This just confirms (again) what we’ve known all along, she’s a lurker who probably has Tattle open on one phone and Twitter on the other.
I’m quite interested in the psychology of this though. If I was a jackanory and I read how many people had caught me out in so many lies, my stomach would drop and I’d feel “caught”. I would love to know if she would react the same but don’t see how she can. Does this fuel her behaviour - is it part of the game or does she feel like we’re just out to get her because she sees nothing wrong in what she’s doing? I find it quite fascinating but also very worrying.
I used to be quite a bit like Jack. In my experience:
Yes, she does feel caught and it is very humiliating for her, but she has ways of coping with this. Firstly her lies are impulsive and she usually doesn't think ahead too much about how not to get caught, so she's not worried ahead of time, at the moment of telling the lie. Secondly she draws comfort from the fact that she does still have many supporters, as well as a media career, and that her lying is not widely known. She will not be too worried yet, as she still feels in control of the narrative.
She will view each bit of evidence against her as separate, unimportant entities, and very minor and inconsequental things. Consequently, she doesn't feel overly worried or like a dishonest person, because she doesn't feel the full force of the whole picture of her lies.
Jack exaggerates as a matter of course, both for attention, and for the innocent reason that exaggerating and over-the-top language is her natural sense of humour. But this sense of humour and constant exaggerated desensitises both her, and her followers, to when she lies. This isn't really a conscious choice.
As you all know, she also twists the narrative so that any questioning of her is turn arouns into her being a victim of bullying. This is so that she herself doesn't have to confront her own lies, and also to control the narrative. This is helped along by the current climate of handwringing about social media "hate", "cyberbullying", "Trolling" yada yada.
She partly believes this and truly does see herself as a victim. For example, seeing the evidence against her as separate and unimportant, means that she feels that people are ridiculous, silly obsessive bullies to make a fuss out of any of it. She also enjoys victimhood as it makes her feel worthy. And she sees herself as a nice person and a hero.
As for if she knows she's lying, yes she does. The difference is her lies are very immersive. She is pretending to herself, and part of the acting and role playing is for herself more than anyone else. She is acting out her own movie in her head. Tie this into the deep emotional needs that are driving her lies - an unstable identity causing her to desparately create them for herself. Add in anxiety, a most importantly of all, the need to be praised like a small child - and you have many layers covering up the natural discomfort that normal people feel when lying.
She comes on here obsessively, like a schoolgirl obsessed with finding out what her enemy is saying about her. BUT on top of that she loves the attention and it makes her feel noticed and special. I think she does things on social media (the way she words things) specifically to get a reaction on here.
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