Siblings

<p>Pranks are basically just a socially acceptable form of bullying that have been used by siblings to torture each other since the beginning of time. But catfishing your own sister to make a point and then humiliating her in public is not a normal sibling prank IMHO. But you can decide for yourself.</p><h2>A guy took to Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I The A**hole?&quot; forum to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/cn7li5/aita_for_catfishing_my_underaged_sister_on_tinder/" target="_blank">share</a> about how he catfished his 17-year-old sister by posing as a 22-year-old man to &quot;teach her a lesson&quot; about using Tinder, since she&#39;s underage. Weird move, bro.</h2><p>He explains that he discovered she was on Tinder when a notification popped up while he was using her phone. He asked her &quot;why&quot; she was on Tinder and she told him it&#39;s none of his business.</p><p>He writes:</p><blockquote> <p>Last week, I was using my sister Ashley&rsquo;s phone because mine was dead and I needed to call a friend to confirm plans. Dialing my friend&rsquo;s number, I saw a tinder notification of some dude messaging her. Immediately, I asked why she&rsquo;s on tinder (she&rsquo;s 17) and she grabbed her phone back and said &ldquo;none of your business&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>He wanted to &quot;have a little fun&quot; so he decided to make a fake Tinder profile with the intention of getting his sister to match with him. Ew.</h2><p>His friend Kevin, who is a male model, said the plan was &quot;hilarious&quot; which he seems to think makes this all okay. In fact, it just makes Kevin a weirdo, too.</p><p>He continues:</p><blockquote> <p>I decided that I wanted to have a little fun with this. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt (maybe she&rsquo;s just swiping for fun?) so I didn&rsquo;t want to go straight to ratting her to our parents. To test if she was just using for fun, I decided I was going to make a tinder profile (of someone else) and message her and see if she responds. I asked a good friend from back in college (who happens to be a male model) Kevin if he&rsquo;d mind if I used his pictures and explained the situation. He thought it would be hilarious and told me to go for it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>After creating his profile and setting his age to 22, he found his sister&#39;s account, which she had set to age 19. It&#39;s a lie, sure, but she&#39;s a 17-year-old and 17-year-olds are prone to lying.</p><h2>His creepy plan worked, and they matched. Ewwwwwww.</h2><blockquote> <p>I created the account, set my age to 22, set my swipe radius to a mile, and quickly found my sister&rsquo;s account. Her age was set to 19 (lie, she&rsquo;s still in <strong>high school</strong>) so I was definitely more suspicious of her now. I superliked and less than an hour later, she matched AND messaged me.</p> </blockquote><h2>Now would&#39;ve been a good time to put the kibosh on this whole plan. Instead, he set up a date. With his sister. EWWWHWGJGHJGHGJGJGJGHGHHG.</h2><blockquote> <p>I decided to set up a date to a fancy restaurant downtown for Sunday afternoon and told her we could &ldquo;head to my place afterwards&rdquo;. She was completely receptive and said she&rsquo;d meet me there. She told our parents she was hanging out with one of her track friends and spending the night at her place.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Then he decided to tell his parents &quot;everything,&quot; showing them the messages, and inviting them all to the restaurant along with him to ambush this poor girl. For some reason, they agreed.</p><h2>When the girl realized she&#39;d been catfished by her own brother and her entire family showed up to the &quot;date,&quot; she was mortified and left in tears.</h2><blockquote> <p>After she left, I told our parents EVERYTHING and showed them all of the messages. They were pissed, and I suggested we all go to the restaurant. My dad and I just went instead and saw her sitting at a table alone all dolled up waiting for &ldquo;Jim&rdquo;. My dad went up to her and said &ldquo;Jim&rsquo;s not coming&rdquo; and she screamed and asked what we were doing there. I told her that there was no Jim and that it was f*cking stupid of her to be trying to meet grown men on tinder at her age. My dad harped on to that and lectured her on lying and meeting strange men on the Internet, and being so willing to go back to a <em>stranger&rsquo;s</em> place. We were a bit loud so people were starting to look at us and my sister eventually bursted into tears and ran out.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>The guy said his guy friends all thought the &quot;prank&quot; was &quot;hysterical,&quot; but his female friends on the other hand told him he was &quot;cruel&quot; and a &quot;f**king dick.&quot;</p><p>So he took to Reddit to ask if he &quot;went too far.&quot;</p><blockquote> <p>I told my friends in a groupchat the situation and they all agreed it was hysterical, except 2 of my female friends who said I was a &ldquo;f*cking dick&rdquo; and &ldquo;cruel&rdquo; to her. My other friends defended me and said she needed to be taught a lesson. Wondering who&rsquo;s right and if I went too far?</p> </blockquote><p>As if attempting to explain his actions, he added that the catfish persona, &quot;Jim,&quot; had &quot;heavily implied&quot; that he would &quot;have sex&quot; with the sister. This just makes him seem <em>even</em> creepier.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>EDIT: Yes, when I asked if she wants to go to my place afterwards, it was heavily implied that she would&rsquo;ve had sex with Jim. That&rsquo;s why I went the extent that I did.</p> </blockquote><p>Many people on Reddit seem to think that he&#39;s the a**hole in this situation, because he tried to trick and humiliate his sister, in a creepy way. If he really wanted to &quot;protect&quot; her he could&#39;ve called her out sooner, or told his parents right away that she was on Tinder.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hitchinpost/">hitchinpost</a> writes:</p><blockquote> <p>YTA - You played a cruel ass trick on your sister because it would be &ldquo;f*cking hilarious&rdquo;. I would have had difficulty, but ultimately probably came down on your side of you&rsquo;d just told your parents when you first saw it. But you devised an elaborate trap first? No, asshole move.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/connorcamacho/">connorcamacho</a> writes:</p><blockquote> <p>YTA big f*cking time.</p> <p>There is a difference between wanting to keep your sister safe and wanting to embarrass her. You could have had a conversation one-on-one to talk about why using tinder maybe isn&rsquo;t the best thing at that time for her, both for her own safety and for the legal aged men who use it. You could have mentioned it to your parents, although that would be a shitty thing to do imo.</p> <p>Instead, you trapped her, embarrassed her publicly, and also got her hopes up for a date with some male model. Think about the boundaries you crossed, man. She said shit to this &ldquo;guy&rdquo; that I&rsquo;m sure was flirty. Think of how embarrassed you would feel if text messages you sent to SO&rsquo;s of your past were actually forwarded to your parents. Imagine if the same shit happened to you.</p> <p>So cool. You taught her a lesson. Even if she&rsquo;s not an &ldquo;adult&rdquo;, she&rsquo;s not a child either and she will remember this. You have probably irreversibly damaged or even ruined your relationship with your sister, and have likely done the same with the relationship between your sister and your parents. And for you to be her older bro, sounds like you are super fucking immature. Comes to show that being of legal age does not mean being a mature adult.</p> <p>I&rsquo;m actually pissed</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p>And <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/GoauldofWar/">GoauldofWar</a> says:</p><blockquote> <p>Yeah YTA.</p> <p>You should have gone straight to your parents and let them deal with it but instead, you chose the nuclear option.</p> </blockquote><p>While others think &quot;everyone sucks here:&quot; the sister was lying and putting herself in a potentially dangerous situation. But catfishing and publicly humiliating her was not the way to handle it, and if anything, the brother&#39;s actions could encourage her to act out and sneak around more in the future.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lalabeth93/">Lalabeth93</a> says it best:</p><blockquote> <p>ESH. What she&#39;s doing is extremely dangerous, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately what you did is more than likely just going to push her further away. She will probably just try harder to hide things. Something else is likely going on in her life that&#39;s encouraging her to seek attention from older men.</p> <p>Invading her privacy, lying to her, and humiliating her is going to make her less likely to open up to family about her life and make it harder for you and your parents to support her.At Seventeen is unlikely she&#39;s really going to learn anything from embarrassment or punishments from parents. She&#39;s either going to have to learn things the hard way, or she&#39;s going to have to learn them by maturing.</p> <p>Legal age of majority or not, she&#39;s viewing herself as an adult able to make her own decisions, so any interference from family will be unwelcome and resented. And considering that she will be turning 18 soon, there will be very little your family can do to keep her from dangerous situations if she wants to put herself in them.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>If we&#39;ve learned anything from this story, it&#39;s always listen to your female friends. And don&#39;t take life advice from Kevin the male model.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Guy catfishes 17-year-old sister by posing as 22-year-old on Tinder to 'teach her a lesson.'

Pranks are basically just a socially acceptable form of bullying that have been used by siblings to torture each other since the beginning of time. But catfishing your own sister to make a point and then humiliating her in public is not a normal sibling prank IMHO. But you can decide for yourself.A guy took to Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I The A**hole?&quot; forum to share about how he catfished his 17-year-old sister by posing as a 22-year-old man to &quot;teach her a lesson&quot; about using Tinder, since she&#39;s underage. Weird move, bro.He explains that he discovered she was on Tinder when a notification popped up while he was using her phone. He asked her &quot;why&quot; she was on Tinder and she told him it&#39;s none of his business.He writes: Last week, I was using my sister Ashley&rsquo;s phone because mine was dead and I needed to call a friend to confirm plans. Dialing my friend&rsquo;s number, I saw a tinder notification of some dude messaging her. Immediately, I asked why she&rsquo;s on tinder (she&rsquo;s 17) and she grabbed her phone back and said &ldquo;none of your business&rdquo; He wanted to &quot;have a little fun&quot; so he decided to make a fake Tinder profile with the intention of getting his sister to match with him. Ew.His friend Kevin, who is a male model, said the plan was &quot;hilarious&quot; which he seems to think makes this all okay. In fact, it just makes Kevin a weirdo, too.He continues: I decided that I wanted to have a little fun with this. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt (maybe she&rsquo;s just swiping for fun?) so I didn&rsquo;t want to go straight to ratting her to our parents. To test if she was just using for fun, I decided I was going to make a tinder profile (of someone else) and message her and see if she responds. I asked a good friend from back in college (who happens to be a male model) Kevin if he&rsquo;d mind if I used his pictures and explained the situation. He thought it would be hilarious and told me to go for it. After creating his profile and setting his age to 22, he found his sister&#39;s account, which she had set to age 19. It&#39;s a lie, sure, but she&#39;s a 17-year-old and 17-year-olds are prone to lying.His creepy plan worked, and they matched. Ewwwwwww. I created the account, set my age to 22, set my swipe radius to a mile, and quickly found my sister&rsquo;s account. Her age was set to 19 (lie, she&rsquo;s still in high school) so I was definitely more suspicious of her now. I superliked and less than an hour later, she matched AND messaged me. Now would&#39;ve been a good time to put the kibosh on this whole plan. Instead, he set up a date. With his sister. EWWWHWGJGHJGHGJGJGJGHGHHG. I decided to set up a date to a fancy restaurant downtown for Sunday afternoon and told her we could &ldquo;head to my place afterwards&rdquo;. She was completely receptive and said she&rsquo;d meet me there. She told our parents she was hanging out with one of her track friends and spending the night at her place. Then he decided to tell his parents &quot;everything,&quot; showing them the messages, and inviting them all to the restaurant along with him to ambush this poor girl. For some reason, they agreed.When the girl realized she&#39;d been catfished by her own brother and her entire family showed up to the &quot;date,&quot; she was mortified and left in tears. After she left, I told our parents EVERYTHING and showed them all of the messages. They were pissed, and I suggested we all go to the restaurant. My dad and I just went instead and saw her sitting at a table alone all dolled up waiting for &ldquo;Jim&rdquo;. My dad went up to her and said &ldquo;Jim&rsquo;s not coming&rdquo; and she screamed and asked what we were doing there. I told her that there was no Jim and that it was f*cking stupid of her to be trying to meet grown men on tinder at her age. My dad harped on to that and lectured her on lying and meeting strange men on the Internet, and being so willing to go back to a stranger&rsquo;s place. We were a bit loud so people were starting to look at us and my sister eventually bursted into tears and ran out. The guy said his guy friends all thought the &quot;prank&quot; was &quot;hysterical,&quot; but his female friends on the other hand told him he was &quot;cruel&quot; and a &quot;f**king dick.&quot;So he took to Reddit to ask if he &quot;went too far.&quot; I told my friends in a groupchat the situation and they all agreed it was hysterical, except 2 of my female friends who said I was a &ldquo;f*cking dick&rdquo; and &ldquo;cruel&rdquo; to her. My other friends defended me and said she needed to be taught a lesson. Wondering who&rsquo;s right and if I went too far? As if attempting to explain his actions, he added that the catfish persona, &quot;Jim,&quot; had &quot;heavily implied&quot; that he would &quot;have sex&quot; with the sister. This just makes him seem even creepier. EDIT: Yes, when I asked if she wants to go to my place afterwards, it was heavily implied that she would&rsquo;ve had sex with Jim. That&rsquo;s why I went the extent that I did. Many people on Reddit seem to think that he&#39;s the a**hole in this situation, because he tried to trick and humiliate his sister, in a creepy way. If he really wanted to &quot;protect&quot; her he could&#39;ve called her out sooner, or told his parents right away that she was on Tinder.hitchinpost writes: YTA - You played a cruel ass trick on your sister because it would be &ldquo;f*cking hilarious&rdquo;. I would have had difficulty, but ultimately probably came down on your side of you&rsquo;d just told your parents when you first saw it. But you devised an elaborate trap first? No, asshole move. And connorcamacho writes: YTA big f*cking time. There is a difference between wanting to keep your sister safe and wanting to embarrass her. You could have had a conversation one-on-one to talk about why using tinder maybe isn&rsquo;t the best thing at that time for her, both for her own safety and for the legal aged men who use it. You could have mentioned it to your parents, although that would be a shitty thing to do imo. Instead, you trapped her, embarrassed her publicly, and also got her hopes up for a date with some male model. Think about the boundaries you crossed, man. She said shit to this &ldquo;guy&rdquo; that I&rsquo;m sure was flirty. Think of how embarrassed you would feel if text messages you sent to SO&rsquo;s of your past were actually forwarded to your parents. Imagine if the same shit happened to you. So cool. You taught her a lesson. Even if she&rsquo;s not an &ldquo;adult&rdquo;, she&rsquo;s not a child either and she will remember this. You have probably irreversibly damaged or even ruined your relationship with your sister, and have likely done the same with the relationship between your sister and your parents. And for you to be her older bro, sounds like you are super fucking immature. Comes to show that being of legal age does not mean being a mature adult. I&rsquo;m actually pissed  And GoauldofWar says: Yeah YTA. You should have gone straight to your parents and let them deal with it but instead, you chose the nuclear option. While others think &quot;everyone sucks here:&quot; the sister was lying and putting herself in a potentially dangerous situation. But catfishing and publicly humiliating her was not the way to handle it, and if anything, the brother&#39;s actions could encourage her to act out and sneak around more in the future.Lalabeth93 says it best: ESH. What she&#39;s doing is extremely dangerous, for obvious reasons. Unfortunately what you did is more than likely just going to push her further away. She will probably just try harder to hide things. Something else is likely going on in her life that&#39;s encouraging her to seek attention from older men. Invading her privacy, lying to her, and humiliating her is going to make her less likely to open up to family about her life and make it harder for you and your parents to support her.At Seventeen is unlikely she&#39;s really going to learn anything from embarrassment or punishments from parents. She&#39;s either going to have to learn things the hard way, or she&#39;s going to have to learn them by maturing. Legal age of majority or not, she&#39;s viewing herself as an adult able to make her own decisions, so any interference from family will be unwelcome and resented. And considering that she will be turning 18 soon, there will be very little your family can do to keep her from dangerous situations if she wants to put herself in them. If we&#39;ve learned anything from this story, it&#39;s always listen to your female friends. And don&#39;t take life advice from Kevin the male model.

Pranks are basically just a socially acceptable form of bullying that have been used by siblings to torture each other since the beginning of time. But catfishing your own sister to make a point and then humiliating her in public is not a...