30 Times People Thought They Could Trick Everyone But Got Nominated For “Didn’t Happen Of The Year Awards” Instead
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Let’s face it—people lie. Sometimes, they’re able to get away with it quite easily, too. But when they start spreading exaggerated stories on social media, the truth eventually comes out. After all, there’s always someone ready to call them out on their BS.
Enter the Didn’t Happen to the Year Awards (DHOTYA), a Twitter account that exposes and shames the most conspicuous lies shared on the internet. Each year, the most unbelievable tall tales are picked out and pitted against each other, with their 339K followers voting for the biggest liars on social media.
From kids having intellectual moments on politics to people receiving a standing ovation after announcing their opinion, we have collected some of the best posts this account has to offer. Continue scrolling, upvote the finest “didn’t happen” incidents, and share your thoughts in the comments below!
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This isn’t about ego, this is about trying to shill her MLM oil blend crap.
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Regardless of what you believe. Do not let random strangers in parks inject you, unless it is your own epi pen.
You know what I hate about posts like this (I'm talking in general when I see these types of posts- not just this one particularly)? Why are we hiding their names? Please stop protecting the stupid. It's not like they didn't post this on social media themselves so ...no need to protect them. Let their freak flag fly proudly and let them get all the s**t they deserve in comments. It's the only way this type of crap is ever going to stop-- call them out on it.
Reminds me to put a pair of boxing gloves into my backpack for situations like this (it happens more often than you think 😂)
Or the pepper spray in my backpack for situations like this (it happens more often than you think 😂)
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If it was true, this story is basically. Moron thought they could get an allergy from passive eating, was assaulted by someone with a needle, and had a bad trip.
I know this is all B.S., but who INJECTS oil? WT actual F? Using it to make things not smell like onion farts and nasty,yeah...but injecting it. Is that really a thing somewhere?
Injection of any kind of oil kills you. In the blood you're dead on the spot, in a muscle will take a few days of agonising pain.
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One, essential oils should not be taken internally. Two, nobody in the world would just stand there while a stranger in the park injects them and their child with a mysterious substance apropos of nothing.
I'm calling b******t on this. Who in their right mind would allow a stranger to stick a needle in them and inject them with an unknown substance?...........no one.
Ugh. I hate this kind of thing. The only thing essential oils are good for is smelling nice. Nothing medical at all.
Exactly. The most essential oils can really do is relieve stress (in the case of smells like lavender, for instance), so they are in no way something that is meant to stand in for real medical treatment.
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With the needle that she keeps in her yellow purse
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Someone is actually going to stand there quietly while some lady gets a needle out of her purse and injects them and their child - still without a word. Seems legit.
Who doesn't let strangers inject them in the park? That's how I make all of my new friends.
The only "essential oil blend" in my home is the bug spray. It kills EVERYTHING!
The story sounds like a filler chapter from a 3rd rate web novel.
Sure, because two complete strangers allowed you to inject them with an unknown substance from a non-sterile, used needle. Yikes.
This one Angers me. For one, she implies that she carries a needle around for the purpose of stabbing people but, she uses the same middle by the way she’s where did this? 2-Who realistically would let someone inject them willingly not knowing what it is or what they were doing. She would’ve been knocked on her a**e or knocked out or better.
I'm not one for violence normally but I REALLY want to punch this tithead in the face. It's so obviously fake as well as Insanely stupid 🙄
I'm still hung up on "injected her and her son" with a needle you keep in your purse!!! WTF? I would have ended you.
B******t. She's gonna complain about not allergies yet just stand there when you inject her
If anyone even tries to inject me with some unknown substance, they'll be getting a purse to the face. I keep books in my purse.
Uhhhh...nope. Dude said, "injected her and her son", and then we're supposed to believe she ate literally anything they gave her!?
And then all the squirrels in the park gave me a standing ovation and gave me all their stored-up nuts becauae they thought I was sooooo wonderful!
Injecting someone with an unknown substance without their consent is assault. Purposely feeding them something you've already been informed they have a deadly allergy to is attempted murder. This is literally a story of how to abandon your MLM for prison. Idiot!
Right, because Karens are that easy to calm down. Also injecting someone without being a doctor, and their child? Sounds like your story to make you sound cool just caused you to be charged with two counts of assault. Oops.
The more ignorant someone is the more they think the rest of society is ignorant.
Come on now .... Don't hide the person's name. Everyone should know who they are, that is if they even used their real name. That is the price of their idiocy.
When is it right to start poking strangers with anything expically a needle ffs that is assault and could seriously harm or kill somebody this is the dumbest thing I have ever read
Please tell me that you are seriously just having a go... Because if not, you just committed at least 3 physical assault felonies,.
If you're going to make something up at least make it somewhat believable
If you're going to make something up at least make it somewhat believable. No one is going to let you just randomly inject something into them and their kid
Wow yet another person proud of injecting someone against their will.
Is it not attempted murder to jab someone with unknown substance without permission?
If a random person tried to inject me with something I'd probably end up in jail. Let alone if they tried to inject one of my children!! I'm not saying this because I think I'm some badass but because I know in that moment i would go absolutely ballistic trying to protect myself and my kids. What the f**k. For all I know it could be a drug or something more dangerous like drano Jesus Christ
So...let me get this straight. This a*****e injects people with a needle without their permission and expects to get business from them? That is assault, pure and simple.
How ludicrous. She would need those oils after I had to defend myself from her coming at me and my child with a needle.
1. You can NOT inject essential oil into the body wtf 2 .If you aren't a medical care provider "injecting" people can put you in jail dumbass
These sorts of delusions are best left for their therapists to deal with and not to be displayed, it’s like a badge displaying their stupidity
Hanging out in a park with a bag of syringes and injecting strangers...lol.
All you need is one other delusional idiot to believe to come up with this type of crap. By QAonc huds exist so I guess the market for this shittery is robust.
When the ego swells that much, best get it lanced and drained by a professional.
That's a weird way to say I imagined I assaulted a stranger to sell my weird extra virgin olive oil.
"It happens more often than you think." Well, I think it never happens. So what is more often times never?
Wth... I hope ppl dont try to inject esential oil into their bodies. Also, stop making up stupid stories.
A cop approaches a man who is injecting himself with what clearly is not insulin. "It's my essential oil blend!" the man protests.
Oh come on! They didn't even TRY to make it sound halfway plausible.
When you want everyone to know that you're an incel without saying that you're an incel.
Bored Panda reached out to Andrew Selepak, Ph.D., a program coordinator of Master’s in Social Media and a lecturer at the University of Florida, to learn more about why people tell such far-fetched stories online. “Most individuals, brands, and influencers don’t really lie on social media, but they tend to exaggerate,” he told us.
“Everyone engages in self-image manipulation on social media. We highlight and promote our best moments while leaving out the bad or mundane,” Selepak added. “But for the individual user, scrolling through their timeline, it appears that everyone is always doing something exciting whether it is [going] on vacation, getting engaged, or having a child.”
Selepak explained that social media allows more people to see the lies and exaggerations others post. “Before social media, a person could tell a lie to another and then the exact opposite lie to someone else, and it is possible no one would know. But you cannot do this on social media because everyone you know finds out at once.”
“If anything, social media may actually limit the amount of outright lying people do anymore because anything they say or post can be refuted by any and all of their followers rather than by one person,” the lecturer said. “Instead, we may perceive people are lying more, not because more lying is occurring on social media, but because we can monitor potential lies from hundreds if not thousands of people at once.”
He noted that the great thing about having the internet in our hands is that collectively, we can expose lies and those who spread them more than ever before. When it comes to spotting these dishonest posts, Selepak mentioned there are two different types: lies and exaggerations.
When it comes to the latter one, most of us tend to blow up the facts on social media: “We post about a meal at a restaurant to show people we are out and take pictures of the food framing it in such a way to make it look more appetizing, or a photo of the restaurant itself to make it look fancier than it is.”
“We could also post to social media about a job promotion and how excited we are while leaving out that we will be working longer hours and have to spend more time away from friends and family,” he continued. “Exaggerations on social media, for the most part, are harmless and act as life updates to our friends and followers.”
Lies on social media are different. Andrew Selepak noted that they can be intentional or unintentional. Like when we see a story criticizing a politician or sports team we don’t like, we will probably share it because we want it to be true: “We aren’t the originator of the lie, but we are spreading it because we didn’t do our due diligence to fact check it first.”
Yet, this is not as bad as being the creator of a lie. “Politicians, internet trolls, and influencers spread lies about issues like COVID-19, their political party or the opposition, or and other major political issues, to manipulate the public.” These posts are dangerous because such people have a greater reach and thus their lies can be further spread by individuals who want to believe it’s true.
“This is how fake news spreads,” Selepak explained. “But it can be difficult to combat fake news because as individuals we often don’t have reach as influencers. We can debunk and dispute lies, but not as many people will see it, and some might be more willing to believe the lie than the truth.”
Disputing fabrications publicly also rarely works because “you could be attacked for being partisan” or doubting something others wants to believe to be true. “And no one likes to be called out publicly for lying. Instead, it is better to send a direct message or speak to someone offline about lies they are spreading, present accurate information, and hope they will take down their post or at least be less willing to share lies in the future.”
We are all impacted by dishonesty on social media. “When people, and especially young girls, see the fake body images presented on social media as the norm and forget that what they see on social media is not real, it impacts how they see their body, the bodies of others, and what they idealize as the beauty standard,” the lecturer explained. “This is unhealthy and can lead to anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.”
While social media is full of dishonesty, “we cannot expect the platforms to remove all of this content, nor should we want them to. Social media should be a free speech space where ideas are debated and lies are publicly disputed,” Andrew Selepak said.
Dr. Cortney Warren told Bored Panda that when it comes to social media, people usually “lie by presenting an image of themselves and their lives that reflects what they wish were true.” A board-certified clinical psychologist, a nationally recognized expert in self-deception, and author of Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception thinks that the anonymity and lack of direct face-to-face interaction make it easier for people to pretend.
“You can essentially say whatever you want online—whether it’s objectively true or not—and not really have very serious consequences for it.” The professor of Psychiatry at the UNLV School of Medicine explained that this way people are “able to project an image or a statement without many of the nuances of non-verbal and interpersonal cues that indicate lying in person.”
if you gonna lie about your kid make it believable like something a 10 year old might actually say
She mentioned that in terms of spotting dishonesty, people should go into all online material with a critical thinking cap on. To evaluate whether a statement is true, people should ask questions. “First, consider the source—do they have a vested personal interest in presenting information a certain way? Then consider the perspective taken—are they able to articulate the other side of an argument? Also, look for self-deception. Are they in denial? Rationalizing? Projecting?”
“Although selective self-presentation and lying about ourselves on social media may not seem like a surprise (or even a big deal), it can affect us greatly,” Warren noted. “Humans are naturally social creatures—we crave relationships and social interaction. … We want to feel connected to people and “in the know” about our friends, family, and even celebrities. We crave connectedness. So, we want to interact with people and social media offers us one way to do that.”
We also tend to trust that others are being honest with us: “A large body of research suggests that we are programmed to trust others. Although the reasons for [this] are complex, without interpersonal connectedness and a fundamental belief that those around will support you, protect you, and treat you respectfully, we feel unsafe.”
So when people are dishonest on social media, it causes problems because we internally presume that what is presented is true. “That people are naturally as good-looking as their photos appear. … That people around us are in a habitual state of going on vacation, eating out, and parenting blissfully. This is clearly not true,” the psychologist explained.
“And although we are less aware of the realities of other people’s lives, we are well aware of the ways in which our own lives are NOT ideal,” Dr. Cortney Warren told us. When we compare ourselves with “the idealized images and unreasonably positive life accounts that tend to permeate social media, we are likely to feel more poorly about ourselves and our lives.”
As a New Zealander I say, dream on lady. We don't give a damn about you so get your head out of your a**e.
So Brexit happened because 10 year olds really wanted it. Makes sense....
We all lie—and on social media, this is rampant. “Often, people do it to try to project an image of what they wish were true. To make ourselves look more beautiful. Smarter. More successful. As though we have a more fun life!”
“Although lying to others is not something I would encourage you to do, the greater journey is to become fully honest with yourself,” Warren advised. “If you catch yourself in the act of lying, pause. Ask yourself why you are doing it. As you understand what’s motivating your lies, you can be more honest with yourself about who you want to be and how you want to act.”
The point is that there's 146 of those two-tone eggs (all sold in alu wrapper so indistinguishable), and if you find BUT NOT EAT them you can enter in a competition for £10K (so arguably, one is worth £68.5 if uneaten). They are sold only between Christmas and Easter.
The few corrupt and useless doctors are the ones that are saying that Covid is just a hoax.
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This list is difficult to read. I feel more angry the more I read. Respect to all who finish it.
Yeah, I got pretty pissed off by some of these as well. I have a 6-months-old baby who can't get vaccinated yet and I absolutely bloody HATE antivaxxers with everything I got. My child, who has no choice in the matter, may die because some selfish idiot chose not to get the jab.
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I'd had enough bullshite by the time I got to the 20s. If you believe any of these are true, I know a used car salesman who'd love to meet you.
The lame fanfiction I used to write when I was a teenager was more believable than this.
I thought these were just people joking, then by the comments realise we are expected to believe them. Are people really that dim?
Everyone wants to feel special. They'll do whatever they need to for other's approval or to give themselves a little bit of superiority even if it's completely false.
My 6 year old niece flew to Poland to cross the boarder and fight for Ukraine. She said she would rather die for freedom than live in an oligarch's world. She learned to fly in 2 days and is the actual Ghost of Kyiv. She sent me a text while she was flying to remind me I need to buy dog food before it runs out. I announced this to a random room I was in and everyone erupted in applause!
I couldn't keep going. This is clearly fabricated to support the mask agenda. Where are all the fake posts made by those who wear masks? You won't see them because they don't want to admit there are idiots on both sides, just the side they don't agree with. Perfect example of propaganda.
I feel that the best way to counter this is just to ignore such tweets/posts/comments, since these articles live off on attention and controversy. Once they realise that these posts have no effects, perhaps they will eventually decrease.
Another clown world article mocking anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. Ever think that "they" did their research and use common sense. Keep on believing what is told to you by the circus otherwise known as media. Whatever happened to real journalism!?!
What happened to believing science and facts? Just because you didn't get sick doesn't make Covid fake and if masks don't work why do surgeons wear them when they operate? Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers deserve to be mocked they're the reason we are going on year two of this crap.
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Interesting how so many of these are from anti-vaxxers or anti-mask... Just saying!
I'm once again reminded that antimaskers/antivaxxers are scum of the earth, and that it's perfectly okay to despise them.
Of course they are when you eat up all that liberal propaganda. Yum.
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About 95% of these are total garbage, but a handful of these could have happened. Some just need more context. I've had some stuff happen that NOBODY would believe if I put it on Socmed.
The vaccine makes you dumber!!! Don't take it of you want to keep all common sense!!!... /j
Why do these idiots always talk about their toddler children saying things that obviously never happened? Post after post has been almost nothing but that.
Notice all the hate is being spread by Liberal vax-holes. Not one hateful comment from a Republican or an anti-vaxxer. Whose the one REALLY spreading hate?
I find this debate about CoNvid to be laughable. The very first thing published about it was the paper that described it as "...a more virulent strain of influenza...". The very first thing people do...run to the store and buy up all the bottled water, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. This makes me a firm believer in the Wizard's First Rule... People are stupid.
This list is difficult to read. I feel more angry the more I read. Respect to all who finish it.
Yeah, I got pretty pissed off by some of these as well. I have a 6-months-old baby who can't get vaccinated yet and I absolutely bloody HATE antivaxxers with everything I got. My child, who has no choice in the matter, may die because some selfish idiot chose not to get the jab.
Load More Replies... I'd had enough bullshite by the time I got to the 20s. If you believe any of these are true, I know a used car salesman who'd love to meet you.
The lame fanfiction I used to write when I was a teenager was more believable than this.
I thought these were just people joking, then by the comments realise we are expected to believe them. Are people really that dim?
Everyone wants to feel special. They'll do whatever they need to for other's approval or to give themselves a little bit of superiority even if it's completely false.
My 6 year old niece flew to Poland to cross the boarder and fight for Ukraine. She said she would rather die for freedom than live in an oligarch's world. She learned to fly in 2 days and is the actual Ghost of Kyiv. She sent me a text while she was flying to remind me I need to buy dog food before it runs out. I announced this to a random room I was in and everyone erupted in applause!
I couldn't keep going. This is clearly fabricated to support the mask agenda. Where are all the fake posts made by those who wear masks? You won't see them because they don't want to admit there are idiots on both sides, just the side they don't agree with. Perfect example of propaganda.
I feel that the best way to counter this is just to ignore such tweets/posts/comments, since these articles live off on attention and controversy. Once they realise that these posts have no effects, perhaps they will eventually decrease.
Another clown world article mocking anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. Ever think that "they" did their research and use common sense. Keep on believing what is told to you by the circus otherwise known as media. Whatever happened to real journalism!?!
What happened to believing science and facts? Just because you didn't get sick doesn't make Covid fake and if masks don't work why do surgeons wear them when they operate? Anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers deserve to be mocked they're the reason we are going on year two of this crap.
Load More Replies... Interesting how so many of these are from anti-vaxxers or anti-mask... Just saying!
I'm once again reminded that antimaskers/antivaxxers are scum of the earth, and that it's perfectly okay to despise them.
Of course they are when you eat up all that liberal propaganda. Yum.
Load More Replies... About 95% of these are total garbage, but a handful of these could have happened. Some just need more context. I've had some stuff happen that NOBODY would believe if I put it on Socmed.
The vaccine makes you dumber!!! Don't take it of you want to keep all common sense!!!... /j
Why do these idiots always talk about their toddler children saying things that obviously never happened? Post after post has been almost nothing but that.
Notice all the hate is being spread by Liberal vax-holes. Not one hateful comment from a Republican or an anti-vaxxer. Whose the one REALLY spreading hate?
I find this debate about CoNvid to be laughable. The very first thing published about it was the paper that described it as "...a more virulent strain of influenza...". The very first thing people do...run to the store and buy up all the bottled water, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. This makes me a firm believer in the Wizard's First Rule... People are stupid.
