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Not today, but recently: I had a 'friend' who I talked to pretty frequently and always seemed supportive of what I was doing and was easy to talk to about life... I knew he was on Reddit, but we never exchanged information regarding such. Also to note, we also shared other social media in which he made his political views known (conservative), but he had no idea about mine (more liberal, but still some conservative ideals).
One day, I decided to make a comment on a post on Reddit, and due to the content of the comment, I had started myself on a downward spiral of my mood (comment talked about and extremely depressing occurrence in my life occasionally makes me sad when I think about it). Eventually, he found my Reddit account and after reading the depressing content, he also Reddit-stalked me.
The next day, I was explaining a story, and described a couple as a female and male to explain why the couple was splitting up since he did know their names. Exact words: "the art collective I am part of is ran by a couple: the female is moving away and the male is focusing more on being a professor." This immediately led to him asking me to use their preferred pronouns. I told him I didn't understand but that I was really heartbroken by the whole situation of the art collective in which he started cracking jokes about political correctness and basically just kept cracking jokes that didn't make any sense regarding a bunch of political buzzwords. He then informed me that he hunted down my Reddit account and saw how crazy I am and started making all of these negative assumptions and comments. Mind you, he stated he loved my big heart and willingness to help others, but based on the comments he made, it was only if it directly benefitted him, otherwise it was stupid.
So, I'm not sure if TIFU because I decided to try to be friends with him or I gave him the ammo he needed to pass all this judgment on me, but anyway which way I'm heartbroken because I know both of us need more solid friends.
TLDR: gave a conservative 'friend' enough information to hunt down my Reddit account which led to him immediately turning our next conversation into political discourse.
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