Some years ago, I played the game, Neopets, and was involved in one of the guilds there. Guilds were basically clubs, they had activities and a forum for chatting and stuff. There was some girl there whose name I don't remember and some "friends" of hers (assuming they were all different people) who apparently didn't have enough drama in their lives or something. One day, up pops the report that this girl and her guy friend were hit by a car (pedestrians) and he was killed and she was severely injured and in the hospital. And allllll these people are suddenly sympathetic.

Until she starts posting in the forum because of course severely injured people who were just hit by a car the day before are given laptops to get online with in the hospital.

Yeah.

Then when that apparently didn't garner enough sypathy anymore, the girl supposedly committed suicide.

She didn't, of course, or I wouldn't be so flippant.

Mostly I wonder why people come up with this stuff.