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I am not The OOP, OOP is u/altredditaccountwhy

I [21M] just found out that my girlfriend [20F] has a reddit account... which she uses to comment on my posts

TRIGGER WARNING: Stalking

Original Post  Jan 19, 2016

Throwaway for obvious reasons. But this is the fucking strangest thing. I've been dating Steph for 4 months. She doesn't use reddit. Or so I thought?

The other day, I was at her place while she was doing some housework. Kind of bored, I asked if I could check my email on her laptop, which was open and playing music. She said sure. As she went about her chores, I also decided to go on reddit for a bit.

When I went to log in, the drop down menu suggested a specific username (it didn't have the password saved, which means that even though she unchecked 'remember me' , it still remembered her username). At first I was just like a ha! She totally does reddit and was only pretending not to so I wouldn't ask for her user (can't blame her lol), but then I realized I RECOGNIZED the name.

Later when I went home, I looked it up. Every single thing this user had posted was IN RESPONSE TO ME. She literally only uses Reddit just to talk to me? And they weren't like overwhelmingly supportive or negative posts (so she's not using Reddit to bully me or otherwise). But she's just talking? It's so freaking weird.

What do I do? Do I call her out

tl;dr: Found out my girlfriend secretly has reddit. And she only uses it to respond to my posts. Should I tell her?

Edit: I'm just going to say that I posted this question because I was wondering if her behavior was dark/creepy/something I should be concerned about. Most of the replies make it seem like her behavior is lighthearted with nothing to really stress over, which is good! But I honestly did post this with serious intentions and concerns. Whoever posted the follow up question to this sub from the perspective of my girlfriend is just a troll.

RELEVANT COMMENTS

agonz18

Does she know your username?

OOP

I mean, I've never told it to her, but she knows I reddit, she and I have hung out at my place, just watching tv while I'm scrolling through reddit, so I assume she has seen it?

She's never like been interested or asked

agonz18

Maybe just mention it casually like, "Heyy I notice you have a reddit account too?! That's awesome why didn't you tell me?" and make it seem like you didn't realize it was only commenting to you or something.

Update - rareddit  Feb 16, 2016 (1 Month Later)

Sorry it has been so long since I posted.

Well, I seriously considered taking the top commenters advice. That whole chain of comments is deleted now, but the advice was to make a separate Reddit account that only responded to things that Steph posted. Fuck with her back, basically. I actually decided not to do this, because I didn't want to go through the long charade of it, I just wanted some answers. So I decided just to ask her about it.

Welp, even though I approached her gently, she completely freaked. She asked how I knew it was her commenting on my posts this whole time, and I explained what happened. I then asked her to explain why she was doing what she did.

She said she noticed my username when I was browsing Reddit in front of her. She got curious and wanted to see my profile, because she didn't know what Reddit was. Then, she got intrigued. She started commenting on my posts just because she wanted to talk to me online; there wasn't really a special reason for why she did it. She said she never actually thought that I would figure out it was her.

But then I pointed out: that couldn't completely be true, because I noticed that she was a Redditor for longer than we had been dating. So clearly she did not learn about what Reddit was through me. I was ready to laugh off the situation, but she got immediately humiliated and broke up with me. This totally caught me off guard and I tried to salvage it, but she was adamant and went no contact. She even deleted all her comments from her Reddit account.

Here's the even weirder thing: I haven't talked to her in like a month, but she's doing it to somebody else now. I checked her Reddit account, and all her old posts to me are deleted, but there is a whole series of new posts. They all are replies to the same one user. I don't know who the new user is. Maybe she is dating somebody else.

But I did some quick math, and I realized that, when she was doing it to me, her comment karma score did not match what it should have been if she was responding to only my posts. It was higher. And then I realized: deleting comments doesn't change your overall karma score. So this means that she had made many other comments before, deleted them all, and then started responding to only me. Now she seems like she is doing it again.

All in all, it is a very strange situation. I'm glad to be out of it.

tl;dr: Approached gf about what happened. She got really embarrassed that she got caught and broke up with me. Deleted all her old comments. But now she is doing it again: now she is doing her weird comment response thing to somebody else's account.

FINAL COMMENTS

beer-N-crumpets

well.... that's weird.

Zykium

OP dodged being a suit of skin in her closet.

JudiciousF

OP dodged "Audition: The Interactive Experience"

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HansProleman

I'm glad you posted an update, but I don't know what to make of it. That is incredibly weird.

there wasn't really a special reason for why she did it

I expect there was, and holy shit do I ever want to know.

bobbygoshdontchaknow

I don't think it was anything insidious. I think she was a stage 1 clinger, she knows this and feels like a stalker and is incredibly embarrassed about it, and just couldn't face him after the embarrassment of being found out

HansProleman

It probably is something as mundane as that but, as we don't know for sure, I'm gonna keep the faith in it being truly bizarre.

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I think he jumped the gun. She was just talking to op nothing crazy. Given they are in a new relationship, She probably just wanted to know his online persona to see if it matches who is in real life. There are some seriously messed op ppl online that you wouldn't expect.