Talamos 338 points339 points 5 months ago


Before I quit fb it was constantly full of people being “followed” in stores by people who were obviously going to steal their kids and sell them into sex trafficking. Yes they were serious.

No amount of pointing out how rare it is for a stranger to steal a child would deter these paranoid idiots from posting pictures of strangers on the internet and accusing them of wanting their baby.

Iored94 182 points183 points 5 months ago

There was that Q guy who kidnapped his children because the pedophiles and cannibals were after them.

Holy shit I looked up Qanon kidnapping and I can't even find the one I am talking about. It's happened SO MANY TIMES.

tompink57 118 points119 points 5 months ago

Liliana Carrillo just drowned her 3 kids to "save" them from the child kidnapping rings she obsessed over online.

GoiterGlitter 99 points100 points 5 months ago

She was also involved in a custody dispute and has lied about the method of murder. The father of her children is looking to sue CPS for refusal to intervene when informed of child endangerment.

There's way more at play here than QAnon, but it didn't help.

momofeveryone5 5 points6 points 5 months ago

Well, that's A story I do not need to read. I would like to maintain a thread of hope for humanity!

RabidWolf-1 1 point2 points 5 months ago

Just a good reason why some shit just needs to be deleted off the internet...lunacy in the hands of mentally unstable people....that is more horrifying than some shit

FountainsOfFluids 5 points6 points 5 months ago


That's generally how these things go. It's not like normal, well adjusted people become infected like invasion of the body snatchers. They're all biased towards the craziness before ever coming into contact with the paranoid cults, so that when they are exposed to it they think "Yeah that sounds true!" instead of "What the f is wrong with these morons?"

fosrac 1 point2 points 5 months ago

My cousin had his son kidnapped by his Qanon ex. Its shockingly common and I wouldn't be surprised to see Qanon as a top cause of child abduction in 2020.

RabidWolf-1 0 points1 point 5 months ago

Well that is just ...sad

Mnmsaregood 100 points101 points 5 months ago

Can confirm. I work in a large retail store and was just doing my job and some lady rudely asked if she could help me. I said no, can I help you? And she said I was following her around and she didn’t recognize me and a usual employee. Im just like so you know everyone who works here or what? Crazy ladies

poppinchips 24 points25 points 5 months ago

Low key schizophrenia

cakeandcoke 4 points5 points 5 months ago

There are a lot of mental illnesses that have paranoia issues not just schizophrenia

Ghitit 0 points1 point 5 months ago

What is "low key schizophrenia"?

Is that some new diagnosis?

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Mnmsaregood 14 points15 points 5 months ago

Yea but would you just assume someone is stalking you because you don’t recognize them? I wasn’t even around this lady I crossed path with her one time lol

CausticSofa 93 points94 points 5 months ago

We need to address just how unstable average mental stability has revealed itself to be ever since “posting every thought that pops into ones head” has become societies main hobby.

I knew shit was bad, but this whole last decade seems to have been a rapid descent into the bizarro timeline.

Unistrut 73 points74 points 5 months ago

I think part of the problem is that you're no longer forced to socialize with the people local to you. If you're a lone weirdo who thinks lizard people run everything but you spend every day surrounded by more or less normal folks, they're going to gently nudge you back towards normalcy. Nowadays though you can find r/lizardpeople and spend all day with fellow nutters reinforcing your paranoia.

EDIT Ah fuck that's a real subreddit.

lol_umadbro 3 points4 points 5 months ago

Looking at the top of all time of that subreddit aaaaaand I’m done with the internet tonight. Thanks.

RabidWolf-1 4 points5 points 5 months ago

Ah yesssss thank you I have found my new entertainment /jk

CausticSofa 2 points3 points 5 months ago

Definitely. I think it’s doing us all more harm than good that we can say the first thing that pops into our minds on the Internet and never ever get hit with the painful mirror neuron impact of watching the listener make a face like we are a total jackass or an unhinged nut job.

Sure, sometimes people respond with something mean, but we’ll never meet them, so who cares? Plus, ‘unnecessarily mean on the internet’ is so common as to be boring. They didn’t have to feel hurt by mirror neuron-ing our disgust reaction either so it all gets outrageously mean.

bahgheera 1 point2 points 5 months ago

I'd give you gold if I knew how. I've been saying almost this exact thing for years now. Idea exchange used to take place in a small community. If there was a village idiot, he or she was regarded as such. Now idea exchange can happen globally, and all the village idiots can get together on a platform and spread their idiocy.

cakeandcoke 4 points5 points 5 months ago

It's like when you were a kid and thought adults were stupid and now we grew up to understand that it's actually true and we were right

majestic_elliebeth 4 points5 points 5 months ago

I call this the bizarro timeline quite often

ajombes 3 points4 points 5 months ago

Omg you nailed it

cheekabowwow 33 points34 points 5 months ago

You can thank Qanon for this surprisingly large sect of people.

Talamos 4 points5 points 5 months ago

This was waayyyy before I’d ever heard of Qanon, though I don’t doubt it’s fueled by the same type of paranoid morons who get all their news from fb.

NoMansLight 2 points3 points 5 months ago

The popularity of Qanon is the symptom, not the disease.

Fistulord 0 points1 point 5 months ago

Way to out yourself as being born last Tuesday.


tokenwalrus 12 points13 points 5 months ago

There's a community of unwell people who are convinced they're being targeted by society operating from the shadows.

Brains4Beauty 6 points7 points 5 months ago

That’s quite the rabbit hole wow

noleftear 6 points7 points 5 months ago

Right I just spent a half hour trying to figure out wtf is going on with that sub

ihwip 2 points3 points 5 months ago

Paranoid people feeding each other. See the one about the guy "pretending" to be schizophrenic? Yeah...I think a lot of them are not pretending.

ArchdragonPete 1 point2 points 5 months ago

You're not kidding. Wow.

fkgjbnsdljnfsd 2 points3 points 5 months ago

I always find it so weird/interesting that mental illnesses seem to directly interfere with identifying themselves. Like if you're paranoid schizophrenic like a lot of those folks probably are, how does that bypass the prior knowledge that such paranoia is probably a symptom of illness no matter how real it feels?

I get that some people are ignorant and don't have that knowledge in the first place, but anyone going "whoa, maybe this isn't real" seems a lot rarer than that would explain. It also applies to way more obvious things, like how they tend to go off their meds as soon as it starts working because they're "fixed" even though their doctor has definitely told them that's not how it works.

cfd2126 0 points1 point 5 months ago

In my city someone keeps leaving signs all over town with gangtalking all over it

arseiam 0 points1 point 5 months ago

My ex's next door neighbor is a paranoid Qanon conspiracy believer. She constantly plays audio of a voice talking about different conspiracies and is often peeking from behind blinds or through the fence if not in the yard ranting and making accusations, even abusing neighboring children. The police have been involved many times but there is not a lot they can do until she breaks a law. This is in a country with excellent mental health services yet there is little that can be done even though it has a significant negative impact on the people around. My ex is moving house because it is slowly driving her insane. I work in mental health and it saddens me how Qanon has provided a structure for sick people embrace their delusions and deny help.

Unistrut 2 points3 points 5 months ago

My ex was like that. Basically refused to take the kids anywhere due to fear of them being kidnapped. I explained that most abductions happened during custody disputes but it didn't help.

Amusingly enough, my failure to take her paranoia seriously enough led to her deciding that I was unfit to be a parent, asking for divorce and when she realized she wasn't going to get sole custody just on the basis of paranoia ... she abducted the kids.

izybit 1 point2 points 5 months ago

LoL Sorry for laughing but it's really funny!

Unistrut 1 point2 points 5 months ago

It really is. There have been multiple instances where I'm telling the whole story (which has many more completely stupid moments like this) and I can see that the person is trying not to laugh. Or they're traumatized and I'm laughing. In any case, she's currently obeying the visitation orders and only trying some light bullshit, so ... so far, so good!

izybit 1 point2 points 5 months ago

That's great to hear!

Counting_Sheepshead 1 point2 points 5 months ago

Yep. I was very surprised last week to discover my family seems to think the abduction of children is way more common than it really is. They are hardly paranoid people, but it seems FB posts about trafficking has really distorted their view of it.

Not saying it can't/doesn't happen. It's just very rare that a child "disappears" and isn't seen alive again.

DesignForDummies 1 point2 points 5 months ago

Nextdoor is full of suspicious people.

bitterdick 1 point2 points 5 months ago

I always responded to those people by saying, “Have you seen your child? No one would want that child, probably not even you. “

HyzerFlip 1 point2 points 5 months ago

They used to accuse me of having kidnapped my own daughter.

I was a single father raising my daughter (that used to look exactly like me) and these fucks think I kidnapped a kid and then we went to run errands.

Fucking asshole idiots.

SendAstronomy 0 points1 point 5 months ago

Moat children that are trafficked are done so by their parents.

_Jelly_King_ -3 points-2 points 5 months ago

To be honest though, I’ve been asked twice in public places if I’d be interested in giving up my child for adoption.

jimmygottrashed 4 points5 points 5 months ago

Well they are hoping to catch you at the right time... "why, yes stranger I am absolutely done with this crew of small humans sucking me dry of everything including my will to get out of bed"

_Jelly_King_ 3 points4 points 5 months ago

That was pretty much my response the first time.

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Bilbo-T-Baggins1 0 points1 point 5 months ago

Fuck me the Q anon shit has gotten so out of hand

PammyFromShirtTales 0 points1 point 5 months ago

"Gang stalking". The Anons are always on about it.

needtransadvicd 0 points1 point 5 months ago

Reminds me of this great Doug Stanhope bit. I often want to use this rant around these type of parents but good sense always prevails. Check it out though.


manohman420 0 points1 point 5 months ago

It was popular thing around here, these "hot" girls would take pictures of random men and post how they were followed and there sex traffickers. They would never get an employee of the store they were in, wouldn't call the cops.

adiosfelicia2 0 points1 point 5 months ago

It’s here on Reddit, too. :(

I joined a sub called r/creepyencounters a couple years back, thinking it’d mostly be funny run-ins with neighborhood weirdos. Sadly, these stupid af “I ALMOST GOT KIDNAPPED BY SEX TRAFFICKERS!!” stories dominated the feed.

I imagine it’s a convergence of attention seeking, the need to be seen as of value, and the entirely self-centered, low-level narcissism that social media has made a new norm.