Originally Posted by
morsdraconis
For what it's worth, the very first article to talk about all this shit (the deadspin one) talked about how Te'o knew the dude who faked all this shit BEFORE the whole fake girlfriend thing happened. That alone makes me think that Te'o is in on it. There were FAR too many fake twitter things happening for this not to be deception that was planned out far ahead of time.
The biggest thing for me though in all of this is, if Te'o didn't know about it at all, then what was the motivation for the dude who did this to do it? He's not getting money out of it. He was supposedly friends with Te'o before it happened. Even if he did it to humiliate Te'o, why would he let it go for so long before leaking something about it all being fake? Motive points to it being a setup by Te'o the entire time and, without sufficient evidence to the contrary, I just don't see how it can't be that.