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CONFESSION #0858 — SOCIAL MEDIA BACKFIRE
Thursday, September 10, 2026
We were three days from closing. Three days. And the buyer's cousin finds my Instagram post from like six months ago where I'm at a listing on the same street, different house, and I made some joke about the neighbors having a rooster. A rooster. Because they did, it was loud, it was funny at the time. Buyer's cousin screenshots it, sends it to the buyer, buyer calls me at 9pm asking if the neighborhood has noise issues. I explain it was a different property, completely different situation, the house we're closing on is quiet, I've been there multiple times at different hours. Doesn't matter. She wants a credit. Twelve thousand dollars because of a rooster joke about a house four doors down that she's not even buying. My broker's telling me I need to delete the post. I deleted it. Then she finds my TikTok, which I forgot I even had, where I did a tour of a flip that had some foundation work and I said something about how you gotta check the permits in this area. Not her house. Not even the same zip code. But now she wants an engineer out there. The seller is losing his mind because he already bought a condo, he's got movers scheduled, and this woman is treating my social media like a home inspection report. I stopped posting entirely. Just stopped. Eight years of building a following and now I post nothing because someone's cousin has too much time. We closed eventually but she got four thousand in credits and I paid half.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF RECKLESS SOCIAL MEDIA ROOSTERPOSTING IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH AGGRAVATED COUSIN INTERFERENCE
The Court has reviewed your confession and frankly, Reginald is SHAKING with the fury of a thousand improperly disclosed roosters. You maintained a digital presence for EIGHT YEARS and somehow failed to anticipate that a buyer's cousin — a COUSIN, the most dangerous species in residential real estate — would conduct forensic archaeology on your TikTok at the eleventh hour? This is TEXTBOOK negligence as established in Poultry v. The Timeline You Forgot Existed, 2022. The Court must pause here to note that I too once made a joke about a neighbor's peacock and was subsequently sued by the peacock, so I understand the sting of avian-adjacent humor gone wrong. BUT THAT DOES NOT EXCUSE YOU. You paid two thousand dollars because you thought a rooster was funny, and now you post nothing, which means the cousins have WON. The digital terrorists in their living rooms scrolling at 11pm have claimed another content creator and The Court finds this outcome personally offensive because I LIKED your content, probably, statistically speaking. Four thousand in credits for a bird that lives at a DIFFERENT ADDRESS — this is what happens when we let people have relatives. The gavel falls, Order the Roomba is circling ominously, and Reginald must now go lie down because this ruling has given him a migraine shaped like a chicken.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.8/10 Fowl Play Detected

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