My friend, we'll call Madison (27F), and I (24M/NB) have been friends for almost 6 years. We even dated(kind of, long story) for a while, but that's besides the point.
Back in 2019, we have a mutual online friend we'll call Tyler (26M). He's super friendly, outgoing, extroverted and very brotherly to both of us, especially to Madison. There were many nights where Madison would hang out on video calls with him, do watch parties, etc. I realized now that many hangouts usually happened when I wasn't physically available. Though I do remember several occasions where I joined them on a voice call for movie nights. He always stuck to the chats when I was around and said he was only comfortable talking to a couple of people because of an insecurity he had around a speech impediment. He was comfortable with Madison since he'd known her since early High School. I respected that as much as I could and let it be.
Now in 2025, I've still never heard his voice or seen his face. I've texted with him on multiple occasions (him often being the one to intiate), and even chatted online with his boyfriend (now husband) through our shared Discord servers with other friends on various platforms, and had a genuine friendship with this guy. I considered him my brother and confided in him for many things. The only thing I didn't like about him was that many of our conversations always led back to Madison being the main topic. He was always asking how she was, if I've checked on her enough, and he'd often explain "I remember her being like this personality-wise, so maybe do this specific thing for her", and often giving unsolicited advice. There were sometimes he'd even say things like "If I wasn't gay, she'd probably be the first person I'd date, you're really lucky" and things like that. Usually, he was correct and helpful in his advice and assumptions. I welcomed his care for her, knowing it supported my own thoughts and feelings about her at that time.
He had officially moved to Thailand earlier this year with his husband, so it's been a little harder for some people to contact him, but he still replies pretty quickly whenever I text him.
I had a brief situation a couple of days ago with some work where I needed a computer, but I wasn't at home because of a Friendsgiving thing. Madison living close by, I ask her if I could borrow her Mac for a little bit. She's usually glued to it so I was a little scared she wouldn't let me, but she agreed and let me use it, which I'm very grateful for.
She originally had opened Safari for me to use, but I needed to access some files from my google drive so I went to chrome and went to put in a new profile temporarily so I could access my things.
I saw a profile for Tyler among about a dozen other profiles with several names I recognized as other online friends or people I've come across on social media. I thought it was interesting since I don't think Madison and Tyler have ever met in person, so I know that either she had gotten his login information for some reason, or maybe created a profile using the same names as friends for a fun and unique reason, I don't really know, but it was a little weird.
I ignored it for a bit and finished my work but I couldn't help but be curious about it. I clicked on Tyler's and it pulled up a window that had several tabs already open, including Discord, and Google Voice/Phone Number that only had me as a contact. I pulled out my phone and texted the number, watched it pop up on the screen, and stared at it. Tyler usually responds quickly, so I waited a moment but nothing came. Madison had already gone to her room to lay down and scroll tiktok so I decided to go ahead and open some of the other profiles. Each of them had Discord and Instagram bookmarked, some of them had other things too, but they were mostly random, only discord and instagram were the same, and they were all first in the bookmark bar. All the ones I clicked on were already logged into accounts of the friends we have. Some of the profiles also have multiple gmails, all under different names but still mostly vaguely familiar to me.
Opening one of the other discord bookmarks, I noticed this one didn't have anything except for 1 server called "Lounge". I clicked on it and noticed it was all of the same people as the google profiles, plus some of the other gmails I saw. There were several channels, all pretty standard to other servers I've been in but many of them empty except for the "main chat". All of the accounts had messages with weird sequences of letters and numbers, some put email addresses, there were a few of their profile photos, etc. I took note of one of them being from a guy we knew online named JJ, and it said "jj, yahoo, 84, pw:serafim". I made note of that one specifically but he died over a year ago but it was the last message in the server, from spring of this year. But then again, he was an online friend and I heard about his passing through Madison and Tyler. I have no idea what it means but most of the messages were similar format.
I closed out of everything, made sure to sign out of my own profile, made sure my work was done and returned the laptop but I'm not sure what to do.
A part of me wonders if these are real people (I've never met any of them in person) that's she's somehow gotten the information of or if this is some kind of a multi-identity catfish situation. It's been a couple of days now and I still haven't gotten a text back from Tyler, and that's bugging me. JJ's account being there also bugged me a lot. I don't think I would have cared as much if I weren't "friends" with a majority of these accounts. Being the only contact for a few of them was also a red flag, but maybe I'm assuming too much?
I'm not sure whether to ask Madison about it or not.
TL;DR: My friend has a lot of suspicious google profiles and accounts logged into her laptop, including people we know, and someone who is supposed to be dead??, and my gut says she's hiding something. Would it be okay to ask her about these directly, do I leave it be, what would you do in this situation?