I found a really creepy Reddit account pretending to be a 13 year old boy. What could actually be going on here?
Hey everyone. I stumbled across a really strange and creepy account and wanted to see what other people think about it.
The account presents itself as a 13-year-old boy from Moldova (ivang6). He posts in different communities, messages people, looks for older friends, and some of the posts seem to gradually move toward some pretty disturbing or inappropriate implications.
The whole thing immediately made me wonder whether this is actually a child at all, or an adult pretending to be one.
There are a few things that made me suspicious.
First, the way the account writes in English seems strange for the person it claims to be. The sentences, punctuation, periods, and overall writing style don’t really feel like what I’d expect from a 13 year old from Moldova who apparently doesn’t know English very well.
Of course, Google Translate or another translator could explain that, so this alone doesn’t prove anything.
But then I noticed the age of the account.
The account was created around three years ago. If the person really is 13 now, they would have been around 10 years old when the Reddit account was created. Obviously, kids can use the internet at that age, but considering the communities this account participates in and the kinds of people it appears to be looking for, that makes the whole situation even stranger.
There are also repeated posts looking specifically for people with big muscles/bodybuilders and saying that their age doesn’t matter. In another post, the account says it would preferably like to meet someone older. Combined with the account repeatedly emphasizing that it is M13, it starts to feel less like random posts from a kid and more like someone deliberately constructing a particular identity.
I’m not claiming I know who is behind the account, and obviously none of this proves that it’s an adult. It could genuinely be a kid, someone trolling, or something completely different.
But taken together, the account age, the writing style, the communities, and the repeated attempts to find older people make the whole thing feel extremely weird.
Has anyone encountered accounts like this before? What do you think could be going on here, and are there any other non-invasive ways to figure out whether an account like this is actually what it claims to be?
