{"id":2053,"date":"2016-05-19T07:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/how-to-spot-a-serial-faker\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T07:12:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:42:10","slug":"how-to-spot-a-serial-faker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"How to Spot a Serial Faker, the Dude Who Lies About Watching GoT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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eople can be terrible in a dazzling variety of ways. They could rob you, cheat on you, or tell all your friends that you\u2019re secretly harbouring an STD, but some of the worst types of people are the ones who blatantly lie to about watching all the popular TV shows and web series to force themselves into water-cooler conversations at work. <\/span>\n\nFollowing <\/span>Altered Carbon<\/span><\/i><\/a>, <\/span>Rick and Morty,<\/span><\/i> or any other series as if your life depends on it, requires a rare commitment. It takes up hours, days, and weeks of your eating, waking, and <\/span>dating<\/span><\/a> hours. At one end of the spectrum, is the committed binge watcher, and at the other end is his nemesis, the serial faker, who puts in none of this effort, but wants to be part of the woke clique. The serial fakers are the ones who rely on Buzzfeed listicles and AV Club recaps and quote dialogues from classic shows and movies without ever having seen them. It\u2019s almost as bad as the people who wear spectacles to \u201ccomplete their look\u201d. These people will deceive you into believing that they share your love for a piece of legendary fiction only to ditch you at your <\/span>Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><\/a> premiere party and leave you eating three boxes of pizza by yourself. <\/span>\n\nIn order to spare you the misfortune of being cheated in this most vile way, I\u2019ve come up with a four-step foolproof method of detecting who is lying about watching a show, and who you can show your <\/span>Khaleesi<\/span><\/a> tattoo<\/span><\/a> to without fear.<\/span>\n\nFake an Episode<\/b>\n\nJust like vampires give themselves away by not showing up in mirrors, the monsters who lie about TV can be identified with this fake-episode strategy. Since the only goal of a serial faker is to fool you into thinking that he watches more TV than you do, this liar will never acknowledge not having seen an episode. And this can be his undoing. Bait him with a fake storyline or a piece of false trivia. For example, ask them if they\u2019ve seen the <\/span>F.R.I.E.N.D.S<\/span><\/i><\/a> episode where Ross becomes an accountant, or if they knew Mel Gibson was originally going to play Bryan Cranston\u2019s role in <\/span>Breaking Bad<\/span><\/i>. His answer will reveal him as the serial faking sham that he is.<\/span>\n\nThe Bait-and-Switch Move <\/b>\n\nSince the serial faker does not care to put in the effort to watch good TV, he generally gets his entertainment from more puerile streams of crap, like Baba Sehgal\u2019s YouTube channel or <\/span>Bigg Boss<\/span><\/i><\/a>. It might come at great risk to yourself, but try getting through at one episode of <\/span>Bigg Boss<\/span><\/i>. The enthusiasm with which the proposed <\/span>Black Mirror<\/span><\/i><\/a> fan jumps to the defence of <\/span>Shilpa Shinde\u2019s<\/span><\/a> shenanigans will be a dead giveaway from who is a serial faker.<\/span>\n\nThe Sing-Song Strategy <\/b>\n\nThe only thing worse than having a song you don\u2019t know stuck in your head is having an Anu Malik song stuck in your head. You can use this piece of wisdom to aid you in your search for the duplicitous and shameless TV miscreants. I\u2019ve personally had great success with humming the unmistakable intro from <\/span>GoT <\/span><\/i>around people I suspected of being bullshit artists until they snapped and asked me what I was doing. The trick is to remain inconspicuously within earshot and keep humming. If they join you, then you know you\u2019ve found a binge watcher instead of a cringe watcher and made a friend for life. Or at least until the season finale.<\/span>\n\nThe Season Finale Test<\/b>\n\nSo you\u2019ve spent many months trying to drain the TV swamp and root out the lying serial fakers that live in it, but have come up short. As the season finale of your show approaches, you have one last chance to catch the two-faced trolls. Channel your inner stalker and keep an obsessive eye on your perp\u2019s Instagram and <\/span>Snapchat<\/span><\/a> feeds. While a true fan would be on their sofa in front of their screen come finale time, a serial faker will probably be at the neighbourhood gastropub, uploading a #nofilter selfie of them sipping on a cocktail. This photographic evidence of their disloyalty should be enough for you to close the case.<\/span>\n\nHappy hunting, my friends.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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