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A teenager has been praised for how she handled a man persistently intruding on her personal space.
The 18-year-old - who uses the handle @maassassin_ on TikTok - was in the middle of a live stream when she was approached by the man who can be heard off-camera attempting to engage in conversation with her despite her obvious hesitancy.
Following the stream, the content creator posted two videos of the alarming incident on the platform, and people are seriously creeped out by the unseen male stranger.
In the first video, which currently has 12 million views, the man can be heard interrupting @maassassin_ as she talks to her followers.
The young woman explains as part of the video text that he had pointed towards the chair and thought he was asking if he could take it. However, it then becomes clear that he actually had other intentions - he wanted to sit with her.
"Oh, I didn't mean you could sit there," the stunned TikToker tells the intruder, who responds: "I thought you said I could take this."
He then proceeds to pester the teen despite no willingness on her part to engage in conversation with him.
The man, who can be heard slurring his words, asks her how she is doing and for her name, to which she responds with a fake name.
In the next video, the ongoing encounter sees the man tell her that he "couldn't help but notice" that she was sitting on her own.
In a bid to get him to leave, @maassassin_ tells the guy that she is in the middle of a TikTok live - fortunately, he then decides to make a move.
As he leaves another male voice can be heard enquiring what the matter is, to which the intruder tells him: "I was just saying 'hey' to her".
While the second man refers to @maassassin_ as his niece - presumably in order to prevent the first man from engaging further - the TikToker reveals to her followers that he is actually a friend of hers and was watching the scene unfold from the balcony.
People have since taken to Twitter to applaud the teen and also to condemn the man for making her feel uncomfortable.
One wrote: "You handled yourself brilliantly—esp never having gone thru it b4...clearly irritated but not doing/saying anything to escalate.
"BUT THE FACT THAT YOU EVEN HAD TO MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD. Goddamn this man. Disgusting. I’m so sorry."
A third wrote: "The level of discomfort this poor girl is feeling makes me sad. The other day my 15-year-old daughter said 'I wish I could walk home without men calling stuff out the window to me. I just want to walk to my friends’ house and not be creeped out.'"
A male Twitter user weighed in, writing: "I'm a 6'3", 230lb man with no social anxieties that I can identify, and if this guy had sat down next to me, I'd be honestly creeped out too.
"Just the cadence and tone of his speaking would have skeeved me out. Im tellin ya, women, we don't deserve you on this planet."
In an update video, the young TikToker tells her followers that she had spoken to a staff member at the front desk of the hotel where the encounter occurred.
The staff member revealed to @maassassin_ that she knew of the man and promised to tell him to "leave people alone".
In another update, she revealed that the man looked between 25-30 and that she felt uncomfortable during the entire interaction.
The social media user assured her followers that she was away from the hotel where the encounter occurred. She also said the man who helped her stayed with her after the first man had left and made sure she was alright.
The teen then insisted that the interaction wasn't staged and that her "fear was real".
relationships3 min(s) read
A man has come out and defended his romantic relationship with a woman 37 years his senior, as he claims that she makes him "feel alive".
Love is something that most of us strive for in life, and sometimes it can come from the most unlikely of places and appear unexpectedly.
One thing that often raises eyebrows, however, is when couples have a large age gap between them, and one couple on TikTok has been forced to defend their 37-year difference.
Quran McCain, 25, and his wife Cheryl McGregor, 62, took to the platform to address a common comment that they receive that reads: "Why do you go so hard for someone who's 37 years older than you?"
Watch the video below:Captioning the video "she completes me," Quran added to the clip: "I wanna feel alive I don't even wanna die anymore," suggesting that she makes him incredibly happy.
Despite attempting to silence the trolls, some comments were still targeting the couple making comments involving the word "grandma" and discussing how Cherly would have been 37 when Quran was born.
Luckily, there were some who saw the video and took to the comments to spread messages of positivity in support of the couple.
"You 2 are cute together. I can't wait to be as happy as you guys one day," one person penned with another adding: "Age is a number if you are both happy then let it be."
A third explained: "Me and my man is 27 years apart and we're very happy he's my best friend."
As reported by the Sun, Quran and Cheryl met when he was 15 years old at her son Chris's fast food restaurant Dairy Queen in Rome, Georgia.
The pair didn't date straight away, as they got together in 2020. with Quran popping the question in 2o21 before they eloped to Tennessee in September of the same year to tie the knot with two friends present.
The happy couple intends to start a family together and is exploring the possibility of having a surrogate carry the child for them.
Although people have mixed opinions on the couple, their TikTok account charting their relationship has amassed over three million followers.
Quran previously told The Morning Show in the US: "We are just going to keep living our lives because we are happy, we are very much happy, this is a happy healthy marriage, we are looking to start our family and that’s all we got."
It seems like the pair are happy together, and as the saying goes, live and let live!
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A couple with a 42-year age gap has taken to TikTok to defend their relationship after receiving comments "gold digger" comments.
Philippine-born Jackie, who is 27, often posts TikToks to the account she shares with Dave, who is 69. They have been married for over three years, and have been regularly sharing videos on the app.
The couple has repeatedly professed their love for one another, however, each post sadly seems to get inundated with negative comments about their relationship, with some even writing that Jackie is only married to Dave for money and a US Green Card.
Data from the 2014 US Current Population Survey found that the average age gap for heterosexual couples was around 2.3 years, with the man being the older of the two - hence why users seem to have a hard time believing the authenticity of Jackie and Dave's marriage.
Under one of Jackie and Dave's videos, one user cruelly commented: "True love... for visa."
Another added: "That visa and money!!!!! She is going to send that money back home."
"I feel sorry [for him] he is looking for a caregiver she knows this is wrong but needs money [moneybag emoji]," another user chimed in.
But it seems the couple, who have more than 33,000 followers on the platform, take the negativity with a grain of salt, even using the harsh comments as inspiration for their TikTok videos.
One TikTok video the couple created superimposed a comment made by another user which read: "Money and Green Card that's all [sic]," clearly referencing their own opinion that someone as young as Jackie would only marry a person in their 60s for some sort of gain.
In the video, Jackie sits on Dave's lap while he holds cash and two green pieces of card in front of her. Jackie laughs as she grabs the papers and fans herself, before kissing her husband.
The couple has revealed that they met via a dating website, where Dave reached out to Jackie asking for her phone number. After Jackie responded, the pair had their first date at Starbucks, which they say was the beginning of a "wonderful relationship".
While the couple have to battle negativity, they also receive their fair share of positive comments from TikTok users who support their relationship.
"I can't believe people are still harassing you about your age difference. You are a beautiful couple. Makes no difference. Correct!!" someone said.
Another wrote: "If you are happy, nothing anybody says matters."
The couple continues to make both funny and heartwarming content about their marriage and unusual age gap, which Dave says: "Doesn't make a bit of difference."
health3 min(s) read
When you're a teenager, puberty seems like the worst thing in the world. Being a boy, I had to deal with my voice breaking, random hairs appearing on my face and, of course, an increased and uncontrollable sex drive. But, while we may look back at our puberty years and laugh, some people can't do the same.
Brandon Westfall is a 31-year-old male who has never hit puberty. The man suffers from a rare disorder that means that he has never started puberty and has previously been featured The Doctors in 2013, where he spoke about his condition.
Describing the impact that his lack of puberty has had on his life, Brandon says:
"I have no dating life at all. I have no sex drive at all. I like women, but I don't really have the drive to pursue them.
"I don't like to go out in public, I don't like to be seen. If I apply for a job they think I look younger and they don't hire me."
Not much was seen of the young man after the show, however, he appeared on a Reddit thread a while ago to give an update on his life and give a little more information on his condition.
"When I was younger I always knew in the back of my mind there was something wrong with my body but never really thought to look into it until my late teens," wrote Brandon.
"I needed to get a physical exam completed in order to join my high school soccer team.
"While visiting the doctor I asked him why I had not hit puberty, he essentially blew the subject off and told me I was a late bloomer.
"I never really put much thought into things after that and focused on school/work."
However, once he hit his twenties, Brandon began to notice that something wasn't quite right and decided to do some research.
"Over the years I had been through some very rough times (divorce, unable to find employment, as well as being homeless for nearly two years in Carson City, NV) and dealt with bouts of depression due to lack of work and relationship problems.
"Eventually I decided I needed to research what was wrong with me.
"After several months of research, I diagnosed myself with Kallmann's Syndrome."
Kallmann syndrome is a genetic condition where the primary symptom is a failure to start puberty or a failure to fully complete it. Obviously shocked by the news, Brandon decided to reach out to various shows in order to try and get some help footing his medical bills.
After getting onto The Doctors, he was given the option to remain anonymous but decided not to take it.
"After a lot of consideration, I decided this was not an option for me. I knew I was not the only one living this nightmare and I wanted people to see how it affected my life on a daily basis."
After initially being put in contact with an endocrinologist in Tennessee by the name of Edward Kim, Brandon didn't have a reliable mode of transport to see the doctor so ended up losing touch with him.
Back home now, the man says that he is now trying to pay for his medical bills himself, but he is struggling to afford it.
"Over the past two years, I have been on TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy) on three separate occasions for 2-3 months at a time.
"Each time I start treatment the cost of seeing a doctor frequently, blood work, and the medication itself gets overwhelming.
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"I've tried applying for medical assistance but I have been denied every time as they do not feel my condition is severe enough.
"In addition to Kallmann's Syndrome, I also suffer from very frequent, severe muscle spasms which prevent me from doing physical work."
Brandon is currently working as a customer service representative in America and has set up GoFundMe to help him pay for the medical costs.
Hopefully, Brandon will be able to get the help he needs in order to deal with the condition.