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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Elfwing on 2025-08-11 14:38:39+00:00.

This happened years ago, but it still haunts me.

Some backstory: Me and my best friend were ruthlessly uncool when we were fifteen. Not in the “oh, they’re a bit quirky” kind of way, but in the “oh, they’re autistic, only watch anime and listen to K-pop, let’s dump their clothes in the PE locker room toilet” kind of way.

Because of this, we thrived on academic validation and spent most of our time hiding in the school library, avoiding all human interaction.

One day, during one of these library hangouts, we found Sweden’s largest baby name website. It let you see the meaning of a name, plus stats on how many people had it. On the front page was a list of recently searched names and a separate one for the most searched names this month.

For fun, we decided to search for a completely ridiculous name no one could possibly have - think something along the lines of “Gorp” or “Poopi.” To our surprise, two people in Sweden did have that name.

Naturally, we decided to make this our new hobby: spamming that name’s search over and over during all of our breaks so it would always be on both the “recently searched” and the “most popular names this month” lists on the front page. We kept this up for two months straight. No sleep. No social interaction. Only spamming.

Then we moved on to a new hyperfixation (I think this was around the start of our Haikyuu phase) and completely forgot about it.

Fast forward five years. We’re older, less depressed, and actually have friends. We suddenly remembered our “Gorp” bit and decided to revisit the website.

That’s when we saw it. There were now seven people in Sweden with that name.

Unless there was a sudden influx of Danish people with ugly names, the only explanation is that our bit actually worked.

So yeah, if you’re Swedish, born around 2015, and your name is ugly… I’m sorry

TL;DR: When I was 15, my friend and I spammed a Swedish baby name site with a ridiculous name as a joke so it stayed on the front page. Five years later, there are five more kids in Sweden with that name and it’s probably our fault.