A woman says her best friend started dating her crush, so she fabricated cheating screenshots, spread them at school and ended up dating him

A TikTok video from @cxtenn has drawn hundreds of thousands of views after the creator described getting revenge on her best friend for dating her crush, as reported by Daily Dot. She says she fabricated screenshots of text messages to make it look as though the friend was cheating, then circulated them through their social circles.

In the video, the creator refers to her crush as “Apple” to protect his identity and to her friend as “Jessica,” a pseudonym. She says she often talked about Apple with Jessica, who repeatedly encouraged her to pursue him. The creator says Jessica then started dating Apple herself, and she often saw the couple being affectionate in the hallway.

According to the creator, that is when she decided to seek revenge. She says the fake screenshots suggested Jessica was cheating on Apple, and the next day at school she pretended to be surprised when classmates told her about it. The plan worked, as she and Apple began dating, and Jessica later confronted her for dating her ex.

Some viewers noticed the caption says the story is not hers

The caption on the video reads “not my story,” which led some viewers to question whether the events happened to the creator. The creator has not responded to those comments or clarified whether the story is her own, even though the video itself is told in the first person.

Viewers who took the story at face value focused on the fallout. One viewer asked whether the two are still friends, while another called a line from the video, “Are you kissing each other or me,” the quote of the year. A third compared the situation to being uninvited from a bar mitzvah, and another asked why the crush got a fruit name.

Several commenters also said the creator should have simply told her friend how she felt, as the whole plan started with a crush that Jessica knew about. Some viewers debated whether the revenge was justified, with a number of them pointing out that Jessica started the betrayal by dating Apple behind the creator’s back.

Others shared similar experiences of their own, and one commenter wrote a long account of a friend who allegedly made fake messages to end a relationship, then got together with the same person afterward. The thread has become a place where viewers compare betrayals from school, and many say they would have kept their crush secret after seeing how this one played out.

The creator says the relationship with Apple did not last, as the two later broke up and Apple got back together with Jessica. That reunion reportedly lasted only two days before he left Jessica for another woman. However, the creator has not said in the video whether she and Jessica ever repaired the friendship, which is the question many viewers keep asking.

Questions about whether a first-person TikTok story happened to the narrator have come up before, as in a viral post where a best friend dared her fiancé to date a woman. However, the caption on this video leaves the question open, and the names Apple and Jessica are pseudonyms that cannot be traced to real people.

Whether the creator clarifies if the story is her own remains to be seen, but the video has drawn tens of thousands of likes and hundreds of comments as viewers keep trading revenge stories of their own.

Attack of the Fanboy was unable to independently verify the friend’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from @cxtenn’s TikTok video.