The wedding ring carries a lot of emotional weight in a relationship. A real diamond is very expensive, and how much you are supposed to spend on it for an engagement is hotly contested. While I might personally not want someone to drop a bunch of money on a stone when we could have a house or vacation or no student debt, it’s very normal for many couples to consider a quality diamond a part of the marriage pact.
But a kid on TikTok is blowing up the whole idea and ruining his teacher’s lives with a little gadget that can tell you if your diamond ring is fake.
His handle is @jexif but he calls himself the DiamondTesterKid. In the first part of a series of TikToks, he approaches a teacher and asks if she has a wedding ring. She says yes, and he asks her if she thinks it’s real.
“Yeah, of course!” she says cheerfully. He then pulls out his diamond gem tester, which has a needle that presses against the stone and beeps if it’s a real diamond. If it’s silent…that tells a different story.
When she realizes it’s fake the TikTok cuts out.
@jexif
Jexif’s TikToks have been viewed millions of times and have made their way to Twitter, where @thismyburner8 shared several of the most heated ones. In several of them, his tester reveals that the teacher is NOT wearing a diamond and they seem to immediately call up their husbands and demand the truth.
https://twitter.com/thismyburner8/status/1321550282161971201
It’s actually brutal to hear them going from proud and excited about their rings to realizing things aren’t quite what they should be in the relationship:
https://twitter.com/thismyburner8/status/1321569964508078080
Apparently, one pawnshop owner says fake engagement rings people think are real are an incredibly common thing. Based on the sample size of just teachers at one school, that seems true:
I work at pawnshop and when women come in to sell their wedding rings after a divorce and find out either their diamond has been treated or is CZ or the gold is gold plated …. they be pissed !
— Noie 🦋 (@NoelleMckinley_) October 29, 2020
The comments on Twitter have naturally devolved into an argument, as some men suggest that the response from the teachers and women watching show how materialistic they are. They’re not surprised that men are lying about buying a real diamond just to keep their girls happy:
Imagine being such a crusty man that you don’t want to give a real piece of jewelry to the person who has agreed to be bothered by you for life. Y’all suck.
— inna club jangle-atin. (@SweetBabiJayy) October 29, 2020
why y’all need a big diamond ring anyway then just give us a plain ol band
— uglytaj_ (@AmadDaGawd) October 28, 2020
But a few explained that it’s not having a fake diamond that’s upsetting, it’s finding out you’ve been lied to over what is supposed to be a symbol of love:
Yeah, that's different. You can't give jewelry and say it's real when it's not. Relationships are built on trust lmao
— tsar glob (@Pilgrim1997) October 29, 2020
Do you not see the wrinkles on these hands??? 😂😂😂 Them old mfers ain’t have the diamond tester they were going off the strength of honest business. Thinking their money was good enough
— Dnalloh (@CeeFromTheMerk) October 29, 2020
Everyone pretty much agrees that this kid is starting fires for no reason:
— Ray B Shots (@RayB_Shots) October 29, 2020
— CheeksDaFreak (@CheeksMIA305) October 29, 2020
And they can’t look away from the blaze.
More engagement ring drama:
- Guy Refuses To Spend More Than $500 On An Engagement Ring And Gets Lit Up
- Woman Asks If It’s OK To Reject The Engagement Ring Her BF Originally Bought For His Ex
- Woman Slams Jewelry Store Employee Who Called Her Engagement Ring “Pathetic”
- Woman Upset Her Rich Fiancé Bought A $140 Engagement Ring, Wonders If It’s A Test