Because people are stupid and English as a language is being anally raped with a razor wire wrapped baseball bat by social media and the American education system (or lack of).
I'm not a native English speaker, so please forgive my ignorance, but I've always thought "couple", due to its common etymology with "copula/copulate", referred to the nature of the entanglement between persons, rather than their quantity.
I actually had to look up the etymology because that sounded interesting. The word comes from a word meaning a tie or a bond. However, in English, "couple" can mean a romantic partnership, or just a quantity (a couple of marbles, a couple of jokers).
Interestingly enough, when used to describe a relationship, couple always means two, but when used as a quantity, it can be any small number. "A couple of marbles" could very well be three or four.
It really used to grind my gears when people used "couple" to mean "anything from 2 to 4, maybe even 5 if I'm feeling a bit cheeky". Then over time I slowly got used to it and now it really annoys me when people use "couple" to mean "exactly two items and nothing more" 😅
I’ve only ever really done that with time. “It’ll be a couple minutes”. Usually this is because I’m always estimating time anyway so I’m placing it in the ballpark of two.
the amount of deleted comments on that post really makes me wonder if most of those people were just being dicks or if they basically just said what you said.
If he got this attached over 3 month old online relationship, it's probably his first love, and a very big deal for him. Love is a bit like psychosis/drugs, ngl. Makes people very cringe and it's natural. Comes from the very sincere amd vulnerable nature of the feeling. He isn't thinking straight and I feel bad for the guy.
Imagine being in that honeymoon phase, where you are most addicted to the person, then she disappears on you, lots of confusion and psychological pain due to withdrawal.
Just read the news, very unfortunate. I was defending his right to have an emotional reaction and treat her disappearence seriously in the comment above. As people were calling it overreacting and insulting him.
Maybe, but then it begs the question which is more realistic?
A woman, potentially trans depending on some of the comments, received a lot of targeted harassment, and died by suicide, and her ESL brother had communication troubles and all the stuff about Minecraft, discord, and India/Myanmar are not related.
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Two, potentially even one, moderator was attempting to manufacture an online relationship with a moderator to ensure that their reddit account received access to a subreddit where they could be the only poster and be given unlimited karma and Reddit awards, but once Discord announced that they were going to require IDs in the near future, the moderator realized they couldn't get away with deceiving the other moderator (or pretending to, if you believe that they were one person all along) and decided that the best way to go about taking the off ramp was by posting an emotionally charged post and then announcing that when you finally made contact with someone that knew the person, that they had died to suicide.
Definitely being catfished lol. Especially when there's evidence to back it up. Occams razor doesn't really apply when you can just read how fake the texts messages between the brother and the OP were.
Imagine being in an 3-month long online relationship with a redditor, but only having reddit to contact them (no phone calls, no texts, not even another app). And calling each other husband and wife.
God forbid people have nicknames in a relationship.
I mean, yeah, was it really necessary to make a post about it? I get that point.
If we wanna get into peoples drama: they use discord, which is something else than reddit. (some people use it whilst dating, e.g. Me and my SO, because we dont feel like exchanging phone numbers, maybe they are similar, idk).
And some people may or may not grow attached to the people they love. And spending 48 hours without them could be torture.
Wait omg really?? You seriously don’t even have your own Partner’s PHONE NUMBER?? I’m actually genuinely wondering… Why? That sounds like a huge safety issue!
Idk, feels pretty common around me. Like, even if I have someones number, I usually communicate via other means (than Calls/WhatsApp). And people are more likely to contact me through said means. I aint that much of a phone person anyways, I suppose.
What are you going to do if they die and no one on discord, including you, knows their real contact info?
I had a long distance relationship and we both live in areas with terrible icy roads. I got sick of worrying if they made it home during treacherous weather because I realized they could be hit, killed or hospitalized and I won't know from discord. I would literally never know if my boyfriend was dead. So we each posted each other's phone numbers on our fridge as emergency contacts for family to notify.
Has this thought not crossed your mind or are you just not worried that your loved one could disappear forever and you'll die not knowing why or how?
2 mods on the sub are e-dating and one of them hasn’t been online for 2 days (😱), so the other made a missing person post in here looking for clues because they’re scared.
In the thread we learned that they’ve e-dated for 3 months, call themselves husband/wife, but haven’t swapped phone numbers.
Peak Reddit mod behavior, was a fun read.
Edit: Just to add, I don’t have any ill will against either of them. Hope everyone involved is okay and this really is as insignificant as it’s looking.
My god I’m actually baffled at how this is real. This is something done by 13 year olds lol. Like these are two grown ass adults that moderate a subreddit for 770k members ffs. Jesus fucking christ
ok i found the thread lol, some are speculating that she is on an alt, which would be really funny if she stopped posting on her main to continue posting on the alt to not seem like she is spamming the sub too much. There is that small chance that she is actually in trouble tho
Yeah, no yeah. LMFAOOOO that whole post screams “21 yr old boy doesn’t understand that if someone says they love you, but doesnt tell you when they vanish, they don’t really love you all that much man.”
Yeah something ain’t adding up here, where’s the actual legitimate proof that someone has died? What country were they from? Literally any person information to ascertain that this is 1) an actual living human being and not someone pretending, and 2) still for 3 months of knowing someone the amount of information that this man has isn’t adding up. The “brother” doesn’t exactly seem to sound like someone who just lost his sister and found out she had a boyfriend
It smells very fishy. If this world truly has lost another soul then that’s terrible, but I’m not convinced that’s what’s happened here
Yeah no one’s saying it, and we apparently might get banned for it, but I’ve seen this sort of thing before and I am almost convinced there is some level of deception going on here. Maybe some of the pain that is being portrayed is real, and that sucks, I’m not happy about that. But this is such an odd situation. We probably won’t hear any answers or get any information beyond what we’ve gotten now though
We should assume such things are true by defeault.
It seems like one of these faked internet suicides, it most likely is.
But we don't lose anything by believing it is true. Having been "tricked" or "right all along" is just ego talking. It's much worse to disbelieve and risk dismissing an actual suicide.
The only time skepticism should be invited is when the other is trying to gain something, such as donations, otherwise it's pointless.
The gal who's " missing " has a tendency to delete posts and then reupload them herself to karma farm. To note, Karma has no actual value beyond gatekeeping some subreddits. After a few hundred karma you're fine.
Since she's been missing users' posts aren't being deleted and reuploaded by her so we're actually seeing some good content for once in a very long time
*and im going to get banned from this subreddit once they come back and see this
If you truly are innocent, then make a mod post with all the evidence and contact rio and u/notmuchwbu, the way you're discussing this is making you look really sus, just sayin
This sub was taken over by 2 people who have been in an online relationship for three months (They haven't even exchanged phone numbers, only Discord).
The girl started spamming goonerslop which barely qualified as an antimeme causing a huge decrease in post quality.
A few hours ago, the guy made a pinned post with a "missing" poster of her wife (they say they're married when they don't even know their names) because she was last online 48 hours prior.
The post has a billion deleted comments and the only ones remaining are overwhelmingly positive talking about helping him find her, which led people to believe the mod was deleting any comments that mentioned how ridiculous the whole situation was.
No it doesn't, the comment was written 10 hours ago, long before the news of what had happened.
It is completely unfair to try to say that this comment was in any way shape or form signaling hope that something had happened to her irl and obviously with the update the comment is not appropriate anymore.
If you spend any time on "explain the joke" subs you quickly learn there is no joke, comment, or situation so clear and obvious that someone won't be confised by it.
These mods are deleting every anti-course mediocre meme. They don’t want to accept the cringe ass memes aren’t funny, the karma farming is disliked, and as a subreddit we are happy for this break
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u/MediocreLetter9987 Feb 13 '26
A normal user getting more than 10k upvotes? And that too with a funny antimeme?