money, GoFundme, influencer opportunities, etc.

The post we are all responding to is super low effort, not even a photo, and not even a first person account. Her “friend” found an AirTag and threw it away.

Meanwhile there’s a GoFundme link right on the profile.

Just saying.



While the story is of course possible, there are sufficient red flags I'm inclined to think it's not likely.


I stopped when I read that. Terrified woman stays with friend after being alerted to a tracking device on her car. While she sleeps, the friend searches the car and discards a tracking device. Right. And everyone else here treating it like that is fine.


Ok, but it was fully funded months ago.




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