What do you think, Is she the A-hole?
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Welcome to Internet Story Time, the series where we find the whackiest and wildest stories from Reddit and have our in-house reddit experts react.
Featuring Emmy Pratt, Ben Weiss, Elena Childers, and Jesse Eisemann of Cheezburger. Produced and Directed by Rachel Mossberg.
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00:00Am I the a**hole for not paying my boyfriend back after he didn't get me the right birthday cake?
00:07Welcome! This is Cheeseburger with Internet Storytime,
00:10where we dig deep into the depths of Reddit to find some crazy stories.
00:13My boyfriend and I have been dating for 10 months, and it was my birthday yesterday.
00:17There's a local bakery that makes a really good-looking pineapple upside-down cake.
00:20I've been really wanting to try it, and I've been saving it for my birthday.
00:23About a month in advance, I told him my birthday was coming up,
00:26and told him that I didn't need a gift, but I really wanted a pineapple upside-down cake from XYZ Bakery.
00:32He said, sure.
00:33I know this was probably annoying, but I did mention the specific cake several times, even before last month.
00:39Like, we would drive by the bakery, and I'd say something like,
00:42oh, hey, that's the place with the pineapple cake. I want to do that for my birthday.
00:45And then a week before my birthday, I texted him a reminder about the cake,
00:49so that he would have the bakery info on hand.
00:52Yesterday rolls around, and my boyfriend comes over to my apartment and gives me a gift, which is a Kindle.
00:56Not a bad gift. They're expensive, but not something particularly relevant to me, either.
01:01Then he said-
01:02Can we pause for a second?
01:04Kindles are irrelevant to reading.
01:06Then he says, let's have cake, and presents what you all know by now is not the pineapple upside-down cake,
01:13but just a regular grocery store cake with the frosting balloons.
01:16I was on the verge of tears because of not getting the one thing I actually wanted, which was that stupid cake.
01:21So I told him I was very disappointed, and that he should just go home.
01:25That does feel a little dramatic.
01:28He had two tickets to a comedy show for that night, and one ended up going to waste.
01:32Now he's annoyed because it is, of course, just a cake,
01:35and wants me to reimburse the cost of the wasted ticket, which was supposed to be a present.
01:40That's horrible.
01:41He sent me a Venmo request for $30. Am I an a**hole if I don't pay?
01:46The Venmo request?
01:48Is the relationship over?
01:51How would it end?
01:53Cliffhanger.
01:54No, my boyfriend.
01:55All the comments were very pro-her.
01:58They were like, that guy's stupid, you literally spelled it out for him, and he dropped the ball on a cake.
02:04Must be really hot.
02:06Right?
02:08Like an idiot, and if she's not dumping it-
02:10He's a himbo.
02:11He's a real himbo, yeah.
02:13Venmo is a place of psychological warfare.
02:17I really, truly believe it.
02:18It's also the best social media.
02:20Yeah, you can really see who's hanging out with who.
02:22Oh my god.
02:23You can see who's boyfriend is trying to charge them for their birthday present.
02:27I love that he heard her explain what he did wrong, and then he was like,
02:31I'm going to need you to pay me back.
02:33Instead of actually just getting the right cake.
02:36Girlfriends and boyfriends should have registries.
02:39Right?
02:40Outside of the realm of marriages.
02:43Okay, this sounds like maybe you messed up on the cake this time.
02:46Is this you?
02:48I think other people should do the legwork.
02:50If I'm expected to do something nice, you should just really make it a one-click thing for me.
02:54That's basically what she did.
02:56All right, we've done our deliberations.
02:58Are yins ready, folks?
03:03He's a bad listener, and I think that that, at the end of the day, is the reason why she didn't get her cake.
03:07He might have been like, oh my god, I get it, you want this cake.
03:10I know better than she does.
03:11I'm going to get her the best gift she's ever gotten.
03:15She's going to realize that I know her better than she knows herself.
03:17The Venmo requesting for the comedy show she missed out on, that pushes it over the edge.
03:23She asked if she's f***ed for not Venmoing him back, and I'm like, there's no way.
03:28Maybe leaving the birthday was a little dramatic, but we're not asking, am I the dramatic diva?
03:35Yeah.
03:36Now it's time for Cheesehole of the Week, where we all elected a villain from the pop culture or the internet.
03:43And we're going to vote on who's the worst and why.
03:49Ben, Matt Healy, various reasons.
03:53So Matty Healy is the lead singer of the 1975.
03:57Swifties are not a fan of his.
03:59He has said some unfavorable things about a lot of people in the past.
04:04So like sexist things, racist things, just bad, bad, bad stuff.
04:09Not a good look.
04:10I was about to say, haven't we all, but I'm glad I didn't.
04:13Is he Cheesehole of the Week?
04:15Yes.
04:16Because he's taking all the energy and attention away from her actual tour and just like inserting himself into it.
04:23Is he though?
04:24Yes, he is.
04:25I don't know.
04:26I think a much more nuanced conversation would be, is Taylor Swift a Cheesehole for dating a racist, sexist dirtbag?
04:34Wow.
04:35No, I told you, there's no rules for it.
04:37No rules for rebounds, sorry.
04:39If it gets Swifties not to dislike me, then I think yes.
04:43Is this unanimous?
04:45Yes, it is.
04:48Cheesehole, Cheesehole, Cheesehole, Cheesehole, Cheesehole.
04:52Matt Healy, you're the Cheesehole of the Week.