Don't take anything you read on Reddit at face value. These are not necessarily real distressed people. A lot of the posts are just creative writing exercises, or entirely AI written themselves. There is a market for aged Reddit user accounts with high karma scores because they can be used for scams or to drive online narratives.
Oh wow that's a very good point. So there are probably farms of chatbots participating in all sorts of forums waiting to be sold to scammers once they have been active for long enough.
