On the World Wide Web, you can be anyone you want to be. It is easy to hide your true identity behind a screen and pretend to live another life and totally hide yours, to an extent, anyway. Making up fake personas and fake lives seems to be a peculiar hobby for many folks.

People like to get online karma and take credit for cool things, so they use other people's photos and fake stories to get some attention. The issue arises when they get called out for it by the sleuths of the internet who are able to recognize or find proof against the original poster's story. It is embarrassing but really funny to see these people's lies come crumbling down when they thought they had it all worked out.

Reddit's is home to a subreddit that exposes all of these online liars. There are so many of them out there who just forget all about a digital footprint and their lies are so easily revealed. Here are 22 of those very awkward yet hilarious moments.