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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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 ❤️
Chrystina Sumpter 4 weeks ago
My stepson and his wife did this with their dog. My stepson says it was the best $350 he had ever spent. I didn’t even know such a service was available until then.
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Arthur Waite 4 weeks ago
In late 2020, when Covid was messing up people's lives, my last cat, Jade (F-18), fell sick. I couldn't take her into the vet's office - only talk on the sidewalk outside. The nurse took her in, and came out a few minutes later and told me it was terminal kidney damage, and she'd only live a few more weeks. We decided to skip the bad part and 'put her to sleep'. I couldn't come in and watch, or say goodbye. Still haunts me.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 weeks ago
My parents put my childhood dog to sleep when I was 18 and was hanging out with my friends and never even told me that they were planning on euthanizing her. I was devastated. I swore that I would NEVER not be there for a pet's euthanasia ever again. I held my GSD Ember in my arms in 2010 as she went gently into that good night, and held my old gray cat Wintressia on my chest in 2018 when she had to be euthanized. Win's bladder let go and she peed on me. I didn't even care. Being there for them, assuring them that I was there and loving them, was the most important thing. Same for my dad - he was put on hospice at the end and I was the only family member who stayed with him on the night he díed. I held his hand the entire night. Is it horribly traumatizing for a beloved pet or family member to díe as you're right there holding them? Of course it is. Do I regret being there? Never in life.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 weeks ago
You've just reminded me that one of the last things I whispered to my dog was to quote Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gently into that goodnight, but rage, rage against the dying of the light". It seemed fitting.
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Saltypepper 4 weeks ago
Absolutely heartbreaking,how can someone leave the room while their terrified pet is being put to sleep,yes it would be beyond hard to stay but you stay hold you hold your beloved pet in its last moments ..this made me cry reading this
Cecilie Hammershøy 4 weeks ago
It tears my heart out thinking about saying goodbye to former and current dogs but it's my god d**n duty to stay by their side. They gave me all, I owe them that.
Igor914624 4 weeks ago
I never had pets growing up. When I got married, she came with two cats. They adopted me into their family. When they passed, I was there, talking and petting them. I have done this for 5 cats now. I would never leave them when they need me the most.
Mrs Irish Mom 4 weeks ago
Never would I leave my poor scared dog alone ever even when he's getting his nails cut im there to calm him down and reassure him, breaks my heart how people can leave their dog when its going to doggy heaven
Speak easy buttercup 4 weeks ago
Last year we had to put our beloved terrier Jack down...he was almost 17 and fully blind and nearly fully deaf and even tho he might not have seen or heard me there I knew he FELT me there! I could not imagine him leaving this world without being in the spot he spent his entire life...right next to me! Well now im sitting in the doc office a blubbering mess!
Alexandra 4 weeks ago
We selected our vet on his putting pets to sleep at their own homes. It's been more than 6 years, but we're grateful that Floris passed away in his own bed at his own home, surrounded by his own humans. If you can't do that for a pet that has been with you, who's always been there for you, who supported you and who stayed loyal to you even when others weren't, you don't deserve pets.
zovjraar me 4 weeks ago
i would never let any of my babies be put down without holding them until their last breath. the only exception was one of our dogs who was already under for exploratory surgery. they found a lot of cancer and recommended not letting Josie wake up, as it would be better for him. still hurts that i wasn't able to say goodbye, but i agree that it was best for him, rather than wake up in pain/discomfort from the surgery and have to schedule a euthanasia at a later date.
Chrystina Sumpter 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately, I have had to euthanize more than one beloved pet. My vet gave my pet a sedative and I held him in arms until he lost consciousness, at which point he was taken to be given the lethal dose. My vet won’t give the final shot in the client’s presence because some people freak. In the past I have held my pet until they were gone. It’s the least I can do.
TotallyNOTAFox 4 weeks ago
I did hold my two dogs two at that point, but I don't judge people that can't stay in the room or watch as it is very hard
geezeronthehill 4 weeks ago
My vet won't let me be there for the rainbow bridge. I'm ambivalent about that.
Gracie Mae 2 weeks ago
I won't even let a vet take my dog back for his appts w/o me; one tried & I vetoed that (never went back). Have had to have 3 puppers relieved of their pain - NEVER would I leave them alone at such a time! and i'm not one to hide that ugly-crying either. gotta love a vet that gives you ALL the time you need afterward.
Vicki Perizzolo 3 weeks ago
I never ever leave my pet alone to cross the rainbow bridge...would never leave them alone
Deborah Coalter 3 weeks ago
I have always held my babies until the end and told them I loved them..
Susan Lauschke 3 weeks ago
I have never left the room. One bunny and 5 cats. A part of me dies with each one of them. It tears me apart every single time, but I rather do that, than them knowing I left them in their last moments. No way. I judge those people bad. You shouldn't have pets.
Meisbär 3 weeks ago
Even as a farmer who sees cows and pigs simply as "lving food", which will end as my breakfast i stayed with my Dog Macky, when he was euthanazid being ill and about 17 years old. While i without any emotion besides anticipation for the tasty steaks and sausages butcher for example cows i was present to when they were born, i had to cry and couldn´t drive home from the vet at once. :
B.F. Gibb 3 weeks ago
Our dog is palliative, we've made an appointment once for euthanasia at home but he came back, and we have had over a whole extra year with him. He shakes uncontrollably any time he's in the car because he thinks he's going to the vet. We've decided that when the time comes, and if he hasn't gone on his own terms, we're doing it at home. Even if were to be there with him at the vet, he'd be terrified. We want his final moments to be at home, on his favourite blanket and knowing that he's loved. I don't know how anyone couldn't be there at that moment, hard as it is.
Learner Panda 3 weeks ago
I have stayed with every single one of my cats. I don't know how my heart heals each time.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 3 weeks ago
I promised my late dog that I would be there with her at the end, and I was. I held her head and stroked her right up until the last breath and beyond. She'd given us her entire 17 year (yes, 17) existence, and it felt like the absolute least I could do. When we brought her ashes back, I said "Welcome home, Ruby". I'm starting to cry just thinking about it.
Riley Quinn 4 weeks ago
Used to be, vets didn't allow the humans in the room during an euthanasia. I remember telling a vet that I would be with my beloved cat until her final moments and a while after that. He didn't fight me on this.
Niki 4 weeks ago
I d**n near had to be dragged out of the room when we had to do this. I was so distraught I had to be escorted to the car because I felt faint. It was so painful to watch, but I didn't want her to be alone so I held her and cried and listened to her heart stop beating. I have never left a pet who needed to find peace. They have feelings too!
Virgil Blue 4 weeks ago
We always stayed for our dogs. Our last one was so sweet and wanted to hold on so long even as her heart was going, but she finally took a turn for the worse, so we took her to the vet and I held her in a hug and kept her nice and cozy as the doctor, a lovely woman, gave her her pass to the great beyond and I know she knew she left feeling loved. Pets are family. The best kind of family.
OneHappyPuppy 4 weeks ago
Human trash. I cried a lot knowing my happy puppy (in my profile pic) died all alone after being poisoned, and it still brings tears to my eyes a year later...
Veronica Jean 4 weeks ago
I am still emotionally scarred by the handful of times people did this when I was a vet tech. It haunts me. DON'T DO THIS.
highwaycrossingfrog 4 weeks ago (edited)
The last 2 pets I lost weren't even mine - my boyfriend's cat in 2021 and my parents' dog last November. I considered a privilege that I got to be with them (along with their owners) in their final moments to comfort them. Especial thanks to the vet who waived their Covid restrictions of only one person per pet in February 2021. Crying with sorrow at the thought of those poor abandoned and bewildered animals. RiP Chester and Sky 🩷🩷
Pamela B 4 weeks ago
I'll chime is as well as hard as it is to post this. We had to put our 15 year old Shitzu Pug, Tawny, to sleep on Friday. She was suffering from a collapsing trachea, enlarged heart and was just diagnosed with Cushings. The soonest we would be able to put her to sleep at home would have been today but she was going downhill so quickly and fainted 3 times on Thursday that we got her to the vet on Friday. If we had waited till today I have no idea how any of us would have survived the weekend. We were with her the whole time and told her how much we loved her and how she will be missed. When you get a pet you know where it's going to end but you make that commitment to be with them till the bitter end. We still have her sister, Smudge with us and let me tell you I'm dreading when it's her time. We'll be there with her of course but how I will get up the next day I have no idea.
Fluffy the Demon 4 weeks ago
I've stayed and held every single one. How could I possibly leave them alone.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
I would never leave the room. I broke my heart with both dogs and both horses. I wouldn't be with the horses. I was touching my collie and holding my pomeranian. I almost had a major argument with someone who said it was too hard. Hell, as hard as it is, at least the human understands what's happening. The pet doesn't. I could never betray their trust by leaving them alone to face that.
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Lila Allen 4 weeks ago
That is a very respectable time for someones first marathon. Nice going OP
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Igor914624 4 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) 4 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 4 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) 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago (edited)
Any wife who has a husband who appreciates her true worth is truly lucky.
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Igor914624 4 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.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 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 4 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.
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Michael Largey 4 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 4 weeks ago
That's a mean thing to do. All this time he thought he'd get sick and maybe die? Mean.
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Sara Frazer 4 weeks ago
Wow, imagine having kids, bringing a human into existence, and treating them like a show pony
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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").
#77
Khavrinen 4 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.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 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) 4 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.
#82
LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 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) 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago
Some of these people better hope the person they got revenge on doesn't figure out it was them.
Rebecca McManus 3 weeks 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 4 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 4 weeks ago
Some of these people better hope the person they got revenge on doesn't figure out it was them.
Rebecca McManus 3 weeks 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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