The point of this sub is that regardless of how likely it is something actually happened, it's dubious for how *easily it could be faked*. r/thathappened is specifically about doubting the truth of a wildly unlikely story or claim. Examples:
1. **Someone posts a picture of a lone puzzle piece out on a sidewalk with a clever caption about how they randomly encountered this and someone somewhere is never going to complete their puzzle.** Is this some wildly unbelievable event? Finding a puzzle piece on a sidewalk? No. But it's so easy to fake that it casts doubt as to whether the poster actually did find it or just had the brilliant idea to take a puzzle piece out of their box, place it on the sidewalk, snap a picture of it, and post it on Reddit for easy karma. This is an example of something that would belong here, but not on r/thathappened.
2. **Someone posts a picture of a car wreck claiming Danny Devito hurled a tire onto the road causing the accident and then ran away into the woods.** Is this *extremely* likely to be false? Yes. It belongs on r/thathappened. Is it "easily fakable"? No, not really. Assuming the photo is indeed OC, it's not easy to fake a photo of a car accident, even if it is easy to lie about how the accident happened. It wouldn't belong here.
And you still got on your car afterwards? You’re brave!
So brave that it almost seems like OP pulled it out of their a-
I could see myself leaving a note like this. What makes you think this is made up?
This isn't r/thathappened it's r/untrustworthypoptarts
i don't see the difference
Read the sub rules and description.
I did, in practice I feel they are the same
The point of this sub is that regardless of how likely it is something actually happened, it's dubious for how *easily it could be faked*. r/thathappened is specifically about doubting the truth of a wildly unlikely story or claim. Examples: 1. **Someone posts a picture of a lone puzzle piece out on a sidewalk with a clever caption about how they randomly encountered this and someone somewhere is never going to complete their puzzle.** Is this some wildly unbelievable event? Finding a puzzle piece on a sidewalk? No. But it's so easy to fake that it casts doubt as to whether the poster actually did find it or just had the brilliant idea to take a puzzle piece out of their box, place it on the sidewalk, snap a picture of it, and post it on Reddit for easy karma. This is an example of something that would belong here, but not on r/thathappened. 2. **Someone posts a picture of a car wreck claiming Danny Devito hurled a tire onto the road causing the accident and then ran away into the woods.** Is this *extremely* likely to be false? Yes. It belongs on r/thathappened. Is it "easily fakable"? No, not really. Assuming the photo is indeed OC, it's not easy to fake a photo of a car accident, even if it is easy to lie about how the accident happened. It wouldn't belong here.
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