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Originally Posted by Pudge714
If Manti is the victim of a hoax, than he is also an opportunistic douchebag who leveraged a relationship with a girl who he has only contacted via text and social media through the Mainstream Media.
This absolutely.
I doubt this was his main goal, though. I think his main goal was just to be able to believe he had some super special relationship with some super special girl and tell himself that. The kind of guy who puts a girl on a massive pedestal and gets off on worshipping her even if it's some completely bogus relationship and he doesn't know anything about her. It's all fantasyland and he intentionally built it way, way up, and yes compulsively lied about it to tell the story.
But I bet it's true that it started as a hoax and he legitimately thought he was in a relationship with a real person.