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TIFU by trolling the “plant people”

Obligatory: This took place 10-12 months ago.

I posted this image of a well-established cactus on a Facebook group dedicated to house plants. The post reads: “Any idea how to kill this cactus and make it look like an accident? My GF is going to be out of town for the weekend and I want it to be dead before she gets back.”

The original intention was for the post to be seen by my (32M) girlfriend (28F), who maintains an impressive collection of exotic house plants and frequently participated in this group. The idea that anyone, or at least more than a few people, would take the post as anything more than a joke honestly did not really occur to me.

Throughout the following several days I received hundreds of comments and numerous direct messages telling me that I was a monster, that killing this cactus was evil, etc. (There were also several actual suggestions on how to do this posted.)

The next day my girlfriend, who had not seen the post, appeared confused asked me several different women had reached out to her through DMs to warn her that I was a psychopath and tell her to leave me.

These messages continued for >10 days.

Also, the cactus is thriving.

TL;DR: I trolled a houseplant interest group on Facebook and received hate mail for more than a week.

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