Taryn Wright

Yeah.

that's a hundred percent what it was.

It was just like, wow, I am a hundred percent not.

Um, I mean like eventually I, and I would give everyone my phone number.

I would give the hoaxers my phone number.

I would give the people affected my phone number.

I was,

spending so much time on this that it was I mean and it was just like okay the only person that this again like and now I've been to therapy so I'm doing much better with boundaries and stuff but like at that point I'd be like the only person that this is really affecting you know like I'm sure I'm like not sleeping and like I'm doing this all the time and I'm you know like having nightmares and all this stuff but it's just I'm helping people like I'm definitely helping like I'm friends with the hoaxers like

they know that I don't think that they're bad people.

Like they know that they just did a bad thing, you know, like.

Um, I mean, I think that as I was researching every single case, I would be like, this is the worst one yet.

There's no redeeming qualities.

This person is just going out there to do evil.

And they look in the mirror every day and are like, I am Voldemort.

I'm going to like, just take this whole thing down.

And then I would actually interact with the person and most of the time talk to them and they'd have like a good sense of humor, they'd be like, super, I mean, like a lot of the people that I that I wrote about were really good writers, you know, like that I was like, okay, take this and like, make it fiction and you'd be doing great, you know, like you're a better writer than I am.

And you just wanted to start a fiction workshop for all these people and be like, put it in.

Again, Andrea, so naive.

When I tell you again, so naive, like it's, it's almost adorable.

Like, I just want to be like, Oh, cute little Tara.