In today’s day and age, a lot of people make profiles on dating apps to try and find the right partner. Between the pandemic and our busy schedules, it’s hard to spontaneously go out and meet people the “old fashion way” at a bar or even out in a park.
Now, we use social media, dating apps, and even websites and blogs to connect with someone we can vibe with.
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It’s hard to know the person online
The hard part about dating apps and social media is that you can’t really get to “know” someone. Dating apps are a great way to introduce you to someone you may have never met before, but you can’t truly know someone through a screen.
Instead, it takes a few dates in-person to truly know who you’re talking to. And even then things can totally go south.
Catfishing is a real issue online
When talking to people online, there is always the possibility that someone could be ‘catfishing’ you. Catfishing is when someone uses fake photos and poses as someone else in order to match or gain attention from somebody.
Unfortunately this means you’re never too sure that you’re actually talking to that person until you meet them face-to-face.
Things aren’t always what they seem
Sometimes people appear different online than they are in person. Texting allows people to ‘fake it’ and think things through before they answer or chat back, leaving the door open to a lot of possible phoniness.
Some people appear charming when they speak to you over text, but in-person, they’re not so great. Sometimes they may even blow their own cover by mistake and reveal it before you even get to the first date.
A bad experience with dating apps
Recently, one TikTok user Samantha revealed how she found out her ‘date’ was a dreadful person. Samantha shared the texts she had exchanged with a man named Jake who she had met on Bumble.
The two were supposed to meet on a date that evening after work. Jake had said he would be in work attire, as Samantha would be too. But then Jake made a huge mistake.
He sent a text to the wrong person
Jake sent Samantha a text that he had “meant to send to a friend.” He sent her a picture of herself and proceeded to bash her. Jake was telling his “friend” that Samantha was a “4” at best and that he was desperate.
He said he saw her chest and figured she was an easy lay. Basically, he outed himself, proving that he only wanted to sleep with her.
She decided not to meet up with him
Many people commented on her video and said that he was a “monster” and that it seemed that he intentionally sent her that message.
But not many people make the mistake of texting the wrong person—especially a whole photo and story like that. Samantha agreed that it seemed a little too on the nose to be a mistake.
Viewers were interested in her response
Samantha said that she decided not to respond to Jake and his rude messages. I mean, what would one even respond to that? She said she had no intention of seeing him and had nothing to really say back to him after he was so rude.
He was upset by the TikToks
After seeing Samantha’s viral videos on TikTok, which had been viewed over 1 million times, Jake was annoyed. He called her out for not showing up on their date, and then said she was wrong for making a TikTok video about what happened.
He kept angry-texting her
When she didn’t respond—again—he kept trolling her, being awfully rude and saying that she just has to learn to take a joke.
He claimed the photo and texts were supposed to be funny and then proceeded to tell her “no one would date” her unless she took the videos down. He also claimed she “catfished” him, and then said that she was fat and he’s “just not into fat girls.”
Samantha spoke to her followers
The TikToker later spoke about the whole situation with her followers. She was awfully confused by how she could be catfishing this guy when she uses all of her own photos.
She also said she “doesn’t claim to be a 10 or an Instagram model,” but knows that she brings a lot to the table. Many people reached out and said she is “a 10” and more than perfect.
This wild ride didn’t end there
A few days after what Samantha likely assumed was her last video on the matter, there was a development.
She started the new video by saying she’s beginning to believe that “Jake” might not actually be real, and instead be a second, side profile made by a guy named Cody. She started to believe this after receiving a random text from Cody, who she matched with on Bumble before she ever matched with Jake.
Cody claimed they had texted before
Cody’s first message to Samantha on Bumble said that they had texted before. So Samantha asked him to prove it by texting her again, saying if this was true, she’d still have all the old messages. Lo and behold, he does text her, but there’s no chat history to be had with his number. He immediately gets pretty hostile with her, and that’s where she starts realizing something.
“Do y’all not see the similarities between him and Jake?” She asks her audience, “[…] the way that they talk, like the bad grammar […] notice how fast he got mad, how he jumped to calling me fat […].” she said.
Cody’s social media had a shady follower
She then noted that Cody’s Instagram had an interesting follower. It was another account that had quite a number of similar photos, but zero followers, and the name on that account was ‘Jake’. Both Cody’s original IG account and the Jake account have been deleted.
Samantha wondered if this man set up a second account in order to get back at women who rejected him, saying this is “the type of level he’s on.” She also claimed that other women reached out to her saying they know this guy and that he had done the worst things to them after she posted his profile to her Snapchat.
Clearly, one thing is for sure
We know one thing is for sure—whoever Jake is, Samantha dodged a bullet. It seems the stars aligned and made Jake send that message to her, so she wouldn’t go on the date and wouldn’t have to ever deal with Jake, or Cody for that matter, at all. Watching it all unravel after that was just icing on the cake!
Good for you, Samantha!
