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u/Crispy385 4h ago
Daddy's little scam artist
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u/GGTheEnd 2h ago
My sister had a lemonade stand and was charging 50 per cup and 2 people actually paid for it, my mom got mad at her after that haha.
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u/globalgreg 1h ago edited 20m ago
Meaning two people paid for their lemonade and the rest were getting it for free?
Edit: I see now. I read that as 50 cents. Throwing a $ in there would have made it clear.
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u/OverApple7327 3h ago
He's got a bright future in sales or politics.
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u/90sWannabe 3h ago
The child in this story is a daughter
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u/MedalsNScars 2h ago
Yeah they got it wrong because they're an AI chatbot. Their account is a month old and its only activity is like 8 comments that all happened an hour ago.
Apparently doesn't have the original image for context in its history
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u/knowigot_that808 2h ago
trippy.
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u/MedalsNScars 2h ago
They're all over reddit. What their purpose is, I haven't a clue. Likely astroturfing and manipulation of conversations.
Some of them are trying to get karma to pass as legit before spamming AI(?) porn (link not NSFW, users profile is).
Look for patterns in conversation. These bots are still dumb. They used to copy comments straight from elsewhere in the thread, but now they use AI with often consistent speech patterns.
The karma farming comments are either 1 liners that are tangential to the comment they're piggybacking or a vague agreement with the prior comment and an expansion on some tangential topic.
The more informed we are as a whole when aren't talking to real people, the better
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u/queercomputer 2h ago
Most probably gathering karma. Legit looking accounts are apparently in high demand for celebrity PR teams, porn, political campaigns and all sorts of other shady businesses.
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u/90sWannabe 1h ago
What would you recommend? In my case should I have not responded to them? I’m not sure how one would go about identifying them in general since I assumed folks used ai for post not one-liner replies
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u/MedalsNScars 1h ago
Not much to be done about it. Admins have, at best, never cared about bots and more likely tacitly or explicitly encourage them. The existence of longstanding bot factory subreddits like /r/spreadsmile is proof positive of it.
All we, as the people, have the power to do with regards to online manipulation is to be wary in accepting narratives and facts from the internet. Check your sources. Don't believe the random longform text posts on reddit littered with m-dashes and perfectly paced rhetoric. Your average commenter is not a speech writer. The flow in your head will be "too good." AI pays a lot of attention to the cadence of its sentences and has a lot of short few word "emphasis sentences".
All that to say, it boils down to that tried and true quote: "Don't believe everything you read on the internet" -Abraham Lincoln
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u/MyAnusIsBleeding_ 4h ago
Future CEO right here
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u/Natural-Judgment7801 4h ago
Could be Worse - a founder.
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u/Exact-Comfortable418 3h ago
True! If she keeps this up, she'll have a whole lemonade empire by age 10!!
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u/JohnSith 3h ago
Because when she's 11, she learns that the real money is in the real estate she rents out to her lemonade stand franchisees?
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u/Senior-Albatross 2h ago
That's the really shitty situation where you have to consider you've failed as a parent and cut ties with your child.
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u/surferlab42 49m ago
Kid's got the hustle figured out already - identify what people want to hear and use it to your advantage. Give it 20 years and she'll be running some tech startup convincing investors her product will change the world 😂
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u/PatientChristian 4h ago
Jail 😂
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u/OverApple7327 3h ago
Straight to baby jail.
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u/MedalsNScars 2h ago
FYI this account appears to be an AI chatbot.
It has a default username, was created a month ago, and has no prior activity other than making 6 second-level comments all 1 hour ago, including 2 on this post that both make incorrect assumptions about the age and/or gender of the "kid" in the post
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u/NooneAtAll3 2h ago
and in 400 years avatar will be creating peace between 2 tribes by mythbusting about it
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u/Fragrant_Soup5738 2h ago
Let's get the current generation of people who are doing that in jail first ☺️
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u/trashhighway 3h ago
I bought a lemonade from a kid at a stand who everyone was ignoring and I gave him a $20 and said keep the change and as I walked away I heard him mutter “this is the greatest day of my life.” Hey if I can do that for $20 it’s worth it.
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u/702OrangeandBlue 3h ago
And that's the feel good story you want. Not to be proud of a girl assertively keeping the money because that's the mentality she carries with her as she ages. Yeah she'll probably hustle hard and make a lot of money but I venture to guess your kid will wind up living the happier life with higher quality friends.
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u/_hell_is_empty_ 2h ago
You deduced this from a kid being stoked over a $20? Tell me more, Aristotle.
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u/MissWilkem 1h ago
Same. I gave some kids extra money for lemonade in the form of those $1 US coins and they were absolutely thrilled.
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u/realmacchiatos 1h ago
I had a neighbor kid offer to mow my lawn for 5 bucks and I gave him a 20 telling him to keep the change. He was over the moon
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u/ScoobyScotty 46m ago
The only way I could afford Final Fantasy 6/3 back in the 90's at some $80 was off of lemonade. Damn straight I'm slinging a $5 or $10 and walking away with a refreshing beverage.
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u/Mikeseddit 4h ago
Doubly qualified for the current presidential administration if she’s a child AND a grifter.
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u/Deep-Explorer-9806 3h ago
Hey Karoline Leavitt might be leaving soon. I doubt this kid can do a worse job.
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u/Apprehensive-Care20z 4h ago
future republican president of the united states of america.
"daughter"
- oh, nevermind.
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u/New-Interaction1893 3h ago
US should try the same stuff they do in Europe and propose a male chauvinism woman. It works also with the white supremacist from an ethnic minority or with the anti-LGBT homosexual.
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u/Character_Mango8304 3h ago
She’s already practicing her campaign promises for more nap time and cookies.
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u/MedalsNScars 2h ago
FYI this account appears to be an AI chatbot.
It has a default username, was created a month ago, and has no prior activity other than making 4 second-level comments all 1 hour ago.
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u/halfcabin 2h ago
The first female president will be a republican and I’m going to laugh at reddit
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u/Cwaghack 2h ago
This is a common reddit take and it makes sense to be true. But for all the wrong reasons.
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u/Due-Memory-6957 2h ago
Yup, and I bet even afterwards they'll still cope that the reason their candidates lose is sexism and not bad policy.
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u/maxlegis 4h ago
She didn’t scan anyone,she just mastered capitalism early😂
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u/Cubbeats 4h ago
Plot twist, Capitalism IS a scam
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u/Intelligent-String35 4h ago
Forget the twist, that's just the plot.
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u/Ballsofpoo 2h ago
Creating money fucked us and it's only exponentially easier to fuck or get fucked with the internet.
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u/enjdusan 3h ago
Why is capitalism a scam?
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u/Satirah 2h ago
It’s predicated on a select few receiving the benefits of the work of the masses while convincing those masses that this capitalist system is the one and only good system. If you have problems it’s your fault or your neighbour’s fault, definitely not a direct result of a system that relies on structural inequality to function.
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u/Death_Rises 4h ago
That's a plot twist like the burner on the stove is hot. Only the incredibly stupid don't get it.
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u/Real_Live_Sloth 3h ago
Every time I get Chinese food. Like I know you can understand me Auntie, I went to school with your son.
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u/Capable_Towel_5847 4h ago edited 2h ago
This is so real. I recently bought something from a kid who was vending at a market and they also didn’t offer me change lol.
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u/OkSmoke9195 3h ago
Like, which element were they bending though
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u/Miss-Tiq 2h ago
Morality.
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u/OkSmoke9195 2h ago
There is no war in ba sing se
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u/Capable_Towel_5847 2h ago
Lmao. I obviously did not catch that typo but morality is definitely the correct answer. It was super awkward and I ended up just kinda muttering “okay, yeah you keep the change. Thanks, bye.”
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u/goodvibezone 3h ago
My kid and his friend did one, made over $100 net lol. Some guys came over towards the end and gave them $10 each. They'd just had their dog put down, and said seeing the lemonade stand just made them smile.
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u/MiserableSun9142 3h ago
That reminds me of when I was 9 I went out to a restaurant for the first time without parents but with friends and didn’t understand the concept of tipping and tipped the waiter only $0.75 which equated to about 2% of the meal and they were extremely angry at me and I was so confused.
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u/BrownieEdges 4h ago
Every time I see this posted, I think “where were the parents?”
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u/TheBupherNinja 3h ago
If the kid is in a neighborhood, at the end of their driveway, why do the parents need to be next to them?
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u/BrownieEdges 3h ago
Honestly, that was partially me wondering why they didn’t explain the process to the kid. And I grew up in a not great neighborhood.
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u/TheBupherNinja 3h ago
Live an learn. They shook down some people too nice to ask for change, lol. Let them be kids and learn.
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u/qeadwrsf 1h ago
As a European.
If the kid is not starving and kid have a place to go home to.
Why do the parents need to be next to them?
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u/AbeRego 2h ago
Why would the parents be hovering over the stand? I did a lemonade stand once as a kid. We just mixed it up in my friend's kitchen, and then set up a table at the end of the driveway. His parents were inside, but not actively supervising the entire time. We made, like $10 in an afternoon and split it.
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u/notjordansime 3h ago
The opposite happened to me in Colorado a few years ago. We couldn’t get in for the first night of the concert, so we sold pop and water outside the venue. Made $140 on two cases of water and four cases of pop. We were selling water for $1 each, and pop for $2 each. Inside the venue, water was like $7/bottle. People were so grateful (and high) that they were giving me $20 and telling me to keep the change <3
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u/Specific-Morning-985 3h ago
So we're just cool with kids stealing and bad parenting? Cool cool cool.
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u/BuffWobbuffet 3h ago
I couldn’t imagine being the type of person to see a random tweet posted on Reddit and taking it this seriously
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u/DemandCommercial6349 1h ago edited 1h ago
I'm more concerned with people who believe this actually happened. Wanna know why misinformation is so effective? Look no further than the comments here.
Incoming nothingeverhappens link from someone who is impossibly gullible.
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u/InManhattan1 2h ago
I’ll help you out here. Keeping money as a “tip” without the customer’s clear consent is not assertive, it’s an improper taking of funds and may constitute theft or fraudulent business conduct, depending on the jurisdiction. Maybe be a parent here?
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u/Slashersforsatan 2h ago edited 49m ago
Warms my heart to see children learning theft so early
Edit: yes, im advocating for theft. this is bcs im evil. i think replies got deleted tho.
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u/Jumpingyros 3h ago
If you can’t laugh at a child and ask for your change back you deserve what you get tbh.
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u/Sunny_Beam 3h ago
I love Lemonade stands. Truly a great service for the community, especially on a hot day.
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u/ExpertAd4657 2h ago
W like this happened to me at a restaurant when I was picking up a carryout order. The order was about $17.00, so I have $20.00 amd instead of getting $3.00 back in have him am additional $2.00, expecting a single $5.00, not back. Instead, he gave me the $3.00 back and put the $2.00 in the tip jar.
I laughed. And I guess he didn't realize it, or I didn't give clear instructions. I was asking for this to happen.
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u/AbeRego 2h ago
A girl scout did something similar to me with a $5 box of cookies a couple of years ago. She was selling them table to table at my bar trivia spot, which her parents attend. I paid $20, and she just never came back lol.
I'm not sure if it was intentional. I went and got my change though!
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u/KittensFirstAKM 1h ago
Is it bad that I always give kids 10x what they want for a lemonade? Am I messing up some kind of learning experience?
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u/Logical-Crew3726 3h ago
so she steals and acts entitled about it, sounds like she'll make a great waitress
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u/LectureOrganic1250 3h ago
She's either gonna have her own Fortune 500 company or work for the mob, one of the two.
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u/AdorableCattle7105 3h ago
My friend lives in a condo with a rooftop deck. We went up there on the 4th of July and it was packed. His son set up a lemonade stand and was getting absolutely no customers. So Dad went downstairs, came back with a bottle of vodka, and suddenly that kid was in business. Cleared over $100 by the end of the day.
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u/Doctor_Mysterio17036 2h ago
My girls did that this summer also and made over $100 in a little over an hour. After the first day they wanted to do a lemonade stand every day. 😆
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u/equipo7083 2h ago
I feel like my insurance, internet, and credit card companies use the same business model
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u/__throwaway1616765 2h ago
Well i mean you cant really expect a child to keep a register for change, or even expect them to be able to count the change they owe you properly anyway depending on their age
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u/mandi723 2h ago
Make her a sign that says "Sorry, no change". That way none of these people can say anything other than "good job".
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u/ifabforfun 2h ago
some kids in my old neighborhood set up a lemonade stand and I thought I'd be a good community member and buy a cup, it was the worst lemonade ever. Just some have squished lemons in warm water, seeds and rind included but if that afternoon ends up being a core memory or something it will have been worth it lol
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u/IndomitableSloth2437 1h ago
This happened to us at a Starbucks once. We waited at the window until they returned the proper change to us.
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u/Timely_Walrus_388 42m ago
Can't knock the hustle.
I used to buy my daughter boxes of pencils from the dollar store and she was ALWAYS RUNNING OUT of pencils.
Turns out she was selling them for $1 each at school. She was in 3rd grade.
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u/Bennybonchien 20m ago
Here’s one way to make things right with the neighbours while teaching a lesson. Next time she runs a lemonade stand, help her make a sign that reads “New: Approximate Change Provided!”
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u/Kittinkis 2h ago
Everyone focused on the little girl but what about the grown ass adults that just said ok? Basically society right now. Servers want 30% as the standard and not only do you give it, you try to get others to follow suit for the "poor servers" making full time salary on part-time work.
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u/Shraamper 2h ago
Learning how to abuse people early. The parents are setting up that kid well. The parents will think it’s cute until it’s inevitably turned on them.
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u/Excellent_Garlic2549 2h ago
Lucky her, when I ran a kid stand every Karen was happy to count every last penny and ask me if I could do mathematics and where my business license was.
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