[ WP ] Reddit upvotes dictate social status in the future . People with negative karma tend to disappear within 48 hours if they do n't get it back up . You just woke up with -10,000 karma .

I do n't understand how or *why* it went down so low. I checked the palm of my hand and saw it in that plain black font. -10000 karma. 
 
 `` Shorty, what're you gon na do?'' My friend Ped asked me over discord. I had just signed in, hair still messy and teeth unbrushed. A normal routine. I stared blindly at the projected screen on the palm of my hand, fixing my headset as I opened up my browser on my desktop to navigate to reddit.com, maybe it was a mistake I thought. 
 
 `` I... I do n't know,'' I frowned, my hands starting to clam up and my heart beat speeding up faster. 
 
 `` Did you post anything bad?'' Ped inquired. I shook my head, dumbfounded. 
 
 `` No. Last comment I posted was in /r/aww about how cute a cat was. Would that put me under? I'm freaking out, Ped. What do I do?'' I replied, looking at my profile. I went to my recent comments tab and read down the line, not seeing anything that would fuck up my karma so bad. When I looked again, that's when I caught it. A comment I never made, or at least did n't remember making. *Score hidden. Click to see more. * Was in place of the upvotes. The comment was simple. `` What a disgusting creature,'' printed in big bold letters. I clicked on the post and almost screamed. I never said that. 
 
 `` You there, shorty?'' Chimed in my good friend Travis. 
 
 `` Someone hacked me.'' I replied, closing my eyes. 
 
 `` What?'' The two replied in unison. 
 
 `` Someone hacked me and edited my comment about the cute cat and called it disgusting. It's gotten over twelve thousand dislikes. And counting. Holy shit you guys, this is bad...'' I stated, leaning back in defeat. Everyone knew that people who had negative karma'disappeared' from public. Never to be seen or heard ever again. My scummy ex boyfriend went on a drunk tangent one night and commented nasty things on different posts and posted some nasty things in different subreddits that got him negative, only to stop drunk calling and texting me two days later. No one has heard from him since. 
 
 `` Someone's trying to murder you...'' Travis murmured. I swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat. 
 
 `` Why? What did I do wrong?'' I asked. I had to get it back up. `` I got ta go, guys,'' I said. 
 
 `` Where?'' Ped questioned. 
 
 `` To get my karma back up,'' I replied through gritted teeth. I got up and disconnected from discord, throwing my headset down. I had a plan. That plan? To go to local cat cafes and dog parks and local bakeries to take some of the cutest and most relatable pictures that reddit had ever seen. I had no time to waste, I had 47 hours until I would be dead.
