Andrew Schulz defends West Elm Caleb amid viral TikTok drama TikTok: kellsbellsbaby \/ YouTube: Flagrant 2 Clips\u2018Flagrant 2\u2019 podcast host Andrew Schulz defended \u2018West Elm Caleb\u2019 after the furniture designer went viral on TikTok when multiple women claimed he ghosted them. Around mid-January, West Elm furniture designer Caleb Hunter went viral across multiple social media platforms after numerous NYC women on TikTok began sharing their stories of matching with him on the dating app \u2018Hinge.\u2019 According to these women, 25-year-old Caleb would \u2018love bomb\u2019 them and, after going on one or two dates \u2014 or in some cases, merely exchanging texts \u2014 he would allegedly \u201cghost\u201d them. The women claimed that Caleb would copy and paste text messages and even sent them the exact same Spotify playlists, which he\u2019d purportedly made \u2018just for them.\u2019 So on tiktok there are dozens of NY women telling stories about a man named Caleb from West Elm who is a furniture designer that gaslights and ghosts them. It\u2019s like if John Tucker Must Die or The Other Woman happened in real life in real time on tiktok. pic.twitter.com\/BMCv39iu79 \u2014 Zach Schwartz (@zachzachzach) January 19, 2022 The sheer number of women who\u2019d been allegedly ghosted by Caleb took social media by storm, prompting a slew of backlash against the furniture designer and even sparking some claims of abuse. Andrew Schulz discussed the matter during a January 25 episode of his Flagrant 2 podcast, arguing that Caleb doesn\u2019t deserve these claims in spite of being a \u201cf**kboy.\u201d Click here if TikTok fails to load. \u201cThis guy was not being mean to these girls upon meeting them,\u201d Schulz said. \u201cHe was doing the exact opposite thing that we\u2019re told by the pick-up artists. He\u2019s \u2018love bombing.\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re so amazing! I made a playlist for you!\u2019 It literally is terrifying, what he\u2019s doing.\u201d \u201cWhat I think is funny is, if he were one of these millionaires \u2026 These girls would be fine with being ghosted. Their ego could tolerate it.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s funny about this \u2014 and this is the insulting thing \u2014 is they\u2019re not upset they got ghosted,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey\u2019re upset they got ghosted by a guy that they thought they were better than.\u201d Andrew Schulz hits back at claims of abuse against West Elm Caleb Schulz went on to compare the act of \u2018love-bombing\u2019 to \u201clooking completely different in your Instagram pictures than you do in real life,\u201d hitting back at claims of abuse toward Caleb. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard for people to just go, I guess he didn\u2019t like me,\u201d he argued. \u201cHe\u2019s either a f**kboy, manipulative, or an a**hole. Maybe he did that to a few people and that\u2019s f**ked up. But some of y\u2019all\u2026 it\u2019s you.\u201d (Topic begins at 11:00) Overall, it seems that Schulz didn\u2019t have a problem with West Elm Caleb\u2019s dating strategy and doesn\u2019t feel the claims of pre-abuse tactics are warranted. Schulz isn\u2019t alone in this; when the outrage around Caleb was at an all-time high, a similar sentiment spread around Twitter in response to the backlash in support of the designer, with even TV host Trevor Noah criticizing the public vitriol. Let\u2019s talk about West Elm Caleb. pic.twitter.com\/8LHztAGVXu \u2014 The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 25, 2022 Caleb himself has said that he\u2019s \u201cshocked and pretty traumatized about this whole thing\u201d in text messages to one of the women he was involved with, clearly blindsided by the sudden attention from his romantic escapades and unaware it would become a viral debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Andrew Schulz defends West Elm Caleb amid viral TikTok drama TikTok: kellsbellsbaby \/ YouTube: Flagrant 2 Clips\u2018Flagrant 2\u2019 podcast host Andrew Schulz defended \u2018West Elm Caleb\u2019 after the furniture designer went viral on TikTok when multiple women claimed he ghosted them. Around mid-January, West Elm furniture designer Caleb Hunter went viral across multiple social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}