“So my wife was out of town last week and I was feeling a little frisky,” the Reddit confession begins.
That’s usually when these things happen, isn’t it? The wife’s out of town. The husband’s feeling lonely. One thing leads to another and…
“I had just gotten out of the shower and wanted to revel in my manhood,” the confession continues, “so I did what felt natural, I stood in front of my full length mirror and took a nude selfie.”
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The husband was going to send the photo to his wife, but decided against it and ultimately deleted it from his phone. A week later, a stranger sent him a friend request on Facebook. The request was accompanied by a cryptic message: “Not sure but pretty sure someone is faking being you on Grindr.”
Naturally, the husband started to panic. He asked the man to send him a screenshot of the fake profile. He did. And that’s when the nightmare truly became a reality.
“You guessed it, there’s a screenshot of me in all my glory in the same photo I had taken the week prior,” he says. “At this point I’m freaking out hardcore wondering how this could even happen?!”
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After doing some sleuthing, the husband learned he had accidentally uploaded his x-rated selfie to the internet for the whole entire world to see.
“I had my phone set so that any photos I took on it auto uploaded to my google photos which I THOUGHT was a private album by default,” he explains. “I look in there and see the photo.”
“I immediately deleted it,” he continues. “I then deleted every other photo off my cloud account immediately and went crazy locking down all my other social media accounts too just in case.”
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The nightmare, of course, isn’t over. Because the husband, still reeling from the shock, says there some important questions remain unanswered.
“How did the person know my Facebook profile name?” he wonders. “I really want to know that one because the last thing I need is my naked body floating around the internet being tied to my Facebook account.”
As for his wife, he decided that honestly was the best policy and told her everything. Luckily, she sees the humor in the situation.
“Now she won’t stop calling me ‘Porn Star’ at the house,” the husband writes. “FML.”
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Photo credit: Pinterest
Xzamilio
Soooooo… I don’t give a shit about this story. The photo… who dat?
redcarpet30
Accentially uploaded to a shared Google Photo’s album??
Pretty sure Auto-Upload doesn’t work that way. I smell bull-shit.
Phillip Bernal
You can’t fix stupid…
Michael Golojuch Jr
Why was he on Grindr?
Paul Galero-Phillips
I would freak out too if I was caught on a gay site after playing straight.
David Goodman
Seems legit!
Joshua Shapiro
The thing was he wasn’t on Grindr someone stole his photo
Malcolm Grant
He turned up on that guy’s Facebook feed because both of them used Facebook to login to Grindr.
Not sure why he felt the need to go public in his own defense.
I’m pretty sure that his wife’s suspicions won’t be assuaged by this little piece of theatre.
SpunkyBunks
Cool story bro.
Michael A. Hann
Sure “stolen” pics
Brent Labee
Derek Perron
Here come the cynical gays who think everyone’s gay. It’s very conscionable that photo albums are public and someone stole it.
Michael Claypoole
Gee isn’t that too bad.
AJAnders
Hey! Another story on Queerty involving a straight guy. Everyone take a shot!
Annnnnnnnnnd……alcohol poisoning.
Brian
A good reason why you should never send a photo into cyberspace or take one with an instrument that can be tapped into, such as your cell phone.
John Malin
Well it’s out there and will be there forever.
Raymond Richard Conners IV
Why was the automatic assumption that “married ” implied “straight “?
JAW
X rated pics on Grindr???
Thought they were all private.
This story stinks
Orin Wojciechowski
Mmm hmmmm guuuuurl please. Busted!
Stache
“I had my phone set so that any photos I took on it auto uploaded to my google photos which I THOUGHT was a private album by default,”
Oh shit. I’ve done the same thing. In my naivety or stupidity I too thought they were private. Yikes.
Kangol
@Michael Golojuch Jr: He wasn’t on Grindr, someone else who had his FB account SAW his picture on Grindr, so he asked the guy to send him a Grindr screenshot of the fake Grindr account. It’s pretty straightforward in the article. Did you read it?
The creepiest aspect of this whole story is how vulnerable everything is on the “cloud,” and how if you don’t set things to private anything is accessible. Also, if his face was visible in the nude selfie, a person could Google image search it and find other photos showing his face, because of facial recognition software. This stuff isn’t benign, people, it’s dangerous.
Kangol
@Raymond Richard Conners IV: Because the article says “he” and “she,” and refers to this man’s “wife”?
On the other hand, “he” could a tran-sman married to a cis-woman, or a cis-man married to a trans-woman, or a trans-man married to a trans-woman, so it could have been a queer couple.
But don’t you think the article would have mentioned that?
Cory M. Warren
So he was on grindr, and found his stolen pics?
Captain Obvious
Who cares?
Desert Boy
The take away is: don’t take nekkid pictures of yourself. Unless you’re willing to take the risk.
Jean Philippe Laplagne
Right! “Stolen” How did he discover them on Grindr then?
Stached1
This reads like a fake reddit post/story.
Lestar
The person who wrote this was probably bored and wanted some online attention. Fake.
dubstepskater
*wink* That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.* wink wink*
Because everybody knows a “straight” man would never have a Grindr account… Shaggy sang it best with ” It Wasnt Me”.
captainburrito
Now he can really revel.
madlover
@missdress: body beautiful. daily fitness made. very sweet
SashaVonAndris
This had better be one of the stories he tells his grandkids or else…
Ksb1978
Who cares. More important question. Who’s the guy in the photo??????