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CONFESSION #0588 — SOCIAL MEDIA BACKFIRE
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
The deal had been dead for a week before I found out. My buyer saw a TikTok I made about staging fails where I used a photo of a house that looked similar to the one we were under contract on (it wasn't the same house but same builder same subdivision same beige everything) and in the video I made a joke about how some homes look like they were decorated by someone's divorced uncle and she thought I was talking about her house which again I was not but she sent it to her husband who sent it to their agent who called my broker at 9pm on a Tuesday and by the time anyone thought to loop me in they had already pulled out and gone with a different buyer and here's the thing the house in my video was from a listing in a completely different state (Arizona I think) but I had cropped out the mountain in the background so you couldn't tell and my buyer's house also had a brown leather sectional and a single framed poster of a motorcycle so I get why she thought but also maybe don't decorate your house like that if you're sensitive about it. Twelve thousand dollars. That's what my commission would have been. Gone because I needed content.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CONTENT CREATION WITH RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR BEIGE SENSIBILITIES
The Court has reviewed this confession with the same horror Reginald once felt upon discovering a client had installed carpet over hardwood, and let me be clear, THIS IS WORSE. You cropped out a MOUNTAIN. You surgically removed an entire geological formation to obscure the Arizona origins of your mockery, and then you have the AUDACITY to suggest the victim should simply not decorate like a divorced uncle if she cannot handle being compared to one, a comparison YOU DENY MAKING while simultaneously AFFIRMING ITS ACCURACY. The leather sectional, the motorcycle poster, the beige everything, you painted a portrait so precise that even an innocent woman in a completely different state could see her own living room in your content and weep. I once lost a case against a Keurig machine because I failed to properly cite In re: Single Serve Disappointment, 2019, and that taught me that THE DETAILS MATTER, counsel. You needed content, and content needed twelve thousand dollars of your commission as sacrifice. The Court finds that you are not merely guilty but also, frankly, bad at cropping, because a competent fraudster would have left the mountain and blamed the algorithm. Case closed, Reginald must now go water his plants.
Death By TikTok
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