We all want to find our identity. To capitalize on it. For some, it can take a lifetime. For others, mere seconds. Even if it doesn't belong to them.
There is a subreddit called r/ActLikeYouBelong and it has 520K members. Why so many, you ask? It shares stories, pictures, and videos of people pretending to be someone they're not!
From a man posing as a delivery driver and stealing beer to a girl faking her way into a music festival as a photographer, you'll be surprised how many of these evil geniuses get away with it, too.
#1 If It Was A Popeyes Then I Would Too
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#2 The Madlass Thief
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#3 Dad Couldn’t Get A Reservation At A Restaurant, Calls Back Pretending To Be Prime Minister Of Morocco. Gets Best Seat In The House And Signs A Plate For The Chef
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#4 Back When Aol Was A Thing
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#5 Youtube Streamer Pretends To Play Ufc So He Could Stream The Entire Ppv Without Being Copyrighted
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#6 Getting Backstage With Wikipedia
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#7 This Lady Was In A Search Party Looking For... Herself!
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#8 Can Substitute Uniform For Clipboard
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#9 Women Are Not Allowed To Attend Soccer Matches In Iran. 5 Girls Sneak In Azadi Stadium In Disguise To Celebrate Persepolis Championship In Iran's Persian Gulf Pro League
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#10 It's Cold Outside And I Was Tired Of Standing. Found A Pen And Paper And Now I'm With Stats And Press
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#11 Daron Malakian (Guitarist Of System Of A Down) Pretending To Be A Random Fan And Telling A Magazine How Great The Band Is (1999)
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#12 Spotted This One Out In The Wild
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#13 My Dad Disguising Himself To Get In The Yearbook Twice (1980s)
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#14 Mom Of The Year Or.... Dad Of The Year ?
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#15 Looking Out For Real Brothers
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#16 I Give Y'all Permission Too
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#17 Man Brings Life Jacket, Nerf Guns, And Vacuum To A 2nd Amendment Protest
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#18 Commit To The Bit
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#19 The Story Of Emmanuel Nwude And The Imaginary Airport Isn’t As Simple As Those Emails You Get From Time To Time Asking For Your Bank Details, But The Essential Elements – Nigeria And Scamming Are Present And Correct
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#20 One Of The Largest Actlikeyoubelong Operations In History
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#21 The Ol Miss Frizzle Disguise
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#22 I Was Cleaning The Basement And Found This. My Daughter And Her Boyfriend Made These And Walked Right Into A Concert. No Questions Asked.
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#23 Snuck Into A Festival Using Bottles Of Water And A Hi Vis Vest
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#24 Snuck Into Vip Section Of A Concert. We Noticed The Special Wristbands Looked Awfully Simaler To Our Water Bottle Wrappers
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#25 Nothing To See Here Just A Very Realistic Mannequin
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#26 Man Stole $122m From Facebook And Google By Sending Them Random Bills, Which The Companies Dutifully Paid
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#27 Comedian Gallagher Saw Me Signing To My Deaf Son In Front Of The Stage At His Show In Alaska And Assumed I Was An Interpreter For Him. I Signed The Whole Show On Stage (Me Far Left)
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#28 Mad Lad Eats For Free
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#29 The Day I Pretended To Be Tmz To Get This Photo Of Tom Hiddleston.
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#30 A Few Years Ago I Impersonated A Journalist To Get Into Bernie Sanders' Press Conference For The Release Of His Book, Got On TV, And Then Told Him Afterwards What I Did
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#31 Trying To Convince My Dad To Sneak Into A Cubs Game As Joe Maddon
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#32 Don't Know If This Counts, But I Found This Interesting
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#33 That Will Be 9.95$ With Senior Discount
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#34 There's Brazen And Then There's This
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#35 Repost? Maybe. Jaw Dropping? Definitely
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#36 A Powerful Weapon In Your Arsenal
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#37 A Scientist That Changed Many Lives And Did What He Loved Until His Death.
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#38 Credit To U/Gardenley
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#39 I Might Try This Myself
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#40 Unauthorized Man Sneaks On Stage Of The 2018 Olympic Ceremonies
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#41 Pretend To Be A Cop? Get Arrest By An Off Duty One.
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#42 Zimbabwe Army Took Over The State TV Station And Told People There's No Indication That A Military Coup Is Happening
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#43 This Kid From My School Is An Absolute Legend. Just Read The Caption Below The Picture.
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#44 Just Doing Some Gardening
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#45 I’m 15 And I Snuck Into An Invite Only Chance The Rapper(My Favorite Artist Ever) Event As A “Photographer.” I Just Walked In With My Camera With No Questions Asked. Shook His Hand And Exchanged Hellos.
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#46 Just Found This Subreddit I Have Been Seeing Movies For Free For About A Year Now After Finding This In The Bin Of 3D Glasses At The Theatre
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#47 Sometimes You Need A Little Make-Up To Blend In
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#48 The Vest Is Really Important
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#49 My Dad Snuck Onto Stage After Tailgating All Day Without A Ticket For The Singing Of ‘We Are The World’ At Live Aid Philadelphia In 1985 (In The Red Collared Golf Shirt)
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#50 Stealing A Building
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#51 My Friend And I Pushing Stock Around Walmart In Yellow Vests. We Don’t Work At Walmart.
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#52 If You Wear A High Vis Vest (The Orange Ones) People Ignore You And You Can Make Fake Ads And Put Em In Phonebooths... If You Have The Keys
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#53 Me With An Inside-Out Vest Covered In Painter’s Tape, My Mom’s Toolbag, A Clipboard With Miscellaneous Marine Documents And Some Bullshit Charts, And A Hardhat On - Nearly Making It Into A Marine Scrapyard Completely Unnoticed
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#54 If Anyone Asks If You're A Celebrity, Say Yes And Play Along.
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#55 Got Into A Party With Pieces Of Paper Coated In Highlighter Fluid And Drawn Ridges.
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#56 Sigma Males Dont Pay For Drugs
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#57 Painted This Mural Illegally During Daytime By Acting Like I Belonged
I put a plastic cover over the ground, installed a ladder and put on painting overalls. The mural is on a trail connecting two neighbourhoods so there were frequent passerby, people walking dogs, etc.. I basically ignored them and kept working calmly. Only one dude tried to call my bluff. He shouted something like ‘hey stop, what are you doing?’, but i didn’t look up and only turned around a few seconds later to pick up a different color, so he assumed i was legit.
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#58 Auburn Player Joins Georgia's Huddle
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#59 60 Different People Carrying Sports Bags And Drinks To A Gym, But Slap On A High Vis And Boom, You're A Decorator.
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#60 I Think The Photo Says It All
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#61 Acted Like I Had A First Class Train Ticket
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#62 1st Date, We Pretended To Be Homebuyers And Visited Open Houses In The Area
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#63 I Got Into A Robotics Tournament Using This
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#64 Ed Sheeran Impersonator Gets Into Ksi vs. Logan Paul Fight + Exclusive Nightclub
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#65 I Am An Amateur Photographer. I Sneaked With The Press Photographers On My City Fashion Week Event.
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#66 Got A Job!
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#67 Smoking
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#68 I Go To The Local Hospital Cafeteria For Lunch Every So Often. I Dress In Khaki Pants And A Button-Down Shirt While Looking Generally Happy To Be There. Gets Me A 30% Employee Discount Everytime.
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#69 Humans Imitating Pandas So Cubs Have No "Real" Interactions With Humans
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#70 Fly Casually...
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#71 The Guy Wearing A Fake Uniform And Trying To Cross The Border, Caught By Border Control.
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#72 The Lady Wearing Black Was Being Followed By A Weirdo , She Noticed A Twitch/Youtube Streamer And Pretended To Be His Friend , His Reaction Is Quick
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#73 As Badass As It Gets. A Lone Black Man Attends A Klan Rally And Cross Burning In Jackson, Mississippi 1950.
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#74 I Wish I Had That Confidence But Also People Like That Intimidate Me
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#75 Me In The F1 Press Centre
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#76 Real Life Catch Me If You Can
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#77 Got Off The Bus, Walked Through The Foyer, Lay Down On One Of These Nice Shaded Bench Things And Now Im Chilling. Waiters Keep On Walking By But They Don't Seem To Care. Aloha Baby!
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#78 Just Be Quiet Franku
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#79 A 16-Year-Old Detained During Protests In Russia For Dressing Up As A Policeman And Trying To Join A Column Of Security Forces
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#80 Avoided Paying Bar Cover The Past 2 Years By Drawing The Stamps With A Felt Tip Pen And Smudging It Barely
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#81 He Tried His Hardest
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#82 Saw This Gem On The Road Today And Wanted To Share (Santa Fe, Texas).
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#83 "Police Say This Isn't The First Time"
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#84 A Few Years Back I Was At A Festival And I Saw A Guy From This Band I Really Liked So I Went Up And Said Hello. While We Were Having A Chat These People Came Up And Said "Omg We Love You Guys, Can We Get A Photo? Anyways, Thats How I Was Mistaken As A Member Of Courtney Barnett's Band (Me On Right)
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#85 My Friend And I Got Into A Bunch Of Rides At A Carnival With These “Tickets”
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#86 How To Attend E3 For Free Without Really Trying.
A few days before E3 we did some research on what the food/drink set up would be like. And decided that going in dressed as bartenders/general help would be the best route. We had most of the clothes, and a friend of mine loaned us the aprons.
Once we were inside we found out what the name of the catering service, and used that information to get a lady at a information booth to walk us through security. Unsurprisingly enough, a lady from a conference room asked to place an order with us, we took it and went to a kitchen nearby and gave the order to the kitchen manager. She questioned us a bit on who we were, but we didn't break. Gave her our middle names in place of our first names (didn't want to lie too much, I know weird) and went on our way. We tried to get into the Sony/Nintendo room, but was denied entry due to lack of conference badges, and almost got kicked out.
We almost gave up, but decided to go back the way we initially entered. Once we were back on the main floor, we figured why not try to get into the main conference room with Microsoft, Activision, Ubisoft, etc. If we couldn't, we still had a great time. So we monitored the door and saw that out every five people entering the main room, only one person's badge was getting scanned. So we casually got into a crowd of people and walked in. It was an amazing feeling being surrounded by the sets for games like Marvel vs. Capcom to Shadow of War. But most importantly we got to see the Destiny 2 set up and watch a bunch of gameplay. The best thing about all of this was getting to go on a fun/risky trip with one of my best friends and it only cost us a parking fee of $4 to attend E3 for free.
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#87 1 Year Ago Today, I Made My Way Into A Press Conference Regarding A Massive Local Fire. A Little Confidence And A Decent Looking Camera Go A Long Way.
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