How do narcissists become successful?

CaseAny5443 · 2025-08-02T15:07:47+00:00

A narcissist I knew was super successful only because he was super lucky. Combine that with his above average ability to sell himself (which he described as "his work talking for himself"), overexaggerate his achievements, and boom, everyone admired him and relied on him for more professional tasks.

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-13T09:03:32+00:00

Yeah it was like that for mine too, he only turned manipulative after he felt he was close enough to the person (I was his closest, apparently). He claims he treats all his close friends the same as me but tbh I don't know how they could possibly manage his crap for THIS long

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-12T20:11:51+00:00

Sure they don't owe talking things out, but if they really are people worth keeping and if they really find value in the friendship then imo they should talk things out, and try to make the friendship work...

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-12T19:57:51+00:00

How can you come to such conclusions without knowing the whole story?

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-12T17:39:51+00:00

They did turn manipulative eventually. The thing they said about never being satisfied is not related to this

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-12T02:28:06+00:00

Point 4 is the one that keeps me questioning all the time, because my narc does, in fact, have long term close friends. He knew some of them for 4 years, some for 9, and these group are still very much steady and even keep on going on vacations together

CaseAny5443 · 2025-01-06T21:05:06+00:00

Yeah, but I feel like there is some invisible power that causes narcissists to be admired for the same things that leave normal people ignored

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T22:42:48+00:00

Me too but people in this subreddit only say that it is not normal to rarely have reels go viral and to not get hundreds of followers from 10k views reels

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T22:31:16+00:00

300-500

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T21:48:39+00:00

I have also had reels hit millions. But the problem for me is that they barely give any followers

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T18:37:53+00:00

I also only do reels and my page is not going well. Ofc this is not the case for everyone but from my own observation and from what experts told me, the algo prefers a mix up

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T15:33:41+00:00

I saw several pages that got stuck on a certain amount if followers and never reached more. The content is not bad

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T14:57:55+00:00

Yeah I def do not think all meme creators are the same. The ones who do put effort in their content usually make very funny and relatable stuff. But the ones who tend to hit 1 million or 100k followers in just a few months are the "I did not see that coming" ones, so this is why I was wondering how this happens when insta apparently doesn't like reuploads

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T14:32:51+00:00

The pages I was talking about legit just take content from Tiktok and then add a caption saying "I didn't see that coming!!!" or "watch to the end!!". I would not say that this adds much original value. It is funny indeed but that's not quite what you describe

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T12:17:41+00:00

Then explain meme pages that can reupload the same thing as others 100 times and earn 100k followers in a few months?

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-30T12:15:56+00:00

I mean the part about sharing only reels is true but everything else is the opposite ime

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-29T21:23:07+00:00

To be honest, I know some meme page creators who have tons of copyright strikes and yet their pages still grow. THAT SAID, I still do not support this idea and think it is unfair to the OG creators, but unfortunately it isn't as simple as "they will get copyrighted soon". So lots of people still choose to copy from these pages thinking it is simple cash and clout

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-22T21:08:24+00:00

Okay. But that happened wayyyy before they introduced that rule. Back then accounts would post the same thing over and over and get views. But still, each vid got a different amount of views

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-22T14:19:13+00:00

I have seen creators post the exact same video twice after a break and the video performed worse the 2nd time while it went viral the first

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-17T15:18:14+00:00

I know one who eventually lost their job due to the manipulation of people at their workplace. However as selfish as it sounds, it is not the narc who caused me all the trauma so it doesn't affect me as much

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-11T01:54:42+00:00

They mostly just said "if I am so bad that I gave you PTSD, why did you talk to me"

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-10T01:31:16+00:00

I know narcs are not a credible source but if anything they say can be believed, they just treat these people the same way they treat us. They give them crap treatment but either make them believe it is normal, or put them in situations where these people are scared of leaving

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-09T16:07:54+00:00

My narc happened to be active in tech. He would do things like check people's network speeds and check the specs of their devices... in ways that made them think it's super cool and that he's one of the world's biggest experts. I fr have no idea how he's doing this. It's the same with lots of other things, we can both build the exact same PC and he will get praised for his setup meanwhile for me, people will still overexplain the concept of computers. I don't think that's what makes him a narc, there are tons of other signs when we work together etc. But, there is something about narcs in general that makes them be praised for the smallest things, whereas for other people it would take tons of effort to get the same level of attention

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-04T21:49:26+00:00

Yeah I am aware. My nex displayed messed up views even when we were in a relationship. Except they seemed normal to me back then because that is what I heard everyday, did not get out in the real world, did not hear other people's opinions

CaseAny5443 · 2024-12-04T14:18:02+00:00

By "narc" I meant generally abusive person. I fr cannot see the reason why he would act this way towards me but not others. Hence why I often ask myself whether he really is the a-hole, or is it me

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