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People lie. It’s no secret. But when you realize the extent to which they do this online, you might just lose a large chunk of your faith in humanity.

That’s where the ‘Yeah That Definitely Happened’ Instagram page comes in. The page names and shames the folks who make stuff up on the internet, all for the sake of getting attention. And the lies they come up with are so ridiculous, they’re as funny as they are sad.

Scroll down for the best of the worst, and some blatant internet lies that would even make Pinocchio blush with shame.

Bored Panda got in touch with the current owner of the Instagram page, Jordanna, who took over from the previous owner, Erin. "She came up with the idea for the account because she was really sick of seeing all the fake stories around, and thought making an account to call them out would be a good idea. It took off and this is where we are now. I became an admin, and after Erin left, I became the owner. Lexi and Ethan are our two other admins!" Jordanna shared with us.

Bored Panda also reached out to entertainment, pop culture, and lifestyle expert Mike Sington to get his opinion on why some people make stuff up on social media. He agreed that it's done for attention. "Getting clicks and amassing followers on social media is how success is defined. For many, it becomes addictive, and the more attention your social media gets, it actually creates an adrenaline rush." He added: "The monster feeds itself."

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I’m Going To Dominican Republic On Sunday And I Said That To The Taxi Driver And He Was Like “Ok I’ve Been There 9 Times” Weird Flex

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best part is that she negates her daughter’s intelligence to prove her point about being anti-vax. “Nope; she’s just not vaccinated”. Ok, so not vaccinated OR advanced for her age. Good work, Mum!

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The founder of the 'Yeah That Definitely Happened' page told Bored Panda that it is difficult to decide what to post and what to ignore. "People's ideas of what is believable and what isn't are all very different. I like to stay on the safe side and post the stories that I'm sure aren't possible at all and are also just entertaining and funny," Jordanna told Bored Panda. She explained what her process is when deciding whether or not to feature a post on the account.

"You'll notice a lot of our posts involve clapping, or people getting congratulated on something that's really cringey or mundane. Usually, we look for those things, or we look for things that seem really improbable. Sometimes, I won't post a story cause I'll think, 'Nah, that definitely could have happened.' But usually, I will post stories that seem to get called out as fake consistently," she said.

Jordanna definitely believes that people make up fake posts online for attention and validation. "A lot of stories, I feel, are exaggerated, and are based on things that almost happened," she said that many people embellish the truth based on what they hope would have happened.

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I’ve Always Considered Paediatrics As A Career But Idk If I’d Have The Patience To Deal With Parents Who Bring In Their Unvaccinated Measle-Ridden Infants To The High Dependency Unit -E

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They got polio from the vaccine. That’s so far off how vaccines work - I can’t handle this level of idiocy.

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"Like perhaps OP got insulted and then came up with a great comeback later, and decided to write the story up and post it. I feel like the attention they get from it validates them and makes them feel important, and just writing the scenario out often gives them more power in that situation, too. They have control over the narrative now and can change it to suit them," she shared her thoughts with Bored Panda.

According to Jordanna, everyone has an angle and an agenda. "A lot of stories are also written with the intention of making certain groups of people look bad. Sexist men, for example, may write a story that makes a feminist look incredibly bad (fake encounters with a rad fem.) Or a radical feminist might exaggerate their encounters with men to push the idea that 'all men are bad.' Transphobes and racists often do the same. A lot of extremists post stories, especially on sites such as Reddit, I've found, in order to push their extreme personal views and back them up with an encounter that never happened."

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I Fell Back Into My Small Body. Power Surges Through Me, Like A Thousand Volts Of Electricity. As If A Lightbulb Is Switched On In My Head, I Can Suddenly Comprehend Everything. Five Minutes Ago, I Was A Brainless Infant. But Now I Am More. The World Is Mine Now, To Shape And To Control As I See Fit. I Turn To My Mother, Who Is Holding Me, Concerned. I Need Not A Mother Now. I Push My Hand Towards Her Face, And Cast Her Head Off Her Shoulders. Her Body Collapses Underneath Me, Head Rolling Across The Carpet, But I Float In The Air. Humanity Is Weak, Their Bodies Feeble, Fragile Like Glass. They Are Too Susceptible To The Spoils Of Domination. But Not Me. I Float Into The Garden, Into The Daylight Which Shines Only For Me Now. I Speak, And My Voice Fills The Heads Of Every Living Thing On Earth. I Demand They Give Their Love Only To Me, To Serve And To Aide Me In My Conquest. Some Die Instantly, Unable To Withstand My Message. There Will Not Be Any Weak In My Horde. Cries Of Dissent Bubble Around Me, Some Mock My Diminutive Stature. They Do Not Know The True Power Of Which My 'Dimunative Stature' Holds. As A Demonstration, I Pull The Nearest Protestor Towards Me. Appendages Grow From His Body, Which Melts Away Into A Formless Blob. One Single, Pitiful Eyeball Remains Of His Previous Self. A New Pet For My Entertainment. I Fly Up, High Above Mankind, The Beautiful Blue And Green Of Earth Below Me. I Begin To Reshape It, New Mountains Spring Up As Old Ones Are Flattened, Oceans Bubble And Boil Into Crimson Lava, Continents Formed Into New Shapes, Some Impossible To Comprehend. A New Earth Hangs In The Sky. A Twisted, Rancid, Bitter Earth. My Dominion. They Should Never Have Vaccinated Me, I Think To Myself, A Small Smile Breaking Across My Small, Adolescent Face. They Should Never Have Pricked Me With That Needle. Never. -E

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do they always screw up the age? Just say you were 9 or 10. And what do they have against Tylenol now?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both comments are very rude. Second one was also hurtful on purpose, if it's true

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Hollywood's Ultimate Insider, Mike, told Bored Panda that one way to realize that someone's unable to balance the role of social media in their lives is that they begin to lie or bend the truth online.

"A good sign of people going overboard in seeking attention and recognition on social media is when they start exaggerating or making things up. If you find yourself doing that, stop and check yourself, and maybe realign your priorities in life," he suggested.

Mike also shared with Bored Panda some ways to tell if a certain tweet or post might be made up. It's a good thing to trust your gut, as well as your mind. "If a post seems particularly outrageous, or too good to be true, it may be made up. Even if someone else is posting the same thing, that doesn’t make it true, because it could simply be a re-post from the original poster," the expert said.

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"Your instincts can usually tell you when something is made up, and old-fashioned online sleuthing can usually confirm it," Mike told us.

The ‘Yeah That Definitely Happened’ Instagram page has just over 78k followers and invites them to send in their own submissions. So if you happen to stumble across something that fits the mood of the project, consider sending the screenshot over to the creator of the page.

However, one thing that they ask of their fans is that they check the posts to see if the particular screenshot has been posted before. If it has, it’s best to find something else to share. After all, fresh content is king, while reposting the same things over and over frequently would get stale quickly.

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Suprising That @kurtisconner Made Another Video Ft Us Considering Our Account Has Been Dead For Weeks -E

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because vaccines is the only thing a syringe is used for. Not taking blood or any thing

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There’s no shortage of misinformation, fake news, and simply downright lies on the internet. While some people clearly make stuff up to get attention, others do it with different goals in mind, whether they’re political, social, or other.

Joseph M. Pierre, a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, previously spoke to Bored Panda about conspiracy theories and the type of people who believe in misinformation.

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Professor Pierre told us that conspiracy theorists tend to focus on certain historical events when choosing to twist the truth for whatever goals they have in mind.

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This Happened To Me Once Except I Dropped Dead Halfway Through My Sentence And My Mother Started Crying And Died 2 Seconds Later Too-J

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"increases the risl of homosexuality" I was a 38 year old heterosexual male before I got my first covid jab. Now I am gayer than Elton John's walk in wardrobe. Be warned.

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Haha Same! The Last Time I Got Fucked On Drugs I Gambled Away The Kids' Inheritance! The Look On Their Faces When They Realised They Would Never Get Into University 😂 It Was Epic!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which museum? Oh it has since burnt down with the 100% loss of all art, convenient!

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He also noted that the only spike of conspiracy theories in recent modern history was during the communist ‘red scare’ in the 1950s.

“It is true that certain historical events do tend to attract conspiracy theories and there is evidence that times of societal upheaval or crisis when people are feeling unsafe and desperate for clarity offer a kind of fertile soil for conspiracy theory beliefs,” he told Bored Panda.

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“Over the past 60 years, the assassination of JFK, the death of Princess Diana, and 9/11 are the most obvious examples of national traumas surrounded by conspiracy theory beliefs,” the expert went into detail.

“We should acknowledge that many conspiracy theories, like the idea that the Earth is flat, aren’t really based on any kind of obvious traumatic event,” he added that not all misinformation, fake news, and made-up ‘facts’ are associated with traumatic events.

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Sorry For That Repost Y’all 😔 All Of These Look The Same On Our Feed Lmao So It’s Hard To Tell Sometimes - Lexi

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Weird internet males need to get offline. They think social media is real life.

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This Made Me Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee Like Micheal Jackson

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was a wild ride down WTF goes on in this persons imagination street.

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CaptainDinosaur
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Next time I'm getting s**t from the bossman, Ima drop my crabcore stance and bree bree his ass. Rawr!

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Monday
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Pretty sure I just lost braincells. For your own safety folks, don't read this one.

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M
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm...so confused. Is this an alien trying to explain human mating ritual to his buddies? Should I learn how to do a "crabcore stance" for my next salary negotiation at work? Do we go around pretending to be dinosaurs to attract mates in 2022? Is this how the new post-covid wasteland works now (haven't left my house in 2 years)? Quick, someone help me.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry, I am lost at sea with this one as well - also I do not own a ukulele, either. We are doomed!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone should send this script to David Lynch, and let him use his own interpretation of the words bree bree and crabcore…

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Ray Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is the same guy who can calculate valence electrons in a nucleus, only after one too many smoothies.

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Ethan Lang
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

“I am a gangster” they say after the cringiest lie in existence,

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can make it less cringy (i hope) "i, the narrator of this story, is part of a group of like minded individuals, also known as a gang, and therefore, am called a gangster."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TL,DR: This boy has never kissed a girl and cries himself to sleep every night.

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J. F.
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Please tell me this is some kind of ironic stuff or intended cringe only insiders get

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Dillon Brown
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And I thought the twilight fan fiction had gotten out of control with shades of grey 😅

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Lauren Caswell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

S**t even my coma ramblings were more coherent than this 🤦‍♀️

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Blackstone
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understood most of that because I had a cousin into all that but wth is "bree bree" and "crabcore"?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think... I think this guy is on some sort of substance..........

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Mike Morton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Googling all these so, bree bree is a song by brokencyde seems to be like a sound a pig makes? Can't really say what genre it is; seems to be metalcore? Idk. Crabcore is a meme that originated in 2009 making fun of metalcore bands like Asking Alexandria because the guitarist would squat low with their legs spread in a "crab like stance"

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you for this. Also, it makes the imagery both better and worse in my mind. Lol

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reading this feels like when Deadpool gets shot in the head and experiences life-flashing-before-eyes through the lens of psychosis and brain damage as his brain tries to put itself back together.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF?? Sounded like a 6yo wrote this. First I was dumbstruck as to getting through the story, then burst out in laughter at how god awful this was! LOL

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apart from not understanding most of this (I'm British) why did they keep biting their sleeves?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think I'm too old to understand this. Either that or I've gone to sleep for a hundred years and I've woken up and there's a whole new language.

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3 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... an then - a week later - I got a PS5 for my sixth birthday. ;)

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Veronica Connelly
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I lost braincells reading this. Don't even want to know what the f**k a Bree Bree is lol

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We went to the Philly Pizza Company and asked for some hot tea, they said they only had it iced, so we jumped up on a table and shouted Anarchy! And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox, it was California Dreamin, and so we started screamin, on such a winter's daaaaaaaay...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

whoa I think my brain just over loaded with this person's vigorous imagination. and yes I did say vigorous

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James
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I must be getting old; I have no idea what any of that means!

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Nadine Bamberger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is that what happens when you let a random word processor write down your hallucinations?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And this is why you should stay away from Hot Topic. This could start making sense.

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Analyn Lahr
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What? High level dinosaur? That some whacky new role playing game?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can get some of this, but what the heck is bree bree? Crabcore? Is this a new gere of music combining hardcore with Sebastian's style from The Little Mermaid? I'd be into that tbh.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That actually seems like a likely story for people of that mental capacity

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Lori T Wisconsin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I trained my puppy not to bite my sleeves. He's smarter than this philistine.

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So apparently this "Bree Bree" is a pig squealing noise, like they do in heavy metal. So this kid is standing there looking like he's holding an invisible guitar whilst making pig noises 😳

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was that age my mall fantasy was that a cute boy would talk to me by the Cinnabon and then we'd go to Waldenbooks. Kids these days.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The words seem like English to me but still, can someone translate it?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've clearly been Bree-bree-ing incorrectly. I am smoothie-less. Or maybe it's the RAWR.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gerard Way did not become the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned for this b******t

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Don't Look
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s difficult to read these past the first two sentences at this point.

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Shay
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guys, this is just a person making fun of Hot Topic and “emo” culture. Or at least what it used to be in like 2004, when I was super into it. Yes, it’s embarrassing…lol!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me a bit like a guy that was at my mental health hospital. He spoke a bit like that. Group activities were always weird when he was there.

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The professor told Bored Panda that the people who tend to believe in conspiracy theories are usually those who see the world in a very black-or-white way: they see history as a struggle between good and evil, and don’t tend to notice nuances or subtleties.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why are these guys always annoying the crap out of baristas? Just shut up and take your damn sugar filled weird flavoured coffee and leave

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“People who believe in conspiracy theories are also often attracted to the Manichean narratives that conspiracy theories offer, involving battles of good and evil pitting against each other in an almost apocalyptic fashion. So, it should come as no surprise that conspiracy theories might sprout up from World War II—a real-life apocalyptic battle between good and evil,” the expert noted.

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Girls Just Wanna Have A Foothold In The Housing Market -E

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