Panic-texting your best friend during college move-in aft...

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1. Jess, there's a TikTok of me 'confessing' to stealing your scholarship, it's blowing up.
2. What the hell, send it now.
3. Professor Ward just DMed the clip and asked 'is this true?'
4. Your professor DMed you that?
5. He wrote 'this could be grounds for discipline' and attached the video.
6. I don't understand—why would your face be in it?
7. They used my orientation vlog and spliced a voice memo into it; it's a deepfake.
8. You sent me a voice memo earlier admitting wanting the scholarship?
9. It was a dumb, angry 3AM rant to you, not a public confession.
10. Then how does the caption say 'should've split it with me' and tag us?
11. They stitched my laugh and a screenshot of our scholarship email into the clip.
12. Who had access to that email screenshot besides us?
13. Only you, me, and Alex from orientation had that screenshot.
14. Alex? he literally joked about sabotaging people last month.
15. He texted me earlier asking for a 'favor' and linked an edit.
16. I clicked it this morning; thought it was a prank, didn't post.
17. What did the edit look like when you opened it?
18. A stitched clip with your voice admitting it, captioned 'karma'.
19. So Alex made it and tagged you, then what did you do?
20. I shared it to my private story with 'wtf'; one friend screenshot.
21. Which friend—did they send it to anyone else?
22. My roomie sent it to her boyfriend at work; he sent Ward.
23. You sent it to someone in the department? you didn't tell me.
24. I panicked and thought showing proof would help, I'm coming to you now.