Shadowing Practice: TikTok’s Cutest Relationship Was a Nightmare - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hey there, you're watching this video because perhaps you've seen the allegations against me.
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That is not true.
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I have never strangled anyone in my entire life.
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See, Matt is alive.
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Go cancel the complete order.
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I'm not physically aggressive in any way at all.
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She's not to be trusted.
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I had lots of issues trusting her couples therapist had told me one on one
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that I should consider getting a restraining order against Evelyn.
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I don't strangle people.
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It's just not my nature.
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I don't like hurting people.
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I don't like hurting people.
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I don't like hurting people.
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I don't like hurting people.
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Internet relationships proving once again that you should never believe anything that you see on the internet.
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A popular YouTuber
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and TikToker with over 4.5 million followers called Evelyn Ha soft launched her boyfriend about a year
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and a half ago and she kept this guy's identity a secret for a
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while and in all of her videos and actually
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when she first introduced this guy to her audience They weren't really a big fan of him
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and they actually called him a red flag So they kept posting more
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and more videos about how amazing their relationship was Or was it?
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And there is a plot twist at the end
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So all I can say
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when you're watching this don't judge a book by its cover The first red flag was actually brushed off
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because everyone thought it was a joke It was a YouTube video with her
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and her sisters and in this video she tells her sisters
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This is when everyone's red flags started shining bright like a diamond
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so her mystery men accidentally dropped her on the head while they were fighting.
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Hmm, interesting.
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And I believe this was actually when they first started dating so it really did seem like a joke.
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That hey, I got dropped off on the head.
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So funny, quirky stuff.
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And from that point on, things kept getting more worse and worse and worse.
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And another prime example was I believe when they were on vacation, they were on a romantic date eating lunch
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and out of nowhere the mood changes completely
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when our mystery man says you rather we go swimming in the pool over there
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and I hold your head underwater and you die
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or a romantic boat trip at night and I push up the boat
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and leave you what did he say again
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and I push up the boat
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and leave you you're gonna push me off the boat
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and leave me I gotta go my mom's calling
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and you can actually tell that she was nervous as fuck here cuz she was like what the What the fuck?
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What the fuck?
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Even as a joke, this is the most random shit that I've ever heard when she's recording this cute vlog.
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Hey guys, we're actually in Maldives.
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We have an amazing view.
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Look at the Palm Beach trees.
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These trees look so amazing.
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Expensive lunch.
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It's so good.
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It's so delicious.
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And I've never had a better lunch.
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So, hypothetically, if you were to die, can you bequeath me your skull as a memento?
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Would you like to watch this LiveLeague factory worker accident compilation?
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I put it together myself.
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Ha ha!
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Whaaaaa?
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Even as a joke, what kind of fucking options were those?
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Either I hold your head underwater and you drown, or I push you off the boat and leave.
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So like, what exactly was the joke about this?
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And there are so many clips by the way of him doing something weird as a joke, and all the stuff that he does, they are all being played as a joke.
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Allegedly and this other clip is of them
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or actually Evelyn trying to cook for one of her YouTube videos
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And her man is right behind her
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and as a joke by the way keep
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that in mind He picks up the knife
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and he holds it near her throat There's a mystery man right here Stop
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So like what exactly was the joke with the knife?
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I am so confused and I do not fuck around
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when it comes with knives I am a menace sometimes This looks like sewage water That's not bad,
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but I have never thought of like, ooh, let me put my knife near my dad's throat as a joke though, you know?
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Like, why the fuck would you actually play with a knife?
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Unless there was another motive, which is just a theory, not a fact.
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So because our boy, Mystery Man, is clearly a comedian, a clown, and he was also a gentleman,
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That's why there's this clip of him in a joking way grabbing her throat and pretending that he's choking her.
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I'm gonna do a little favor for you guys and end the video right here.
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But keep in mind though, as a joke, obviously as a joke, so if he happens to like shoot someone on the street and they die, that's also as a joke.
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For legal reasons, that is as a joke.
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It's just a prank bro.
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And all this pushing and kicking, it kind of sounds like I hate my girlfriend final boss, What do you mean I'm your girlfriend and you keep kicking me
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and pushing me punch me kick me pull my hair
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and telling me that You want to drown me is there anything off limits?
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All right, I like it.
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Yeah, basically things were always brushed off as a joke, and so is this next clip when they're yet again on another date.
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And this is supposed to be a romantic date with your boyfriend, you know?
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And he's recording Evelyn for her YouTube channel, and she asks him, So babe, from a scale of 1 to 10, how hot do you think I look today?
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How do you think he answered that?
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how pretty do I look today?
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Hello, usual.
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Why?
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You look scary.
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Why?
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I just feel scared.
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Wait, why are you scared?
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Yeah, so at this point, after she asks him twice or I think three times, trying to really see why he keeps saying that she looks scary,
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she looks below usual, because that would also hurt my feelings.
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If I was her and I kept asking my boyfriend, like, on a scale of 1 to 10, how pretty do you think I look today?
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And on the first time yeah, you joke below usual, huh, really funny.
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And on the second time you throw, uh, you look scary.
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Okay, huh, really funny, we get it, but how do you actually feel?
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And you triple down and you don't say, hey babe, obviously it was a joke, you look amazing.
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He continues this shit with You just look weird.
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Why do I look weird?
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Huh?
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I don't know.
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Why is she showing her outfit?
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I'm not sure did he not like her outfit is
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that why he was showing the outfit and I felt bad
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because she looks Amazing here and to be told over three times
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that you look weird You look scary when you're just asking your boyfriend for a compliment or like just be honest.
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How do I look today?
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Literally, I hate my girlfriend final boss and
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while we're on the I hate my girlfriend final boss topic This next clip is actually really hard to find
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because it's been deleted I believe
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and it's a clip of him telling his girlfriend to shut the fuck up not once not twice
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But three times and then on the third time he actually gets so aggravated and in a joking way Obviously,
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we all know that all of this are jokes Yeah,
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he just straight up calls her a bitch Hey Evelyn is that you?
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It's me.
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Stop.
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Mystery Joshua.
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Mystery Joshua Haseley.
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Get my fing.
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This whole thing is kind of reminding me of like mean girl humor.
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But then again, it's also giving me like major sibling energy.
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Because you know how you're always teasing your sibling.
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Oh, you're ugly.
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Mom doesn't love you or whatever.
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And you call them names, whatever.
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This is what it's feeling like.
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This absolutely does not feel like an actual relationship.
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Cause it seems like he's always calling her names like pretending that he's choking her, kicking her, pushing her His hair, whack!
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His gear, whack!
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His jewelry, whack!
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Calling her below average, she's scary His foot is whack!
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The way that he talks, whack!
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She's not good looking Me, I'm type F*!
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Like am I the only one that's getting major siblings vibe from this shit?
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and her audience being nosy as hell from different clips of
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him showing like half his face half his eye People were able to put the pieces of the puzzle together
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And they found out that her boyfriend was Ben Pasternak
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and her audience was really upset with her after they found out that This was Ben Pasternak and if you're wondering wait, why would they be upset about her dating Ben Pasternak?
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Well, apparently Ben Dan Pasternak is the founder of BELIEVE
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and it has been indicted for an alleged multi-million dollar crypto rug pull scam.
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Pasternak launched a token called Pasternak.
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Really? So original.
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Okay, Picasso.
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Which was later rebranded as a launch coin with heavy promotion
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and then the civil complaint claims
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that the platform processed over 6 billion dollars in trades and extracted roughly 54 million in fees while investors suffered massive losses.
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Well this sounds like a mess, I would feel bad for whoever was caught in this lawsuit.
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Wow, that is so sad.
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Anyways, y'all wanna grab some food or something?
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So now that our comedian slash very gentle
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and romantic boyfriend Ben's identity has been revealed they were finally comfortable with him being on camera.
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So that obviously meant that he was going to be on a lot more vlogs
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and now they didn't have to censor his face.
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But this also meant that Ben also got more comfortable and we got to see more of his real personality.
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And remember how he was obviously joking on that one clip.
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I'm gonna go to a boat trip at that and I push up a boat in the video.
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He once again says the exact same thing, complete different day, complete different vlog.
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He says, what happened if I push you off a boat?
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Huh?
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What happened when the white male and the Asian girl went on a boat together?
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What happened?
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The white male chucked her off.
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What if?
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And she drowned?
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I would have probably called the cops after that second time.
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Yeah.
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You make a creepy joke once, fine.
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Haha, funny joke, you know, some serial killers are gonna get that.
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Maybe that's not us, but a relatable serial killer is gonna laugh at that.
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And then you throw it for a second time.
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Same shit about you pushing her off a boat and drowning her as a joke.
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Now like what are you implying there exactly?
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Why would you make the same weird joke twice?
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Like imagine being her and be like, oh babe, that was like a Was an okay joke.
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Can you tell me another joke?
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And he's like So imagine we're at this pool How about we stay away from the water for a little bit?
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Yeah And when she first posted this video, by the way, she called this what it's like dating a tech founder her miserable.
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How accurate is that title though?
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Because I don't think I've seen a single clip of him like being close to her in a loving way
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or him throwing a compliment at her like a like oh
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you look okay-ish today you know something give her something like a treat.
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Remember that clip when he called her below average?
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On a scale of one to ten how pretty do I look today?
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Below usual.
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And the dots were starting to connect by the way once he actually showed his face
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and it feels like He has this thing against her clothes and he doesn't really approve of her clothes.
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I'm gonna show you this next clip.
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He seems a little upset about what she's wearing in this clip.
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What?
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Oh.
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What?
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What's that?
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What do you think?
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What's that?
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Why are you wearing that?
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No. What are you wearing?
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She wears that like everyday bro.
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Yeah, this is my cash everyday outfit.
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What do you mean?
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It looks wrong.
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I don't know what it is.
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Something was wrong?
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Yeah Something was wrong?
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Yeah What do you mean something was wrong?
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Damn the sister turning the camera to her face like she was a little awkward
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because she didn't know what was going on Like the vibe in this elevator was
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so weird I like playing her in the way
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So it's not He's not letting me in
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Letting her in the room He's just a little flustered because I look like a party right now
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Steve you don't have to act so flustered because I look like a baddie
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yeah I feel uncomfortable yeah so he basically ends up closing the door
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and locking it which makes me believe that the reason why he was
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so upset and calling her scary on that clip
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and then he was showing us I thought at the beginning
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I really thought he was showing us the shoulders like why is he showing us her shoulders
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but I think and this is just my opinion he was showing us what she was wearing
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and it looks like he wasn't a fan of what she was wearing.
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And finally after a year and about 7-8 months of them being together, they finally break up.
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And a day after they allegedly broke up, Evelyn posted a video on TikTok with the caption get ready to cover up a scar on my face.
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And this is when people started suspecting that something might have happened during their breakup.
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And something might have happened because April 21st,
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2026 news comes out that Ben was arrested and I believe this was about 21 days after they actually broke up.
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According to reporting and court document, Evelyn said Ben assaulted slash choked her during a breakup fight in his hotel suite.
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Ben was later arrested on April 21st,
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2026 and he faces two charges of second degree strangulation and third degree assault.
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And he pleaded not guilty
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but he is due to appear in New York court on June 11 which is as of shooting this technically tomorrow.
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And by the time this video is out I'll add an update on the screen of the results of this.
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Future lazy here and it's actually been a couple of weeks and we do have an up- well an update.
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Not the update that we wanted basically.
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The case was adjourned until September 10th with Mr. Pasternak allowed to remain free.
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So sadly we won't have the results until September 10th, so we just gotta be patient on this one.
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But before Ben was actually arrested, news reports like Business Insider said
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that Ben was hiding out at the Manhattan hotel in hopes
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of dodging the hand delivery of a 41 page lawsuit accusing his crypto venture of fraud.
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And they're also alleging that the breakup that happened also happened in this hotel while Ben was allegedly hiding.
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On March 31st, Pasternak, 26, and his influencer girlfriend, Evelyn Ha, 27, had a breakup fight inside his suite.
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Ha told police that Pasternak choked her twice and repeatedly slammed a bathroom door on her body.
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Pasternak says he acted only in self-defense.
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Damn, it sounds kind of crazy
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that he was allegedly hiding in this hotel room from allegedly a crime
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that he did while he was allegedly on his way to commit another crime.
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What in the crime inception was this shit?
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Hey everything's alleged though, nothing is a fact.
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And you would probably think that him being arrested once would be the end of the story, but here's the unexpected plot twist.
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Ben ends up making a YouTube video accusing Evelyn of basically all the things that she accused them of.
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And I love how he titled this video, My Experience with Evelyn, as if he's talking about a Dyson vacuum cleaner,
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and he's giving us a review on how much he enjoyed his Dyson vacuum cleaner.
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My Experience with Evelyn.
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And in this video, he also accuses her of being a cheater and a manipulator.
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Evelyn was a b to me for pretty much in the entirety of our relationship.
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It started with control.
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She had concerns that she's going to be abandoned for another girl.
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She resorted to being physical.
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Hitting, pulling, scratching, digging her nails into me.
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Evelyn is a master manipulator.
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She's very, very compelling and she's really good at blurring the lines.
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She's been unfaithful in all of these relationships, including in mine.
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But what's really messed up is that she makes the opposite seem true.
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While he spends this entire video describing Evelyn as like the worst person that he has been in a relationship with,
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He also says that she was unfaithful not only to him
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but also to her ex-boyfriend Ben says
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that she cheated on her boyfriend with Ben
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and apparently she had told Brand that they were on a breakup
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But then two weeks later Ben says
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that she ended up posting pictures again with her ex-boyfriend
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And he also says that she never told her boyfriend
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that she slept with Ben at the time who wasn't her boyfriend
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And the reason I know that is because she cheated on him with me.
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And what was communicated to me at the time was that they were on a break or, you know, in some kind of breakup.
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But then a week later or two weeks later, she's posting videos with him as her boyfriend.
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She never communicated that we had slept together to him.
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Not to be trusted.
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So my question is, despite all that lying that she did and you knew that she lied,
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like she, you knew that she allegedly cheated on her ex-boyfriend with you.
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You knew that and you still decided to go into a relationship with her knowing
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that she was a cheater I mean this could 100% be true, but I just find it hard to believe that you were kind of like a side piece
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before she got out of a relationship And you even learned
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that she cheated on her ex-boyfriend with you
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and you were still okay with that
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And you still got in a relationship with this girl Maybe I have higher standards
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and I would never get a relationship with a girl who would cheat on her boyfriend
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For me because why am I why on earth would I trust her in the future
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that she would not cheat Again on me for a guy who she finds more attractive
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or more exciting Is it that's I feel like maybe I'm just thinking of too much common sense right now, or maybe I just hate cheaters I'm sorry.
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Towards the end of our relationship, she did the same thing to me.
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Not to the full extent, but she had scheduled a date with another guy.
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She changed his contact in her phone and that was the first time I broke up with her in early March.
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I'm just getting a little confused by this story because he says
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that he caught her almost cheating on her where she scheduled a date with this other guy.
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Like how many breakups were there since he said that was the first time that I broke up with her?
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How many times did you guys break?
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It just sounds like you were a toxic match for each
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other I don't think I'm seeing any chemistry between them at
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all It just sounds like you guys were never a match for each other.
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So I really wonder what Attracted them to be in a relationship together and again, I want to preface that this is all alleged
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And here's the thing two things can be true at the same time
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and they both could have been horrible people This is why
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we can't fully judge a whole relationship just by clips that we see on the internet.
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Could both of the accusations be true?
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Absolutely, and although two things can be true at the same time
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All I'm saying is it's a little hard to trust someone's story
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when they're allegedly involved in a major crypto scan I have never strangled anyone in my entire life.
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See now he's a liar.
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Go cancel him for being a liar I'm gonna do a
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little favor I'm gonna do a little favor I'm gonna do a little favor Okay,
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I'm not physically aggressive in any way at all Okay,
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I'm gentle most people would say that Alright Ben, I'm really trying to find that gentleman that you're talking about
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But I don't think he's in the same room as us right now.
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I'm a very gentle person.
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I would never hurt a fly
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I Would never even raise my voice in my girlfriend like I am so soft also very soft spoken I
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Can't even fart in the same room as a fly because I don't want to hurt the fly.
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I'm just like such a pure soul Like trust me just take my word for it Okay,
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that's the end of this video and I'm gonna pass this question on to you.
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Who are you believing?
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Or are you believing both?
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Wait hold on, why does he look like an evil Pinocchio here?
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It's probably those lies, isn't it?
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Gotta stop telling those lies.
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About This Lesson
You're practicing English with "TikTok’s Cutest Relationship Was a Nightmare" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.
Focus on sounding like the speaker — not just repeating words. With 15–30 minutes of daily practice, you'll build real-world speaking confidence.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.