I Really Can’t Tell If You’re Serious

Another time, I watched a video from a woman whose Instagram bio reads “girly girl + future girl mom.” She was demonstrating how she does a full face of makeup every morning before her husband wakes up. “This is just what makes me feel good about myself,” she said. Like the people in the comments, I wished I knew whether this was a joke. Then I came across some guy telling the story of a woman who’d sent him “trick-or-treat candy” after he had ghosted her—he thought this was funny, and now they are married. No one in the comments thought this one was a joke, but some suggested it might be a stupid lie told for no reason.