Human beings are hardwired to be social and to care about their relationships. However, popularity is a very delicate thing if it’s not built on a foundation of authenticity. You can be the coolest person one day and on your way downhill socially the next. Naturally, this can cause a lot of stress for children and teenagers who might care about their social standing more than grownups.

The members of the well-known AskReddit community spilled the beans about their former classmates who saw their popularity shatter before their eyes. Scroll down for their stories about the incidents that rocked their schools back in the day.

A small note of warning, some of these stories can make you feel uncomfortable due to the sensitive topics they cover.

#1

“I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up He teased my best friend for being built like a Mac truck. She picked him up and put him up side down in the garbage can. He lost any coolness he had.

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    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up He punched the autistic kid then proceeded to get jumped by every single guy that saw him in school for the next week until his parents had him switch schools.

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    #3

    I was realatively "popular" (I was in JV basketball, marching band, mathletes, and track and pretty much made friends with everyone) until my best friend at the time claimed I pushed her down the stairs and caused her to have surgery on both legs. Thing is, I was at my grandmother's funeral in another state the entire week she claimed it happened.

    While the teachers kept us apart and understood my side, none of the others really believed me. Except the Anime club. They believed me. Go weebs.

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    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up She made fun of a girl with cancer. Made a joke like, "Why don't you ask your mom to buy you a wig; I can see your scalp", and overnight, she was the least liked person in school, and 100% deserved it.

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    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up I stood up for the teacher with (at the time) terminal cancer when everyone was teasing/bullying her (cancer made her a bit more positive, live life to fullest-y and she was pretty “childish”-actually great for elementary school children but my class was one degree away from feral at the time). I was no longer popular. She was super nice and by some miracle beat the cancer.

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    #6

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up When he was caught taking up skirt photos of girls in school and sending them to his friends. His popularity went from Hero to zero is a split second.

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    #7

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up He accidentally stabbed and blinded (in one eye) the nicest kid in the school by throwing a stick at him.

    The kid that was blinded grew up to be super successful and is now married, with a baby on the way.

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    #8

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up I came out as trans and some people were happy for me others if they didn’t agree they didn’t say anything. One day in the cafeteria he decided it would be funny to push me over and call me names in front of half the school.

    It was not funny and people realized how much of prick he was.

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    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up This one girl posted something racist on Snapchat and ended up getting suspended for it. This was followed by her parents attempting to sue the district for slander. The case was thrown out almost instantly. The whole situation was honestly really petty.

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    #10

    He robbed a 7-Eleven with daddy's nickel-plated 357 while wearing his varsity jacket (first name on front, last name on back) at the start of his junior year. I'm guessing he was VERY popular in prison, too.

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    #11

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up Made fun of the mute kid for being mute. Said it she was ‘Faking it’ and that it ‘wasn’t possible for her to be that way’. He definitely didn’t get away with that.

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    #12

    The popular guy was caught hiding in the girl's locker rooms when we were about 11/12. Apparently, he was caught filming them getting changed. No one spoke to him after that and he was 'asked to leave' and moved schools. Also, I'm pretty sure the police got involved, but I don't think they did anything.

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    #13

    Popular girl in junior high, got outed & in a bunch of trouble when she accused a couple guys of stalking her. One guy lived a block away from her so she told everyone at school that he was a creep & was looking in her window at night.

    Unfortunately for her, the guy she accused of peeping on her was out of town during the time she said everything happened. He had mountains of proof & she had absolutely nothing to back up what she was saying. She & her family got into big trouble for a false police report & since her dad was still active duty military, they got booted out of base housing & she got moved to another middle school.

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    #14

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up He threw a watermelon at a black kid’s house.

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    #15

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up Having a set of keys given to him by the school (wtf, I know) because he was one of the really popular kids, then using those keys to break into the school and steal $30kAUD of woodworking/metalworking tools.

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    #16

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up He thought it would be cool to bring a loaded bb gun to school and got the cops called on him by another student.

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    #17

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up Everyone else graduated.

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    #18

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up There was one kid in my class who was the son of our math teacher. He was crazy popular because he was able to help everyone out with their homework for that class; turns out he was actually snooping through his dad's notes to get the answers. The teacher naturally got super suspicious after a while, so he deliberately made a fake answer sheet. Of course, the kid grabbed it and noted it all down.

    It was full of wrong answers so blatant that anyone who even slightly paid attention in class would know they were way off base. The kid handed out the answers anyway, and in an instant made about half the class bomb, and his popularity dropped like a rock as they all accused him of deliberately making them fail. They moved him to another class and they never had an incident of cheating again.

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    #19

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up My partner likes to tell the story of how she became the unpopular kid at school. She was about 6/7, so Primary 2 here in the UK, and a trend kicked off in her class of eating dog biscuits. All the kids were stealing dog biscuits from home and eating them at break time. Unfortunately, she didn't have a dog, and just had to eat normal human biscuits at school. She was ostracized every break time for it.

    Peer-pressure is weird sometimes.

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    #20

    She started a fight with another popular girl over something petty. The other popular girl, unbeknownst to us all, practiced martial arts and delivered with one hand the most beautiful, graceful punch that I have ever had the pleasure of seeing while pulling out a chunk of hair with the other. The other girl was suspended and skyrocketed higher than ever while the popular girl who started the fight became little more than a laughing stock with a temporary bald spot.

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    #21

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up Well, after he planted a pipe bomb in some kid's locker for looking at the girl he liked wrong, everything just went downhill from there.

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    #22

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up Started straight up lying to teachers to get people in trouble. Don't know how he thought that was gonna work out.

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    #23

    The popular kid was a grade below me. One night, he (16, if I remember correctly) was driving his friend (another popular kid but one who was nice to me) late at night. The driver only had a permit and shouldn't have been driving. He crashed the car badly. The friend died in the car while the guy was taking pictures of himself, sad that he wrecked the car. According to those who saw the pictures, he didn't try to help. This was also a few weeks before junior prom and was very sudden. He was no longer a popular kid after that.

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    #24

    When she made fun of me in front of everyone, for wearing a yellow shirt to school. It was just a plain yellow shirt and she somehow found a way to mock the colour. It was so unnecessary, and made her look like someone who was just rude for no reason. Everyone quickly realized that she thought people were automatically on her side cause she was somewhat rich, and she just became a joke after that.

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    #25

    She got cellphones banned at my high school. We used to be able to use them between classes and at lunch. There was a group chat all the popular kids were in, and they said they didn't think she'd win homecoming queen cause she was too mean to everyone. She reported them for bullying, and they banned cellphones even though the messages were sent after school hours. Guess who did not win homecoming queen after doing that?

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    #26

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up She was an aspiring singer songwriter and she had a YouTube channel. It was discovered that she was lip syncing in a lot of her singing videos. She actually was a good singer and after Highschool she had a bit of success so idk why she bothered lip syncing.

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    #27

    There was a kid who wasn't really known until his senior year. He decided to lie and say that he won a bunch of money on a scratch ticket. He even photoshopped a ticket and posted it on MySpace. The guy was popular overnight. He showed up to school with a new truck with spinners on it (remember those?). Then, his friend outed him for lying, and people instantly hated him. He went from being invisible to popular to hated by everybody.

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    #28

    “I’m Guessing He Was Very Popular In Prison”: 28 Times Popular Kids Seriously Messed Up The kid had cancer, was super cool while he was doing chemo, cancer went into remission and he became a total douche.

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