The Shoes on the Other Foot…
At Single-ish we recently, exclusively spoke to an anonymous source who admitted to faking a relationship for social media views, which you can read below.
Since posting this article, we have had many messages about it, but one more interesting than the rest… We received a DM from the other half of the fake relationship.
We managed to catch up with their ‘partner’ in crime and spoke to them about their perspective on their ‘relationship’.
“We came up with the idea, in fact, he came up with the idea, not me. It wasn’t my idea that’s the first thing I’d like to say.
“It was to create drama. It was when there was a TikTok programme called ‘Ex on the FYP’ started. This was around late 2020. It was a clever play on the programme ‘Ex on the Beach’ but used the ‘For You Page’ to make it TikTok related. What he [our source] said there was true.
“Everyone was getting clout and a following from that, so we were going to try and create beef from that. We pretended that we had broken up or something, but we never actually said to our followers that we went out.
“People just assumed that we did because we always went live together, but I don’t think we actually did tell people that we went out… because it was fake… and we didn’t [date]…”
Despite not dating the two were apparently really good friends off camera at the time, but we were told that apparently, that’s now not the case…
“I didn’t break the friendship off at all.
“He stopped being mates with me because his new real-life girlfriend flipped her sh*t … sorry no, she made you ‘block me’, so make of that what you will.”
Getting caught out in a fake relationship is a huge worry for both people involved, especially when what’s going on in real-life tampers with the ‘storyline’.
“He was out bowling with a girl that he was actually seeing. I’m not actually sure what happened with that, I guess he can tell you…
“Someone messaged me saying I’ve just seen ****** out bowling. By the way, just to let you know I’m pretty sure it was him. He’s cheating on me basically.
“I can’t remember if I told her it was fake or not, or if we had supposedly ‘broken up’ but hadn’t publicised it yet. I made it up some excuse.
“However, we didn’t really convince her. We didn’t really have to convince anyone to be honest. Most people just assumed. We never needed to confirm or deny anything. It was all based on assumptions.”
Even now, nearly two years after the relationship ended, one thing the two can agree on, is it still impacts them now. When you put any relationship on the internet but specifically on social media, it’s there FOREVER. People remember…
“Even now I go on to lives and people say, ‘oh you used to be with ******’.
“Loads of people only know me through that. That’s how they follow me, so I would say it was worth it.
“We did a brand deal with a company, where we both got money and a bigger following from it. We both got paid a significant amount, but I got more.
“We did other collaborations as well. So overall, as much as I hate to admit it, it was a good idea from him to be fair.”