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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

Welcome to the show where we explore the intersection of identity, social media, and technology.

This is another installment of our weekly roundup of news that you might have missed on the internet this week.

Joey, thank you so much for being here.

As I was telling you, I am coming to you from my hotel room in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. I'm at the Hotel Vermont. Shout out to them. They've been great. Thank you for being here. Of course.

Okay, so we were talking about this off mic, and I was like, I wonder if they have heard about this, Who the F did I marry saga on TikTok. And you were like, oh, what is this? Who the F did I marry?

So you have not heard about this at all from TikTok. I have not, no. So let me explain to you what

is going on. So this woman on TikTok basically told this epic story about essentially how her marriage fell apart. It was in 50 parts,

so 50 separate 10-minute TikToks. All together, it was 500 minutes of viewing time or about

eight and a half hours. When I tell you that I watched the entire thing, I was watching

this TikTok as if I was

listening to an audio book or like listening to a podcast where I was carrying my phone around my

apartment being like, ooh, and then what happened? And then what happened? And that would

happen. And that would happen. And so essentially, her story is one where she was engaged to marry

this guy or married this guy.

She thought he had been telling her like, oh, I'm the VP of a company.

I'm really close to my family and to my cousins, blah, blah, blah.

And he was getting up every morning and having these like jovial conversations with his brother and his cousins and his

families and his friends.

And it turns out that he had been doing this for years, but he was just pretending to have

these conversations.

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