Running a loyalty test on your girlfriend is already a weird thing to do. I mean, not weird if your main quality as a person is «insecure,» but for anyone with some self-respect? Weird. But this dude here didn’t just give it a go and drop it, oh no. He was running it for months with four friends, and a rotating roster of fake accounts built from stolen photos is a whole organization dedicated to the bit. And weird is too small a word for that kind of thing, so I’ll let you decide on one

The logic behind loyalty testing reveals everything about the person doing it. The entire premise is that you suspect someone of being untrustworthy, so instead of talking about it or leaving, you build an elaborate fake scenario to catch them in the act. If they pass, great, you keep dating someone you were convinced was going to cheat on you. If they fail, you have your answer, but you also just spent weeks actively trying to make that happen. Neither outcome solves the original problem, which is that you do not trust the person you are with.

The fact that this was a full-blown group project is what really takes it to another level. This was not one paranoid boyfriend with a bad idea. This was a coordinated operation with multiple participants, fake identities sourced from real people’s photos, and enough persistence to keep creating new accounts every time one got blocked. They treated a relationship like a research study and kept running trials because the results were not dramatic enough yet. At some point, the goal stopped being about loyalty and started being about finding a reason.