👻 FakeMessage — Fake Discord Messages & Calls (Vencord / Equicord Plugin)

Create pixel-perfect fake Discord messages, call logs and incoming-call screens, all rendered by Discord itself. Use it for pranks, mockups, tutorials and screenshots. It runs only on your client, and nobody else sees it.

FakeMessage is a Vencord / Equicord plugin that puts a message into any channel as if another user had sent it, with their real avatar, username, role color and timestamp. The message never leaves your client. Discord's own message component renders it, so it looks and behaves exactly like a real one.

Quick install (needs a Vencord or Equicord source build):

git clone https://github.com/elioflex/fakeMessage && cp -R fakeMessage/FakeMessage Vencord/src/userplugins/

Then run pnpm build, restart Discord, and enable FakeMessage. Full steps are under Install.

What people use it for

• 😂 Pranks on your own screen with friends in the room
• 🎨 Mockups of bot replies, server welcome messages or UI ideas, without needing a test server
• 🎥 Tutorials and videos showing a conversation without real DMs
• 🧪 Testing how themes and CSS snippets render messages

Demo

Watch the whole flow: click the 👻 button, search for who should have sent it, type, and hit Insert — the fake lands in the chat, and right-clicking it offers Remove Fake Message.

Features

• 👻 Chat bar button — a ghost button at the left of the message input. Click it, search for the person who should appear to have sent the message, type, and hit Insert. Shown by default; hide it anytime via Show chat bar button in plugin settings.
• 📞 Fake calls — a phone button next to the ghost button drops realistic call log entries in DMs: "11PM called · 5m 12s", or a red missed call. Pick the person, set the duration, hit Insert.
• 📲 Incoming call screen — a ringing-phone button shows a full-screen incoming call: the caller's avatar with a pulsing ring, their name, and green accept / red decline buttons. Accepting starts a live fake call timer until you hang up. Purely visual — no real call is dialed.
• 🎯 Slash commands — /fakemessage user: @bob content: hey check this out drops a fake message; /fakecall user: @bob duration: 5:12 missed: true minutes-ago: 30 drops a fake call entry.
• 🖱 Context menus — right-click any user → Fake Message (pre-selected for you); right-click a fake message → Remove Fake Message / Remove Fake Call.
• ⏱ Backdating — the fake slots into history at the right position with the matching timestamp.
• 💾 Persistence — fakes survive restarts and channel switches (stored in plugin settings, toggleable).
• 🔒 Client-side only — nothing is uploaded, synced, or sent. Nobody else sees your fakes.

How it looks

Real avatar, real username, real role color, real timestamp, markdown, <@mention> highlighting, bot tags, and automatic grouping with the same author's real messages — all rendered by Discord's own CSS because the fake is injected into the real message store.

Install

You need a source build of Vencord or Equicord, plus git, Node.js and pnpm.

1. Copy the FakeMessage folder into Vencord/src/userplugins/ (or Equicord/src/userplugins/; create the folder if it doesn't exist).
2. Rebuild with pnpm build (or your dev watcher). If this is a fresh setup, also run pnpm inject with Discord closed.
3. Restart Discord, then enable FakeMessage under Settings → Vencord (or Equicord) → Plugins.

Usage

Way	How
Ghost button	Click the 👻 button in the chat input bar → search a user (or paste a user ID) → type → Insert
Call button	Click the 📞 button → pick the other person → set duration (mm:ss) or toggle Missed call → Insert
Incoming button	Click the 📲 button → pick the caller → Call → full-screen ringing overlay with accept / decline
Command	/fakemessage user: <user> content: <text> [minutes-ago: <n>] or /fakecall user: <user> [duration: mm:ss] [missed: true] [minutes-ago: <n>]
User context menu	Right-click any user → Fake Message
Clean up	Right-click a fake message → Remove Fake Message / Remove Fake Call, or Settings → Clear all fake messages
Hide the buttons	Turn Show 👻 chat bar button / Show 📞 call button / Show 📲 incoming button off in plugin settings — commands and context menus still work

How it works

MessageStore.getMessages(channelId) is wrapped in a Proxy that merges the channel's real messages with any stored fakes, sorted by timestamp. Each fake is built by cloning a real Message record (same prototype, every field) and swapping in the real User object, new content, and timestamp — so Discord's renderer can't tell the difference. The underlying store is never mutated, so nothing ever syncs to Discord's servers.

Privacy

• Everything stays on your machine in Discord's local settings storage.
• Fake messages are visible only to you. Other people never see them, and Discord's servers never receive them.
• The fakes are not real: replying to or editing one hits Discord's API and fails harmlessly. Use Remove Fake Message to clean up.

Known limitations

• Links in fakes don't auto-fetch embeds (Discord only embeds messages it received from the server).
• No attachments / reactions / stickers — text, markdown, and mentions only.
• Fakes don't move the unread divider or notify anyone (they're client-side).
• Fake calls appear in the chat log only; the incoming-call screen is a purely visual overlay (no audio, nothing contacts the other side).

Responsible use

FakeMessage is for fun and for building things. Don't use it to fake evidence, impersonate someone to scam or harass them, or pass fake screenshots off as real. That can break Discord's rules and the law, and it hurts real people. Client mods are also against Discord's Terms of Service, so use this at your own risk.

Contributing

Bug reports, ideas and PRs are welcome. If it made you laugh, a ⭐ helps other people find it.

License

GPL-3.0-or-later — same as Vencord.