A number of girls are warning others to not match with a person named Caleb on relationship apps after all of them shared comparable experiences being ghosted by the alleged serial dater.
The accounts of the relationship disasters have been documented on TikTok, the place quite a few girls have revealed that they’ve encountered the identical man named Caleb who reportedly works for the furnishings firm West Elm.
In quite a few movies shared to the platform, girls have since described their very own experiences with the person, since dubbed “West Elm Caleb.”
In keeping with one girl, Kell, who goes by the username @kellsbellsbaby on TikTok, and who uploaded a video on Tuesday about her interplay with Caleb, she had been relationship the West Elm worker, who she described as tall, artsy and having a mustache, for six weeks when she came upon from TikTok that he was mendacity to her and relationship “each different girl” in her metropolis.
In a follow-up video, Kell revealed that, to start with, she had been receiving “actually cute messages” from Caleb however grew to become suspicious after she found that he had been seemingly creating similar Spotify playlists to ship to totally different girls.
Nonetheless, in accordance with Kell, she and Caleb proceeded to go on a number of dates collectively, with the TikToker recalling how, over the subsequent few weeks, he had continued to textual content her telling her how a lot he preferred her.
Within the clip, Kell then confirmed a screenshot of messages between herself and Caleb, during which they mentioned Hinge, which he mentioned he’d deleted, and ghosting, earlier than he joked: “I’ll ghost you quickly, don’t fear.”
“Apparently not a joke,” she added, earlier than explaining that Caleb “randomly” stopped texting her “out of the blue” shortly after.
In keeping with Kell, she confronted him however he’d knowledgeable her that he merely wanted time to “unwind”. Nonetheless, she later discovered that he was “occurring dates with different girls,” seemingly from a TikTok posted by a lady who goes by the username @meemshou.
In a TikTok posted every week in the past, @meemshou shared a quick video joking about being ghosted, which she captioned: “This one’s devoted to Caleb. No exhausting emotions although, you had been too tall.”
In a follow-up video titled: “West Elm Caleb: A Saga,” she defined that she wasn’t going to make a video about her expertise however felt prefer it was her “obligation” to “warn my ladies about this Caleb from West Elm”.
Within the clip, @meemshou revealed that, after she posted her preliminary video about her personal relationship expertise, she was contacted by quite a few girls asking if she was referring to “West Elm Caleb”.
She additionally revealed that she acquired a direct message from the person in query.
Within the feedback beneath her video, quite a few TikTok customers have since shared their very own experiences matching, speaking to and relationship a Caleb who works at West Elm.
“He actually love-bombed me, dated me for a month after which ghosted me,” one individual commented, whereas one other mentioned: “Omg cease. I went on a date with him a number of months in the past, he was texting a lot then ghosted after asking me to dinner LOL.”
Another person mentioned: “We matched TWICE and we had been speaking and I introduced up this video and he IMMEDIATELY blocked me on every part hahaha.”
The video has additionally prompted extra movies from TikTok customers, with one person @jewishbrat revealing that she matched with Caleb, who’s 25 in accordance with a screenshot from his relationship profile, on Bumble twice.
In keeping with @jewishbrat, the second time she and Caleb matched she instructed him he already had her quantity, at which level he responded: “I don’t suppose I do”.
A lady named Kate, who goes by the username @_katepear, additionally shared her expertise with Caleb, revealing in a video posted on Tuesday that she “additionally has a narrative about West Elm Caleb”.
Within the video, Kate recalled how she and Caleb had matched on Hinge in late October, at which level he started “love-bombing” her.
After planning to go on a espresso date, Kate mentioned that she acquired a nude photograph from Caleb, earlier than he ghosted her the subsequent day.
In keeping with Kate, she later acquired a message from Caleb the next month, at which level he defined that he had stopped talking to her as a result of he was “afraid” she was going to “use [him] for [his] physique”.
Caleb then added her on Snapchat, at which level she mentioned he despatched her one other photograph of himself.
“I texted him and I mentioned: ‘Are you completely out of your thoughts?’ After which he ghosted me once more,” Kate recalled. “In order that’s my West Elm Caleb story. You may have been warned.”
As for Caleb’s response to the viral movies, Kell revealed in a single follow-up video that she despatched @meemshou’s video to him, at which level he mentioned that he had been despatched the TikTok by a number of coworkers and that was “a part of what’s been bumming [him] out”.
“I assume this woman simply has an enormous following and talked a couple of tall Caleb, so naturally some ladies I matched with and stopped speaking to requested her if it was me after which she made this apparently?” he wrote, in accordance with a screenshot of their textual content messages.
Caleb additionally mentioned that he was “shocked and traumatised” by the entire thing, earlier than he addressed the ghosting claims, which he mentioned had been a results of the “nature of the app”.
“The character of the app may be very fleeting and ghosting sadly is simply [part] of it,” he wrote.”I used to be on the app for a pair months and matched with lots of people earlier than you… and the video simply gave each single one in every of them a platform to remark with none must validate their tales, so sure, after all it’s going to sound dangerous.”
Along with the ladies who’ve shared their very own experiences, the saga has additionally prompted hundreds of viewers to precise their funding within the story.
“I stay in Chicago however I’m extremely invested,” one individual wrote, whereas one other mentioned: “I came upon about West Elm Caleb like three minutes in the past and I’m so invested.”
The Unbiased has contacted Kell, @meemshou, Kate and West Elm for remark.
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