Update: AITA for ruining my brother’s childhood memory by admitting I photoshopped it 14 years ago?

Hello again Reddit! My post from a week ago got quite a lot of attention. Reading through all the comments was an experience, thank you all for sharing your thoughts (and gently or not so gently humbling me). Apparently, the consensus is that I'm kind of an a-hole, but like a well-meaning one? I'll take it.

The thing that amused me the most, though, was how everyone just assumed I'm my brother's older brother. For the record, I never said that! Could be his sister, could be his sibling— it's 2024, people, let's not default to dudes all the time.

Anyways, a lot of people told me to find a way to contact Daniel Radcliffe for real and get some kind of message to my brother. While I appreciate the ambition, I don't exactly have Daniel's number lying around, and cold-calling celebrities isn't in my skill set. Besides, I figured my brother might appreciate a bit of humour over me spiralling into some overly elaborate apology plan. We hadn't seen each other since my post, but we finally met up saturday, and I brought him a new photoshopped picture of 20-year-old him with Daniel Radcliffe, captioned ''Reunited at last.'' I just made it on my phone, and thankfully, he loved it (and definitely doesn't think it's real this time)

Seriously though, we had another conversation about the whole situation. My brother said it was still crappy to find out like this, and so late, but that he appreciates me telling the truth. I asked him about the memory and how it felt so real to him, since a lot of comments were wondering that too. He said that, looking back, it's possible he knew it wasn't real at first but started telling a story about it to impress his friends, and somewhere along the way, he started believing his own hype.

I also told him about the Reddit post, and we had a good laugh reading through some of the comments together. But when I jokingly asked if I could share either photo, he gave me a hard no. So, sorry, reddit, these masterpieces stay in the family!