It began with Sedona and Rylee, who introduced their cut up in a TikTookay video that now has 8.5 million views. Then Alissa and Sam quietly introduced they’d separated. By the time Avery and Soph broke up, TikTookay users started worrying that a fabled “lesbian breakup curse” would have an effect on their relationships, too.
In latest weeks, the supposed curse, additionally known as the “breakup plague” and the “breakup apocalypse,” has consumed many TikTookay users’ lives.
“Remixing my attitude to avoid the lesbian breakup curse that’s going around,” one consumer captioned their video. “It really is contagious right now isn’t it,” one other consumer wrote in the feedback.
Some have joked that the supposed curse is why so many fashionable women-loving-women, or WLW, creators have cut up with their girlfriends in the previous few weeks. Others warn that the curse is transferring into “straight” TikTookay, after a number of heterosexual {couples} introduced their breakups, too.
“Wtf is in the air why are all the tiktok wlw couples breaking up?” one TikTookay consumer posted.
Artist King Princess even joked that the break up curse impressed her to put in writing a brand new tune, which she posted on TikTookay on Thursday.
“Lesbians break up on TikTok/ which turns into TikToks/ inspiring songs about breakups on TikTok/ the cycle will never end … until they’re gone.”
Some TikTookay users blamed the curse on astrology, joking that the alignment of the planets catalyzed so many public breakups. Others stated it was simply an unlucky coincidence.
However, most imagine the curse began when the pop artist Cari Fletcher — who performs below the mononym Fletcher — name-dropped her ex-girlfriend’s present companion in her new tune “Becky’s So Hot.” A spokesperson for Fletcher didn’t reply to request for remark.
The circumstances that impressed Fletcher’s tune has roots in 2010s YouTube tradition, throughout a interval that has been described by some as the “Lesbian YouTuber Couples Era.” Popular lesbian {couples}, like YouTubers Shannon Beveridge and Cammie Scott, turned much-needed illustration of loving relationships for younger LGBTQ audiences, and the wave of breakup announcement videos that took over YouTube in the mid-to-late 2010s devastated followers. Beveridge and Scott introduced their breakup in 2016.
“Everyone is so upset about the tik tok lesbians breaking up but where were you in 2016 when the YouTube couples all started splitting,” TikTookay consumer @ifykykbutudont captioned a video posted earlier this month. “cause I was in line for a bus at Disney world still in the closet and started crying.”
Beveridge and Fletcher haven’t publicly disclosed when their relationship began. Fletcher’s 2020 album “THE S(EX) TAPES” is a collaboration between her and Beveridge, produced whereas the two had been quarantining collectively after the finish of their four-year relationship.
Beveridge is now relationship a girl named Becky Missal, whose identify repeatedly seems in Fletcher’s new tune. Fletcher has said she wrote the tune after she by accident appreciated an Instagram photograph of Missal.
Fletcher shared a clip of her new tune on TikTookay on July 12, sending followers spiraling with the refrain: “Are you in love like we were?/ If I were you I’d probably keep her/ Makes me wanna hit her when I see her/ ‘Cause Becky’s so hot in your vintage T-shirt.”
Fletcher’s name-drop was polarizing on TikTookay: Although some users praised the artist for “normalizing being messy,” others discovered it inappropriate.
Beveridge responded to the “situation” in a TikTok posted July 17, telling viewers that she didn’t collaborate on the tune with Fletcher and alleging that “no one asked permission” to make use of Missal’s identify.
In the weeks that adopted the launch of “Becky’s So Hot,” which is additionally a well-liked hashtag on TikTookay linked to the breakup curse drama, a number of fashionable WLW {couples} introduced their separations.
College basketball star Sedona Prince and creator Rylee LeGlue, who had been recognized for his or her top distinction and whom followers jokingly known as “the tall one and the short one,” introduced the finish of their relationship in a video posted July 31. Despite them initially asking for privateness, the weeks following the creators’ cut up has been rife with dishonest allegations, which fueled followers to take “sides” in the breakup.
Alissa Carrington and Samantha Miani, creators who started posting movies on the shared YouTube channel Alissa & Sam at the very least 4 years in the past, revealed their separation in early August when Carrington confirmed hypothesis of the couple’s parting in an Instagram story. Their shared YouTube channel no longer exists, and Miani appeared to delete all of her public social media accounts.
Creators Avery Cyrus and Soph Mosca additionally introduced their breakup in early August after simply over two years collectively. Cyrus and Mosca posted separate messages on their Instagram tales on Aug. 3.
Cyrus and JoJo Siwa raised eyebrows by each showing in an Aug. 8 “mukbang,” a video development that entails consuming giant quantities of various meals for an viewers.
Siwa has had her personal share of public separations: In May, she appeared to rekindle her relationship with Kylie Prew, whom she first started relationship in 2021 earlier than they broke up later that yr. In an Instagram livestream reposted to TikTok, Prew stated she’s been “single for almost two months.”
TikTok creator Kales, who describes herself as “lesbian Tea-sus” and posts movies summarizing the drama, jokingly in contrast movies about the curse to a sexuality litmus check.
“If you’re a woman still confused about your sexuality, fear not,” Kales stated in a TikTok video. “Ask yourself where you’ve been for the past two weeks.”
She requested viewers in the event that they had been following the Alabama rush drama or in the event that they had been entrenched in gossip following Fletcher’s new tune launch.
“and if you consider yourself an expert in both… bisexual,” she captioned the video.
But some creators need it to be recognized: Love nonetheless exists.
To counteract the breakup curse, many WLW {couples} have shared movies of their still-intact relationships, together with posting candy clips of dates with their girlfriends.
Responding to a remark about the “TikTok breakup plague,” the creators generally known as Phoebe and Morgan burst into laughter. The couple, who publish on the shared account @couplagoofs, describe themselves as “your gay internet parents.”
“I just think that this is so funny because we’re married,” Phoebe replied in the video.
“It wouldn’t be like a fun … like a little breakup,” Morgan stated. She later added, “I don’t know any of these people that broke up, but I hope they have a good day.”