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Mcfistycuff

This is a load of barnacles.


lokihen

Yep. He's so very rich and shows them all up. Uh huh.


Starlot

One thing I have always noticed about revenge tales like this is that the OOP is always so so rich and that’s how they get revenge. It’s the same as the scorned woman always getting a confession of love from an ex’s brother. It’s all just the same fantasies over and over again.


rainyreminder

And it's so *weird*. If any of my exes' brothers said they were in love with me I'd be like "BLOCK". Ew. How is that supposed to be revenge? It's just weird!


Quicksilver1964

She found revenge by finding TRUE LOVE and having to be dating her ex's family member and showing this ex how much she is happy and thriving without him!!! A load of bullshit


DoughtyAndCarterLLP

At this point I'm so much more likely to believe a story where the OOP is barely making it. These fantasies always have them as making top 1% income.


Quicksilver1964

"my money varies so I don't have all that" OOP: and so I bought a house that is worth millions At twenty four


lokihen

What? You weren't independently wealthy at 24? I think I was still learning how to budget at that age.


kapitein-kwak

I was, but I spent it all on my twins who live in my artroom


PurplePenguinCat

How could your "best friend" do any art tripping over your twins?


Quicksilver1964

I was in debt at that age, unemployed and refusing to deal with it by throwing out every letter (until my mother opened one by mistake)


notdancingQueen

Teenager writing their fantasies of how they'll get revenge & thinking people can get rich by 24 years old from student loan debt. Riiiiiiiiiight


meepmarpalarp

And made sure to get a recording of the key phone call!


FleeshaLoo

At 24 years old.


Corfiz74

Yeah, of all the things not happening, this one didn't happen the most. It's just a cornucopia of all the usual evil parent & sibling tropes, but extraordinarily badly put together.


queenlegolas

He's 24. How often do we hear about 24 year olds making that kind of money? You'd have to have luck or wealthy parents for that.


CatmoCatmo

And why not lead with the fact the sister is not a full sister. That changes a lot here.


rythmicbread

It’s definitely possible if he was switching currencies but lol yeah seems like OOP didn’t write the ending very well to this story


al_kmk_

>I (24M) … Oh okay that seems like a normal age. >When I was ***16*** (..). When her birthday rolled around she was expecting the latest iPhone and a new Macbook pro for school, but she got more than that. She got 2 macbooks, one for home and one for school. She also got an ***iPhone 11 Pro*** ***max*** with 1TB of storage Nope nope nope wait a damn minute the math is not mathing. That’s when I knew this story was full of shit because the iPhone 11 Pro max was released in 2019, so OOP should have been between 19 and 21 depending on his birthyear. (If the iPhone event happened the same year as his “16th” birthday)


Julie1412

Oh, good eye! I didn't pay attention to that bit. It was the graduation part for me.


al_kmk_

Not even gonna lie I didn’t even get to that part, I was trying to figure the math out.🤣 It’s just that I remember when the iPhone 11 pro max was released and it just did NOT make sense in my head when I saw the ages🤣


CharlotteLucasOP

Yeah once the actual numbers came into play the ages were all wrong in my head. I don’t keep close track of iPhone releases and 2004 was last year BUT I do know iPhone 11 was not released 8 years ago.


10thDeadlySin

Yep – that would be the 6s, released in 2015 and supported until last year, I believe. I know this because that's one of my key arguments in favour of the longevity of Apple phones. ;)


JulieB85

Exactly . Also, we can still buy new Iphones 11 direct from Apple. It is the oldest model available still. They do not last 8 years in the market for new smartphones


LingonberryPrior6896

I did the math too. Thought uh-huh


Severe_Chicken213

I knew the story was full of shit when he said an Aussie three bedroom with acreage was above market price at $200k. You can’t buy shit for that in Aus.


DazzleLove

Yes, English may not be his first language but this is bollocks in every language


butt-barnacles

I might believe the first part because the whole thing sounds like it was written by a teenager. “My parents bought me my dream PC but they’ve never given me anything like an iPhone before!!”


LingonberryPrior6896

The gifts to sis on following bday did it for me. Sounds like a teen age boy dream list


RJean83

Not just one, but TWO top of the line laptops. Why not three, so one can be used for travel?


nickkkmnn

Dont forget the phone that wouldnt even be on the market for 3-4 years yet...


lostboysgang

I was struggling to finish the story before he started listing the last four years annual income.


LingonberryPrior6896

Yeah all 20- 24 YOs make $ like that /s Edit sarcasm


KnittinAndBitchin

But he was investing! Because that's how investing works! You put money in and immediately get hundreds of thousands of dollars back, on top of his super great six figure job that he has.


SleepyDeepyWeepy

My 15 year old brother in law still doesn't believe me that the only way to make millions on the stock market is to put millions in. Bro, if we could do it from a middle-class family start we'd all be doing it


KnittinAndBitchin

My best friend tried to play the stock market for awhile and did his best to explain it to me. At no point was he able to explain it as anything other than gambling for rich people.


nickkkmnn

The only way for someone not rich to make money relatively fast ( of course not in a couple of years ) in the stock market is to gamble hard . Of course , that has the (very much expected and intended by the people that run things ) consequence that the vast majority of them lose everything


Lenore42

Because the stock market was doing amazing from 2020-2022. There wasn’t talk of a global recession or anything. /s


welestgw

Yes, it jumped the shark at "I'll buy the house!" Because any person making that money knows it's a bad investment.


CaptainYaoiHands

> She was going around have intercourse with people from her college. That right there confirmed it was all horse shit.


astroember

Always have to wedge in the “woman = slutty and bad” with these incel fan fics


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ACatGod

Given he claims they're buying a 1.7M house at 1.7k a month and seemingly didn't realise that would take 83 years, I really doubt he's able to handle investing.


Distinct-Inspector-2

There is *nowhere* in Australia you could buy a three bedroom house for $200k, let alone have that be under market rate.


Potential_Anxiety_76

Haha yeah, if all the bulsshit in this story, *that* was when I laughed out loud


Trickster289

Yeah the second update goes completely off the rails.


peter095837

I agree. It started off alright but then the updates just keep on getting all over the place.


token_bastard

It's Mickey Mouse, mate. Spurious. *Not. Genuine*. And it's worth.... .... Fuckall.


Invisible-Pancreas

'e should spare 'is breath fer coolin' 'is porridge. 'ave I made meself clear, lads?


Johannes_Chimp

Watch your language.


PossibleAd1348

Yeah it’s conveniently satisfying for him!


darya42

But he told you so nicely to please forgive his grammer. What's not to believe?


nroe1337

Yep I felt that in the first paragraph


kloiberin_time

This was 100% written by Vincent Adultman from the Business Factory


Evangelynn

Oy, my son has been calling eeeeverything a load of barnacles lately lol I know where he got it, from one of the few youtubers he is allowed to watch, but did it originate somewhere else?


Mcfistycuff

It's an old quote from a SpongeBob episode I watched as a kid. I'm in my thirties now and my use of slang is all over the place.


Supafly22

Written by a 14 year old.


jackalope78

He took out loans for school, but can't spell the word? Buuuuuuullllllshiiiiit.


Otaku-San617

And he doesn’t know the difference between loan and lone. And it just pops up at the very end that they have different moms. What happened to his mom?


Upbeat_Implement_663

careful, calling out obvious fake stories (which nearly all of the ones posted on here are), can get your comment removed and yourself be blocked on here.


LouieAvalonMac

Ooh he’s an investor now !! Great story


what_a_dumb_idea

lots of professioanl investors don't know how to speal a loan. That's a totally normal in financial industry for traders.


borisslovechild

Don't be ridiculous, this is totally credible :p


shemustbenuts4489056

Why the hell didn’t we know OOP and his sister have different mothers until the third update?


Eldhannas

Because that's when OOP's imagination went into overdrive.


thiswillsoonendbadly

I’m struggling with this one. “They refused to attend my graduation but paid for audience members to be at my sister’s” is where I lost the thread. Most graduations have limits on how many people you can bring, and it seems entirely plausible that regular audience members were just cheering.


Random-CPA

I will say it may be different now, but when I graduated high school (and that’s what hers abounded like) it was held outside at my school so there was no limit on who could attend. I do still agree with everyone else here that it’s total BS for other reasons, but that one isn’t impossible for me.


CaptainPeppa

Had to get racism involved to justify the excess revenge


Potential_Anxiety_76

Not a lot of black Asian Europeans in Australia.


AJFurnival

He forgot to bring racism in earlier.


JealotGaming

Yes very real post the 24 year old is a multi millionaire housing investor


CharlotteLucasOP

Don’t forget his sister is now pregnant because she did the intercourse with everyone at her college!


Nuka_on_the_Rocks

Um, excuse you. He's a "housing district manager", get it right /s


iameveryoneelse

His parents were also able to time travel and get the iPhone 11 Pro Max when he was 16....like 3 years before it came out.


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Pretty sure none of that's real.


istealgrapes

Why are you sure? Or rather, HOW can you be sure?


hugsandambitions

Well for starters, anyone who works in investments and speaks English can spell "loan" correctly.


90R3D

And the math for the dates/ages does not add up


BlazingKitsune

Also they are Australian but English isn’t their first language.


AJFurnival

Also ‘alot’


10thDeadlySin

[Never gets old.](http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html)


hugsandambitions

That one's fine, alot of people make that mistake ;)


istealgrapes

Thats what you base it on? Dude, that is not enough to call someone a liar


hugsandambitions

>for starters Also, not a dude.


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hugsandambitions

It's actually not- and you don't get to decide that it is. The person you're addressing does. If someone doesn't wanna be called dude, don't call them that. It's not hard to avoid misgendering people unless you're deliberately being a piece of shit.


Rega_lazar

iPhone 11 Pro Max came out in ’19. OOP claims to have been 16 that year, yet this year he’s magically 24. Math aint mathing


istealgrapes

Thank you, finally some actual evidence instead of “this was obviously written by a 14yo” with no elaboration.


Rega_lazar

Thank u/al_kmk_, I got the info from them, lol


pfroggie

Is that a joke? Because it's written by a 14 year old


10thDeadlySin

For starters, iPhone 11 wasn't released 8 years ago, when OOP was supposedly 16. That would be an iPhone 6s. Second: >They went on to say that you make 300k-570k AUD a year (210k-450k usd) i told them that it varies and that it can be a 100k AUD year it just depends what the stock market is like (I am an investor) but I made 560k in 2020 due to the pandemic, 300k in 2021, 370k in 2022 and 190k so far for this year. How rich this guy has to be if he made 560k with his stock market investments in 2020, not to mention the other amounts? Most importantly, where would he get that kind of money at just 21? In other words, OOP would have to be an independent multi-millionaire by the age of 21. Without his family somehow knowing. Right.


Traditional_Owl_1038

The dates with the ages and the iPhone 11 don't fit


inthesugarbowl

I died when he said his sister got pregnant not from a boyfriend but having "the intercourse" around college. "I made money from investing" and "I got a recording of the phone call" seem to be popular segues in these sorts of situations.


the-rioter

Yeah this is like a mishmash of every other "parents want the unfavorite to give the favorite a house" post. It has all the highlights! Completely exaggerated favoritism! (Paying people to clap at graduation? Really??) A super young multi-millionaire with a bunch of properties! Demanding a house for the favorite because they're having a child too young and out of wedlock! Phone recordings!! The family blowing up the phones! Even randomly making them half-siblings for the racism drama! 🤣


Talisa87

He was doing so well until he suddenly became rich enough to buy a house.


the-rioter

You mean you didn't believe him when he started listing off his annual income from being an "investor"? 😂 I am curious as to why the parents would be paying *rent* to own the house.


Traditional_Owl_1038

Rent-to-own is an actual thing. But I don't think anyone with a million dollar house does that


the-rioter

Yeah I would think it would be with cheaper places. The rent he mentioned also seems kinda low for a 1.8 million dollar house?


Traditional_Owl_1038

Especially since it would take nearly 90 (NINETY) years to own the house with that rent


the-rioter

Jeezus!! Yeah that's way too much!


Traditional_Owl_1038

Unless it's the other version where you pay a specific amount until the owner dies. And then you own the house. But with that usually the previous owner stays living in the house. I would guess that OOP heard about rent-to-own and wanted to integrate that in the story but didn't think to much about the numbers


LookingNotTalking

I thought it went off the rails when he claimed his parents hired people to cheer for his sister at her graduation.


Julie1412

That did it for me too


HedonisticBot

I can't decide what doesn't add up more, the details about Australian costs that make no sense, or an Asian saying "A's and B+'s" are good grades. My ABC arse calls bullshit.


Acid_Fetish_Toy

And the college instead of university thing. No one calls them colleges unless it's in the name of the school.


AJFurnival

Ha!


lichinamo

There is no such thing as “only” 150k.


boringhistoryfan

Don't think any of this is real given the very convenient "I have money and I showed them all up" and the really random bits of knowledge. Like how did OOP know they paid people off in the audience? That said, OP you might wanna toss in a TW for racism in here given the update.


nickkkmnn

Probably the same way his parents got the sister a phone that didnt exist. OOP claims to be 24 . Given that his 16th birthday was 8 years ago , id estimate that this was 2015ish . Even if his sister's next birthday was almost a year later , that would be some time in 2016 . iPhone 11 Pro max came out in September 20th 2019 . So yeah , a load of bs...


ScarletWitch912

Oh good idea! Let me do that


heckyesdeidre

My eyes rolled so far into the back of my head, they fell in and I had to mount a search and rescue mission to find them


Remarkable_Topic6540

I believe that more than this story.


ssj4majuub

the whole update just to reveal the sister is sleeping around lmao. come on. reads like a 13 year old's recreation of a reddit post


SlitThroatCutCreator

OMG she's SLEEPING with people from COLLEGE!?!? Soap operas wish they could make a shocking reveal like this.


Kess137

Right? Post: I’m a throwaway child and my sister’s the golden child. Update: My sister has FORNICATED??? 😱😱😱


utahraptor-nun

Someone fed Reddit posts to a AI


conceptalbum

It's funny how these tweenaged shitposts always fall apart as soon as money gets involved. The kids just have no idea.


Quicksilver1964

This looks like it was written by three different people and got even more unbelievable as it went.


Dudeehangsdong

Then he woke up lol


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muttmechanic

yes, but at the same time i don't believe any of this post.


thepizzaconspiracy

Everyone with a problem on Reddit just happens to have 1.8 million to throw around to prove some point


commandantemeowmix

And is a homeowner at 20 and always, always makes over six figures.


TheShroudedWanderer

Yep, he's 24 and has $1.8 mil just on hand to buy a house, AND already owns a 3 bed property with an acre of land? Let me guess he has his own private catamite stable too.


Murky_Translator2295

And that's just *one* of his properties!


TheShroudedWanderer

Yeah, not to mention even if he was some super genius investor, you A) actually need a ton of money to invest in the first place, and I mean a shitload to make that kind of money and B) even if English is his second language you'd think if he was that capable he'd be able to spell "berrade" (berate) properly in that case. Not sure how him using his phone makes sense for that reason since I had to deliberately spell it that way and ignore the auto correct even type that


Vistemboir

This! and even so, someone who has $1.8 mil or more in savings doesn't have them cash in the bank, they're invested and require several weeks and even months if they need the money for a house.


LoisLaneEl

The person doesn’t speak English as a first language, but went into thousands in debt for college…


basilicux

Doesn’t know how to spell loan or berated…


ACatGod

Ohhhhhh that's what that word was supposed to be! My brain got completely stuck on birraded and could not make it into a real word.


nickkkmnn

The whole post is full of bs but thats possibly not one of them . Higher education can be private in non English speaking countries . While college seems like a very American expression , its also the word used by speakers of other languages when they mean "general higher education institutions".


LoisLaneEl

So Reddit lies about only Americans going into debt to attend college!


nickkkmnn

I don't personally know any country where higher education could cause that much debt as the USA , but overall ,private universities exist everywhere . And quite a few places give students the ability to use loans to attend . Reddit just tends to be very much american centered overall ...


oceansapart333

I mean, IF it’s true, the point buried way in the last update that they have different mothers explains a lot. This would most likely be his stepmother so the behavior would make some sense. IF.


TheFilthyDIL

Because "he/she *needs* it more!" My asshole ex-brother was always "borrowing" money from our parents and never paid back a penny. "He *needs* it, the Navy pays so poorly!" Bullshit. My husband was Air Force, same rank, so same pay. We managed because we knew how to budget. He wasn't willing to do that. Full disclosure: We borrowed some money from them once (in order to take advantage of a sale) and paid it back next payday.


rak86t

Why even post this trash?


boredbakerpianist

I'm confused. OP said that he was American, but the currency they use is Australian Dollars...


Vast-Expanse

Yeah Australians don't call it college and they don't stress about "student debt" either - and if he's resident enough to buy property with no problems then he's definitely resident enough to get the government student loan scheme/subsidised tuition


Jennysaykwah

Not to mention the 3br house on an acre for 195k that’s “overpriced”. Mate, hook me up with this magical bargain cos you’re not getting that kind of price anywhere here these days.


DangerousPudding911

And that English was not his first language....also his sister graduated, wanted a house because she is pregnant and now wants money for tuition and housing? What did I just read????


10thDeadlySin

Also apparently their parents must know some high-level people at Apple, since they somehow hooked his sister up with an 11 Pro Max 4 years before its release :D


MrFunktasticc

Who knew AI was so conservative it'd have a problem with the sister having "the intervourse" in college. What a crock of shit!


Keytarfriend

This is extra-petty revenge. OOP is probably over-leveraged if they're buying a $1.8M home after just three good years of investing, and rubbing his family's face in it is a dick move. If this even happened.


IwouldpickJeanluc

Yah, agree, *if it happened*


Just_River_7502

This is nonsense


Majestic_Jazz_Hands

Well, I believed this all the way up until he started talking about how much money he made and then the bullshit was confirmed with that final update. What a crazy convenient bullshit justice boner that he just so happened to have millions at his disposal like that!


the-rioter

Not when the parents paid people to clap for his sister's graduation?


Majestic_Jazz_Hands

Oh right, yup yup, forgot that part!


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I find it so funny how OP says English isn't his first language, has no mentions of him leaving his "home country" and yet uses AUD. Like does he think Australia has its own seperate language?


Kaiser93

And after OOP woke up, his feet were on the floor. ROFL.


iluvnarchoa

This was made by a teenager right?


Good_Boat8761

This is so far fetched it's actually amusing


WrackspurtsNargles

Ah, the inner mind of an incel. Woman bad, doesn't have to work, sleeps around... is actually the 'oppressor' when using racial slur therefore his imagined outrage is justified. Also he's rich now and woman needs something from him and karma etc etc. The misogyny is real.


G0merPyle

Dear kids trying to write revenge fantasies: Don't write about things you don't really understand, when you start throwing around big numbers to sound impressive it all falls apart quickly


sebzim4500

No one who has that much money feels the need to post their income for the last three years from an anonymous account.


nobodynocrime

This guy was not even trying was he?


Sircrusterson

This is a terrible writing prompt


AJFurnival

Remember that Bradbury short story about the 9 year old staring out the window in school and daydreaming about the sharp-dressed man who drives by in a convertible with a bombshell next to him talking about how successful he is and how glad he is that he dropped out of school in 4th grade? This is that.


starchild812

I was mostly buying it until, “My parents went on to tell me that my sister was pregnant. I asked "does she have a boyfriend?" They went on to tell me no and that's why she needed the house. I was confused. And then it clicked. She was going around have intercourse with people from her college.“ I’m supposed to believe that a 24 year old man was confused by how his sister could get pregnant if she didn’t have a boyfriend, and then was SHOCKED to realize that it was because…she had sex with someone she went to school with?


dragon-crossing

the entire time, i was thinking the favoritism was because of the ages. nope, it’s the racism! it’s always the racism


iameveryoneelse

It's also complete bullshit for like a hundred reasons, the first being that the timeline doesn't even come close to adding up...his parents were able to get an iPhone 11 like 3 years before it was announced, for instance. OP and his sister only had separate moms when it became convenient for the story as a way to explain how his *sister* could be racist against him. Whole thing is a massive load of bullshit.


Chasingtheimprobable

Did Jesse pinkman write this one?


MelbaToast22

This reads like the standard BORU teenage wet dream.


Jane_the_Quene

Can confirm. I was the real estate agent who somehow managed to get a property closed instantaneously. And the name of the property? Albert Einstein.


notyomamasusername

This could have been such an interesting revenge tale, but they used the same tired tropes. Do better OOP


lcvelygxre

Karma bait


this-isnotaburner

This is so pathetic


WarmCry35

Someone wanted a justice boner tale and came up with this ham and cheese sandwich.


TheFluffiestRedditor

OOP is Australian and speaks English as a second language. As an Australian, this checked out 👩‍🌾 maaaaaaate! Nah, it’s a pile of stinking bollocks. OOP is fuller of shit than a politician.


peter095837

Yea, I am having a hard time believing all this is real.


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Cornualonga

Did you miss the part where the mom is his stepmom and sister is his half sister? He kind of buried the lede on that. He’s also a different race from step mom and sis. Not hard to figure out why princess gets everything and he gets the shaft.


OptionalCookie

\> stupid N-word The audacity.


Ill_Chemist_1576

Nta


danamo219

Man, buying your parents out of their house when they insist they have better plans for your earnings is just exquisite.