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84 Messy And Uncomfortable Anonymous Secrets That Made The Internet Feel Like Group Therapy (New Posts)
It is easy to get caught between the very human desire to share something or get it off your chest, while also knowing you should probably keep it to yourself. Fortunately (depending on your point of view) the internet allows one to sort of do both.
We’ve gathered some of the most interesting posts from this X account where people go to confess things anonymously. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own examples and stories in the comments section down below.
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Mrs Irish Mom 2 weeks ago
Wow thats amazing, I chat to my dog like he's a human and I swear he can understand me
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Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
That is so sweet! I know often pregnant women who are deaf will get cochlear implants after resisting it earlier in life, so they can hear their child.
Have you ever carried a secret so spicy that it felt like your internal organs were trying to do the Macarena just to shake it loose? We have all been there. Whether it is the fact that you accidentally deleted your boss's favorite spreadsheet or the truth about who actually broke the expensive vase in the hallway, secrets have a funny way of demanding an exit strategy. This is not just a quirky personality trait because it is actually backed by science.
Research conducted by Dr. Michael Slepian at Columbia University has shown that keeping a secret feels like a literal physical weight on your shoulders. The brain processes the mental strain of concealment in a way that mimics carrying a heavy backpack. When you finally blurt it out, your brain experiences a rush of relief that is comparable to finally dropping twenty pounds of groceries on the kitchen counter. It is a total system reboot for your sanity.
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This is driven by something known as the online disinhibition effect, which is a fancy way of saying that we are much more likely to say something outrageous when we do not have to look our listener in the eyes. Behind the safety of an avatar or a fake name, the social filters that usually keep us from admitting we still sleep with a nightlight simply evaporate. The internet acts as a giant pressurized release valve for all the weird thoughts we are too afraid to share at a dinner party. It is a place where you can admit your deepest shame and be met with thousands of strangers saying that they also do the exact same thing.
Psychologist Robin Dunbar famously proposed that gossip is essentially a form of social grooming that replaced picking fleas off each other as a way to bond. By sharing information about the behavior of others, we learn the rules of our society without having to make the mistakes ourselves.
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Paintergurl 2 weeks ago
My mom did this to her neighbours across the road 4 times already. They get pure bred female cats (not sure where they get them) and then don't take care of them. They only have them for breeding and selling the kittens. They don't feed them much and leave them outdoors a lot. She has take 4 cats so far over 3 years, brought them to a rescue where they are spayed and then rehomed to good homes. She is currently eyeing number 5 as she feeds it every night.
Bartlet for world domination 2 weeks ago (edited)
If they leave the ladies out, the kittens will not be pure bred anyway :)
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Robyn Hill 2 weeks ago
The neighbor’s cat used to come to my house to have her kittens. So I had her spayed. Neighbor never figured it out.
detective miller's hat 2 weeks ago
Currently trying to get my neighbours' 2 cats to trust me enough to come inside the house and stay there, since they're not allowed inside their own house. Like why t f you adopting an animal just to force it to stay outside when it's -18C outside?? Poor cats would have been better off staying at the shelter.
Cindy Johnston 1 week ago
I tried that with the neighbor's cats (they were put out because they were chewers and ruined several things. They did, however, have outdoor shelter and food). I put out food and a heated shelter for another stray cat and they would come for the food. The girl was hit by a car and the other one disappeared. I could never get them to come inside. :(
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Gingersnap In Iowa 2 weeks ago
Baby girl came to live in the house bc my neighbors were evicted and left her behind.
Tea Drinker 2 weeks ago
I did this for a kitten. Wrote up a great description, took them to a no-k**l, and the owner took them home forever. I still tear up when I think about it.
Chris Moped Buyer 2 weeks ago
my wife (girlfriend at the time use to com for the weekend a cat would randomly turn up at my door with her, i joked she brought it with her, didnt let it in because i had two others already, then one day the weather was atrociuos and i gave in, the cat now named Chicken stayed indoors for two weeks, would hiss or scratch if you tried to put her out, weather got nicer ans she wandered out but always stayed in the garden, had her five yrs until the baby came and chicken bacame jealous
Riley Quinn 2 weeks ago
I did this with my neighbor's cat. After he had been living with me for a couple of weeks, and even allowed to wander outdoors, the neighbor showed up and demanded him back. I laughed and told her he'd made his choice, and there was nothing she could do about it. She didn't press the issue and the rest is history.
Witch with a B 2 weeks ago
We discovered a cat living under our deck, so naturally we started feeding him. We live in the Midwest so bought him a heated house for the winter. Last spring he brought home a girlfriend. They now have a kitten. None of them will let us anywhere near them. Looking for someone to TNR as soon as the weather turns. (I'm not leaving them out overnight in below zero temperatures)
Hellen 2 weeks ago
Havaheart traps and prearrangements with your local vet or humane society. They'll most likely give you their services for free or cheap as they'd prefer to manage a feral cat colony while it's still small and manageable. Some communities have a lot of support to provide resources for feral cat colonies such as this tiny family. Plus, it's best to address this before their offspring mates with either parent. Inbreeding deformities can become quite severe and that's very traumatic for the mama cat to witness.
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winterwidow87 2 weeks ago (edited)
My mother in law did the same. Neighbour used to leave elderly cat outside, no food or water, sometimes he beat her. My mother in law started to feed her and let her in, and now Neighbour doesn't have a cat anymore meanwhile Patata (her name means potato in italian) has a new home with lots of food, treats, and cozy blankets.
The Redhead 2 weeks ago
Not sure how I feel about stealing your neighbors cat. If she truly neglects him that's one thing I completely understand & respect you for doing it. However is it possible he slipped out & didn't come back when called? I ask this because Late Friday 1/23 or early Saturday our 1.5 year old strictly indoor cat slipped out unnoticed (she has an immense sense of adventure, such as darting outdoors, getting into everything, kitty cat shenanigans ; in the summer of '24 my daughter who was 6 at the time & I found her as a kitten in the middle of a very busy road;.) Of course 1/23 was the first day of a winter storm warning in our area, snow, freezing rain, & an artic blast. I searched everywhere for her, called her, left food out, talked to the neighbors, went on local missing pet groups with no luck. Then yesterday evening I heard a noise on the porch I looked up & she was looking in the window. My point is her getting out was completely accidental and we were very worried.
Mir Adwari 2 weeks ago
We have a local cat that chose to live in the the village park - his owners adore him but this is what he wanted. So they let him do his thing. So now he's loved and kept an eye on by the whole village. Fortunately we live in the (usually) mild climate of South East England.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
While I agree in a joking manner, yeah, no, not true. When I was a kid, my adult neighbors stole my tuxedo cat when they moved from California to New Jersey. It was the 90s and my mom didn't let me keep my cat indoors, so he was sadly an outdoors cat. He was super friendly and everyone in the neighborhood knew him (he also had a collar and ID tag with my info on it. Microchipping was not common back then, sadly.) Apparently my neighbors had been feeding my cat for months and letting him into their house. One day, he disappeared, and I put up posters, checked the gutters (for deceased cats), searched everywhere, cried every day for weeks (I was 10.) Then I get a letter in the mail with no return address (of course) from my neighbors that said "We're so sorry, but we took Kaz. We just loved him so much, we couldn't imagine not seeing him any more." So, two grown (retirement-age) adults purposefully stole a child's cat. Kaz wasn't neglected or underfed or uncared for.
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ILoveMySon 5 days ago
My sister stole a cat from known d r u g dealers. The poor kitty literally experienced withdrawals. She was the sweetest thing afterwards.
Fabulous chocolate cookie 2 weeks ago (edited)
A friend of mine had this as well. His neighbours always neglected their cat, leaving it for days without food when going on holiday (claiming they had a pet-sitter for the cat but it "magically" never showed up) every time they went on holiday, leaving it in freezing temps outside. The poor thing was always meowing at the door of my friends house when the neigbours neglected her again. So my friend decided to onofficially adopt her since the cat was already in his home on daily basis and we loved her. The neigbours first didn't cared but on one day they dumped her into the shelter. When she got adopted by someone from the same town, she walked back to my friends house, Shelter found out and took her away again, or the new owners dumped her in there, no idea exactly. Then she got adopted by someone who lived far away, we haven't heard anything about that poor thing ever since.
When we watch someone get things off their chest online, we are participating in a global bonding ritual. We feel a strange sense of intimacy with a person we have never met because they have invited us into their private world. It provides us with a safe way to experience high stakes drama from the comfort of our couches without any of the actual consequences.
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Nicole Weymann 2 weeks ago
At the first half I thought "You evil...!" and finished with "...genius!"
There is also a deep sense of validation that comes from realizing that humanity is generally a giant mess. In a world where social media often feels like a highlight reel of perfect vacations and flawless skin, a raw confession is a breath of fresh air. It is a reminder that everyone is stumbling through life with a few skeletons in their closet.
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Tea Drinker 2 weeks ago
I wish I'd done this, but with my parents and his dad as the only guests. Instead, I had an expensive fiasco with rude guests and a really ugly dress.
When a video of someone admitting a major mistake goes viral, it often does so because it strikes a chord of universal human fallibility. We do not just enjoy the gossip because we are nosy, although that is certainly part of it, we enjoy it because it makes us feel less alone in our own imperfections.
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We are all just looking for someone to tell us that our weird habits and secret thoughts are okay. As long as people keep feeling the weight of their secrets, the internet will be there to catch every word with open arms and a very active comment section. It is a beautiful and slightly chaotic cycle of human connection that proves we would much rather be messy together than perfect alone.
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AnSi Bae 2 weeks ago
I felt like a massiv a*****e when I asked my 84year old mum about all her stuffs origin. I don't want them to end up at a second hand store because my siblings thinks they're unimportant. I want to keep the coppar "spoon" my fathers grandmother used to "float off" creme from the milk. The furnitures my mothers father made for his and his wifes first home with scrap wood. Mums old 1740s plate in tin/pewter her dad bought her as a child because she liked "old stuff". So many family things and so much love. Of course we have the standard Bibles to from great grandparents. But things you can use is so much more fun... But still felt like an a*****e. "Mum, I want to write this down before you die". That's horrible in a way even if you want to keep the memories .
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Ronja Oksanen 2 weeks ago
What kind of a trash leaves the room?! You are the only one that pet knows there and the last memory will be that they were abandoned 😭🤬 Even reading something like this makes me angry cry. I couldn't even take my beloved cat into the vet because I didn't want her to be afraid in her last hours so I used up all my savings to get the vet to come in our house. She passed away in my arms in her favorite place in the house, safe in her own home ❤️
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Lila Allen 2 weeks ago
That is a very respectable time for someones first marathon. Nice going OP
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Igor914624 2 weeks ago
I have both my parents phone numbers still in my phone, and I still have text messages from them. If I delete the numbers, the text messages will not have their names on them. And somewhere, someone occasionally receives a weird message from me when I have had a bad day. I hope they understand why they are getting the messages.
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DennyS (denzoren) 2 weeks ago
That's sweet however I do hope you both can get to a financially comfortable level where you don't have too soon.
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Ace 2 weeks ago
For those who may not know, the RNLI-operated lifeboats are often called out to rescue illegal immigrants being trafficked across the English channel (south coast of England) in unseaworthy inflatables that often break down or sink from overloading half way across. They've sometimes taken a***e from right-wing nutters like the ex here, but remain impartial and committed to saving lives, no matter what colour skin or legal status that life may have.
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DennyS (denzoren) 2 weeks ago
His ex-wife is probably very happy to be out of that mess, good for her. Also, karma giving her a little satisfaction lol
#42
Mrs Irish Mom 2 weeks ago
That's just crazy, have an engagement dinner maybe with family and friends, the first time you proposed should of been good enough if she said yes
#43
Shark Lady 2 weeks ago
Make sure you regularly login and at least read or send a few emails. Someone did this but after a few years it got shut down because it appeared that the account was dormant.
#44
Tea Drinker 2 weeks ago
I wonder what excuse was used to sack them? Not arguing. I wouldn't want hate-mongers working for me either.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
I was a custodian at my final job. Kids looking confused or asking "What now?" standing there with a diploma. "Did you know the trades START you at $35k/year BEFORE overtime?" The US has spent SO many years urging 4 yr degrees, it is FINALLY dawning on them they've sold the trades short. Especially important now that us boomers are going out of the workforce by the busload.
#48
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Poor kid. I'm sure she had to endure teasing and bullying as a kid being basically named "Sailor" but apparently with an accent.
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Stardust she/her 2 weeks ago
Im the daughter and its not fuuny when my own parents yell and hit me for flaws they have and theyll projec their flws onto my somethimes and then a***e me for it. If i didnt want to inconvenicne my family id have fummped off the roof b. Now
#54
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago (edited)
Any wife who has a husband who appreciates her true worth is truly lucky.
#55
Igor914624 2 weeks ago
Why did you bother to look around? I man holding hands and skipping with his 4 year old daughter is not less of a man. He is more of a man for being a proud father.
#56
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Why not one day knock on the neighbor's door and say (for example) "Hi, I'm Lakota, I've lived next door to you for x years" and get to know your neighbor? Then you might eventually get an invite to the BBQs :)
#57
Just stopping by 2 weeks ago
This could have been a money thing. Possibly didn’t want to ask because it would’ve been too expensive and an artist should be paid for their work.
#64
Michael Largey 2 weeks ago (edited)
Someone I knew planned a destination wedding that got called off a few months before the ceremony. Since the plane and hotel reservations were not refundable, he and his immediate family decided to go anyway as a vacation. When they got on the plane, they found that the ex had also kept her plane tickets. However, in that short time she had acquired a replacement groom and would be keeping the original wedding date. Yeah, awkward.
#65
Tea Drinker 2 weeks ago
That's a mean thing to do. All this time he thought he'd get sick and maybe die? Mean.
#67
Sara Frazer 2 weeks ago
Wow, imagine having kids, bringing a human into existence, and treating them like a show pony
#68
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
And the other preschool you'd dropped him off at hadn't contacted authorities/the police to report a child that was not registered to attend their school?! The teachers didn't notice the new child they'd never seen before? And who tf drops their kid off at the wrong school? Did OP forget?
#69
BookFanatic 2 weeks ago
My favorite episode was when a contestant got to the million dollar question and called his dad as a phone-a-friend. Guy says "Hi, Dad, I don't actually need help. Just wanted to tell you I'm about to win a million bucks." And then proceeded to do so.
#71
Stardust she/her 2 weeks ago
What? Then when your kid does one of these things you’d anyways yell at them. What do you even want?
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zububonsai 2 weeks ago (edited)
This sounds very unhinged of the now ex-wife. Even 2000 years ago the Romans knew "Audiatur et altera pars" ("let the other side be heard as well"). And as hard as it is for the now ex husband I still congratulate him for dodging such an immature bullet in the long run.
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RomanceRadish 2 weeks ago (edited)
The bigger question is- why do you feel you must hide the funds from your wife? (I realized I may have answered my own question, as her first instinct was "go shopping").
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Khavrinen 2 weeks ago
I've made it my personal policy to always use the version of someone's name that they introduce themselves with, unless they specifically tell me otherwise, because of how often people jump to using the shortened/nickname version of mine -- which I never use -- without asking. I know it's a little thing, but I find it more irritating than I probably should.
#78
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Uh, unless wife was also a soccer (soccer, right?) fan, then OP is a d-bag. OP wasn't in Prague to see a soccer game, they were there to spend time with their wife. We obviously see their priority isn't their wife.
#81
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Yeah, well, that kind of stuff makes it a nightmare for the individual store staff when they have to do inventory - I know. Plus, if OP really wanted to pat themselves on the back, they could buy the food and put it in the food bank bins themselves. This isn't exactly something to be congratulated for, IMO. Yes, I know "but big corpo supermarkets can take the hit!" - of course they can. But what does this kind of thing cause the corporations to do? Raise prices, so that the rest of us suffer and have to pay more for basic foodstuffs. Want to be an ACTUAL good person? Buy the food yourself and put it in the food bank bins.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
No, thievery is not "acceptable" just because your adult child's relationship didn't work out. If the boyfriend had cheated or something, I'd be more understanding, but as it stands, OP is just a thief.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 weeks ago
Well, a child does need to learn that they can't always have everything they want. Probably would have been a better lesson that he had to put one item back in order to afford his purchase. It does depend on the son's age at the time, as if he was 4 or 5, then he probably wouldn't really understand the lesson.
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Chewie Baron 2 weeks ago
To be honest, with the cost of living crisis still ongoing, in a way I don’t blame them.
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Janelle Collard 2 weeks ago
Some of these people better hope the person they got revenge on doesn't figure out it was them.
Rebecca McManus 1 week ago (edited)
Once upon a time... Back in the last century, there was a little web magazine called B3ta, over time it stopped being done because the creators needed to earn money. Then came COVID and a group of old B3ta fans were chatting with the lead creator on Twitter and we persuaded him to relaunch the weekly dodgy web zine. However, the creator wanted more... And so Fesshole was created (as was Anon Opinion), first there was a spreadsheet, then there was a book and now there is a live show. And every time Fesshole features in something like Bored Panda I sit here and smugly think "I was part of the group who persuaded Rob Manuel to relaunch B3ta which led to Fesshole.
Chewie Baron 2 weeks ago
To be honest, with the cost of living crisis still ongoing, in a way I don’t blame them.
Load More Replies... Janelle Collard 2 weeks ago
Some of these people better hope the person they got revenge on doesn't figure out it was them.
Rebecca McManus 1 week ago (edited)
Once upon a time... Back in the last century, there was a little web magazine called B3ta, over time it stopped being done because the creators needed to earn money. Then came COVID and a group of old B3ta fans were chatting with the lead creator on Twitter and we persuaded him to relaunch the weekly dodgy web zine. However, the creator wanted more... And so Fesshole was created (as was Anon Opinion), first there was a spreadsheet, then there was a book and now there is a live show. And every time Fesshole features in something like Bored Panda I sit here and smugly think "I was part of the group who persuaded Rob Manuel to relaunch B3ta which led to Fesshole.
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