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There were worse, in the days of UseNet.

It was bad. Don’t believe the old men that tell you it was gentler and kinder, “back when.” That’s where I cut my troll teeth, and miss it like I miss a boil on my behind.

You know there's a reddit dedicated to your last sentences last clause, with movies, right? As in, people probably monetise this with patreon.

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It is/was a health fad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy

I thought it went out of fashion in the 90s when they figured out it damages your kidneys, but I may have misremembered that.

there probably is such a subreddit (likely a fetish), but just like a lot of viral posts, there's no proof that the thing actually happened, but there is a market for making viral posts. It makes people feel popular, and high-karma accounts can be sold to advertisers and political groups who manipulate social media.

Yeah I think it's a copypasta. I've seen it elsewhere with the details slightly different.