Thirst trapping or fishing for compliments, whatever you want to call it, people on social media are constantly using their posts to seek validation from the public and it's a dangerous game.
While some people who display this kind of behavior are genuinely just insecure, according to Dr.George Simon, PhD of "Ask The Psych," others may do it to manipulate others into paying them recognition. The following is a collection of people who went out looking for praise on the internet but forgot that nobody is safe in the web universe. Scroll through these bold photos and captions and read the brutal responses they received and don't forget to upvote your faves!
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He's ugly on the inside for being randomly aggressive to some person he went to school with for no reason. How the hell does he know she was never picked on? Also what if she just thinks she was unstylish and now she feels stylish cause she can do her make up like an Instagramer? This is such a dumb screenshot.
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The "after" pic shows significant amounts of artfully applied makeup - I mean, look at the eyebrows and contouring....She has even applied contouring to her collar bones...
For most people getting older comes with losing beauty. She's no exception.
just because you went to the same school it doesn't mean you know everything that was said to someone. Maybe she went fishing for a compliment but his reaction was really not necessary.
This is highly offensive to the kids who actually were ugly in middle school
Actually, I'm partial to the picture on the left. It lets her true beauty shine through.
Exactly. Was he with her every second of the day? Don’t know why you got downvotes for being logical about it instead of adding on to the hate on her for no reason.
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WHY DO SHEEPLEZ RANDOMLY PUT THE SLEEP EMOJI AT THE END OF MESSAGES RAAAAAAAAAAH
Ugh. Neediness and external loci of affirmation really don't do it for me.
...BRUH I'm 220 lbs (I'm working on losing fat and building muscle, so please dont come at me)
Seriously? Who blured their faces on big pic but left the miniature, which is made from the same picture?
Why would you even lie about something like that?! How despicable of a human being are you?!
I don't see how people "got more than they asked for" in 90% of these. What a pointless article...
I think it’s still in development... people can still upload. Hopefully good ones will come up.
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Some of them are harmless probs posted by young 12-13 year olds who need to put down the mirror and pick up a book but the one where the skinny girl poses with the curvy girl and says “we are so hott, guess who got hit on the most” that’s fishing for compliments and a butt whooping because you know what you’re doing. Drawing attention to yourself by playing off someone else’s insecurity’s.
I think people who are fishing for compliments are often insecure, so being nasty about it, is probaly not very helpful in stopping this behaviour.
Internet is a strange place. Post this under "Insecure teenage girls are looking to boost their self-confidence online, and here's how people react" and you'll get a flock of people defending their every posture because unique, special, we all need attention sometimes, wouldn't dream of hurting someone's self esteem etc etc. But call it fishing for compliments and "oof they got what they deserved!" :P
ok, so the people posting are almost like drunk texters, they don't think about it in the cold hard light of day, it's an impulse sort of thing. if they slept on it, ran it past a friend, whatever, they wouldn't been seen. but impulse is a crazy thing.
A lot of these are the first audible cries for help from troubled souls
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I don't see how people "got more than they asked for" in 90% of these. What a pointless article...
I think it’s still in development... people can still upload. Hopefully good ones will come up.
Load More Replies... Some of them are harmless probs posted by young 12-13 year olds who need to put down the mirror and pick up a book but the one where the skinny girl poses with the curvy girl and says “we are so hott, guess who got hit on the most” that’s fishing for compliments and a butt whooping because you know what you’re doing. Drawing attention to yourself by playing off someone else’s insecurity’s.
I think people who are fishing for compliments are often insecure, so being nasty about it, is probaly not very helpful in stopping this behaviour.
Internet is a strange place. Post this under "Insecure teenage girls are looking to boost their self-confidence online, and here's how people react" and you'll get a flock of people defending their every posture because unique, special, we all need attention sometimes, wouldn't dream of hurting someone's self esteem etc etc. But call it fishing for compliments and "oof they got what they deserved!" :P
ok, so the people posting are almost like drunk texters, they don't think about it in the cold hard light of day, it's an impulse sort of thing. if they slept on it, ran it past a friend, whatever, they wouldn't been seen. but impulse is a crazy thing.
A lot of these are the first audible cries for help from troubled souls
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