West Elm Caleb has taken the internet by storm.
I guess this is a story that got a lot of attention for a short period of time, but
there is some social ramifications to it that I wanted to discuss.
So the question is, is this guy so-called West Elm Caleb,
some sort of villain, the absolute worst or
is he just the average 25-year-old bad guy?
Okay, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this word, so I'm not gonna say it, but
d-dag, d-bag, is he a d-bag?
I don't know.
So here's how this all started.
It began on TikTok where some women had thrown some allegations against him.
He's one of the designers who works with West Elm, which is a furniture company,
that's why he's referred to as West Elm Caleb.
A woman from New York posted a TikTok about getting ghosted by a man named
Caleb after meeting on a dating app known as Hinge.
Multiple people in the comments section began replying West Elm Caleb.
It turns out a slew of other women had a similar story with the 6'4,
mustache, furniture designer as his dating app profile reportedly described.
According to the videos, he love-bombed them or initially demonstrated a ton
of affection only to ghost them after a couple of dates.
So we're gonna ask you guys what you think about this.
So pay close attention to the details, okay?
Apparently, he was dishonest about the fact that he was dating multiple women
at the same time, regrettable but not newsworthy,
writes Liz Featherstone of Jacobin.
He sent at least one unsolicited nude photo, which is unfortunately common.
He sent them the same Spotify playlist, a creativity fail,
especially since he's an art school graduate.
And here are some examples of women posting on TikTok about their experiences
with him.
>> I got a DM from a lovely girl named Kelly and
this is where things just hit the fan for me.
So Kelly DMs me and she goes, hey, I know you've been in a few days with Caleb.
She said I dated him for the past six weeks, sent me a playlist, blah, blah,
blah, blah, blah.
As you can imagine, I was like, cool.
All that I was worried about, like he told me he wasn't on Hinge,
he deleted Hinge after we were talking.
He wasn't on apps ghosting, and this was the timeline of her experience
with West Elm Caleb was right not if not overlapping to mine.
Now here's where it gets sick and twisted.
Kelly saw in my video that my first date with Caleb was on Saturday.
She woke up in Caleb's bed on Saturday.
>> This man randomly is going MIA, and I'm asking if he wants to hang out,
I'm like, hey, you wanna hang out, you want to do anything?
Meanwhile, he was rushing me out of his home Saturday.
And then refuse to hang out with me on Sunday because he's gonna do.
>> He's been condemned all over the Internet as abusive and a predator.
Outraged Internet users have been contacting his employer to get him fired.
The backlash has been intense.
Internet users equally outraged on Caleb's behalf have decided to
harass the women who have outed him as not being a gentleman.
Have we gone too far?
What is this Francesca?
Like, what is this?
Why was this a thing?
>> I don't know, but it's very, I mean, okay, here's what I will say.
To contact somebody because you think they dated the same person,
I feel like that's normal and it happens in private.
That, I'm not opposed to.
I think it's the putting all of that out on to TikTok,
then I find questionable.
And for sure,
I don't think someone should be fired because they're an f-boy and they use,
they're just sort of disingenuous when they're trying to date a number of women.
So I think that is different.
But the problem is that for a lot of young folks,
there is no difference between a private chat and my own private TikTok.
And then there's also a disingenuousness in that, well, it's just for me and
my friends, like, yeah, you, your friends, and the entire world to see.
And your relationship with Caleb, that was private.
>> Yeah, I'm sorry, Caleb might be a d-bag,
not our business and also not guilty.
This is insane.
I'm so happy that I'm not dating right now.
I would hate my life.
You're right, I mean, putting this all out there publicly,
calling for him to get fired, that's insane.
Go to tyt.com/polls and
tell us what you think about this story because we're super curious about it.
And so yeah, we'll give you an update on that poll later.