A woman’s suspicious discovery inside her boyfriend’s car has TikTok viewers convinced that he is guilty of infidelity. In a viral TikTok, Phoebe Adams (@phoebeadams112) says she was “rummaging” through her boyfriend’s car when she came across some evidence TikTok detectives are sure signals cheating: a single earring.
Adams films her clip, which earned 687,000 views as of Monday, inside her boyfriend, Dan’s, car. She sits in the passenger seat while he’s driving, demanding to know why there is an earring in his car.
“What is this?” Adams says she sniffs a single stud earring.
“It’s probably yours!” Dan says in between laughs.
“I don’t think so,” Adams says, showing viewers the earring. She and her boyfriend go back and forth, with the boyfriend insisting that “no other girl” has been in his car for the past two years, except Adams and his mom. He tells her she probably dropped it a “couple of months ago.”
She’s not buying it: “How do I know that, though?” She gives it another sniff, stating that it smells “freshly worn” (whatever that means). Dan continues to laugh (according to viewers, a guilty laugh) as Adams continues to interrogate him.
Eventually, Adams says it could be hers, but it also could not.
“Oh my god,” Dan says. Eventually, Adams ends the video by whisper-shouting to her viewers, “It’s not mine.” She laughs before the video closes out.
‘She left it for you’
It didn’t take long for TikTok viewers to issue their verdict for Dan: Guilty.
“‘Maybe a couple of months ago’ that’s when he cheated,” a top comment with 12,000 likes read. Another was convinced the “other woman” left it for Adams to find.
“The way I would crash out,” another user added. Some even construed Dan’s laugh as a sign he was being unfaithful.
“He’s like way too nervous?” a user noted. “Why is he laughing so defensively? He’s definitely lying/acting.” A third user accused Dan of “gaslighting” Adams when he said it was probably hers. “LIKE WE DONT KNOW OUR OWN JEWELLERY,” they wrote.
A boyfriend’s car: the ultimate fidelity test?
Adams’ video isn’t the first one to go viral about finding highly suspicious things in a partner’s car. The Mary Sue recently covered a story where a woman found a Louis Vuitton purse–that wasn’t hers–beneath her boyfriend’s driver’s seat. Devastated, she ended up breaking up with him.
In another viral TikTok, a woman says she knew her boyfriend had another girl in the car because she noticed certain marks on the windshield. In her clip, she shows how her boyfriend’s windshield had leftover marks from an Octobuddy, a phone case that sticks to surfaces. She nor her boyfriend owned such a phone case.
How common is snooping?
While not every girlfriend may have been actively seeking evidence of cheating (Adams says she was “rummaging” through Dan’s car), several people in relationships do snoop on their partners. In a study by Hodge, Jones & Allen Solicitors, 35% of people surveyed snooped on their partners’ phones, with 4 in 10 doing it at least once a week.
According to the research, “over half of those who did snoop on their partners found evidence of cheating.” However, the site states that what constitutes cheating is subjective. For some, micro-cheating is enough to break things off, as one Mary Sue story covered.
@phoebeadams112 Brb taking it in for a DNA test
♬ original sound – Phoebe Adams
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