i know I'll get downvoted to oblivion for saying this but I don't care; I think this is disgusting. i don't like shaming people for who they are or what they do, or bullying of any kind, BUT i also think it's absolutely apprehensible behavior to engage in a romantic relationship with someone who uses discord.
Funny
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...apprehensible?..well, like, yeah: folks've had internet-girlfriends since way back when paper-mail pen pals were a thing...
and here i thought the joke was too obvious
Don't post this shit.
"I'm serious. She could actually be a 300 pound dude who lives in his momma's basement in suburban Detroit. And her name is Chuck." - Ready Player One
No, no, no! Come on! Cooper was right... This guy wants to have sex with me!
"Listen, Mieke... I don't want to arrange any meetings with you, you sick, German freak. So please keep your hands off my genitals, and never write to me again, and don't come to America. Goodbye."
- EuroTrip
Real talk here, Eurotrip was a leagues better internet relationship story than Ready Player One could ever hope to be.
Hahaha, she's fat. The horror. The betrayal. He thought he had a girl who loved him, but little did he know she was fat. And nothing is more horrific than that. Thank God he found out, he might have started caring about her, like an idiot.
I assumed the joke was his "girlfriend" was a man who's been lying to him, at least that was my initial thought from the exceptionally hairy legs.
Seems like the obvious joke to me too...
Lots of people have hairy legs??
It's a he
It's okay to be disappointed if you exchange pics with an online flirt and it turns out they're fat.
It is. It's not okay to post them on the internet so people can mock them because you them unattractive. If she was missing a leg, or had scars from self harm, or burn marks, he probably wouldn't have posted her on the internet so people could join in on his disappointment.
Why is everyone assuming this is about weight? What's the reverse image search part mean? I feel like there's something else to this.
When he attempted to reverse search the image, he didn't find any matches which lead him to believe this is a real photo from the person he's chatting with and not a joke or something like that. There are two assumptions (based on this thread anyway, order has no bearings on which one is more "true" or not).
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(My assumption) He is disappointed because the girl is fat/hairy and therefore unattractive and unworthy of his affection.
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He is disappointed because the hairy leg makes him think his "girlfriend" is his "boyfriend," otherwise known as a catfish, and he is feeling tricked/embarrassed/hurt/etc.
My knee jerk assumption was weight. When I encounter posts with fat people, I'm used to people responding in revulsion so I took that train of thought.
I think (2) is the far more likely scenario.
You guys are getting discord girlfriends?
Have you seen the movie "Her"?
Is the problem that she uses Gnome, or that she uses dark mode?
Doesn't that look more like Windows 11?
Windows 11 did rip off gnome 🤔
Ummm...Windows 11 was way more of a KDE ripoff than a gnome ripoff.
Doesn't look like gnome in any way. That task bar looks like windows 11. Gnome doesn't have a task bar. The "bar" of icons on the left are discord servers.
Maybe she's just cheating and accidently sent you a private pic from the person she's cheating with, don't give up hope /s
Without context this isn't funny and the most i can get out of it is that it is fat shaming and/or shaming unshaved legs
I think the implication is OP got catfished
The context is that OOP got catfished by a dude. The joke is that they were naive enough to fall for it in this day and age.
I don't like the idea of the word fat-shaming. Of course I don't condone bullying but being so hyper protective about someone being fat just is peculiar to me. When I was fat myself, due to the teasing of my friends (again not bullying) I put in the work and got fit therefore now I'm more healthy. That wouldn't happen if my friends were afraid of not "fat-shaming" me
I mean, that's nice for you, but the difference is that that teasing was coming from the friends, and not internet randos who neither know nor care about you.
Next to nobody who sees that screenshot knows the person in the photo, or whether they're even able to lose weight by "putting in the work".
Also, there's a preponderance of evidence that your case is an outlier, and "teasing" does not improve the lives of its targets.
You never know what somebody is going through, and it costs nothing to be kind.
You're right, I should try and be more kind. Sorry
I don't get it
Isn't it pretty normal not to shave your legs?
I think the implication is that the discord girlfriend was an overweight man pretending to be a woman in order to catfish
Can't rule out that's a close-up of a capybara. Gf is 3 capybaras stacked in a trenchcoat? Rule 1 of the Internet--pics or she never happened.