Web Video / Apple Texts

Apple Texts is a Web Video series featuring stories that are played out in the form of text conversations.

The videos in Apple Texts cover various topics such as marriages and divorces, cheating, Parental Abandonment (or Parental Neglect, or sometimes both), mean/bad or corrupt bosses and so on.

In November 2023, the channel made all of its videos private; however, new videos were released from the month following.

Compare to similar channels Viral Texts and Text Theater.

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"I think your trope list is pathetic."
"Actually, your husband put that trope list together."
"Huh?"

• Academia Elitism: These type of antagonists are often used as a foil to a less educated protagonist. Common variants of the trope include:
  • Evil in-laws who don't approve of the protagonist's marriage because of the protagonist's lower level of education.
  • Incompetent and/or lazy workers who brag about their education and mock the protagonist for their poorer education.
  • Parents who favor the protagonist's sibling because of their superior education. Depending on the story, the sibling could be an arrogant jerk, or disgusted by their parents' mistreatment of their sibling.
• AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle: Every so often, you can tell that English is not the VAs first language.
• Alpha Bitch: A very common villain type for female antagonists, namely jealous neighbours, mothers-in-law, etc.
• Attempted Homewrecker:
  • In stories where the antagonist is a Serial Homewrecker towards the protagonist, they will eventually try and fail to seduce the protagonist's true love, who, unlike the protagonist's previous lovers, is too much of a decent person to cheat. Nonetheless, the antagonist will usually try to harass the faithful lover into cheating, resorting to measures such as stalking, being sexually provocative, or demanding that the protagonist give them up.
  • Some stories have the protagonist's first lover being faithful despite the antagonist's extreme persistence.
  • In stories where the protagonist's evil ex tries to get back with them, said ex will demand that the protagonist break up with their new lover. When the protagonist refuses, they will often try to bad-mouth the new lover in some way, which naturally pisses off the protagonist even further.
• Bad Boss: Danielle is a company director who picked on temp workers, especially female ones like Harper, as she picked on the latter's appearance and her introverted personality. Moreover, Danielle contacted her just to dump two months' worth of her workload onto her before her wedding. While she had Harper serve as a guestbook keeper after said time passed, Danielle neglected to save her a seat because she was a temp.
• Beauty Breeds Laziness: Irene was favored by her parents for her beauty, in contrast to her uglier, less favored sister Hazel. Because of how they were raised, Irene became a spoiled, lazy, Money Dumb Womanchild who is in debt and leeches off of her sister to survive, while Hazel became a hardworking, responsible, mature adult. Irene's good life comes to an end when Hazel cuts ties with her family after getting married to a man who loves her despite her looks, while Irene ends up stuck in debt and unmarried because no amount of good looks can make up for a rotten personality. During Irene's Villainous Breakdown, she outright states that being beautiful means she shouldn't have to work and that other people should work for her.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In many cheating stories, the cheaters tell their former lovers that their current lovers are so much better, and that they'll live a new life with their new partner. These stories end with the cheaters getting together with their new lover...and finding their new life together was not what they imagined it would be, or even hating each other, and often ending in divorce. By this point, the person they cheated on has moved on.
• Blaming the Cuckold: Cheaters will often try to blame their partners for their affair. Men will often claim that their wives/girlfriends are at fault for not taking care of their appearances or getting old, while women claim that their husbands/boyfriends are at fault for being a wimp or for not making enough money. Sometimes the cheating partner's family members or the affair partner will blame the one who was cheated on for not being good enough.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On:
  • Cheating antagonists almost always become shocked and enraged when they discover that their affair partner is sleeping with people behind their back, not understanding that someone who is willing to have an affair probably wouldn't be faithful to them either. Some common variations include:
    • Men who use their money to attract women discovering the hard way that a woman who chooses men based on their financial status would probably leave them the minute a wealthier man came along.
    • Beautiful/young women not understanding that a man who would leave his current wife/girlfriend for a prettier/younger woman would do the same thing to them when they get old or when an even prettier woman comes along or that their beauty/youth isn't enough to keep an unfaithful man from cheating.
    • Mistresses discovering that the man they're cheating with has other mistresses besides them or is willing to cheat on them as well.
    • Cheaters who claim their affair partner is their "true love" finding out that their cheating partner only saw them as a fling.
    • Cheating husbands finding out that their pregnant mistresses are carrying another man's baby.
    • Homewreckers who steal other people's lovers getting their stolen lover taken from them.
  • (From the Air Texts channel)"My friend invited to her wedding with my ex but no one's laughing when they meet my husband": Emma, who seduced Ryder away from her friend Mika, is not happy to learn on her wedding day that Ryder was also in a relationship with one of his co-workers, acting hypocritical about it.
  Emma: I can cheat all I want, and steal as many guys as I want! But if someone else is going to do that to me? Oh! They are going to pay!
• Children Are Innocent: Subverted with great frequency. If any teens or preteens have a speaking non-protagonist role, there's a solid chance they're as entitled, spoiled and vile as they possibly can be, and the level of contempt they show their own flesh and blood can be absolutely stunning. Predictably, karma will hit them just as hard.
• Childish Villain, Mature Hero: The antagonists tend to possess many immature qualities such as laziness, irresponsibility, and self-centeredness, in contrast to the protagonists, who are usually the exact opposite. In addition, said antagonists usually expect the protagonists who they screwed over to help them out of whatever mess they got themselves out of.
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: All texts show the protagonist (or supporting character depending on the situation) sending texts in a blue window, while the antagonist (or another supporting character) sends texts back in white windows.
• Creator's Culture Carryover: While the stories are stated to be set in the USA, the series is based on a Chinese series called 'Happy Texts' and many plots hinge on concepts that are unfamiliar to American culture, such as: companies merging via marriage of the children of the respective CEO of each company, husbands expecting to inherit the business that belongs to their wife's family, men automatically assuming that they own a house or apartment when the deed is actually in their partner's name, pregnant mothers staying with their parents instead at home with their husbands, people expecting their friends to constantly foot the bill for restaurants as a way of showing how they value their relationship, apologizing or begging for forgiveness on hands and knees, excessive karma for unfilial children even if they're still in their teens, people being officially disowned by their families, or the numerous rapid and easily obtained divorces (even with no-fault divorce it can take several months for the ruling to go through in the USA, and the person who doesn't instigate has to be physically served with the papers first, rather than the papers being left for them to discover).
• Crying Wolf: When an antagonist constantly lies, it often comes to the point that the protagonist no longer believes them when they do tell the truth — or, even if they do believe them, the protagonist is so fed up that they wash their hands of the whole business. One antagonist seduces the protagonist's fiancé (said protagonist being her sister) then dumps the fiancé by lying that she has a fatal illness so that she can go on to marry a much richer man, and when the wedding is inevitably ruined the antagonist ends up in the hospital...where she's diagnosed with cancer. When she begs her sister for money to help pay for her treatment and swears that she's not lying this time, the protagonist at first doesn't believe her (and neither do their parents) and then says that even if the diagnosis is true, she refuses to help because she's sick and tired of the antagonist's awful behaviour.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Sometimes, the antagonists try to screw over those who are perfectly capable of hurting the antagonists far worse than the antagonists could ever hurt them, such as highly successful lawyers. If these antagonists had any sense, they would've realized that these are the last people you want to have against you, because they can and will strike back.
  • There seems to be a baffling number of cheating husbands eager to ditch their wives and hook up with the next pretty young thing... when said wife is a high-ranking executive or otherwise wealthy woman who's been paying for everything since hubby can't afford anything on their own. Sometimes they can be excused due to being extremely ignorant of their own financial situation (but that just raises further questions), but often they know just how little they earn and how much debt they have, and are still all too eager to ditch their meal ticket in favor of a pretty minimum-wage earner (assuming she hasn't already quit her job since she thinks her new man is rich).
  • Sure, go ahead and kick out your child who's spent who knows how long consistently paying for the whole household without complaining even though you treat them like dirt. You can definitely replace them with your more favored golden child who's decided to move back home and who will definitely pick up the slack just fine. Don't bother checking what they're actually doing - after all the money you poured into their schooling, they must definitely be highly accomplished and not an unemployed or minimum-wage earning loser, or a spoiled and entitled brat. Definitely don't bother to make certain they can and are willing to pay at least as much as the unfavorite did before you ditched them. There's no way this could ever go wrong.
  • Sure, sit back and let your parents constantly insult, abuse, or interfere with your relationship with your spouse. They totally won't divorce you and/or deny you access to your kids.
  • Go ahead, insult the wife of your employee who has lots of connections, after you've already burned every other bridge you had. Surely he won't use his connections against you, especially if he knows you've been embezzling money for a long time.
  • Go ahead, kick out your daughter to be outside in the rain to cheat on your wife, after your mistress already told you she wanted your daughter to be hers. There's no way this will end badly for you or your mistress, especially if your wife finds out. Also, while not explicitly mentioned, there's no way this will lead to the child wanting nothing to do with your mistress.
  • Go ahead, dump all the care and support of your mother on your wife and never so much as visit her, AND cheat on your wife. Of course your mother's going to leave everything to you, as opposed to making your wife her heir and signing her house over to her and letting your family know about your treatment of them both.
  • Go ahead, connive to get your sister-in-law ostracized from your family, forge her signature on divorce papers, and then when you apply to work at the same company she does, go on a rant during her final interview about how you want to gain enough authority to fire her. Naturally the company's still going to want to hire you after that.
  • Go ahead, try to lure your wife into an unspecified location and push her to her death so you can marry your precious, pretty mistress without being caught by cameras or your pesky neighbor and her sleuths. It's not like she will survive the fall to sue you, nor that said sleuths have more advanced methods to track you down. And of course, keep insisting your wife is the infertile one. It's not like you're in the wrong and your new wife's baby is actually from her older brother.
  • "Sneaky husband brings home his dead best friend's son without telling his wife": Go ahead, take in your late best friend's baby son and have your wife raise him to adulthood so you can bask in all the praise about how selfless and good you are. It's not like raising a child, especially one born with a serious illness like hemophilia, is expensive, nor that your wife eventually finds out you were having an affair with his wife and you're doing this to cover up the fact that the baby is actually yours.
  • "My sister tries to ruin my wedding due to a total misunderstanding, torpedos her own life": Go ahead, try to ruin your sister's wedding by forging the invitations and slandering her as a cheater, and gloat about how no one will come to her wedding. Don't worry if the bride reveals her friends know her well enough to see through your ridiculous attempts at slander, just bring up her alleged affair with her boss to threaten her. It's not like he's actually the bride's stalker nor that he'll force you to marry him and make your life hell if you dare to cheat on him.
• Disappointed by the Motive: While the father of this story's antagonist certainly didn't appreciate his son stealing his stamp collection, selling it, and then disappearing for five years, he was willing to forgive it, assuming his son would only do that if he was genuinely in trouble. When he finds out the real reason his son did that (to run off with a woman other than his wife), the antagonist's father was utterly disgusted with him.
• Disowned Sibling: Stories where the antagonist is the protagonist's toxic sibling will inevitably have the protagonist cut ties with their sibling. Some stories have toxic siblings cutting ties out of pride or because they feel being associated with the protagonist will make them look bad. While the protagonists are willing to cut their siblings out of their lives for good, the antagonists have no problem going back to their sibling when it's convenient.
• Domestic Abuse: Fred verbally and physically abused the OP, his wife, for even the smallest mistakes or setbacks. Moreover, he even blamed her for miscarrying five years ago because his equally sexist father told him anything a woman suffers is always the woman's fault.
• Dramatically Missing the Point: When the antagonist realizes they've been abusing someone who can seriously hurt them back, they will beg for clemency... and insist that "I would never have done what I did if I'd known who you were!" or some variation, and get very surprised when their victim refuses to accept the "apology", since they instead believe you shouldn't abuse anyone.
  • When karma strikes, expect the antagonist to demand the protagonist aid them, usually citing family ties or duty.
  • One antagonist, after weaselling her way onto a trip to Bali and constantly deferring when the protagonist, who organizes the trip, asks to be paid back, also expects for someone to pay for all of the room service that she ordered, and when she pleads that she can't afford to pay for the holiday and is challenged over why she said she had the money to go on the trip in the first place, she says that she thought her 'friends' would pay for her like they always do.
• Everyone Owns a Mac: All videos show the characters communicating with one another via the iMessages app.
• Failed a Spot Check: This guy spends months texting his girlfriend to flirt, badmouth his wife and talk about how he's planning his divorce, and brag about how much he's embezzling from his workplace. The problem? He's accidentally texting his wife, who (after an initial moment of surprise) is just playing along so she can gather material on him and get out of the relationship before he ends up in prison. The fact that he does this repeatedly, on his own without ever catching on, says a lot. Hilariously, one of the things he never gets tired of bragging about is how smart he is and how nobody will ever catch on to what he's doing, and to rub salt in the wound, his “girlfriend” was never in to him. She was just a bartender who was only being friendly to the guy as required by her job.
• Fair-Weather Ex: Stories in which the protagonist is cheated on and/or abandoned will almost always end with the betrayer trying to get back together with the protagonist for a selfish reason.
  • If the protagonist was once poor but became wealthy, the antagonist will ask to get back together in hopes of getting money.
  • If the antagonist broke up with the protagonist to be with someone "better", they will try to get back with the protagonist the minute their new relationship goes sour.
  • If the protagonist was liked by their in-laws, expect the antagonist to want to get back together with them to repair their relationship with their family.
• Fair-Weather Foe: Pretty much every episode ends with the antagonist begging the protagonist, who they mistreated, for help. Some common variants of this formula include:
  • Unfavorite children whose parents and/or Golden Child sibling beg for them to come back when they need them.
  • Mean co-workers who beg for help from the ex-coworkers who they treated poorly.
  • Elitists who beg the people they looked down on to assist them.
  • Spoiled Brats who mistreat their parents promising to be good when they need something from said parent.
  • Deadbeat parents coming back to their children years later and begging for money and/or a place to stay.

• The Farmer and the Viper: So, so many stories feature a protagonist caring for others (parents, siblings, friends, spouse) and paying for their expenses/letting them live at their house/doing the housework, only for the antagonist to pay them back with mistreatment, exploitation, and attempts to steal their property (usually their house).
• Forgetful Jones: One story has the classic 'father and daughter who treat their wife/mother like a maid', and in this case they refuse to let her come on a trip overseas. Once they're embarking on their trip, the protagonist lets them know that not only did her husband forget that he was due to attend a vital company wide meeting, her daughter also forgot about and thus failed to attend a re-sit of four exams that she had previously failed.
• Gold Digger: Almost every antagonist who tries to steal the protagonist's boyfriend/fiancé/husband does so because (they think) he's wealthy and successful, and they want to live a pampered carefree life of a trophy housewife. They rarely seem to care to find out about any other aspects of the man (which is why they're so unprepared to find out he's unsuccessful, unemployed, debt-ridden, a compulsive gambler, has anger issues, and/or any other terrible traits). A familial version is when a sibling tries to kick out and replace the protagonist so they can take over the family business, gain control of the luxurious house and/or profitable land, inherit the family fortune when the parents pass on, etc.
  • Rick is a rare male example, as he only wanted to marry Laura for her family's money. However, he shoved her down the stairs so that the wedding will be called off and she'll end up paying the cancellation instead of him if he straight up asked to call it off himself. Moreover, he reveals he was having an affair with her prettier sister, Melissa, with their mother's approval. Later on, he had Laura become his guarantor to make her pay for their honeymoon.
• In Love with Looks:
  • If a male antagonist is a cheater, his reason for cheating is almost always because his wife is old, plain or ugly, while his affair partner is younger and/or more beautiful. While some husbands might use natural beauty as an excuse, others will claim that their cheating is their wives' fault for not taking care of their looks, not wearing makeup, or gaining weight.
  • Gold diggers who are married or engaged to wealthy but unattractive people will sometimes try to have their cake and eat it too by having more attractive lovers on the side, which often results in them getting divorced and sued. The gold digger's lover will either leave them or end up stuck living a miserable life of poverty alongside them.
• Ironic Echo: This occurs frequently. Commonly, the antagonist will say to the protagonist: "You're nothing to me!" or "We're strangers!" This will often end with the protagonist throwing said comment back at the antagonist.
• Karmic Shunning: Pretty much every episode ends with the antagonist(s) ending up with most, if not all, of their friends, family, connections, coworkers, etc pretty much wanting nothing with them because of their various horrible actions, which can include adultery, child abuse, spousal abuse, bullying, embezzlement, abandoning their family, sexual harassment, property damage, elitism and stealing, to name a few.
• King Incognito: Karen constantly bullied her coworker, Iris, because of her old age and pulled rank whenever she objected. However, she loses her bravado once Iris reveals she's the company's boss and comes over to terminate troublesome employees like Karen. The revelation caused Karen to fly into a panic and try to reason with Iris, even resorting to blackmail.
• Love Interest vs. Lust Interest:
  • In stories that feature an an ugly protagonist and a good-looking antagonist, the antagonist will often attempt to steal the protagonist's lover via their looks and sex appeal, with their attraction being based on a desire to hurt the protagonist, the lover's looks and/or money, or offense that an ugly person could get married before them rather than actual feelings for the lover. In stories where the antagonist succeeds in stealing away the lover, they are quick to abandon or cheat on their new partner when something better comes along, especially if the protagonist has found a new, better lover for them to steal. If the antagonist fails, they will often express confusion and disbelief that a person would rather stay faithful to an ugly person rather than cheat with a more attractive person. Meanwhile, the protagonist is always indifferent to their lover's status, money, and looks, and chooses them based on their personalities, only leaving them due to serious reasons such as infidelity, abuse, laziness, etc rather than fickle desire.
  • In stories that feature a protagonist married to someone perceived as a loser, the shallow antagonist will make fun of the protagonist for being married to someone of such low status, assuming that the protagonist married them because they're not good enough to do better, when in fact the protagonist genuinely loves them. When the "loser" lover later becomes successful/is revealed to be successful, the shallow antagonist will immediately show interest and demand that the protagonist give them their lover, as if they were an object to be possessed, unlike the protagonist, who treats their lover like a person and loved them before they became successful.
  • Stories that involve a protagonist's cheating ex will have said ex play the Lust Interest, while the protagonist's Second Love lays the role of a Love Interest; typically, the story begins with the ex leaving them for someone prettier, richer, younger, etc, usually with the justification that their new spouse is their "true love." Later on, the ex will try to get back with the protagonist either because their new relationship didn't work out, their new lover lost their income, or they found out the protagonist made more money. Meanwhile, the Second Love will love the protagonist for who they are rather than for what they have or what they look like.
• Mama Bear: Several female protagonists or deuteragonists defend their children, grandchildren, and even children-in-law when they are mentally or physically harmed by the antagonist.
  • In this story, Kelly is being repeatedly harassed and undermined by her mother-in-law Janet who also used to bully Kelly’s mother Christine in high school. Kelly’s mother responds back by repeatedly assaulting Janet and threatens to continue unless she stops hurting Kelly. She also threatens to do the same to her son-in-law Andy if he continues to ignore Kelly’s plight.
  • In this story, Kurt kicks his wife Heather and their newborn daughter Maggie out of the house in the middle of winter just so he can sleep. Heather’s mother gives Kurt a verbal tongue lashing for endangering her daughter and granddaughter and helps Heather divorce Kurt and raise Maggie.
  • In this story, David has been neglecting his young daughter Sarah, going so far as to kick her out of the house in the rain while he cheats on his wife Abby. When Abby learns of this, she reads David the riot act and divorces him. She is awarded full custody and makes sure David and his affair partner Emma, who wanted Sarah to be her daughter, never see her again.
• Momma's Boy:
  • Joshua was extremely subservient to his mom and her demands to have a baby boy with his wife, Gabby, who even called him the trope name when he kept insisting on doing things for his mom.
  • Giovanni had an additional house built for his mom when she came over, much to his wife Stella's dismay; she had to put up with the sexist hag's abuse whenever they visited her. When Stella tried to talk him out of it, he hurled sexist abuse as well and was determined to have his mom come over.
• Moral Myopia: FREQUENTLY. The antagonist usually delights in screwing over the protagonist, making their life hell, and mocking them for it. When the tables turn, they are quick to whine about or be completely incapable of understanding why.
• Not Actually His Child:
  • "Nasty daughter throws our her Dad's stuff and tells him he's human garbage": After Hannah's abuse escalated into accusing him of cheating on her mom, Christine, the MC reveals he isn't her real father; it turns out Christine was the one having an affair rather than the other way around before declaring he's divorcing Christine despite Hannah's pleas.
  • "Sneaky husband brings home his dead best friend's son without telling his wife": Sean takes in Tom's baby son, Kevin, after the latter and his wife, Julie, died in a car accident and constantly badgered his own wife Leila into raising the baby despite knowing he has hemophilia. When Sean becomes defensive every time Tom's wife is mentioned while insisting it was Tom's child, Leila finds out that he had an affair with Julie, and therefore, Kevin was Sean's child. She divorces him afterward.
  • "My scumbag fiance got my pretty sister pregnant and left me for her on our wedding day": After Rick seemingly shoved his fiancée, Laura, down the stairs right on her wedding day to marry her sister Melissa instead, he reveals he had an affair with Melissa and got her pregnant. However, Laura reveals to him later on that Melissa was extremely promiscuous. Moreover, she also reminded him of the checkup they did before marrying and revealed he was infertile and therefore, wasn't the baby's father.
• Not Blood, Not Family:
  • Stories involving evil in-laws, step-family, or foster family will often have them insisting that the protagonist isn't family because of a lack of blood ties. At the story's end, said characters almost always try to play the family card in order to guilt-trip the protagonist into helping them.
  • In stories involving evil blood relatives and good non-blood relatives, the former will insist that they are the protagonist's "real" family and denounce the latter as being strangers.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Some stories involve mothers-in-law (or fathers-in-law) who try to meddle with the lives of their offspring's partners. Examples include:
  • A mother-in-law trying to move in with her son and wife
  • A "stuck-up" mother-in-law sending a fake lunch invitation to her daughter-in-law

• Parental Neglect:
  • In one video, a mother has locked her young daughter in the shed, resulting in her daughter calling her mother's boyfriend to rescue her.
  • In one video, a cheating and divorced mother abandons her daughter for days at a time, leaving only bread for the young girl to eat.
• Papa Wolf: Several male protagonists or deuteragonists come to the defense of their children, grandchildren, and even children-in-laws when they are being mentally or physically harmed by the antagonist.
  • The father in this story divorced his wife Michelle and won full custody of their son Noah after learning that his wife has been stealing from Noah’s education fund to sleep with an escort which resulted in her being unreachable when Noah was hit by a car.
• Playing the Family Card: Pretty much every episode that involves an evil family member will have said family member using familial relations as a means of guilt-triping or demanding the protagonist they abused and/or abandoned to help them. Said protagonist will never fall for it, and respond by cutting ties with them.
• Point of No Return: If there's one common thread in most of these stories, it's that even if the antagonists were tempted to do the awful things they did, they had at least one point where they could've turned back before it changed their lives forever, maybe with minor repercussions at worst. But the moment they pressed on, there was no way they were going back to their old lives even if they wanted to. The antagonists often don't realize this until they're literally begging for things to be the way it used to be, at which point the people they screwed over simply decide no, they wanted things to change at the expense of everyone else, and they got it.
• Pop-Up Texting: The core of these stories. Texts appear on the screen, which are then "read out" by the respective senders.
• Relationship Sabotage: Sadie plotted to ruin her sister Marie's wedding after seemingly finding out her ex-boyfriend, Anderson, was going to be the groom. Furthermore, she did this by copying Marie's wedding invitations with slanderous messages. When she gloated to Marie about sleeping with the latter's ex-lover to have Anderson dump her at the wedding, Marie tells her everyone did attend her wedding and reveals "Anderson" is her groom's first name, unlike Sadie's ex-boyfriend who has it as a last name. Frustrated, Sadie threatened to tell everyone about Marie's alleged affair with her boss, Alan Peterson, but the latter revealed he was her stalker.
• Revenge Porn Blackmail: Sharon truthfully claims to be the late Damien's mistress and also falsely claims that her son is Damien's child. In order to extort the inheritance money out of Damien's widow Ellen, Sharon threatens her via deepfaked pornography that was created by Jeff, Sharon's boyfriend and the actual father of Sharon's son.
• Revenge Romance: Sadie gloated at her sister, Marie, after sleeping with the latter's ex-lover and driving the guests away at her wedding day and have Anderson dump her. However, it all backfires on the former sister when the latter reveals her fiancé is actually named Anderson Williams, while Sadie's ex was named Dodge Anderson, a man who descended from an old-money family. Moreover, the reason Dodge dumped her was that she constantly urged him to marry before Marie could.
• Sadist Teacher: Ms. Monique is an authoritarian teacher who had it for the OP's daughter, Brittany, for coming from a single-mother home and defending her friend. Moreover, she even framed the girl for stealing school money. When the OP took her to task, Monique tried to have them both write an apology letter for their "criminal" behavior under threat of calling the cops on them. However, the abusive teacher's bravado disappears when the protagonist reveals her name is Petra Walters and is the school's superintendent.
• Same Story, Different Names: Some pages are technically under the same umbrella group (referred to as being "under the management of MCN Organization") but have different backgrounds playing under the texts with similar storylines to those of Apple Texts:
  • AirTexts. This channel is now terminated.
  • Apple Cafe Texts (or "Cafe Texts") has café videos (or coffee-related videos) playing in the background. This channel is now terminated.
  • Apple Kitty Texts (or "Kitty Texts") has cat video backgrounds, although the stories don't relate to cats at all.
  • Apple Santa Texts (or "Santa Texts") has Christmas-themed video backgrounds; as with Kitty Texts, the stories don't relate to Christmas.
  • iText Pro
  • MacText Air. This channel is now terminated.
  • MacText Pro. This channel is now terminated.
  • Apple Eats Texts has food-related video backgrounds.
  • Lovely Texts has Valentine's Day themed backgrounds.
• Sextra Credit: Kevin used his position as a teacher to cheat on his wife, Sophie, with a high school student named Jessy in exchange for better grades. Upon finding it out, Sophie talked with her mother-in-law, Kathy, but the latter justified his cheating under the excuse that that's how a man is. When she talked it out with her own mother, Elizabeth, and she texts Kathy directly, it turns out Kathy also slept with a teacher of hers back in high school, ruining his marriage and therefore supplanting his wife.
• Shallow Cannot Comprehend True Love:
  • In stories involving a Love Triangle between an ugly protagonist and a good-looking antagonist, if the protagonist's lover chooses the protagonist over the antagonist, the latter will become confused that someone would choose to be with an ugly person when more attractive options are available. The protagonist or the lover then typically explains that not everyone chooses people based on their looks.
  • If the protagonist's lover is wealthy, then the Gold Digger antagonist will accuse the protagonist of being after the money when in actuality the protagonist is genuinely in love with their partner.
• Staircase Tumble: Rick shoved his fiancée, Laura, down the stairs not only to force his wedding to be called off and force her to pay the cancellation fee, but to marry her sister Melissa instead. Moreover, the sisters' mother laughed at Laura while she fell down. However, Laura reveals later on that it was Melissa who he pushed down the stairs; he mistook her for Laura after seeing her from behind in her wedding dress, causing her to be sent to the hospital.
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • "Delusional sister in law keeps stalking me and trying to get me to marry her instead!": Elizabeth resorted to stalking Steve to his new house and tried to seduce him into cheating on her sister Beatrice and pick her instead. Unsurprisingly, Steve reported her stalking to the police and had her parents pay a settlement fee. However, the president who sought to marry Beatrice decided to pay it in exchange for marrying Elizabeth instead, which the father accepts.
  • "My sister tries to ruin my wedding due to a total misunderstanding, torpedos her own life": Sadie threatened her sister, Marie, to out her as a cheater at her wedding and brought up the alleged lover's identity, her boss Alan Peterson. Much to Sadie's dismay, Marie revealed he was her stalker and she reported him to HR earlier on. Distressed by the reveal, Sadie tried to get back with Dodge Anderson only to be laughed out, which caused Mr. Peterson to stalk and verbally abuse her before their marriage.
• Stay in the Kitchen: In "Bossy mother in law wants to impose rules to her son's independent wife." [sic], Laura's mother-in-law, Ruth, insisted she live up to her outdated standards on how a "good" wife should be after marrying Jamie. Aside from quitting her job to become a full-time housewife, the other standards basically amount to becoming a slave for her in-laws.
• Sustained Misunderstanding: This is frequently the case with antagonists. For example: "I never would've hit you had I known you were the CEO's brother!" — completely missing the point that assault is never acceptable under any circumstances!
• Threat Backfire:
  • In one video, when Warren gives his wife Teresa signed divorce papers but still expects her to do his housework, Teresa submits the papers since Warren had been cheating on her.
  • In In "Cheating wife fills out divorce papers and threatens to divorce. I make her wish come true." [sic]: stay-at-home wife Lexi likewise threatens her husband Curtis with signed divorce papers; Curtis signs and submits those papers when he finds out Lexi was having an affair with a college student.
  • "Bossy mother in law wants to impose rules to her son's independent wife." [sic]: After receiving a huge dressing down from both her husband and eldest son, Jamie, for trying to force the latter's wife, Laura, to live up to her outdated, sexist standards, Ruth threatened divorce on her husband if he didn't agree with her on the matter. Much to her dismay, he happily signed the papers, causing her to almost break down.
• Sinister Minister: In this story, Pastor Bowman was glad that a member of his congregation died going so far to say it at their funeral because of the payout he was getting from the deceased’s family, and when he was called out on it, he left fifteen minutes into the funeral service. He then later harassed the family for the rest of his money. It turns out that Pastor Bowman was overcharging the family for the funeral services to pay off his debts, and he’s been neglecting the church to the point he’s does his Sunday sermons hungover.
• Trailers Always Spoil: The preview images and/or titles usually include the dramatic twist that would have come as a great surprise.
• Two-Timing with the Bestie: In this story, Tom's wife, Julie, was revealed to have an affair with his best friend, Sean, before the car accident that took both hers and Tom's lives shortly after she gave birth to Kevin. Sean then took Kevin in after coercing the baby's grandparents into giving him up so he could be praised as a "selfless friend" while having his own wife, Leila, raise Kevin.
• The Unfavorite: Most times the antagonist is the parent or sibling of the protagonist, expect massively unfair treatment (bordering on outright child abuse sometimes) and the parent outright stating their preference. Even when the unfavorite is the one keeping the family afloat financially, they will get no respect and the parent will be all too eager to kick them out on the street so their more favored offspring can move in instead. Regret sets in when it turns out the replacement can't or won't pay nearly as much as the unfavorite did, and no amount of too-late sweet talk will convince them to come back.
• Vandalism Backfire: Cathy snuck into Jack's house, stole the OP's wedding dress and tiara, and sold it away to keep her from marrying the former's childhood friend, Jack. However, after OP reveals that said dress didn't actually belong to her, but to Jack's mother, Brenda. Moreover, Brenda cherished the dress and wanted to use it on her 30th wedding anniversary. As a result, Brenda calls the cops on Cathy for the stolen dress and press charges against her.
• Villainous Breakdown: The antagonist usually begins as smug and condescending. By the end, their bravado has completely left them and they're reduced to begging, crying, or in complete denial of their circumstances.
• Vocal Dissonance: Male characters are usually voiced by female voice actors.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Jolene demanded her daughter-in-law, Gabby, to have a baby boy to have him continue the family name. When Gabby asked her if the baby she had was a girl, she told her to give any baby girl away to her 38-year-old sister since she didn't have any children and keep trying until she and Joshua had the baby boy. When Gabby understandably objected to Jolene's proposal, the abusive hag threatened to have them divorced to cow her into submission.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Some cheating stories end with the protagonist asking this of the antagonists; after all, the antagonist went out of their way to cheat on their partner, only for it to screw them over in the end (and possibly their new lover as well). The protagonist sometimes says that it better have been Worth It, because they're not bailing their ex out of a nightmare that they created for themselves.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: All stories end with post-story epilogues on what happened to the story's characters.
• You Are Already Dead: A non-death example, but usually, by the time the antagonist realizes the consequences of their actions, they're already long past the point where they could do anything to prevent their downfall.

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