you know a Reddit AITA is gonna be good when it’s titled like ‘AITA for [insert perfectly benign or benevolent act that anyone would agree with doing here]?’ and it has the asshole flare
a non-Reddit observer might take this post as meaning that the comments section of a post like this is just outwardly malicious to an actually good deed, and don’t get me wrong like it’s Reddit and people WILL do that shit, but you’d be surprised to know that this in fact is an indicator that op is actually an insane person being roasted in the comments section for good reason, and you now get to open the thread to see exactly why
“AITA for burning down my brother’s house?” ends up being a thread where OP rescued his small nieces and nephews from a raging drug party, accidentally knocking over his brother’s meth lab in the process and therefore setting the place ablaze; “AITA for giving my daughter a stuffed toy when she was crying??” ends with it being revealed that OP manufactures the toys himself in a sweatshop staffed by local 8-year-old orphans
I'm also presuming there's a healthy dose of the assholes doing everything they can to frame themselves as the reasonable party
oh yeah those are the best ones. sometimes op will start arguing with people in the comments and the mods have to come wrangle them up to abide by the ‘accept your judgement’ rule, and after that they just start editing the post like an angry mid 2000s fanfiction.net author to own the haters but that only infuriates the crowd more, so it ends up being like you’re in a courthouse watching the crowd go insane in support of the jury while the judge bangs their gavel for order. even if the story is fake like, you can’t beat that entertainment
i made this post a couple weeks ago and one of the most fascinating parts of the responses here are that everyone seems to be on the same page that sure, a lot of them are probably fake, but it doesn't matter because the true point of r/AITA is for entertainment. like part of the fun is not knowing if it's actually real or not, but going into it suspending your disbelief and pretending that it's real is the most fun because that way you can 1. think about what you would do if you were in this situation, 2. think about who the fuck would actually make these choices and what op might be hiding, and 3. take part in throwing rotten food at our protagonist as the mods slowly trudge them through the medieval reddit city in chains in a show of public humiliation to the masses
