Reddit Stories - Found out that my SIBLING was sharing PICTURES of herself on the INTERNET

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

#redditstories #askreddit #aita #siblings #internetprivacy #familydrama #socialmedia #privacyconcernsSummary: A shocking discovery revealed that my SIBLING was sharing PICTURES of herself on the INTERNET, sparking a family uproar and raising serious concerns about privacy and boundaries.Tags: redditstories, askreddit, reddit, aita, tifu, siblings, internetprivacy, familydrama, socialmedia, privacyconcerns, onlineprivacy, siblingrivalry, digitalfootprint, oversharing, boundaries, personalinformation, socialmediashare, familyconflict, internetsecurity, onlinepresenceBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/reddit-stories--6237355/support.

I hope you enjoy this story. Found out that my sibling was sharing pictures of herself on the internet with mature males who insulted her, and upon reading her private messages, I learned that she was arranging to have a meeting. Married man with kids at a motel which led to me to telling our parents the truth. First and foremost, no, I didn't save any of them. So the other night I was up late finishing a paper for school, I attend a university, but commute there from home when I decided it was time to look for some PRN.

It's on the Internet's now, in case you didn't know. Through sheer random chance, a random link on a site slash board I frequent, I stumbled across a picture of a rather attractive looking blonde. I opened up the first pick in the series and, lo and behold, it was my sister. Without giving too much away, the pick was of her, naked, on her bed, and obviously a self-shot. I then disabled the displaying of images and went back to the thread I'd found it on. Why would I do this, you might ask? Because my sister is sort of effed up and I was concerned.

By effed up I mean that she was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 10 or so and then PTSD after she was raped by an extended family member when she was 13. That's a long story, suffice to say, the case never went to court and the asshole cousin who did it is in jail on a plea arrangement. Later and most recently she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which is what I think she's had all along. And things got a lot better for her once she started on her new meds. We've always been close, even during her craziest phases, and my most reclusive ones. Now I don't know what to do. For the last few nights I've debated asking some of my friends about it, but I've been afraid

they might try finding said images for themselves. I have good friends but I know how God eyes are, seeing as I am one. I also know that at least a few of them have had the huts for her for a while now. Besides, admitting to them that I've seen my sister. Like that might creep them out. Or I could talk to my parents. But then I'm afraid they'll do what they did last time Julie freaked out, put her in a mental hospital. I know half of Reddit will never believe what I said above about me only looking briefly, and then deleting entirely, what are the odd she'd believe me. What if it pissed her off? What if she accused me of being a pervert? Or, what if she just became uncomfortable around me for the rest of our lives?

Hell, I've sort of been uncomfortable around her since that picture hurt around the world. Damn. I don't know what to do. I think it is very, very unhealthy for her to pander to these internet perverts. In one of the most recent messages she posted she said she would start doing videos soon. She admitted in it that she's worthless and a slut at heart and stupid because these guys want her to be that. They call her those things and she goes along with it, even though I know she's not. She's actually loved, and pure, and brilliant. Why would such a girl behave so differently online? Please, read it.

I know some of you are dying to post a funny or sarcastic remark. But please refrain. I love my little sister. If you have any thoughts on how I can best handle this situation, please share. Otherwise, go on over to slash or slash funny. Thanks. P.S. Yes, this is a throwaway account. Friends and family know my regular Reddit account and I wanted this to be as anonymous as possible.

Some of oops comments. Editor's note, I included a fair amount of full comments on this one because I found it fascinating how internet culture has changed and yet also stayed the same in the last 16 years. All comments included were upvoted. I'm in the USA. Besides, would it really help that much? If her picks are yanked from one side or the other, you just know they'll end up on a third. I'm more concerned with the why of Julie wanting to post them in the first place than I am in the why of sites wanting to host them.

Because that last question is easy. My sister is hot. It feels sort of creepy to say that, but it's true. Uck. Top commenter, the reason she's behaving like this is probably because of her rape incident. Rape either causes you to shut down sexually or it causes you to go into overdrive, and it sounds like your sister is doing the latter. Why?

I have actually survived rape, and I didn't go down this path, but I did go down a pretty promiscuous one, which I have now over. overcome. My older brother heard the stories and talked to me about it, plain and simple. Knowing that my brother cared about me, and that I was worth something more than my sexuality, probably saved me from a lot of hurt. Point being, you talking to her about it is awkward, yes, and she may deflect. But starting out a conversation with her is important, because you're in a position to save her from a lot of pain. Hey, I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute. Listen, I really love you, and so I was worried when I came across these pictures of you on the

internet the other night. Your Seg's life isn't my business, but all the same, I'm here to talk to you, should you ever need anyone. Oop, that's all great advice, and thanks for it. But what if she freaks out that I saw one of her NSFW picks? Editor's note, most commenters told up he should absolutely not lie to his sister about who found it commenter. Okay, former teenage girl here. She's probably just being a moron and experimenting with her sexuality in a dumb-ass way. I saw a lot of my friends do that sort of thing.

Not videos, so much, but photos are chatting with two old guys who did the whole slut thing. So, first off, don't freak too badly. Freak a little, but this doesn't mean she's going to grow up and have crack babies. She'll probably just grow up and be a little bemused as to why the FCK she did that. Second of all, talk to her. Would you talk to her about SEG slash PRN and not in a creepy way, obviously, in a mentor way? If so, I think you could probably bring it up, you need to bring it up, obviously. It also wouldn't hurt to bring in a female friend, if you got one you trust and one she looks up to, to drive home the point that there are better ways to get male attention slash play with sexuality and boundaries slash ECT than this.

Edit, edit, and this has nothing to do with her being 16. Until my sister hit about 19 or so, I'd still talk to her, and maybe even rat her out to mom. Boop, that's all good advice. Damn, Reddit is awesome. A couple thoughts, maybe I didn't make this clear in my original post, but let me. me be plain. If I tell our parents about this my sister will be sent back to the hospital. That might be for the best, in truth, but I don't want to be the cause of it.

Julie has never told me exactly why, but she said that her last time there, she's been there twice, was the worst experience of her life. I was also the victim of sexual violence at a young age and had severe body issues for a long time. Being naked on the internet made me feel good. I was careful and made sure that my face and identifying things were never in the same picture as my nudity, though, but that's not a conversation you want to have with your sister LOL. Let me put it to you this way, if I'd run across a pick of her without any context, just a random nude pick of my little sister, I'd have felt embarrassed, would have erased the file, and forgotten about it. This isn't the case here, though. I already knew she spent a lot

of time online, but I had no idea she was spending it by pandering to anonymous internet perverts on an image slash message board. What does that make you, sir? You do realize that a lot of girls you are going to fap to have brothers, don't you? Boop, three things. First, I am not a saint. Second, yes, she does look legal. About a year ago she briefly started smoking and when our parents busted her and asked how she got them, she said she just bought them herself. In other words, she doesn't get ID'd for smokes. She looks 18. But that doesn't matter, she isn't a teen. Not by a long shot. Third, yes, I realize now that a lot of the girls I have fapped to have brothers. Ever since discovering this pick of my sis I've really, really had no

desire to look at other PRN. But that's a discussion for our whole other posting, i.e. Hey, Reddit, I can't fap anymore to online PRN. What to do? All those other, random girls are perfectly okay to be naked because they're anonymous sluts, but this one is your sister so she's special. I also like how again you were looking for PRN and that's perfectly okay, but all these guys who look at your sister are internet perverts. Sanctimonious much. Hoop. By calling her all sorts of filthy names and demanding more. I have never done that, and never would. How a guy could get off on insulting and belittling a young woman, much less a 16-year-old which, I admit, my sister does not look

so I don't blame these men for not knowing, is beyond me. It's disgusting, it's wrong, and guess what, gentlemen? There is a line between causal purving and actively being disgusting. Editor's side note, I found this comment interesting. Draco, you should know that by 2020, there will be at least one naked picture of everyone in the entire civilized world on the internet. Update post, October 11, 2009, eight days later. She just wanted to know if I was going to tell our parents. I said I wouldn't if she promised to stop posting. She agreed.

It was a very tense conversation, but I tried my best to come across as understanding and caring. I never raised my voice, I never called her stupid or anything like that for what she was doing, etc. The next day she contrained at me and boy was she pissed. She told me I was a jerk and a pervert, that I wasn't her father and couldn't control her, that no one could tell her what to do, etc. It was a typical manic slash teenage blow-up. I've never seen her so angry at me before. She wouldn't let me get a word in edgewise and she went on to say, crazy stuff about how if I told on her she'd get one of her online boyfriends to beat me up. I decided right away what I needed to do and I almost posted about it here on Reddit but my

guilty conscience kept me from doing so. I felt really guilty doing this but after her tirade I became convinced she must be off her meds or confrontation with me was a classic mania episode and I wanted to know what she was up to. I found a chat she had with someone who she obviously met through one of those forums she was posting on. A search for his email Addy in her Gmail account showed hundreds of chats and emails with this man dating back to early spring. I read a few of their recent chats and discovered that she was planning on meeting him at the end of the month. Based on their most recent chats it was clear she's been talking to this Dushabag on the phone, too, or maybe over Skype. There were gaps in their chats which made them confusing. What I was

able to deduce, though, was that this guy is married with three kids, one in college, so he's definitely way too old for my 16-year-old sister. Him messaging her and saying, hey, little slut, how goes it? Nice guy, huh? Even more disturbing than all that was the fact that she kept referring to her other online boyfriends in chats with this brick. Unfortunately, I think she chats mostly by using Yim or AIM because in some of her chats with Ashole she said things like L.O.L. chatting with So and So from the board right now, he's thinking of flying out to meet me, stuff like that. I couldn't get into her YIM or AIM accounts. I'm glad I couldn't access her Yom or AIM accounts because what I read in her exchanges with Ashole were more than enough

to worry me sick and make me literally want to cry. She talked a lot about her promiscuity at school and even with guys she'd already hooked up with from online. He, in turn, encouraged her to do even more. F. Kerr. Now, I have no idea how true any of her crazy stories to him were. Some of them seem really over the top and I hope to God they were just manic lies. But while at first I thought they were all bullshit, as I read more and more I became convinced that at least some were true.

I stopped my snooping without hardly putting a dent and reading all the that shit, I just couldn't stomach it, but I did print out the series of chats and emails with her plotting to meet asshole at the motel. Thankfully they talked about it extensively online so there was all the proof, the address of the actual motel, long, and graphic, discussions about what they do to one another that night when they met, her thoughts about how easy it was to fool our parents. The next day I told my dad that I needed to have dinner with him in private and I brought along my ill-gotten gains, the damning printed out chats and emails I'd violated my sister's trust to obtain, to the restaurant.

He thought I needed to talk about how stressful this semester at college has been and instead I told him the whole story, from finding the pictures of her online to snooping on her computer and discovering all the other shit. My dad was really cool about it. After laying the whole thing out to him he took a long break away from the table presumably to use the bathroom, but I'm 95% sure he went outside for some air, and when he returned he told me through blurry eyes that he agreed with my assessment, that she was off her meds and clearly needed professional help. To keep her close to home he grounded her the next day for skipping a class the previous week, he didn't want to tell her the real reason he was grounding

her. Meanwhile, he brought my mom in on the whole thing. I can only imagine what that conversation was like. He then contacted his lawyer, he so wanted to bust asshole. That's what happened yesterday, when my sister got home from school me, our parents, my dad's lawyer, and a counselor from the hospital they were putting her and greeted her in the living room. We did an intervention-style thing and I had to tell her why I was concerned about her in front of everyone, and basically confessed that I was the reason she was being put in a hospital again. All she did was cry and shake and begged not to be put away, which made me cry while I spoken after, too. She told me a long while back that that was the worst experience of her life and she cried the entire time she

shared that experience with me. I begged my dad at that dinner meeting not to send her back to the same place, which sounded awful, and thankfully he took my advice and found her a nicer place, I haven't seen it yet, but my dad spent the time between that dinner I had with him and the actual lockup researching such institutions. This one is a two-hour drive away but is supposed to specialize in adolescence. Even so, I feel like shit for being the reason she's getting locked up again. But I have no idea what I could have done differently. Wow. It's so interesting. Reading that I thought to myself, thank God he called the cops and put his friend's well-being over his loyalty to that friend. Funny how God

shows up in my posts, this is a throwaway account, but in my real one he does the same thing. whenever I'm desperate. Fifteen years of Sunday school leaves its mark. Comment her, it's really hard to say what the right thing to do is in a situation like this. I've believed that my entire life. This was the first time I ever did anything I was horribly against because I was too dumb to find that other option or choice. Comment her, you did well. The mental scene I can't help but picture is your dad kind of thinking, that's my boy, browsing PRN.

in the back of his head at some point. Oop, honestly. He was so cool during that conversation that admitting that part wasn't really all that awkward. In retrospect, yeah, that should have been hugely embarrassing, though. Comment her, I'm sure it took some effort on this part to conceal his emotion given the enormity of the situation. Oop, without getting too specific. Let me just say, there was absolutely no way I would have been able to tell my mom.

about this. I can't speak for other mothers, but I can say that mine would likely have fainted. My dad knows how to deal with her delicate sensibility a lot better than I do, so I let him. My mom, my dad, even two uncles and one aunt. She saw them at visits. But she refused to see me. I was convinced the entire time that the reason she didn't want to see me was that she hated me. I must have reread my second post about this a hundred times, just to reinforce my belief that I had done the right thing by telling our dad about the situation. Believe me, the comments in that second post really did sustain me. I've never loved Reddit so much as I have during some of the worst sleepless nights I've gone through, nights where I felt like the shittiest brother ever. Reading your assurances that I had done the right thing really helped me get along through this very difficult time.

I was thrilled to learn she'd be home for Christmas. I dreaded seeing her only because I have not seen her since the intervention that led to her being hospitalized in the first place. I was so worried she hated me that I even told my mom, upon hearing the news of her release, that I would gladly crash at my friend's house for a while. My mom's response, Are you crazy? She wants you to be the one to pick her up, sorry, I still get teary-eyed when I remember that. So it turns out that the reason my sister didn't want to see me that entire time, two months, was that she was embarrassed. She literally ran over and jumped into my arms when she saw me. I cried like a baby, Reddit, and I'm not embarrassed to admit as much.

We talked a ton during the drive home. She has a much firmer grasp on her condition now, than she did before. Best of all, and Reddit was right about this, she does not hate me for turning her in. She's healthy. She's safe. She's on medications to deal with her bipolar disorder. And she actually thanked me for intervening before she did something stupid, like meeting up with that one guy, aka asshole. I worried so much, for so long, for nothing.

My little sister still loves me. And I did do the right thing. Thank you, Reddit, for all of your thoughts and comments during this time. I've been feeling miserable for so long, because of all this, but your thoughtful comments and suggestions helped me from going into despair. This is why I love this site. Thank you again. Slash edit a few things.

Sorry, I didn't mean to go on a tirade about that. It's just frustrating to read some of the holier than thou. You do realize bipolar is the ad of the 2000s, right? of messages this post has garnered. So F. King annoying. Go give L. Ron Hubbard some money but STFU on this post, please. Again I'm sorry. That means, starting in January, daily visits to a local clinic where she'll receive both group and individual therapy. She's also going to see the psychiatrist she took a huge liking to at the hospital once a month until she finds a new doctor to replace her. She's fine with all this, and is actually

excited about it. She has absolutely no privacy on it, but she seems to be okay with that. I think the biggest test will be when she goes back to school. She lost an entire semester because of her hospitalization and she'll be needing to go to summer school to make up for it, and while she says she's fine with that, I know it sort of bums her out. Type of situation look to this experience and find inspiration to share their own story, whatever it is. The trolls and the assholes try to grind us down but reddit is good at fighting back. I so F. King love this place. I love you all. Yes, even the trolls and the assholes. I do, I do from blind with worry. Edit the last okay forgot to mention. What my sister needs now,

what our family needs now, is time to heal. Would it feel good to crush that mother EFF-F-F-Kur? Sure. Would it draw everything out, though? Definitely. That would not be a good thing. Sometimes what feels good is actually bad or at the very least can make a situation worse than it already is. Let me put it like this. For myself. For my family. As tempting as it is to send his wife an anonymous letter, too, there's just one problem. I don't have his address. In short, I'm not a just going to have to leave my revenge fantasies to my imagination in Tarantino movies. This asshole slash Dushabag will likely slit his own throat one of these days anyway.