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I think most people are probably into something that the next person might find strange. And most have probably had multiple bizarre interactions with strangers online at some point. It’s a big and diverse internet. Feel free to post about any strange or outright crazy experiences you’ve had online over the years! And I wouldn’t mind some advice on the following story, too!

So, about a month back my s/o approaches me and says that she received a message on Instagram. Apparently a French banker would like to practice his English with her over Skype, in exchange for money. By all accounts, some random guy in his 40s who looks like he is worth a few €’s. I’m pretty open minded, but we set a few ground rules for things that might not be acceptable on the huge likelihood that the guy is a weirdo. A five minute Skype chat proves the obvious, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected in all honesty. But still strange.

Mr. Dollarbill really likes feet. Mundane conversation, and the visible sole of a foot. He keeps it clean, doesn’t allude to anything inappropriate and the truth only becomes clear when he is asked a few minutes in about what his deal is. Practicing his English was obviously a ruse. 8 minute conversation, £75. 5 minutes, £75. The money keeps adding up at about 3 conversations a week for the last month and she is close to £1000 and a valuable gift of Vivienne Westwood bag at £540. He hasn’t been rude yet...

But he has asked about the possibility of speaking to me, and has been enquiring about what type of gifts I might like. I have no idea what he would expect of me, does he want to see my feet? I really don’t know. But the thought spooks me a little. I can’t shake the “Indecent Proposal” vibes that I get from the whole situation. I don’t need the money, my girlfriend doesn’t either. But we do like money!

So I guess I’m asking what GAF would do? Where is this whole thing heading? Or for predictions like am I already dead?

And of course, feel free to share your weird experiences too! Maybe you got Catfished (I have a long time ago), stalked or god knows what online. And maybe for you, you are the strange one and my experience is your Tuesday?!

 

[MetalAlien]

I once saw a girl on an online forum systematically stalk and hunt down any male that dared question her. Over the course of a year or more she collected a close knit group of followers that would surround her with support in any thread where she choose to attack. She developed effective techniques for baiting men into arguments so that moderators she drafted into her group could ban them because of so called policy violations. If you would not take the bait sometimes you would be banned anyway. She basically ran the place and flaunted her power over it. Instead of the community growing it spiraled into devolution.


EDIT: As for what you posted... everything on the internet is about money, power, or sex. This will end badly!

 

[EverydayBeast]

Catfishing happens all the time with all the freaky dating apps out there, I feel sorry for anyone who has wasted their time being catfished.

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

4chan circa 2006, 2007 and 2008 was a wild as hell place.

I arrived soon after (though not because of) the Habbo Hotel raid and I was right there when Chocolate Rain and Rickrolling first exploded in 2007.

I think of it in terms of something like Studio 54 in the 1970s, brief, glorious windows of absolute freedom and a great way to blow off some steam.

 

[Melon]

Hold onto your seats bois and gorls, this one is a doozy. So back in 2011-2012 little baby (even younger than I already am ) Melon decided to join an obscure Zoo Tycoon 2 fan forum-turned broad video game site. There I made several friends, who I am still friends with to this day, actually. However, I'm not really here to discuss the good people from there. Anyway, I was extremely good friends with the site's owner/admin. He was kind of a dick with a superiority complex, but I could look past it due to him usually being nice to me and because of our shared interests. There were some red flags there, but I usually give people benefit of the doubt if they're overall nice to me. Biggest mistake ever, tbh. It started becoming apparent he was only friends with me (for years I might add) because he was into me. I should also mention he is five years older than me; and while that isn't an issue on its own, he waited the entire time until I turned eighteen to start flirting with me. I don't know about you but that is pretty fucking creepy. It doesn't stop there, though, in-fact, we've barely started, my friends. Fast forward to 2017 when I start dating one of my long time friends from the forum (we're still dating btw and have met up several times and even lived together for over a year). To say the owner of the site was unhappy with this was an understatement. This dude went full 'sicko mode' on me. Saying I belonged to him, and it should've been him I met up with instead. I ignored him at that point, in which he went for a different approach, which was to tell me I was worthless and not something he should care about. At this point I was completely fed up, and I blew up on him. Keep in mind, I'm a very laid-back person and I avoid conflict like the plague, but I do have my limits. I blocked him on every platform, or so I thought, after the initial fight. However, I forgot to remove him from steam, so he ended up messaging me on there. He said he already missed me (?????) and that he was so sorry for everything. I personally didn't care, and was short with him. I think he then got the message, and we stopped talking and things seemed to settle down. However, that drama reared its ugly head again on my birthday in 2018; in which he goes into full toddler meltdown mode. For some reason he was trying to ban me and my bf from the forums, because apparently it reminded him of all the "pain he went through" and it hurt him seeing me with someone else. After that, the whole community turned on him, and he was exiled from his own site. To this day he is still obsessed with me, and I only know this because one of my friends still occasionally talks to him.


And to think this all came from a site that was about a fucking zoo sim directed towards children.

 

[EviLore]

Forum owners are such creeps

 

[brap]

I was in the 4chan thread on /b/ in 2014 where some guy strangled a woman to death and posted pictures of her. We didn't think it was real at first but yeah.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/4chan-murder-suspect-david-kalac-surrenders-police-n241806

Hold onto your seats bois and gorls, this one is a doozy. So back in 2011-2012 little baby (even younger than I already am ) Melon decided to join an obscure Zoo Tycoon 2 fan forum-turned broad video game site. There I made several friends, who I am still friends with to this day, actually. However, I'm not really here to discuss the good people from there. Anyway, I was extremely good friends with the site's owner/admin. He was kind of a dick with a superiority complex, but I could look past it due to him usually being nice to me and because of our shared interests. There were some red flags there, but I usually give people benefit of the doubt if they're overall nice to me. Biggest mistake ever, tbh. It started becoming apparent he was only friends with me (for years I might add) because he was into me. I should also mention he is five years older than me; and while that isn't an issue on its own, he waited the entire time until I turned eighteen to start flirting with me. I don't know about you but that is pretty fucking creepy. It doesn't stop there, though, in-fact, we've barely started, my friends. Fast forward to 2017 when I start dating one of my long time friends from the forum (we're still dating btw and have met up several times and even lived together for over a year). To say the owner of the site was unhappy with this was an understatement. This dude went full 'sicko mode' on me. Saying I belonged to him, and it should've been him I met up with instead. I ignored him at that point, in which he went for a different approach, which was to tell me I was worthless and not something he should care about. At this point I was completely fed up, and I blew up on him. Keep in mind, I'm a very laid-back person and I avoid conflict like the plague, but I do have my limits. I blocked him on every platform, or so I thought, after the initial fight. However, I forgot to remove him from steam, so he ended up messaging me on there. He said he already missed me (?????) and that he was so sorry for everything. I personally didn't care, and was short with him. I think he then got the message, and we stopped talking and things seemed to settle down. However, that drama reared its ugly head again on my birthday in 2018; in which he goes into full toddler meltdown mode. For some reason he was trying to ban me and my bf from the forums, because apparently it reminded him of all the "pain he went through" and it hurt him seeing me with someone else. After that, the whole community turned on him, and he was exiled from his own site. To this day he is still obsessed with me, and I only know this because one of my friends still occasionally talks to him.


And to think this all came from a site that was about a fucking zoo sim directed towards children.

God, I love small fan forums and stuff. Always crazy stories and weird people.

 

[MetalAlien]

I should also mention he is five years older than me; and while that isn't an issue on its own, he waited the entire time until I turned eighteen to start flirting with me. I don't know about you but that is pretty fucking creepy.

Well the rest of your story sounds like a terrible experience with a terrible person, this part I would call respectful not creepy.

 

[GAMETA]

There was this neighbor, T., good fella, late twenties, wife and son, christian as far as general christians go, good person overall it seemed.

We used to play video games when we were young kids but end up going to different schools. We hung out a couple of times through mutual friends tho, there was an arcade and a huge vacant industrial lot in the neighborhood, so kids would gather to do "mountain biking" in the mud or play Street Fighter 2 in the arcade.

Seems to me like one of those guys you know you could be good friends with, but for whatever reasons never came to be...

Anyway, 20 years into the future there I am, going to my mum's place for Christmas, it's a 7 hour car trip, no flights (I feel really unconfortable in planes, anyway), so I don't go there as much as I'd like, and I really like the place. Small town vibe, close to rural areas but within civilization... the neighborhoods are still the same, no big buildings taking over, same stores in the main avenue, good folks that know each other, same home-sweet-home looking houses although the front yards are no longer decorated like they used to be in the 90's. The whole place looks a bit more grey-ish each time I visit, slowly but surely... some sad nostalgia kicks in every time I'm in town, specially because you don't see kids playing in the street anymore.... anyways...

I'm in the car, just past this neighbor house, some strange movement in the street, people are uneasy, I'm now 30 feet from my mom's place when I hear 3 loud piercing noises. BANG, BANG, BANG! Gunshots! I hear the echoes behind my head too, it makes you feel as if the shots were aimed at you, strange shit. Some screams at my mom's place, I parked in a hurry, left the door open as I run towards the the front door. "Shit, shit, shit" is all you think, you know something has happened, it makes you wanna throw up but it's somehow inverted, as if you're vomiting from the outside into your guts and you feel the desperation sinking in. I open the door. "What the fuck!?" "Mom, what is this!? MOM! MOMMM!!" As I look around, a dinosaur lays dead in the room, a fucking dinosaur, I check it's face and the dinosaur is my almost friend neighbor. "He tried to eat me!" my mom says with her long neck and thick arms holding the gun. I look at the window, all neighbors are on the street looking up as if to the heavens, a bright ball of light is falling through the sky, everything is white, the light, so bright! We roar as the meteor strike! Such is the end of the era of the dinosaurs.

 

[AlphaMale]

Forum owners are such creeps

Hahahahahaha!!! Oh man...

 

[Husky]

A guy once messaged me on Twitch, greeted me, and quickly got to the point--"I like feet."
I got the message. "You want feet pics, huh?" He told me that was his goal, and well, I felt flattered. So I sent him feet pics.
His requests have grown far stranger since then. He wants me to buy small animals and film them getting stepped on. He wants me to photograph the feet of people I know. He also wants me to film them stepping on small animals.
I haven't obliged these requests, and I've told him he'll get more feet pics if he pays for them.

I've actually had far stranger flirts in real life. This one guy, in total seriousness, offered to help me feel comfortable by letting me hug him, maybe cuddle, maybe rest my head on his lap. Again, I did feel flattered, but the rape vibes were a bit much. The whole encounter's quite the story, and also involves him inventing a scenario where he'd take a bullet to save me, "because that's what I do; I protect the ones I love." He invited me to a party, and for a few movie dates, but fortunately this was to be our only encounter.

 

[brap]

A guy once messaged me on Twitch, greeted me, and quickly got to the point--"I like feet."
I got the message. "You want feet pics, huh?" He told me that was his goal, and well, I felt flattered. So I sent him feet pics.
His requests have grown far stranger since then. He wants me to buy small animals and film them getting stepped on. He wants me to photograph the feet of people I know. He also wants me to film them stepping on small animals.
I haven't obliged these requests, and I've told him he'll get more feet pics if he pays for them.

I've actually had far stranger flirts in real life. This one guy, in total seriousness, offered to help me feel comfortable by letting me hug him, maybe cuddle, maybe rest my head on his lap. Again, I did feel flattered, but the rape vibes were a bit much. The whole encounter's quite the story, and also involves him inventing a scenario where he'd take a bullet to save me, "because that's what I do; I protect the ones I love." He invited me to a party, and for a few movie dates, but fortunately this was to be our only encounter.

Are you a cute girl?

 

[Husky]

Are you a cute girl?

Just a really cute boy.