Have you ever had someone hit on you on LinkedIn? Well, one woman says it happened to her friend and everything was great—until it suddenly wasn’t.
The friend stitched the unbelievable thing the man said on a t-shirt and shared it in a viral video.
A pickup line through LinkedIn
In a viral TikTok, Katviana (@bykatviana) says via voiceover, “Part 72 of me embroidering the dumb [expletive] men say to my friends on T-shirts for them.”
As she prepares to embroider the message on a yellow shirt, she says she makes this series of videos because “apparently delusion is contagious, and the CDC refuses to intervene.”
She explains that her friend met a “very polished, very charming” recruiter who slid into her LinkedIn DMs. He asked if they could grab a drink to celebrate her new role after she accepted the job offer.
He orders a Negroni during their date and tells the woman he reads economics for fun, “which should’ve been a red flag, but she was blinded by how good he smelled and the fact that he made dinner reservations without her having to send three ‘Where should we eat?’ texts followed by a poll.” The bar is truly in hell.
The TikToker says the man was 36, had a downtown condo, ran two companies “that no one could quite figure out,” and always had the perfect playlist for every occasion.
“They started seeing each other more often,” she says. “She’s sleeping over multiple nights a week. She’s met his co-workers and [been to] his friend’s birthday dinner. They went to a farmer’s market together. He gave her a drawer—a drawer—at his place.”
One day, after dinner, he says, “I’ve been thinking. I don’t really wanna see anyone else. Want to be exclusive?” The friend says yes, and they officially become a couple.
“She’s doing his laundry. They’re watching docuseries with subtitles together. They even went apple picking and posted matching stories,” the TikToker says.
Things go south
Then, one Wednesday at 2am, the friend gets a call from an unknown number. She doesn’t answer, and the person calls again. This time, she picks up, and there’s a woman sobbing on the other end of the phone.
“Are you sleeping with him right now?” she asks. “Because I think you’re sleeping with my fiancé.”
Apparently, the man had a long-distance fiancée in Texas whom he had been with for three years and was in the process of wedding planning with. They had chosen color swatches, made a hashtag, and even had a Save The Date video with a drone shot.
Yikes.
The friend hangs up, stunned, and immediately confronts the man with screenshots of her texts with his fiancée.
His response? “Well, I just asked you to be exclusive with me. I never said I would be exclusive with you.” Classic. Give this man an award.
The result?
“Wedding? Canceled. Shirt? Embroidered. And the fiancée? She and my friend now do monthly wine nights,” the TikToker says.
We love to see women supporting each other, and now the friend has a funny shirt to wear to their next wine night.
@bykatviana Nah sliding through the DMs on LinkedIn is WILDDDD ???? PT 72 of me embroidering the dumb sh*t men say to my friends on tshirts for them ? If you’ve fallen victim to hearing dumb sh*t a man has said DM me your story or email [email protected] ?? Like always shirts available on @shopkatviana ✨ Machine used is the SE2000 by Brother. All embroidery essentials are linked on my Amazon storefront ?
♬ original sound – katvianax0
‘This man got the audacity in bulk at Costco!’
In the comments section, viewers’ flabbers were gasted.
“The way my jaw dropped at the punchline!” user Jennifer said.
User Kathy Ribas, stunned, wrote, “I beg your finest pardon…”
One viewer shared a recent similar experience: “I recently got humbled by a ‘I don’t like you, I just think you’re hot’ text from a literal bald man.” Ouch.
Another said you can’t escape men’s audacity—even if you don’t date them.
They wrote, “I’m a lesbian. The amount of times I’ve heard, ‘you haven’t had the right one’. ‘I could make you straight’ they have made me gayer. also I could retire very comfortably [if] it got a dollar every time.”
Another pointed out that while the man thought he was being clever with the “I never said I would be exclusive with you,” line, he did, in fact, say he would be exclusive with her.
“But he literally did tho,” they said. “There’s no other way to interpret ‘I don’t want to see anyone else.’”
What should I do if someone hits on me on LinkedIn?
On its website, LinkedIn has a guide for dealing with unwanted attention.
First, be direct and politely assert that you are not interested in anything beyond professional conversation.
Next, it recommends adjusting your privacy settings to limit who can message you and see your profile.
“Go to Settings & Privacy → Visibility → Control who can see your connections, profile picture and personal details,” it states.
If the issue persists, you can block and report. The site says, “Simply click on the ellipsis (three dots) on their profile or message and select Report/Block.”
It also recommends that you document everything. This includes taking screenshots of the inappropriate conversation in case you need to take further action, including legal.
The Mary Sue contacted Katviana via email, TikTok direct message, and comment.
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