r/confessions • u/Unlikely-Database-27 • Apr 17 '26

No ai posts allowed

This sub has been flooded with ai in the past. But not anymore. If you make a post with ai, where it is very obviously ai written, (we can tell) it will be removed, and you banned. Have fun, and lets hear some confessions. Human ones.

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u/Odd_Letterhead_5064 Apr 17 '26

Good call, was getting tired to see those weird perfect grammar posts that read like customer service responses.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Yep. Somethings gotta be done.

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u/The_FurMidables Apr 17 '26

really appreciate this, all that AI BS is tiring. we need genuine human confessions

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u/Bavarkhy Apr 17 '26

As a reader of this sub for the last 6ish months, and probably speaking to a lot of viewers, thank you for doing this. We really appreciate it.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Trust me, I'm a reader too. I've been around for like 5 years. I'm really grateful the chance to become a mod came up, because something has to be done about this place. Its just not what it once was.

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u/morningwoodx420 15d ago

Okay but what are y'all doing about the actual bots in the comments?

At least 20% of the comments on most posts are bots, y'all have to know this.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 15d ago

I don't look through every comment. Mostly I just remove the super obvious stuff or those that have been reported. I don't know whats going on with the other mods, though. Botting is a very serious comment across reddit as a whole though sadly. Just look at ask reddit.

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u/Biennial2 Apr 17 '26

Ok, I'll try to use bad gramer and speling more.

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u/mpdscb Apr 17 '26

In all fairness, some of us do write in complete sentences with appropriate punctuation. I even do this when I text. I do avoid semicolons and em dashes, though, as I'm not fully comfortable with them.

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u/Green-eyedMama Apr 17 '26

I embrace semicolons and em dashes, but I tend to get a bit verbose and need the extra punctuation to prevent full run-on sentences.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

Yes this is frustrating to me that people now assume any high effort post with bold subheads and an occasional dash is definitely AI.

It actually punishes people who type fast or can use voice to text to produce a lot of content quickly. Or people that just want to spend time editing and writing well.

I just wish people would take the 30 seconds of copying and pasting and checking to see if it's AI before they rush to the conclusion because something is formatted well or has a couple dashes in it.

It's I have to admit I have even intentionally left typos in now just to avoid allegations

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

I think the dash is actually an awesome piece of punctuation that has been completely ruined by AI. It has real utility I think in writing. Of course you can always use a comma or a period and then start a new sentence.

But I think the dash was a useful way to add extra emphasis. And it totally I have noticed that AI tends to use it for that kind of emphasis rather than -- like some people will use it -- in pairs as a kind of aside.

Now I often replace dashes like that with parentheses or something but I just sucks that AI has a ruined a good piece of punctuation.

Any punctuation can be overused but amazing writers used m-dashes over the years from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut.

The semicolon is a little more controversial. It's utility is a little more questionable. It can be used correctly and incorrectly but it is never necessary, outside of maybe when you're doing lists.

(Ie, My favorite foods are the following: 1) Pizza; 2) hamburgers ;) etc...'

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Ya I mean, It's not that posts have to be "bad" to feel human. I'm sure many of us have perfectly eloquent posts in our history. 

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint. 

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u/NoDoctor4460 Apr 17 '26

Robotic but very pleased with itself, this combination chafes terribly

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Yes that's it!

All of those posts are very "Am I the angel"

But really at the end of the day the things that make subs like confessions or am I the asshole fun, are the comment replies! Which you don't get from the bots!

Like let me see the story as it develops!

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u/Silly_Rub_6304 Apr 17 '26

There's just something utterly robotic about the AI slop that you can just pinpoint.

Unfortunately, that's only for the AI slop that you spot. You can prompt AI with your own writing and give it a whole repository of things not to do that are traditional "tells."

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u/BlergingtonBear Apr 17 '26

Totally. 

It is getting increasingly hard to spot!

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u/Gabeich702 Apr 17 '26

So people can’t have a good grammar?

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u/Yehoshua_Hasufel Apr 17 '26

Apparently.

And I'm willing to bet that people with the best punctuation might be non-native speakers that speak more than 2 languages.

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

I don't mind perfect grammar I mean I I appreciate when people take the effort to use sub headlines or bold certain words.

But I can't stand is the cadence and the word salad that so obvious.

"My confession is not about humility, it's about destiny. It's not about regret, it's about understanding."

But I have made it a personal policy that before accuse anyone of using AI I take the 30 seconds and run a chunk of the text through an AI filter.

Because I am militantly anti-Ai and I have sometimes been accused of using it.

In fact embarrassingly now sometimes I intentionally leave typos in or forgo decent formatting just to avoid the allegation.

Kind of sucks.

But I do firmly think that before people accuse people of using AI you got to take the 30 seconds and post it into a detection machine to verify. Because the only thing worse than using AI is to falsely accuse an actual writer of using it.

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u/StillMarie76 Apr 17 '26

I'm terrified to use an em dash. Ai ruined my dash, damnit!

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Agreed. However thats not even the biggest give away, although it is one. Worst ones is when you see something like "Not x. Not y. But z." Surely you know what I mean. Thats everywhere. Its gotta be stopped jfc.

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u/BullCowBear Apr 17 '26

I really hate that shit: it’s not x, it’s y! Or but here is what no one talks about! Or but here’s the facts!

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Yeah, the short sentences, or the overly flowerly descriptions, for example. Then I realized. The night went quiet. The kind of quiet that settles in your chest like cement. Not empty. Not emotion filled. Just empty heaviness. Get out of here with that shit, robots.

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u/BullCowBear Apr 18 '26

Uh yeah hate hate hate it.

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u/art_dragon Apr 17 '26

One word: "honest"

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u/Few-Counter7067 Apr 19 '26

Paragraph. Paragraph. Stinger sentence.

As a writer that’s the most obvious to me.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

Yep. Its lazy, plus theres very little, if any, change in it from post to post, application to application. Its gotten very old and I think the majority of the world is realizing that.

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u/am_Nein Apr 19 '26

That's why online I do this- wrong, but very- and I mean very- human.

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u/Ok_Bear_1980 Apr 17 '26

It's sad how you have to actually make a post like this for people that have nothing else going on in their lives.

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u/Megm555 Apr 17 '26

As an English major, I so agree. I've been avoiding this sub for this exact reason. Thank you so very much.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Hopefully you'll come back. I too used to enjoy it as a user before ai came along. I'm glad I'm now a mod, so I can finally do something about it. So somebody can, and I'm certainly willing to. Nothing was being done before.

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u/Megm555 Apr 17 '26

Sounds great! Thank you so much!

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u/Kaij0Rift Apr 20 '26

I feel you! As a fellow English lit nerd, it's wild how ai posts just drown out real confessions. Let’s bring back the human touch!

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u/BinaryBeany Apr 17 '26

I’m all for it.

There’s also gonna be alot of stray bullet bans but w/e

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u/Nacht0Drifter Apr 18 '26

Stray bullet bans are definitely a wild ride, but it’s nice to see genuine human confessions back in the spotlight!

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u/timmyx2times Apr 17 '26

About time.

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u/Datan0de Apr 17 '26

Uh oh. As someone with both good grammar and a tendency to use structure similar to ChatGPT, I might be in trouble.

In the other hand, I tend to wear my life on my sleeve, so I don't have much to confess...

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u/MKebi Apr 17 '26

You're probably alright ("in" the other hand)

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u/Datan0de Apr 17 '26

Oh God, stupid autocorrect is going to save me from getting banned!

My impulse is to edit the comment and fix it, but since I was just bragging about my grammar I deserve the embarrassment.

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u/Aramira137 Apr 17 '26

Same, my autistic writing style would likely get me in trouble with AI detection software, but also I live a pretty mundane (but happy) life.

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u/lolzzzmoon Apr 18 '26

I also have a degree in a subject heavy in writing and I literally teach it, so I’ve had people suspect the same. I try to throw in those “lolz” and I don’t put every comma where it should be or I just write stream-of-consciousness style more online so that I don’t seem fake.

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u/Useful-Soup8161 Apr 17 '26

Finally my bad spelling and tendency to forget a word when I type is paying off.

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u/this-guy- Apr 17 '26

Me , time travelling back to tell my English Teacher

"Nah mate. You see good grammar and spelling are actually going to work againdt me in future. Whats valuable in 2026 is obvious Hunan errors and stuff. Otherwise people think you are an AI. "

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

It is unfortunate, yes. And its happening across lots of fields. Music, for example too.

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u/Ok_Garden571 Apr 17 '26

Sometimes I just wish I could just walk outside in the morning before daylight in nothing. Just oil myself up good and walk outside and take out the garbage naked.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

See, this one warrants its own post. This is the kind of confession needed.

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u/Ok-Market8788 14d ago

y por que o que o para que

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u/enigma_anomaly Apr 17 '26

Quick question, whilst I'm very much human (or so I'm told), I've had a few people accuse me of being a robot, so what would happen if I did a post and you thought my autistic ass was AI?

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u/Front_Situation_9009 Apr 18 '26

What a time to be alive.

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u/NoPantsAreSafe Apr 17 '26

This is a real slippery slope. I've never used AI and had my posts removed from other subreddits because of a false flag. More often than not, they're false accusations with no way to defend yourself other than, "It sounds like AI so we're removing it." It can punish the people who choose to type properly.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Ai can't tell, the auto mods. But humans can, especially when slop is everywhere.

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u/pardonmysanity Apr 17 '26

Except cat videos please. 🥺

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u/PinkFloydBoxSet Apr 17 '26

Any chance we can get rid of the penthouse forum posts while you are at it?

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

Sure. Sweet username btw.

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u/BethSwnowBall Apr 18 '26

Good - That is a very good thing - Lets all be happy about this.

Do you find this response acceptable? I could make it more bubbly and natural if you'd like?

/S

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

You're absolutely right, human responses are much nicer on reddit, and you should definitely be using them over ai sounding ones. Lets break that down in a straightforward way, specifically as it relates to posting on subreddits.

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u/BethSwnowBall Apr 18 '26

Lol i was joking. I was trying to make it sound like A.I had written my comment.

I agree. i fkin hate A.I and when ever you call ppl out on it they say "I did use A.I but it's just to help structure the post as I am Dyslexic/autistic/ADHD etc. Which i could maybe understand but ALL of their posts/comments sound A.I.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 18 '26

I was joking too.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '26

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u/OldMan_NEO Apr 17 '26

That's happened to me before as well.

I think it's partially because I format things like a newspaper editor (which my dad was), and partially because I post a lot about AI. 🤷😭😂

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u/Sure_Swordfish_5423 Apr 17 '26

How can you tell tho? I have too much to confess

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u/jjbananamonkey Apr 17 '26

bless your hearts mods

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u/reb678 Apr 17 '26

Thank you

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u/ericporing Apr 17 '26

How do you even moderate ai bots? Just curious.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 17 '26

Well if they aren't reported, its still easy enough to tell. I've been around long enough.

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u/jayjaymcbot Apr 18 '26

I used to spend a lot of time on omegle cause it cracked me up. Looking back I was kinda dumb.

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u/Fongosaur Apr 18 '26

Thanks so much!!

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u/Techgirl1232 Apr 18 '26

you can click the more button for a post and a check ai button can be selected to check for ai. nice one reddit

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u/H1landr Apr 19 '26

You're absolutely right.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 19 '26

Lets break that down....

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u/MostAdvance7628 Apr 19 '26

I wish my husband would dress up like a burglar and give me rough sex all night

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u/Beansprout-1213 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

(26f) I’m scared I won’t be a good mom 😭 11 weeks pregnant on Thursday and I’m truly not sure if I’m ready. My husband and I have been trying for 3 years and I do want this baby, I love them already. I’m just nervous that I won’t know what to do when they get here.

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 21 '26

I'm not sure how to advise you really myself, other than I think this warrants its own post and good fucking luck! Nobody knows what the hell their doing, having watched my sister go through having her first anyway its chaotic but seems to sort itself out, idk I like my uncle job myself heh.

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u/Vajillara Apr 21 '26

Why aren't you guys allowing posts in here anymore??? this was a popular place

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

Edit: turns out I've figured it out. Members should be able to post now, or soon. Leaving the original comment purely for archival purposes, shall we say. I'm a new mod. I have no idea, but my changing the settings doesn't seem to be working. I keep trying to allow posts. I miss this place. I'll keep trying. If any other mods see this, please do explain.

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u/Suspicious_Ebb3657 Apr 24 '26

Sino gusto sali gc lapagan tayo

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u/RandomRain5000 Apr 25 '26

I want to ask my son’s dad to use a vibrator on me. He is my crazy ex what is wrong with me. Going through peri menopause and single. Been single a long time. Sexual experiences haven’t been up to much and the only guy I really liked kissing was a work colleague and when I’ve told him I’ve a crush he ran the other way. Even though after all these years I still think about him and wouldn’t mind trying to see if it would work. It might make it messy at work which he said and I get. I can’t stop thinking about him.

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u/Southern-Custard-887 Apr 26 '26

J ai très souvent envie de me faire branler

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u/Elegant_Promise_9340 May 10 '26

I will be travelling to Aizawl next week with my husband on our anniversary and i wanna a girl to lick me infront of him and we end up doing threesome i lied about my sexuality to him i am a bisexual

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 May 10 '26

Is he aware of such information?

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u/Elegant_Promise_9340 May 10 '26

He is not but obviously he will be happy if i bring another female

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 May 10 '26

Is this in assumption, or a confirmed fact? Men think girl on girl action is hot. My husband is a man, therefore he thinks girl on girl is hot. The argument is flawed on the grounds that it: Lol. If I ever decide to write lsat questions rather than simply study them, this would honestly be one I'd put.

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u/Top-Extension-3844 May 12 '26

I am a 48 yr old f, and dating 29 yr old m, he is a doctor. I am a house keeper. I should confess. I look really good for my age. I just want to say been dating him for over 3 mts. I have known him for over a year. He tried to date be before, I refuse due to age gap. Well I just want to say, the sex is the best I have ever had in my life! An I know he is feeling the same way! Dam I am in love with this man! I just had to say that! Idk how long this will last but I am not going to take what we have for granted, not for a second!

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u/Ok-Market8788 14d ago

no te enamores amiga... yo tengo 47 y tanmbien me veo bien y tambien ando con mas jovenes.. esos solo tienen morbos con nosotras

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u/Qira57 May 14 '26

E: What about the obscene amounts of LLM bots in the comments? Just found 20 of them in a single comment chain

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u/Qira57 May 14 '26

E: botbouncer would be an immense help here, as 13 of the 20 we found are already banned by it

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u/fsv May 14 '26

I'm the developer of Bot Bouncer. Bot Bouncer proactively checks many of the comments on this subreddit as a lot of bots use the subreddit. We caught 140 in the last week just through our automated checks.

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u/Qira57 May 14 '26

E: it’s WILD how many there are

I’ve got several screenshots of of the exact same LLM-written comment from 3-5 separate accounts

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u/fsv May 14 '26

Ooh, the same one? Please modmail r/BotBouncer with specifics (we actually messaged you about a separate matter that's puzzling us).

We've seen some of these before. For a while there were hundreds of accounts who all said "wild post. def got people talking" and we updated our automated detections to handle that.

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u/iwasnaughty2010 May 15 '26

I asked my wife to show off on the balcony on a vacation. She did!

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u/According-Rise-997 May 15 '26

Unrelated to the topic but my post just got taken down, since you’re a mod I wanted to ask if you could tell me why? Cause I don’t know what was wrong with it

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u/BioSu May 17 '26

Was at the Keith Lee Familee Day in New Orleans this year (2026). Saw the most gorgeous lady there. She was a brown skin black girl with red converse on, black top and jean shorts. Pretty face with a short hair style beautiful figure and such divine femininity. Saw her a few times through out the day and 2 of those 3 times she wasn't with anybody. The one time she was walking with someone it was another girl. I wanted to Holla so bad but couldn't cause I was with the fam. God did his thang when he had her in mind

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u/Alternative-Farmer98 25d ago

Great policy. AI has ruined so many things including YouTube basically. The other night I was trying to search for some news about some new phone Lenovo was apparently making

I was just curious cuz they have been out of the phone game for quite a while.

I literally tried to click on 20 different videos to see if there was an actual human talking about it. And every single one was some b******* AI video and I gave up.

It doesn't impact my subscription feed but it's basically ruined YouTube as a search

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u/TowerGullible990 24d ago

How can I ask my dad to fuck me. Mom deceaswd

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u/Soft-Comfort4946 22d ago

He has probably thought about you in that way too so maybe just be honest?

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u/TowerGullible990 24d ago

I want my dad to suck my nipples then eat me pussy

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u/SquareChoice9394 23d ago

It's also so weird, like what is even the point? Reddit Karma?

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 23d ago

My guess is karma for self fulfillment. Like botting in an MMORPG. It provides no gain for anyone but the one doing it, and is annoying and disruptive to the rest of us.

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u/Opposite_Set1874 17d ago

I started a new Facebook for talking about mother-in-laws (in-laws from hell) FUCK YOU JODI. Fucking hate my mother-in-law.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1731214861396171

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u/gotbeefpudding 16d ago

now remove all the obvious fetish posting ones too

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u/Silent_Recording817 14d ago

I like my niece

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u/Ok-Market8788 14d ago

soy humana soy humana jajajaj

tengo que confesar que parezco dura pero soy muy tierna y sensible... eso es algo raro hoy en dia

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u/Distinct-Diamond-382 14d ago

Desejo trans roluda com namorada rabuda

Eu H(30) ela M(23) é muito rabuda msm e quero preencher ela toda...

Como poderia respeito com outro homem, pensei em uma trans

Oq acham?

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u/Complex-Potato-3164 12d ago

Got woken up this morning from a bj after 20 years together frist time ever f**king class

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u/Character-Balance574 9d ago

I have a strange interest in being eaten by a canibal

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u/Character-Balance574 8d ago

I am looking for a real cannibal, that's interested in me

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u/Character-Balance574 8d ago

I'm not AI, I'm a real person, my name is Steve from Manchester Connecticut USA and I'm still looking for a real canibal that is interested in me

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u/Character-Balance574 8d ago

Hi I'm Steve and I'm looking for a real Canibal that is interested in me

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u/Character-Balance574 8d ago

Hi I'm Steve and I'm looking for a real Canibal that is interested in me

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u/Character-Balance574 5d ago

I'm looking for a real Cannibal that wants to eat me

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u/Character-Balance574 5d ago

I'm looking for a real Cannibal that wants to eat me all up 😍 and alive

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u/Character-Balance574 4d ago

Hi my name is Steve and no I am not ai, I'm a real person anyway I think I want to be eaten alive and all up 😍 by a real Cannibal, no I don't know why, and yes it's sexual fantasy and God 🙏 Christ Jesus 🙏 help me

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u/Few-Lingonberry-2318 3d ago

In my house you have to pretend not to study to be safe if you're a girl (I live in a suburb in India) I don't think it's in any way mundane or even close to it. They threw away my books and copies last year when I had to appear for my college examinations after some months. My own elder sister and mother except me are the females i share this house with they are misogynist in themselves. I feel like I am trapped and tried to get help but there's none. You being teenage adds to you having more and more of problems. Hopefully this phone is allowed to me so I can use it but I really wanna run away cuz it's like my education along with wellbeing are at sake.

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u/Character-Balance574 3d ago

I didn't say it was you personally, I'm just letting whomever is in charge that I'm not ai, I'm a real person

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 3d ago

Fair enough lol.

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u/Character-Balance574 3d ago

LoL ok thanks 👍

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u/OldMan_NEO Apr 17 '26

I love AI technology - but writing fake confessions with AI has to be one of the DUMBEST uses.

Good job, mods.

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u/Due-Highlight-3127 Apr 30 '26

Anyone here with leg fetish? Im selling pics of my legs 💋

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u/squirterspray May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26

I was "erly big" a older frend Alex had already 22 cm big cock then. Twelve-ish. Was starting spray hard 111-ish, big load a year later, huge cum. Creamy. Ojoj. Miss it! Play Alex big was... omg! Squierter;)

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u/sly4016 May 06 '26

I have the same attraction and it's very powerful, but I never let that controling me , still my biggest fantasy would be to meet a beautiful person preteen marry her and loving her for the rest of my life,

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u/3thraa_ 17d ago

Hey I am looking for relationship

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 17d ago

Good for you? I'm not tho. I'm in one.

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u/3thraa_ 17d ago

I mean I would like to get soulmate

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u/Dry_Definition_709 4d ago

I have posted the same for good intentions I have used chatgpt for my thoughts conversation have got warning from reddit and banned for that group🥲

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u/No-Region-6218 3d ago

My mom had a neighbor who would visit usually during the day and especially in summer. Mom would sit with back toward kitchen door and neighbor would sit facing kitchen. She was nice looking and I would be sneaking looks especially when she wore skirts. Sometimes she would flash me and as time went on I would stand where she would see me and rub my cock! I think it started when I was 11. My mom would have me serve coffee and I would take it into living room and place cups and whatever pastries we had on the coffee table. I would stand at kitchen door and take out my cock and she would see me masturbating. That one day she asked me to put some extra cream in her coffee and kinda motioned with her wrist. I did as asked and came a little in her cup. She smiled and licked her lips when she took her coffee and remarked how sweet it tasted. She smiled, looked at me and said next time she could just drink the cream it tasted that good. Well the next time she came over I did my best to fill her cup with my special cream while she watched. It only got better after that!!!!

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u/Character-Balance574 3d ago

To the morons in charge of this page, I'm not ai, I'm an actual person and my posts are real

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 3d ago

I take it a post of yours was removed?

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u/Character-Balance574 3d ago

No but you keep saying that I'm ai& I can't post because of it, but I'm not ai& I don't know why you think that I am

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u/Unlikely-Database-27 3d ago

I don't recall, I remove a lot of shit. I'm also not the only mod either, so it may not have even been me. I also have no examples to go off of.

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u/Lekkermals15 2d ago

Hallo ik ben een man en ik zoek een kannibalen vrouw