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Nardos Haile

REVEALED: Our digital disillusionment with dating - The Real Truth

This fairy tale starts with a first date on Tinder as all modern romances do. Girl matches with boy. They don't interact until the boy recognizes the girl in person and eventually messages her that he saw her. They go on two dates and eventually go back to her place — a routine hookup. After their evening together, he leaves, and she sees something is off. Her $990 Margiela Mary-Jane Tabis have vanished into thin air like a fairy godmother after she grants all wishes. 

In modern romance fashion — the villain turns out to be the boy, not Prince Charming. Not only did he steal the girl's nearly $1,000 shoes, he also gifted the stolen designer shoes to his girlfriend who he was cheating on with said girl. So what do you do when you've been burned because your hookup has stolen your favorite pair of shoes? You call him out on TikTok (remember West Elm Caleb?). And that's what the girl, Lexus, did. Her TikTok detailed the horrifically unromantic, gesture of stealing her Tabis, and it has been watched a million times and shared widely on other social media platforms. Its wide circulation helped her secure her Tabis back into her possession after the boy, Josh was publicly hounded and humiliated by thousands of people to return them.

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