
Baptiste The Creep
Oftentimes, people online pretend to be younger than they are. They have alternate intentions and try to pursue people who are half their age. This 15-year-old experienced just this after she met her online friend from Discord in person. On a school trip, she realized she’d be in the same town as him. After exchanging several messages, they decided to meet up in real life.

While walking around the city with her classmates, she opened a message from her internet friend named Baptiste. She said she just saw “a photo of myself, from my back, with a message saying roughly ‘I found you.’ In a reflex of understanding, I turn around and notice that … There is no one behind me. Nobody. I start to have shivers of fear, and a rise of anxiety.”

At this point, she’s freaking out, and understandably so. If you’ve never met someone in person and suddenly they’re sending you creepy pictures of yourself, all you want to do is run. “A few seconds after we stop, I get another message … Another photo of me … of my back … Creepy isn’t it? I look behind me, but nobody. Then, I saw him on a bench eating ice cream. Our group passed by him. I then take out my phone and send it a message to try to defuse the problem: “I SAW YOU ! 😀 now you can wait until I finish the visit please? ^^’ “.

But it doesn’t stop there. Luckily, this girl was with a bunch of her friends. When Baptiste finally approached her, her friend Jonathan pretended to be her boyfriend in an attempt to get the creepy dude, who was at least 27 years old, to back off. She said, “my friends are just as shocked as I am and Baptiste starts talking to me saying hello, coming over to hug me. He approaches me and takes me under his arm, as if we are “love-love” and that we know each other very well.”

They eventually get him to leave, but she was traumatized by the entire experience. Her teachers admitted they noticed a guy following them around and tried to get him to leave them alone. More eyes were watching than they knew. She’s lucky that’s the extent of the story since it could’ve been a lot worse (via Reddit).