People tell lies for lots of different reasons. Sometimes it's to avoid telling an unbearable truth, sometimes it's to keep a secret, sometimes it's for personal gain. Being online makes it easy to tell lies to the whole world. People can say whatever they want on any forum or in any comment section and most of the time no one will ever know if what they're saying is true or not. This isn't always the case, though.

Sometimes things line up perfectly so that someone who knows the truth can call out the liars in a cold act of public online shame. The digital footprint is a real thing, and it can help online sleuths connect strings (such as through Reddit post history) in order to catch someone in a lie. Reddit's /r/quityourbulls**t is a subreddit dedicated to collecting accounts of people getting called out and caught in their lies, often with the proof attached, which just adds that extra layer of satisfaction. Here are 18 cringeworthy yet satisfying moments of people getting their lies busted wide open.