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Today I Fucked Up
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So I posted a video on r/mademesmile of me gifting my girlfriend a stuffed animal.
Among the really sweet, positive comments, there were a few ribbing on the way I look. Which I get it, it’s Reddit, the internet, you can’t expect everyone to be super positive.
One comment said I looked like the recent child predator arrested in Normal, IL.
In an attempt to be funny, I replied to that comment:
“Nah not me!
We’ve been together for almost 3 years now. I got her another plushie for her 18th birthday last February.”
The joke is that the “math ain’t mathin” in the spirit of a sub like r/holup. The punchline is that I’m very obviously revealing an age gap that’s not legal.
The truth is we’re both in our twenties and met as adults.
So the comment saying I looked like a child predator has been deleted, leaving me dead in the water, seemingly revealing an illegal age gap (and then “hiding it” by deleting the comment). Except I didn’t deleted it, the other commenter did.
Now, the comments on the post are out for blood. They think I’m a child predator, a groomer. Which, I mean I can’t blame them, it literally looks like it without context.
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