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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Engineer5000p on 2025-11-03 21:32:42+00:00.
Happened yesterday night as my wife and I were reminiscing and talking about the dumb shit we did in high school and she mentioned how she used to be obsessed with tumblr drama and certain celebrity couples and what not, and for some reason, I felt it was totally relevant and cool for me to tell her that woah, did I ever tell you that I ran a gossip blog for my school?
She asked me wtf I meant, probably thinking I was joking but I said without thinking, that when I was about 16, I started an anonymous gossip blog about my high school. (You can probably guess what inspired this)
Nothing evil but I was bored and nowhere near a social life and found it funny to post whatever I thought was relevant about my school. Eventually I made a few posts about people sending anon confessions in and eventually it got traction and MANY people sent in so much about many many different students and even teachers. I posted every single one with some exceptions of troll confessions
Within a few weeks, id hear many people talk about it and id just find it really fun to have this secret. It was never traced back to me because I kept it very lowkey and stopped being active on it nearing the end of highschool
At the time, I thought it was no big deal. I wasn’t posting lies, just stuff that was already going around but with much more maturing I do know it was wrong. I am well aware of this.
So I tell my wife all this, expecting i dont even know what and instead, she just goes off on me and says I had no business blowing people's dirty laundry out like that
And yes. I do agree now. Eventually, she ended up just being dissapointed and said she couldnt imagine me doing something so invasive and weird. I did try to defend myself and tried to explain it was dumb teenage shit and nothing malicious, but I do get that it is horrific
Lesson is very well learnt
TL;DR: Told my wife I used to run an anonymous high school gossip blog as a teen. Thought it was a funny story, but she saw it as mean spirited and now I agree but feel guilty and horrible