Anatomy of a Questionable YouTube Engagement: The Tangled Romantic Worlds of Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau
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Controversy-courting YouTube stars Jake Paul and Tana Mongeau declare to have emerged from a weekend in Las Vegas engaged, although they might simply as simply not be.
Drai’s Nightclub relayed the proposal particulars in a press launch, exhibiting that Jake introduced Tana onstage and the video screens flashed, “Tana, will you marry me?” as he first introduced her with a Ring Pop. She mentioned sure, they kissed, the query was changed by pictures of the 2 of them and staffers introduced up a three-tier cake with a topper within the form of a giant ring. By the point the couple returned to their desk, based on Drai’s, she was sporting an actual ring.
However although Tana, who was celebrating her 21st birthday in Sin Metropolis, flashed her huge sparkly bauble on Instagram Story with the caption “i am engaged @jakepaul,” each on-line skeptics and some jewelers are holding again on congratulating the couple on their betrothal.
“Nothing is a certain factor with out seeing the ring(s) up shut, however every little thing about this little clip says ‘pretend,'” says Ira Weissman, founding father of The Diamond Professional. “You possibly can see the exaggerated glowing mild reflecting off of one thing within the backside proper of the body to start with of the clip. That is precisely what you’ll wish to use to attempt to improve the glint of a simulated diamond to make it appear to be the actual factor.
“Plus, the glassy look of the very massive heart stone because it’s introduced nearer to the digicam additionally factors closely in direction of it being a cubic zirconia.”
Properly, when is the glint not enhanced on social media?
A supply additionally tells E! Information that they are listening to the entire to-do is “100 % pretend.”
Neither Tana nor Jake’s rep has but replied to requests for remark.
Jake tweeted moments in the past, “I proposed.”
It makes extra sense if they are not engaged after barely two months of courting, particularly contemplating Mongeau’s milestone birthday was being documented for MTV’s No Filter: Tana Turns 21, however extra surprising issues have occurred, on YouTube and off.
Tana began making a reputation for herself years in the past together with her “storytime” movies however has actually burst into the on-and-offline consciousness in latest months because of a high-profile relationship with Bella Thorne.
She and Thorne broke up in February after over a 12 months of courting, the Insta persona and the actress having first indicated their more-than-friends standing within the fall of 2017, when Mongeau tweeted, “I wish to date Bella Thorne subsequent,” and two weeks later, after they met on the Life Is Stunning Music & Artwork Competition in Vegas, shared a pic of them kissing on Instagram.
Mongeau marked a 12 months collectively in September 2018, writing on Instagram, “It is so loopy to me how briskly a 12 months can fly by once you’re surrounded by love you by no means thought was doable. what began with a viral kissing pic turned to you being the love of my life…it appears like simply yesterday I used to be drunkenly bothering you at life is gorgeous. thanks for wanting me to stay round and trouble you endlessly.”
Thorne had acknowledged in September 2016 that she considers herself bisexual and Mongeau appears to go the place the love is as nicely.
“I simply love who I wish to love,” Mongeau mentioned in a YouTube video in January. “If you wish to name that pansexuality, you possibly can name me pansexual…I believe folks want like a field to place folks in to really feel OK however I am simply not like that. I do not want a field, I do not give a f–k. I am simply me.”
She continued, “I will love who I wish to love and I will do what I wish to do and I do not give a f–k who does not prefer it. If folks cannot settle for that, then that is on them.”
Each women additionally have been frank about their unconventional relationship: Thorne was courting rapper Mod Solar (actual title Derek Smith) when she bought along with Mongeau, and by the start of this 12 months Mongeau was additionally courting Brad Sousa.
“It is nonetheless very, very, new,” she shared in January. “I am on this new factor with this superior individual. He is so candy and he makes me really feel these infantile butterflies.”
Speaking to Homosexual Instances for its February 2019 subject, Thorne mentioned (per Simply Jared), “I do not assume anyone will actually perceive the bonds that I share with Mod or Tana. Yeah, we joke round about poly, however we aren’t within the sense that we do not put a phrase, a field or label too many issues. It’s what it’s.”
Alas, what it was a couple of weeks later was over.
“Tana and I aren’t collectively anymore, pls cease asking. We love U guys,” Thorne tweeted in late February.
Mongeau chimed in, tweeting, “i really like her endlessly do not get that twisted. she modified my life endlessly. do not rly wanna discuss on it.. there is not any negativity in any respect.” When a fan tweeted, “love you each so long as you are pleased,” Tana acknowledged, “i am not absolutely. this clearly breaks my coronary heart. i might be although. so long as she is.”
In the meantime, she was nonetheless courting Sousa, apparently up till April when she posted a video titled “i bought cheated on however that is okay” on YouTube.
“that is how many individuals need you to NOT get again along with Brad,” wrote commenter john paul, emoji-pointing to the (as of now) 6,500 likes his remark ended up receiving.
Sousa took to YouTube to reply to Tana’s lament a couple of days later.
“There was a bit of little bit of over-exaggeration to a few of it,” he mentioned, “however I imply, what she was going via and what I’ve carried out…I do not blame her for talking simply her thoughts and her fact—and her coronary heart, to be trustworthy with you.”
“Coachella weekend was very dangerous,” he admitted. “Each weekends. Individuals have it twisted, saying that I cheated on her through the weekends, that is not true. That didn’t occur. I by no means bodily touched one other lady throughout our relationship, ever. I did Snapchat a couple of ladies from again house, they usually did ship me nudes. And I replied…I used to be drunk, silly, did not notice what was occurring. Regardless, I am an fool.”
It is all very agonizing.
Then, in a video posted simply final month, Mongeau retroactively inserted herself into the at-the-time very compelling and really quick relationship loved by her ex Lil Xan and Noah Cyrus, who broke up in September.
Tana mused (for about 40 minutes) about seeing the couple on the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards in August.
“I hear from a bunch of different those who [Noah] simply, like, hates me,” she mentioned. “It damage. It nonetheless hurts.”
On the VMAs, “I flip to see Lil Xan beelining towards me. And I see, out of my peripheral, a really, very sad Noah Cyrus strolling as much as us. And I am standing there…and he or she seems at me and it is simply this awkward-ass silence. … She simply seems so f–king sad that she even needed to, like, stroll as much as us.”
“She seems at me up and down and goes, ‘Good to satisfy you,’ … and simply, like, shoulder-checks my ass.”
All of which got here as a shock to Cyrus, who bought phrase of her mentions seemingly inside minutes and replied on Twitter, “lol that is hilarious i deff dont hate you and for certain turned the other way of you no shoulder examine. lets hangout and discuss how bitchy ladies are to different ladies @tanamongeau dm me.”
Predictions poured in about how Tana have to be freaking out (in a great way) over Cyrus’ tweet, and certain sufficient, she replied, “Omg. wow. love u. love this. wow. ladies sticking collectively.”
Anyway, additionally for the final couple months, Mongeau and Jake Paul had been exhibiting up in YouTube movies collectively, typically wanting amorous, however they at first insisted they have been simply buddies.
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“I believe it is all the time enjoyable to poke enjoyable at how loopy the Web will be,” Mongeau mentioned on the finish of her April 30 “Mukbang in Mattress With My Rebound Jake Paul” video, which they spent consuming and chatting whereas sitting on his mattress, two days after the video wherein she talked about being cheated on. “It is like, they see one Snapchat of me someplace, and like we’re mechanically f–king and secretly courting and no matter… and other people’s interpretations and concepts of individuals from what they’re on the Web is not all the time, like, all of what they’re. Typically it is solely sides of them and stuff, however I believe…
“I am simply attempting to get savage Tana again…I am single and I am attempting to be a savage once more. I do not know the way it’s working, going to go house and cry for a couple of hours for certain. I had enjoyable, that is all I am doing on this channel…”
On the identical day, Paul, 22, posted a vlog referred to as “this is the lady I have been hiding from you,” wherein he wears a t-shirt studying “I am single” and says that he and Mongeau are “good buddies.”
Regardless of all of the crying wolf, Paul and Mongeau gave the impression to be legit courting—they have been not less than legit kissing—inside days.
A pair weeks later, Sousa popped again into the image in a video that he swore had nothing to do with Tana and solely to do with some beef he mentioned was began by Paul.
“This man is simply trolling,” Brad mentioned. “He is messaging me, attempting to make me jealous. Like, bro, I am not right here for nobody. I am glad, you guys be pleased. I am right here since you began s–t with me.” He mentioned certain, he’d struggle Paul, simply say when, within the ring or the octagon.
Reduce to a snippet of Tana sitting on Jake’s lap in a video as Jake seemingly challenged Brad to some form of rumble.
“I am going to beat your ass, bro,” Brad promised in his reply. “I actually do not care.” He claimed he’d been DMing Jake to attempt to set one thing up, however Jake solely appeared to wish to duke it out on-line.
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Paul, whose fame first sprouted on Vine again in 2013 alongside together with his huge brother Logan Paul, has had his personal share of intently chronicled courting drama, most not too long ago with YouTuber and mannequin Erika Costell, who had a modest hit final 12 months together with her single “Jerika,” that includes DJ Kade.
Their relationship got here after that they had a pretend YouTube wedding ceremony that has been seen by greater than 32 million folks, in fact. Paul titled the June 2017 video, “WE ACTUALLY GOT MARRIED.”
“We’re not even truly courting,” Paul clarified later that day. “It is just like the WWE. Individuals know that is pretend, and it is one of many greatest issues of leisure.” (Not one of the above has carried out a lot to go towards the legitimacy of Jake and Tana’s engagement, we all know.)
“I actually assume within the subsequent six months, we are able to triple that, if not quadruple that,” Jake advised the New York Instances in September 2017 after Crew 10’s subscriber base handed 80 million. “It is about coming collectively and pushing your boundaries each single day.” Paul alone has upward of 19 million subscribers.
He and Costell did ultimately get collectively however Paul introduced their breakup after about seven months on Twitter in November, writing that it was “the healthiest factor for each of us.”
She was a “lovely soul,” he mentioned in an announcement in regards to the break up, who “has helped me grow to be a greater individual on so many ranges.”
True, neither would have wished a back-and-forth just like the one between Paul and ex Alissa Violet, a former member of his burgeoning Crew 10 empire who he accused in 2017 of sleeping with Logan.
“This time Im not being silent… Alissa f*cked my brother… that is why i kicked her out…oopsie I simply advised them the reality…. Im carried out being the ‘dangerous man,'” Jake tweeted.
“Wait what hahahaha,” Alissa tweeted in what gave the impression to be her reply.
In the meantime, Alissa had already accused him of dishonest. “He knew precisely what he was doing to me,” she mentioned in a vlog referred to as “What You’ve got Been Ready For” in June. “He would play all these thoughts video games. He would actually inform me he liked me in the future, then inform me he hates my f–king guts the subsequent day.”
She then teamed with Logan for an in-no-uncertain-terms diss monitor referred to as “The Second Verse,” launched that July.
In November, in an episode of Jake Paul Uncut, Paul mentioned that his and Costell’s relationship had grow to be “poisonous” and “it is so unhappy that it bought to that time, nevertheless it did.”
In a Q&A simply posted 5 days in the past, Costell, requested if she was in a relationship or “speaking to” anybody, she exclaimed, “You guys are actually detectives in my love life!” She took a breath, then defined, “Since my final relationship, I’ve wished to maintain my relationships and my love life personal, not less than to start with phases, however I’ve met some actually cool folks.
“Here is the factor,” the “Thots Not Emotions” singer mentioned. “Courting in L.A. is difficult, and courting with the way in which I stay my life is even more durable. I actually, actually, actually am egocentric with my time. That is the one time in my life when I will get to stay for me and solely me, and I do not really feel dangerous about that.” It was going to take a particular individual to take her away from that, she added, so, “I am not going to say an excessive amount of. I am not like, ‘official,’ in something, however…I positively have my eyes on any person. I hate placing labels on stuff immediately. Each time I’ve ‘fallen in love,’ or gotten right into a relationship, which I like, it is all the time simply occurred. And I do not care about labels in any respect, so…that is the primary time I’ve talked about any boy tea. If one thing adjustments and I must replace you, I’ll.”
So… she is speaking to somebody!
As for Tana and Jake’s huge information, neither has taken to YouTube or Instagram or Twitter but to share any extra particulars, or proof.
On the finish of Might, the duo bought matching tattoos. However only a couple weeks in the past, Bella Thorne posted a screengrab of an obvious message change between her and Tana, with Bella asking if Tana was “tryin to hold” or “simply saying hello for no motive apart from saying hello.”
“When she’s sooo complicated,” Bella tweeted, punctuating her confusion with a slew of emojis.
Which Tana then retweeted, writing, “TAKE ME BACK how’s that for not complicated?”
Earlier at present on Instagram, Thorne posted considered one of their outdated romantic pics to want her ex pleased birthday. “By means of thick and skinny… I like you tana pleased bday you lovely lovely particular lady.”
Considered one of their many shippers replied, “THIS IS THE RELATIONSHIP WE NEED BUT YALL ARE PLAYING.”
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That was June 5. On in a Crew 10 Uncut video posted June 11, Jake flashed again to the beginning of the Jake-and-Tana period simply final month, going again to the day Tana Snapchatted from his mattress after which posted her personal vlog about it, the one wherein she said that she thought it was enjoyable to mess with notion on the Web.
“I do know Jake goes to say I am doing this for clout, which is so f–king annoying,” Tana says within the episode. “No, I came to visit to hang around, I seemed cute, I took a Snapchat story. I am sorry your f–king mattress’s well-known.”
Then Jake added, “I do know she did this on goal. She’s not going to confess it. Tana did this on goal.” However he had nothing however respect for the transfer.
“I actually like trolling the web and it is a good instance and manner to try this, as a result of it is simply enjoyable. It is considerably actual however on the identical time simply messing round with it, and I do not know, we’ll see the place it goes.”
The 2 definitely appear adorably shut, not less than by social-media requirements, however when pushing boundaries and messing with the rumor mill is a part of their everyday, it is arduous to inform simply how critical they’re.
“Whether or not or not Ms. Mongeau’s engagement ring is actual, an oblong cushion-cut heart stone is all the time a wonderful selection!” jewellery and magnificence knowledgeable Lauren McCawley tells E! Information. The ring in query, nevertheless, resembles “a simulant (CZ) or a lab-created white sapphire, which retails round $200.”
A minimum of, undoubtedly, Tana and Jake have discovered a kindred spirit in one another.