Web Video / Viral Texts

Viral Texts (話題のLINE, Watai no LINE, "Viral LINEs" in Japanese) is a Web Video series where stories are played out in text conversations.

The videos cover various topics such as marriages and divorce, stalking and so on. The English channel can be found here. The original Japanese channel can be found here.

Compare to similar channel Apple Texts.

Viral Texts contains examples of:

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The antagonist will usually beg the protagonist not to leave when they've had enough of their mistreatment.
• Attempted Homewrecker: Marge wants her sister Jenny's fiance Gerry, despite having a boyfriend herself, because she thinks she's a better fit due to her superior looks on top of the fact that Gerry is better looking than her own boyfriend. Marge calls Jenny and tells her that Gerry is now her fiance, with her parents even supporting Marge, much to Gerry's horror. After Gerry refuses her advances Marge decides to sneak into Gerry's house in her underwear and hugs him, which causes Gerry run away and call the cops. Marge ends up screwing up her own life for her actions; she gets arrested while in her underwear, finds out from Jenny that Gerry's coworkers, including Marge's boyfriend, saw her trying to seduce Gerry due to him being in an online business meeting, which causes her boyfriend to break up with her, and ends up getting sued for causing Gerry's coworkers emotional distress.
• The Baby Trap: Lucas accuses Julia of lying about being pregnant just to get back with him despite the fact she really is pregnant and has no feelings for him. Furthermore, Lucas refused to hear her when she disputed his claims and slandered her on his social media to get her hounded by comments that harped on how awful she was for doing so. It turned out he was engaged to a woman named Mia, who was the daughter of a CEO. Moreover, he tried to keep Mia in the dark about his ongoing affair and wanted her to delete the post.
• Big Eater: Leanna eats a lot of food but refuses to pay her part of the bill leaving the other moms to cover the bill. She and her family managed to eat 50 plates of sushi each at a restaurant.
• Big Sister Bully:
  • Maria bullied her younger sister, Lily, by stealing her stuff. Moreover, she escalated things by stealing Lily's fiancé, George. While Lily seemed to give up, she exposed Maria's true self to George's parents.
  • Caroline always stole things from her younger sister, Susan, since childhood and used her position as the older sister to justify it. Moreover, she gloated about having stolen Susan's fiancé, Andrew, and announced her wedding ceremony one year later to twist the knife even further.
• Blackmail: Cheryl tried to blackmail Kerry because she allegedly had a photo of her cheating on her husband and began extorting her for money for her silence. Cheryl's scheme was eventually found out and she was divorced by her husband.
• Blaming the Cuckold: Melanie's sister Brianna stole her boyfriend in college and her husband Troy. Brianna claims that both affairs were Melanie's fault for being boring and busy at work.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Some later episodes have grammatical errors and typos and mistranslated dialogue.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Rachael is a college-aged girl who antagonized her stepmother, Lisa. When her real mother, Renee, returns under the veneer of being a "celebrity," she takes it at face value and decides to live with Renee to spite Lisa for being poor. However, Rachael realizes it was a big mistake as Renee and her husband took all the money from her dad's account and the pretty dresses they bought for her were actually shady shop uniforms.
• The Bully: Liza bullied Jenny in high school and even when they grew up, she threatened Jenny and even went as far as to steal her husband. When Jenny and her husband divorced, he lost his job and Liza was forced to work three jobs to provide for him.
• Cheater Gets Cheated On: Naomi's mother was a Gold Digger who cheated on and divorced her first husband for Randy, wealthy man, after her husband got sick and lost his job. Years later, after Randy loses his money, she decides to cheat on and abandon him for another wealthy man.
• Closet Shuffle: Marge hid in Gerry's closet after sneaking into his house and popped out of there wearing nothing but her bra and underwear to charm him into picking her instead of her older sister Jenny, right after his web conference started. When he locked himself in the bathroom in response, she started to do unmentionable things on camera. Moreover, her own boyfriend was at the conference and dumped her to protect his dignity, on top of the other employees suing her for damages and emotional distress.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The protagonist's texts are usually in a blue window while the antagonist and other characters are sent in a white window.
• Compilation Movie: The channel occasionally launches throwback compilations of previous stories and these last around 1 hour.
• Decoy Protagonist: Sally appears to be the protagonist in the first part of this story, however the real protagonist is actually her ex-husband, Dave.
• Disowned Parent: Indie cut all ties with her mother Louise because she resented her poor living conditions growing up. Indie lied to her fiancé and his family about her being an orphan. She regretted it 2 years later and tried to get Louise to meet with her husband's family but she refused and the couple divorced.
• Does Not Like Spam: Pia broke up with her boyfriend Lauro because he cooked her food with vegetables despite the fact that she wants a healthy diet.
• Education Mama:
  • This video features an Education Grandma in the form of Clara's mother-in-law, who demands her to spend in Kevin's academic education while only letting Alyssa attend high school because the sexist crone believed women didn't need education and should be housewives.
  • Jenny looked down on Mary for being a poor single mother and letting her son take up soccer instead of academic pursuits, unlike her own son, James. However, when Mary revealed David was admitted to the prestigious Sturgis Academy, she flipped her lid at Mary for allegedly lying until she revealed she had an older son in Yale as well.
• Exact Words: Joe demanded his ex-fiancée; Stacy to pay $67,000 in compensation for running out of their wedding and threatened to call the police if she doesn't pay him the full amount. She paniced and agreed to pay $4,000 initially and pay him the rest in instalments. He called the cops anyway and they took away Stacy's husband who she ran away with. Stacy yelled at him for betraying her, but Joe points out that he didn't say he wouldn't call the cops just because she paid part of the money.
• Gold Digger: Has its own page.
• Hikikomori: Several stories have the antagonists become shut-ins after receiving punishment for causing pain to other people.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Kevin refused to believe that his wife Riley's child is his, due to his mother convincing him that Riley is cheating on him and mistreated her. Soon after Riley gave birth to a girl, she divorced him because of his abuse and mistrust.
• Mock Millionaire: Hillary boasted about her wealth and status as the daughter of a company president whom the guys pine for. Moreover, she invites both Mia and Elena to serve as her foils, but Elena, who is really a CEO's daughter and helps her father's corporation and seeks to gain work and financial experience, puts Hillary in her place by showcasing the companies her family owns while offering advice on her problems.
• Momma's Boy: Harold constantly disparaged and compared Joyce's cooking to his mom's. When she talked to his mom, named Ali, the MIL defended Joyce and yelled at him for being an inconsiderate jerk to his wife.
• My Beloved Smother: John's mom insistently tried to hook him up with a woman she picked out for him after he divorced his wife Jenna for not being supposedly fertile. No matter how much he told her to stop, she kept badgering him until he revealed he got back with Jenna after she finally became pregnant; it turned out the stress of putting up with an abusive mother-in-law was the reason for Jenna's inability to conceive.
• Not Blood, Not Family: Naomi, who abandoned her father along with her mother for a rich man after her father became hospitalized, demands that her father should give her and her mother money on the grounds that a father should support his daughter. When she learns that her father is re-married and has a stepdaughter, Wendy, she calls Wendy a "fake made-up daughter" and says that her father should be willing to support his "real" daughter. When Naomi's father decides to disown her, Naomi doubles down on her attitude, calling Wendy a "pseudo-daughter" and demanding her ex-father give her 400,000 dollars.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Some stories involve mothers-in-laws meddling in the lives of their offspring's partner. Examples include:
  • Helen demanded her daughter-in-law Carly to make her a cake for her friends. She even went as a far as to steal the cake made for her grandson Christopher's birthday and threw out all the other food made for the party.
  • Mia's mother-in-law Blair demanded that she do chores despite the fact that Mia is working from home.
  • Sharon is a lazy housewife who treats her mother-in-law Beth like dirt and wants to kick her out of the house they're living in.
  • Ali's sister-in-law, Mary, wanted her out of the house she shared with her and her brother because she thought Ali was a shut-in. However, she has them move out; it turned out it was Ali's house.
  • Beth asked Liz to let her move in with her and her husband, claiming she wanted to make it big as a comic artist, which was an excuse she used for 10 years and she didn't improve her art a bit in that time. However, Bob calls her out for being lazy and the couple leaves her to work with her great uncle.
  • Sally bullied her sister-in-law, Jenna, because she thought working from home wasn't real work. Moreover, she decided to switch houses with Jenna as a scheme to make her leave the house. However, Sally changes her mind the next day after finding out the house belonged to Jenna's fiancé; the latter's brother and parents chewed her out for trying to steal the house behind their backs.
  • Lydia scolded Angela for allegedly forcing Scott to pay $1000 in debt for her. Even when Angela tried to clarify that it was the other way around, Lydia refused to listen and badgered her into divorce.
• Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Camilla constantly badgered fellow mom Claire to let her into the latter's business trip to Canada to leech off of her while getting free stuff. However, at the day of the trip when she and her daughter Lilly followed her to the alleged hotel, it turned out Claire's trip was in a lodge instead, much to her dismay.
• Old Maid: Sandy was dumped by her ex-boyfriend, Warren, because she was past the age of 25. When he ends up subjected to the same treatment by his younger girlfriend, Leslie, seven years later, he tried to get back with her only for Sandy to reveal she's married at the age of 33. Moreover, Warren became jobless and homeless after the breakup.
• One-Steve Limit: Sally accuses Dave of cheating on her after finding a wedding invitation on his desk, Dave tries to explain to her that he got it from a friend from high school who had the same exact name as him, but she dismisses him and divorces him. Dave really told the truth and Sally was just using the opportunity to divorce him so she could be together with another man.
• Pop-Up Texting: The texts appear on the screen and then they are "read out" by their senders.
• Prank Gone Too Far: Mark decided to prank his wife by having his friend Randy kidnap her at their wedding. However Randy threw her and locked her up. As a result, she was traumatized by the event, and she divorced Mark and got him and Randy fired.
• Relationship Sabotage:
  • Helen went out of her way to snatch Ali's potential boyfriends to spite her. When she gloated about having stolen Bob from her, Ali let her have it. One year later, Helen blamed her for a video message from all her exes on her wedding day; Ali eventually revealed Bob was actually her stalker and that it was Ken who played the video in revenge for her cheating ways. Moreover, Ken went out of his way to sabotage any potential relationship for Helen out of spite.
  • Sarah stole Amy's alleged husband, Ted, and gloats about being pregnant with his child. Later on, she tells Amy to move out of her apartment on the top floor so they can move in since it was in Ted's name, but she tells them to wait for a month. When the month expires, Sarah calls her out because a rich couple beat them to it; Amy reveals the apartment wasn't actually under Ted's name, but her cousin's. Moreover, Ted is actually her younger brother whose sleazebag lifestyle sank him up to his neck in debt; their father cut him off the inheritance as a result.
  • Erin stole Susan's rich boyfriend, Mike, and became pregnant with his child to spite her. However, Susan revealed she was going to dump Mike anyway; he was a cheater and even cheated on his current wife.
  • Ian stole Phil's girlfriend from him back in high school. Years later, he comes back and announces he broke up with said girlfriend after getting her pregnant. Moreover, he gloats about having stolen his current girlfriend, Katie, and even got her pregnant. Much to Ian's surprise, however, Phil thanks him for doing so; it turned out Katie was a violently possessive, overspending girl who adopted an "innocent" facade to trick men into dating her.
  • Liza, a bully of Jenna's, stole the latter's fiancé and gloated about sleeping with him even when they were married. However, after Jenna divorced her husband, Liza complained about him moving to her place; it turned out Jenna's house was under her father's name. Moreover, the husband was a cheater who ended up fired after Jenna's father found out he invited a previous mistress over to the house.
  • Caroline stole Susan's rich fiancé, Andrew, and announced her wedding ceremony one year later and invited her to twist the knife even further. At their wedding day, Caroline chews Susan out because all their relatives didn't come to the wedding and blamed it on her, but Susan reveals that it was because she was notorious for stealing other girls' boyfriends and while their parents and grandparents did attend, the rest of the relatives didn't want to associate with her for such an act. Moreover, Andy's relatives cut him off for it as well.
  • Marge plotted to steal Jenny's fiancé, Gerry Anderson^note no relation to the creator of Thunderbirds to show her up. Moreover, she conspired with her parents to have her take Jenny's place at the motel date. Thankfully, Gerry turned them down and realized how messed up his fiancée's family was and blocked all of her family members at her request. However, Marge refused to back down and snuck into his house, popping out of his closet wearing nothing but panties and a bra in an attempt to charm him to her side. As a result, Gerry calls the cops on her for trespassing.
  • Carlene Shaw stole Jessie's husband, Marvin, out of spite since he was going to take over his father's company. Moreover, she even tried to force Jessie to pay $300,000 in "alimony" to twist the knife even further. While Jessie revealed she was the breadwinner while Marvin was unemployed, it didn't deter Carlene from trying to coerce money out of her. However, once she finds out Marvin's sister is going to take over the company instead of him, she loses all bravado and begs Jessie to not charge them alimony. It turns out she squandered all her savings on luxury goods and that's why she slept with Marvin in the first place.
• Revenge Romance: Alisa apparently "stole" Kasia's husband Ryan. It turned out Ryan was her ex who kept stalker who kept trying to get her back after they split up. Alisa and her son was then forced to move to Ryan's parent's farm.
• Serial Homewrecker: Tyler, Rachel's new boyfriend, turns out to be a serial cheater and owes a lot of debt from the lawsuits for his affair. Moreover, he planned to mooch off of Sarah and her husband Rex to pay his debts and squandered Olivia's retirement money on a party to celebrate their moving into her house.
• Sleeping with the Boss: Maria not only is revealed to have lied about stealing William from Alyssa, but the kid she allegedly had with William was actually from his cousin, who was a former boss of hers. Moreover, the man was married at the time and got banned by his whole family because of his affair.
• The Sociopath: Silvio not only was cheating on his wife, but he was distinctively uncompassionate about his wife getting into an accident to protect his young niece — who he didn't seem to care much about in the first place — as he maintained that she should show up to his sister's wedding at all costs. Ironically enough, it was the sister herself who defended his wife — and she, along with the rest of their family, ultimately cut ties with Silvio.
• Spoiled Brat: Ali was mean towards her stepmother and constantly threatened to sic her dad on her if she didn't do as she said. However, the stepmother exposed Ali's abusive messages to her father, which on top of the PI's report confirming Ali was conspiring with her cheating mom to leech off of him, caused the man to give up custody to his ex-wife.
• Stalker with a Crush:
  • Mr. Johnson has a crush on Lisa and he kept harassing her over text and complimenting her every time they talked. He even dumped his fiancée; for her.
  • Betty Martin believed that her younger co-worker Karl Butler is in love with her despite him having a fiancé. She divorced her husband Albert Martin to get with him, but Karl rejected her; she was forced to move back to her strict parents' house and Albert went ahead with the divorce.
• Threat Backfire:
  • Anna laid out signed divorce papers in response to Ted's constant callouts about her laziness despite being a housewife, hoping to cow him into submission. Much to Anna's dismay, however, he eventually handed them in after finding out her affair with a college student. Furthermore, he then sued her for damages.
  • Bob constantly threatened his wife Liz with divorce because she tended to her parents in an emergency. Later on, she takes the papers in their safe box and turns them in. Moreover, Liz also knew about his affairs with three women, who all rejected him after Liz revealed it to them.
  • Tom threw Kim's important documents into the trash to forcibly make her quit her job and become a housewife, whipping out divorce papers to cow her into submission. When he came back hoping she try to get back with him, Kim revealed she turned in the papers and now was married to her boss. Moreover, Tom's company was going to be bought by the boss' company and he was about to get fired.
  • Bryan constantly hounded Carol to do the household chores despite kicking her out of the house to live with his mistress. When she objected too many times, he threatened her with divorce and pulled the papers on her to cow her into submission. Much to his dismay, Carol signed the papers and turned them in one month later. Moreover, his younger girlfriend dumped him because of his refusal to look after the house himself.
• Threatening to Cut Ties
  • Lisa is a lazy "housewife" who forces her husband Rob to handle the housework while she's out spending his money, threatening to divorce him when he complains, even leaving signed divorce papers on the table. Lisa assumes that Rob is too chicken to go through with the divorce, but he decided to hand them, because being being married to her to her was a nightmare. Lisa has the audacity to claim that Rob tricked her and demands that he go out and take the papers back. Lisa is so desperate to not get divorced that she claims that she's willing to get remarried via forging his signature, which doesn't work as Rob knew that she would try that and warned the courts.
  • Debby loves to play the divorce card when arguing with her husband Rick, assuming that he's too timid to actually divorce her. When Rick actually does hand in the divorce papers, she freaks out and claims she was just joking and begs him to not get divorced, which he refuses, causing her to accept the divorce...until she learns that Rick knows about her affair with her boss's husband, which makes her want to get divorced even less.
• Trash of the Titans:
  • Bryan's house became filled to the brim with trash and dirty clothes after he threw his wife, Carol, out of the house to live with his lover. However, when she left him, he demanded Carol to come back doing the household chores despite changing the locks of his doors so she won't enter.
  • After Lara kicked May out of their parent's house, the house quickly became a pigsty since May was the one doing the cleaning. Lara begged May to come back, but she was taken away by her boyfriends parents, but she soon found herself back at her parent's dirty house because she cheated on her boyfriend.
• The Un-Favourite:
  • Shigeto was mistreated and treated like an idiot by his parents in favor of his sister Miyoko. They even kicked him out of the house and forced him to send them money. Shigeto and Miyoko eventually cut ties with them with Miyoko moving away from them, fooling them into thinking they were moving to a fancier house.
  • Heidi was looked down upon by her mother in favor of her sister Kasia. She even went along with Kasia's plan to steal Heidi's fiancee.
  • David was unfavorably treated by his mother in favor of his younger sister Karen, who only helps with housework while he was working as a pro gamer. When he moved out one month later, she finally believed he was the one depositing money. Moreover, Karen revealed that David was the one doing housework after her prospective rich husband found out she was incapable of doing it.
  • Marvin was unfavorably treated by his mother in favor of his sister Kara, because of the latter's illness. She avoided him and eventually disowned him claiming that Kara wanted to be an only child, but Marvin took Kara away from her.
• Wanted a Son Instead: Hanae lamented the fact she had three sons with her husband, Takaya, because she wanted a daughter. It went to the point where she cheated on him with a man named Yusuke, who was the father of two girls named Aya and Moe. Moreover, she hoped to win the court battle against Yusuke's wife for the girls' custody in the assumption she was a housewife only to lose. She tried to get back with Takaya on the assumption he adopted a daughter, but he revealed "she" was his cousin's son.
• Wedding Smashers: Kasia along with her mother tried to steal Heidi's fiancee, but they ended up going to the wrong chapel and busted the wrong wedding. As a result they were forced to pay for the damages.

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