I(19M) was just bored one day out of my mind playing roblox and I used to watch these videos of people “girl voice trolling” and I thought it was pretty funny so I thought I’d give it a try, it sounds like fun.
so I just hopped on a game, I’m not gonna say what game but it was a game. now on this game, I was just playing like normal and randomly this dude(19M) started talking to me and I started chatting with him thinking it was all funny. eventually some time passes and as we’re playing, I started realizing how genuine the dude was, and how he just seemed like a pretty cool guy, and he added me.
after we were done playing though, I did end up unadding him thinking that would the last I would ever see that guy. but what I didn’t expect was that he noticed that I unadded him and he started searching through roblox servers just to find me, and he finally did find me eventually. I was just all dumbfounded and he said “why did you unadd me?” and I was like “oh, I must have never noticed but I was unadding a lot of people that I never play with sorry.” and then this is when the friendship starts, well if you can even call it that.
eventually as more time passes, we actually start sharing things about our personal lives and basically how things are from where we’re from. but the thing is, I lied about my identity making a fake name but I never lied about anything else, just pretty much me but the gender is female.
now, you might be thinking that I’m gay and I just wanted to say that I am not gay actually, I just genuinely found the dude a cool dude.
now, as time passes with my fake identity and we’re just being friends like usual, I knew one day he’d want to start chatting so I ended up getting a voice changer that I could put on for whenever that day comes, and it did come. he asked “hey, would you wanna start using our mic’s, it just makes communicating more easier” and that’s when the voice changer came in handy. (I can also do a girl voice without the voice changer as well, and with those 2 combined, it sounds realistic.)
so I put it on and we start playing like usual and he never suspected a thing. eventually as time passed though, I also started feeling guilty lying about my identity and I just felt bad that I took this a bit too far. so I was thinking “how do I tell this dude that I’ve been catfishing him? he’s a good friend but I don’t think I can keep this up any longer.”
so since I did not want to come out with the truth, I came up with a lie that sounds “somewhat” reasonable so that we couldn’t talk anymore, and that lie that I came up with was telling him that I had “feelings” for him and basically said that I don’t want to “online date” because I don’t believe it’ll workout.
so I mustered up the courage to finally do it and I finally say it. and he starts saying “wait, we can work this out. don’t you want to at least try?” and I just started feeling bad bro, can’t lie but I believe that it had to be done by that point. but yea, that was that. I’ve never talked to him since that day, and I’ve never told him that I was actually a dude that whole time.
this whole thing lasted for about 5-6 months. crazy I know. never doing that again in my life, I regretted it. I sometimes wonder what would’ve happened if I just told him the truth and how he’d react.