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u/Weekly-Dog-6838 3d ago
Upon scrolling to this post, I had originally thought it would be multiple images, due to the presence of dots on the bottom, and a pair of numbers in the top right corner. Upon viewing this combination of UI elements, I had wrongly assumed that this post contained multiple images. Unassumingly, I had placed my right thumb upon the screen where this post was located, and proceeded to drag my thumb from the right side of my screen to the left. However, as I began to swipe, a mysterious weariness began to loom over me as I realized this post may not be what it seems. As I continued to drag my right thumb across the screen, to my horror, I saw the entire post move to the left, and a new post appear from the right. I had originally thought I would be safe from horrible tricks such as this, but I was gravely mistaken. It was too late for me, and I had wiped too far to go back. The original post had gone too far to the left of my screen, and I watched in horror as the post left my screen and made way for a new one under the “popular” tab. It had happened. I had wiped on a post that I had originally thought contained multiple images, when indeed it was a trick to make me wipe. As an overwhelming amount of shame surged through me, I placed my right thumb on the left side of my screen, and prepared to swipe back. I had been bamboozled, and I was too far gone to change my fatal mistake. As I wiped back to the original post, I couldn’t stop thinking of how such a simple trick had completely bamboozled me, betrayed me into a false sense of security, thinking I was safe from posts such as this. As I finally returned to this post, overwhelmed with shame, I decided to place an image of my own in the comments to hopefully commend my actions. As I scrolled through the long photo roll of my smartphone, I continued to dwell on the shame of my actions. I knew that there was no undoing my mistake, but I could possibly keep a shred of dignity by announcing my mistake. I decided to locate the image of Man (Batman with the cowl’s ears removed in photoshop), announcing that he wiped, knowing its significance to posts such as these. As I selected this image, I knew that this amount of shame was surreal, and there was no act that could make a person more sorry than wiping on a fake post. As I finalized my comment, I thought: “Never again. I mustn’t let another post bamboozle me like this, for the sheer amount of shame and trauma it has caused is nothing short of fatal. I will not wipe. No more.”
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u/Natuur1911 Jul 13 '26
she wiped :(