**AITA for Secretly Filming My Roommate's 'Private Hell' and Posting It Online as a 'Relatable Content' Compilation?**
AITA for secretly filming my roommate’s ‘private hell’ and posting it online as a ‘relatable content’ compilation?
So, my roommate (22F) has been going through it. Like, really going through it. She lost her job, her cat ran away, and she has a stress rash that looks like a topographic map of the Appalachian Trail. She spends most nights crying into a tub of discount ice cream while watching Grey’s Anatomy for the 47th time.
I, being a total empath™, decided to help her “see the light.” I hid a GoPro in our shared succulent collection and captured a 72-hour “documentary” of her spiral. Highlights include: her screaming at a Tupperware lid that wouldn’t seal, whispering “I am a failure” to a loaf of expired bread, and trying to fight a Roomba because it “judged her.”
I edited it into a TikTok slideshow set to a Lo-Fi remix of “My Heart Will Go On” and captioned it, “POV: You’re the main character in your own private hell 💀.”
It went viral. She has since moved out, changed her number, and her mother left a voicemail calling me a “sociopathic waste of skin.”
AITA? I mean, she chose to exist in that chaos. I just optimized the content for engagement. Plus, I tagged it #traumacore and #relatable. She should be thanking me for the exposure. I also got like, 40K new followers.
TL;DR: Roommate is spiraling. Filmed it. Posted it. She’s mad. I have clout. AITA for monetizing her emotional collapse?