Have you seen the AITA threads on Reddit or one of the 29,708,654,934 websites that repackage the quirky social network’s content?
If you haven’t, then I’m sorry. I’ve just ruined your life.
If you have, then thanks for accompanying me into this timewaster of stupidly appealing web content.
AITA (meaning Am I the Asshole?) is crowdsourced advice to problems that inevitably arise when two or more humans interact. Posters share problems. Readers advise. Voyeurs enjoy.
“AITA for taking kids to dinner when my wife had left food out for them?”
“AITA for refusing to attend my twin sister’s wedding since she’s marrying my ex-fiancée?”
“AITA for berating my boyfriend’s wife after she called me a homewrecker?”
And so on through endless misbehaving brides, spouses, in-laws, siblings, bosses, neighbors, dog walkers and so many more scoundrels and clods.
Or so we’re told. AITA posters give us one side of a conflict and (possibly, probably, definitely) shape a sympathetic tale. Or they invent, because some AITA posts are too weird to be true.
I don’t know why I read this crap.
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Jeff, who ever thought two guys from Raymond would be addicted to AITA. I spend wayyyy too much time on Reddit.
Mark, maybe it’s BECAUSE we’re from Raymond!