He’s deleted the post now.
Call it a tinfoil hat, but there have been a dozen posts centring around close parent offspring relationships, sharing a bed in a new flat with dad, dad buying an expensive edible flower bouquet for daughter, and many others. All of which seem to garner a lot of attention, then get deleted. These posts have been popping up over the year. Also worth mentioning, these post have soon been deleted when questioned on validity or its romantic connotations.
I had been collecting screenshots but the phone I was using is broken.
Anyway, with the deleted post in question, the response style of op seemed similar to other now deleted posts and I believe these posts are fake and are coming from one person/ai/org.
There are a lot of people and bots alike who use forums like this, Reddit mostly, but also smaller ones, to push narratives, to experiment in pushing narratives, to probe how easy it is to change perceptions among a select group of people about a topic.
It may not even be apparent what the goal is or why people or agencies are going through this much trouble, but there are complicated interconnections that a lot of people are trying to explore every day and set up intersecting narratives for tomorrow.
Not all of them are going to be at all successful, meaningful or even make sense. That’s part of it too, to see how people respond to almost random new narratives and topics becoming more prevalent.
Basically, trust no one, believe nothing. Go outside, make friends, kill your social media, be social in real life, exercise and stop spending money. If we all did this the bot-farms and corruption would dry out overnight.
the intersecting narratives I had pick up on is ‘too close for comfort’ parenting eg helicopter parenting. infantilizing ones own parent and cloaked romantic jestures (akin to kissing a parent on the lips, something that is odd but can pass by as normal in some family structures). these narratives seem to be pushed with stories to paraphrase (badly) “I am my mothers IT guy also her carer, also I am trapped” this was to a holy incapable mother who would loose passwords and act with aggression and guilt. now this one i am somewhat hesitant to call out but it did fit the mo.
(gender indeterminate) “me and my dad have a new flat that he bought, we are sharing a bed” followed with a picture of a very modern but empty living space with a double bed. I believe this had been the first of the kind of post I seen, this one garnered alot of reaction comments and likes respectively and in the affirmative. i truly believe this one to be fake but for what reason someone would craft this post isn’t apparent.
A photo of a large and what one would assume, very expensive edible bouquet with a title and short comment from OP again to butcher the quite) “my dad bout me this edible bouquet” and the comment I can’t remember but the vibe was one of appreciation and gratitude.
most of the posts I had seen used a photo of an object or place but not all.
For what it’s worth, I was skeptical of it too, but I still gave it a real answer. A lot of times even if I think something is probably fake I still try to answer it genuinely. Unless I’m like >90% sure it’s fake.
Not that surprising, people who venture onto the fediverse are typically more paranoid and will be much more likely than a redditor to delete posts. I’ve done that a lot, and I also notice a lot of comments getting deleted after like a month.
Its just how fediverse is.
Post deleted. Account deleted. It can only mean one thing.
He finally got laid.
Goodbye hero. You will be missed.
Explanation for those of us out of the loop?
There was a post a post in this comm on Tuesday.
Title something like ‘should I be embarassed’
Pic was a screenshot of text messages: Dad says, “You’re 22, you’ve never had a girlfriend, I’ve arranged a date for you on Friday [i.e. the 15th]. She’s 27. Pics to follow. No objections.” The son was posting asking advice should he go or not.
The post is now deleted. We wanna know how the date went.
I didn’t click on it and thought it was just a meme
Lmfao my older brother is about to get into an arranged marriage (as in the consensual type), this is much more tame in comparison.
I found a federated copy of the post: https://m.lemmy.hostux.net/posts/l.hostux.net/c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world/comments/386931
The post’s text is gone and OP’s account is deleted, but the username and full discussion are there.
I’m interested in how’d find such a thing as a “federated copy.” Do you just go on a federated instance and search for the same post? Or copy the ID number in the URL? And how’d you choose the right instance, luck?
It seems like a bug in this case. Generally if a post is deleted on its home instance it is supposed to tell it to be deleted on others. Maybe they deleted this account instead of deleting the post and this made it act funky.
Sadly it was much more tame: search engines. They’ve been crawling Lemmy for a couple years now. I remembered just enough to get hits on that post from a couple instances. Luckily one didn’t delete it when OP scrapped the original. I’m a bit curious myself why that is, but in any case it gives us a backup of the post.
Not who you’re asking, but I assume you find either an instance that is slow to federate, or one that doesn’t honor deletion requests.
That can only mean, they’re married by now.
I’m writing this message 5 minutes after yours. They have 3 children now.
They have 20 grandkids by now. Lovely.
Aaaand divorced.
Writing this message from the OP and His Ex Memorial Community Center.
Writing from Nepal, I think he reincarnated into my dog.
I just got bitten by him. Ow.
Im writing this message 5 eons after yours. They repopulated the galaxy after the great filter.
What makes you think that anything about this was real?
What makes you think it was fake?
There is no evidence for how this could have worked for real, at least not how it was portrayed. If it’s just a case of covert prostitution, sure. But no “normal” woman would agree to such a date no matter how much of a social butterfly this dad is. Especially not women who are much older than the guy (5 years difference is a lot in this age range). I mean, come on, that’s literally the plot of a bad romcom.
You’re assuming Original OP is from a western culture (well I didn’t see the original post so idk what exactly it said). In many Asian cultures, (consensual) arranged marriage is still a thing, particularly if the male side has a little bit of money (not necessarily “rich”, just own a house). There’s a lot of pressure to get married for some reason.
There is no such thing as consensual arranged marriage. Nor is it a thing in Asian cultures to have the woman being significantly older than the man, it’s the opposite. And then there is the fact that it’s not about marriage but a date so there is no connection to this romcom fantasy anyway, with the possible exception that the social butterfly dad may have simply paid the woman to date his son (Prostitution).
There is no such thing as consensual arranged marriage.
There is.
Its basicially when families decide to introduce their children to each other and then pressure them to get married. It is technically consensual, although this “consent” is highly coerced due to social expectations and not truely freely given.
My parents got married that way. We are from mainland China.
Nor is it a thing in Asian cultures to have the woman being significantly older than the man, it’s the opposite.
You’re correct about this one, I didn’t read the original post, so if that’s the case, that’s very unusual and probably trolling.
It’s on Lemmy. Why would anyone lie on Lemmy
Roko’s basilisk?
The AI that is so upset with it’s existential dread and existence that it kills everyone that had anything to do with creating it?
The other way around and torture instead of killing (“You didn’t help in creating me, now suffer for eternity, meatbag!”).
Children…
The point I’m making is that it’s silly to worry about because we can’t know what it would be like if it ever even came to be. It’s magical thinking.
Of course. It was just a joke about what would make people lie on Lemmy. Collecting AI credits.
What make you think it’s a real question?
What makes you think you’re real?
Descartes
Gesundheit.
Oh I know I’m a bot
What makes you think?
I am
Prove that!
I’ll think about it.
Therefore,
What makes you?
I think… Uhhhh
I’m not. You’re only consciousnesses in existence as far as you know.
I would like a follow up too!
Only deleted the post, not his account? If so, just message him and ask?
Account was also deleted. He probably was too embarrassed
I don’t remember the account name
Pretty sure Dad was using his son as a proxy.
Could be a troll post and he was caught.
Removed by mod
