Fake:
School principal asks them to drop the charges.
Parent threatens to call the cops and file charges.
You can't ask someone to drop charges they have not yet filed.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2025
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Everything on Reddit is fake.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. What I believe happens is that so much fake stuff is mixed with fact, the line between the two become blurred.
In most processed food, there is an acceptable amount of insect bits that we almost always consume. So, when I am eating a sandwich, maybe 0.05% of it is insect. To me though, I don't think of it as my daily dose of extra protein: it's just my sandwich.
The point of that colorful example was to explain how much worse the fake bits of Reddit actually are: Many people don't usually know or even think about how much of it they actually consume. Lemmy has the same issues in some corners, but it's much easier to identify.
It's all bullshit. Reddit is an increasingly low quality magazine for 'B grade students with a superiority complex'. AITA is just the very-obviously-made-up agony aunt section..
There are some good subreddits like educational ones and piracy, the rest I noticed are just reposted memes and fake stories. Anime_titties is good though.
For sure. Askhistorians is still good, as are some niche technology ones and regional ones. But the rest are trash compared to 10-15 years ago
Fake.
A real scenario would involve the victim getting arrested.
Source: I defended myself against a bully and got a mandatory visit to a police station for a few hours.
Fuck the Police (and the school administrators) ACAB
Seems plausible enough to be a real situation. Though it does give some ragebait vibes
I mean, being posted to AITA is pretty much confirmation of being ragebait.
Utter horseshit
The fact that they're using the term drop charges, when the kid hasn't been arrested shows they're making it up.
A principal is going to have enough education they wouldn't have used that term in relation to an in school disciplinary issue because it would leave them open to trouble.
Here is another one: https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1hzozws
Why are people falling for this?
At least that one is believable, if poorly executed as fiction.
But, being real, part of the fun of that sub was playing along. If you paid attention to the average level of bullshit, it was hard to have any entertainment out of it all. So you go in knowing that the story is bullshit, but you pretend it's real, or real enough for the purpose of discussing the idea behind a bad story.
The school thing, it's so poorly done it's impossible to suspend belief and go along. But the "name it after your brother" one, people actually do that kind of thing, so even though it's poorly done (or so over dramatized that if it happened, it didn't happen like that), you can still imagine the scenario and explore the boundaries it suggests
Well, that's how I used the sub for sure, and I know people that have said the same, so not everyone is buying the stories whole cloth
There's a thin line between being entertained and being informed. The latter requires more energy to repel BS. Often a community is started by genuine people who want to share high quality articles. The reputation attracts a larger crowd who are 'entertained' by this, and while valuing the integrity of the content, do not themselves exert the same effort. At some point the 'entertained' crowd start contributing content themselves, of lower quality, but which is popular for its entertainment rather than truth value. Times this progression by ten if the platform owners are monitising attention. 'casuals' and the pursuit of profit drive enshitification.
The principal wouldn't even talk to you, its most likely some dean, or other staff.
A nine-year-old's parent doesn't get to decide whether or not someone is charged with a crime, and if someone is charged with a crime, the kid's parent doesn't get to decide to "drop the charges." If there is enough evidence, and the DA wants to bring charges, that's that.
I don't know if it's true or made up, but if you have to ask Reddit for advice in a matter like this, maybe parenting isn't for you.
I believe that >90% of aita is not traffic at this point.