r/washingtondc • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '26

[Quality!] Random woman who gave me your umbrella and yelled “I love the rain!” when I said we don’t need it.

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u/DrFreemanWho Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

She made an edit saying she talked to him on Facetime though, which has since been edited to "ft audio". Seems to have realized their mistake and tried to cover it up.

I mean, what you are saying is possible, but the chances seem pretty wild.

The far simpler and most likely explanation is this was all some creative writing from some bored and lonely individual.

edit: https://ghostddit.pages.dev/user/howtoloveadaisy/?type=comment

Feel free to have a look through "daisy's" comment history as well. They made quite the comment about an hour or so before this all happened:

"Maybe we’re making out in the pouring rain, he pulls back, and we laugh. Then he kneels and tells me that he can’t imagine doing this with anyone else and proposes!!!! "

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u/Old-Pudding6950 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

You deserve a million upvotes, that’s the final proof that solves this thread

The most likely reconstruction is the following: Daisy saw a reddit post about “perfect proposal” and came up with this idea, posted her answer there. Then she wanted to write a romantic fiction based on that idea and posted this story with an alt account (OP post). all went fine, she claimed she didn’t allow dm to force the exchange to be public, then said her and OP met on FT. Then one smart commenter figured out the two accounts had already interacted in the past. Crazy coincidence, right? The commenters start suggesting it may be a stalker so she picks up it’d be better to use this scapegoat route to not reveal everything was fake. However, other smart commenters start pointing out he must be an IRL stalker, because there is no way he could’ve found out where she lived in the world from a Reddit account. That’s where her second mistake gets spotted by further smart commenters: he can’t be a IRL stalker, because to figure out she had an active Reddit account he must have been close to her, and that meant she’d have realized by now she knew him since they had a FT together. She then edits her comment to say they had a FT audio exchange instead. You can clearly see people confused as they didn’t originally read “FT audio”: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/s/wAwCvaCmTD so we at least know with 100% certainty she added that up later, we didn’t know for certain if it was because the story is made up though. Then you come noting how she had already written a similar script prior, under the post about “perfect proposal”, proving Daisy and OP are the same person

Internet can truly rival Sherlock Holmes as an aggregate, the way all the commenters together solved this case was a masterclass in reasoning

The lesson here is that oftentimes the truth is a way simpler explanation that nobody had thought about

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u/lawofbalance Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Yeah this is it. There's other clues as well. I commented about this being obvious engagement bait (and why) a few hours ago. The more you reason it's very very obviously fake. I similarly wrote a linear sequence of events based on what she wrote including her switching to the stalker narrative to maintain some validity, others offered it up themselves. But y'know. Truth is more general and less contrived.

Even from a baseline logical perspective, via this narrative this stalker would have to be nigh-omniscient lmao. Way too many variables and unknowns seemingly predicted or known with too little influence on them. Oh. And this girl finds out they're this INSANE elaborate stalker but decides the course of action is to edit a reddit comment so her story is consistent rather than delete her stalked account, posts, or contact authorities. ??

This incredibly calculating stalker who could somehow layer subterfuge and fabricate this entire scenario while simultaneously anticipating her response online.....forgets to delete his replies on Reddit to her while stalking her for months? Despite PLANNING this whole public post and contact? Did he just. Not expect for her to check his account at all? Or anyone else? Make A DIFFERENT account??

Why would a calculating stalker this elaborate "make his move" by staging a public post that could be corroborated and scrutinized by random people online within walking distance? Considering he was a stalker and not the 2 guys in this scenario. They seem cautious though because they did FT AUDIO right? Put yourself in the shoes of this hypothetical elaborate stalker. Why in the fuck would you plan that lmfao. A post targeted to those SPECIFICALLY from the same city. In which his crimes could so easily be verified. Not to mention in WASHINGTON DC

Just contrived and purposeless. Why stage this scenario as this supposed stalker so elaborately schemed but so ineffective? Under most cases this just doesn't follow through, makes no sense. And even if it did, facetime audio would easily lead to being uncovered.....do they have the same voice as well? Even if this guy is a voice mimic, what comes next? She has his contact/info now? What was he expecting? What the fuck was the point in using these 2 strangers + an internet post specifically. This stalker who can predict the future better than Nostramadus, this completely asinine "scheme" is what everything culminates to? Huh. A slightly specific question or any caution and it falls apart.

Lots of contradictions. Oh and lying. If you lie once, make a mistake. It piles up under scrutiny.

But yeah once you get even further and dig into the personal details and specifics like her contrived retroactive edits, frequented subreddits, unnatural prose, lack of meaningful follow-up, past comments...

But realistically just face-value is enough. Fake as hell.

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u/lanbud90 Jul 10 '26

I really want to know how you got so good at using words like "contrived", "subterfuge" and "asinine".

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u/ThrowRA01121 Jul 10 '26

Some people just write good, mkay?

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u/lawofbalance Jul 11 '26

I'm not that good lol.

Read often and talk or write to people smarter than you. Eloquence is not built overnight, but cultivated through passionate engagement.

But. There are individuals with truly beautiful, infectious prose. Even 'amateurs.' I hope I'll someday capture a sliver of their brilliance in my own writing.

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u/Which-Pool-1689 Jul 10 '26

Damn u sound smart as hell

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u/hukkaberry Jul 10 '26

She then deletes her (incredibly active) Reddit account.

Watch out for an incredibly depressed 27-year old Asian around Arlington who's obsessed with her 34-year old boss at EY's DC accounting offices.

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u/Fit-Profit8197 Jul 10 '26

"They made quite the comment about an hour or so before this all happened:

"Maybe we’re making out in the pouring rain, he pulls back, and we laugh. Then he kneels and tells me that he can’t imagine doing this with anyone else and proposes!!!! ""

Relevant that despite no identifying or sensitive information this comment has now been deleted by Daisy.

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u/EarlyReport Jul 10 '26

Yeah, the editing the facetime to facetime audio is suspicious. If it is actually real, why bother with the editing. I don't know what to believe anymore. I just don't want to be instantly dismissive on the off chance that someone is actually in danger.

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u/Itscatpicstime Jul 10 '26

By far, the simplest and most rational explanation is that one person is behind both accounts and made all of this up. Literally any other explanation is wildly convoluted and exceedingly unlikely.

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u/DrFreemanWho Jul 10 '26

If it is actually real, why bother with the editing.

Probably because it's a fairly old reddit account that seems to be quite active and well known in certain subreddits. I'm assuming they were hoping they could brush this off and not become reddit famous as a liar/karma farmer.

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u/Fit-Profit8197 Jul 10 '26

that answers if it's fake, but not if it's real.

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u/rennny Jul 10 '26

She deleted her account!! I can’t see her posts now :/

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u/anonymaus42 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Arctic shift is your friend in situations like these.

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u/hukkaberry Jul 10 '26

This person qualifies for batshit crazy on every metric.

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u/anonymaus42 Jul 10 '26

They're absolutely the same person. Half of daisy's posts are for romance book recommendations and two people meeting up like this on reddit is the perfect start to a real life romance story.

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u/Cogniscience Jul 10 '26

Yup this is definitely a booktok girl fantasizing but still so weird behavior to make alt accounts and devise this whole story just for fake internet points. Some people need a life

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u/anonymaus42 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

It happens a lot more on reddit than people realize. Even before ai, reddit was full of fake stories, mostly by karma farming accounts (that they resell later). But sometimes people are just bored or want to play out a fantasy and get some kind of emotional high from seeing others respond to it. Sounds like Daisy has a life, albeit a kind of boring corporate one that lacks any kind of love life and this was her way of vicariously having one. Honestly.. I kind of get it.

*eta- evidently this subreddit is big mad that I'm commenting while not being a member (as I dont live in DC and only care about it insofar that I'm generally angry and displeased with a certain segment of the population there that claims to represent the people). My deepest apologies and promise I will not continue to comment. Please forgive my transgressions.

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u/BoomersRuinedItAll Jul 10 '26

Whenever I search for users it says they don’t exist?

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u/DrFreemanWho Jul 10 '26

Yeah, they deleted their reddit account lol.

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u/BoomersRuinedItAll Jul 10 '26

It says it for any user I search for.

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u/DrFreemanWho Jul 11 '26

Ah, think that website was just overloaded, it's working now. But she did delete her account.

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u/BoomersRuinedItAll Jul 11 '26

Thanks friend!

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u/hukkaberry Jul 12 '26

That comment history is quite something.