Rephrasing slightly: I'm sure all of these things happen sometimes. But in a country of 330 million weirdos, just about anything you can imagine is happening somewhere.

The problem is, humans are $#!+ with big numbers. Hand them a few anecdotes and they'll proclaim whatever you want. It's the sucking chest wound of the Internet: "Look, a video! Look, a TikTok post! Obviously this is reality!"

Nope.

I'm not saying social media is always wrong, only that if you have to bet you should go the other way. There's no point getting excited until there's proof it's widespread.

In 2022, there were about 132 million single people in the US. If you limit it to singles under age 30, it's roughly 50 million.

So you've got 100 examples? Gimme a break. 1000 examples? Please. 10,000? That's a fair number. Half a million examples? That's significant - but still only 1% of the single population under 30.

I don't care what one crazy lady is up to.