Tea at Four - QUICK CUPPA: Reacting To Insane Urban Myths, The Weirdest Viral Stories and Old School Bebo Chainmails

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

Make sure you send this to 3 people or your crush won't like you back... In this clip from Episode 41, Christie and Lauren discuss the insane viral Amsterdam voice note, react to crazy viral stories and listen to an old viral chain mail recording.

Do you know what I think we need to stop doing though? Yeah. Looking too much into it. Like, it pissed me off because the day straight after this whole Amsterdam story came out, all of the investigative journalists were on it like fucking flies to shit. They were trying to debunk it and find out why it was not real. Ended up being like a Ricky Gervais sketch from a couple of years ago. But ultimately, if it made us happy, if it made us laugh, why do we need to know the facts?

Leave it! Yeah. I feel like, especially online,'s a lot of like detectives that they find things quicker than the actual journalists right so it's like oh do you know what i'm gonna ruin the fun for everybody you guys wait it was in it i'm gonna turn off your fire how about that yeah yeah just shut your phone down and forward it on there you go and enjoy and enjoy and enjoy the entertainment exactly it's bleak out there do you know how sad the world is right now it's like if this little thing's going around it's a harmless bit of fun i mean incest is illegal uh but a bit of harmless fun yeah speaking yeah uh yeah i just don't think we need to go too far into it yeah i totally agree a psychologist was like kind of

talking about the story and they were sharing about why this satisfies our psychological need for excitement so much um and it said about um it's kind of like an adrenaline hit every time that gets forward onto us and we kind of feel like a little community which i guess we're not experiencing in day-to-day life so if a community comes together and we're all talking about this viral story it's like a quick pause on real life yeah what's actually going on yeah did you hear about this oh my god yeah yeah and we put their own little opinions on it and then it's like okay cool we have that kind of sense of community and after we just disconnect go about our daily lives but

it's like and they also come up it's just like for instance scandals on like reality tv shows and things do you know i mean everybody likes that kind of little adrenaline of like guys did you see what happened this is that so um no i definitely understand the psychology behind it yeah and it's one of those things that we we think this is a new thing now these like viral story times on whatsapp but this has been going on since the dawns of time do you know i'm even seeing gen z like bring it back i see them doing doing these little TikToks being like, if you don't send this so-and-so, like chain mail.

Yeah. If you don't send this to three people, your crush won't like you back. Oh my gosh. Even the fucking witches, Christy. Last night, I don't know if it was because Hallow's Eve,

but last night I got a thing come up and it was like, if you don't interact with this post three times, then you will not bring, you will not invite a financial gift into your life embarrassingly at my big age of 27 yeah i liked it i then scrolled through my friends to see which ones would judge me the least for sending it to them i interacted three times christy oh my base no but i think we're guilty of that because they'll be like these stupid things on instagram we're just scrolling

just scrolling yeah i agree that's cool me okay cool and then go at the end of it so oh if you don't share it then there's bad luck or you don't share it then this i'm just sometimes i test it i'll be like you know what fuck that go back about my business and i'll be like oh no no no let's go because i don't want no bad luck it's psychological it is bad i even see some funny tweets they're like the reason i'm fucking single is because i didn't share on that chain mail on myspace 20 years ago that's like it's like manifesting sight and without you get it it's like you're manifesting it because you've read it it's like you're invested in it so now because you've invested time in it even though you haven't manifested it you've got to do it you're so true just by reading it you're speaking into existence basically yeah even the ones back

back in fucking day on b-boat used to be like um a weird dotted outline using keys of like a truck a truck and it's like you've just been hit by the pretty truck you don't send this to 15 people you are ugly and i'm there just like i'm fucking finding the free puberty oh my gosh that's like blackberries did you use blackberries no my mom wouldn't let me have it because it was a business phone i mean guess i was a business girl it's for businessmen i'll have it there'll be like blackberry broadcast yeah and it's like if you don't add your pin in there it's like bad luck send this yeah no it's actually quite amazing how like they can trick people into it yeah and

it was always the like the scary characters as well that would get me the most obviously pretty pretty chuck is quite scary at that time but it was always like um scary mary is going to appear at the end of your bed if you don't um if you don't repost this or send this to three friends yeah she will appear in the back of your mirror yeah um or weird story who do you think started them um sad little life chains somebody that was bored someone that thought somebody that could i think they did it like the first two times they're like you know what i can get away with this let me make it worse let me continue it some of them were so dark though like girls falling down wells breaking their necks my name is carmen and then the very

the very bitchy every boy is me but the thing that's so stupid yeah what actually all falls because for instance that one if you don't say like bloody mary and sign up yeah your bed you you wouldn't do it nothing happens did you but then okay let's say you do it nothing happens the following day the following week somebody else will send you a chain and you're quick to send it so why does it go over our heads i don't know but even like even back then it was so scary that i raised my credit on it so it clearly did affect me and if you didn't have a five-day pass you're listen you're what's that i don't think that hit the other way five-day pass no no lauren no i was doing 10 pound credit while texts you only text up to that amount and there i was sending like a fucking calm and it's gonna maybe that's why i was sending because it was a

five-day pass you top up your five your 10 pounds or five pound whatever it was and in five days unlimited calls text was lit christy yeah man must have been london thing it must have been all the chains i'd be like yeah send it back to the sender yeah wonder you know not complaining about oh my god my credit's done and if somebody sends me a text i can't send it over yeah so we're seeing that on like we're seeing that on tiktok twitter all sorts now you thought that died on myspace and bibo she's back baby better than ever it is so this fucking little carmen she got sent around as one of these chain mail.

Poor little victim of chain mail. Imagine dying, but then also being made as like a Bebo trend. Yeah. To scare people. But apparently Miss Carmen got pushed down a well. She's 17. And she's saying this little voice thing that you send on to people. And her face fell off somehow in the well.

And then her neck got snapped and if you don't share it with like five people then Carmen will watch over you every second of her life look at all the stuff she's doing Carmen in heaven, how can you even see if your face fell off in the well? I'm smart now, I've actually got the brain tools to dissect these things

oh my gosh, jokes Carmen, it's just a weird pitchy airy voice yeah can we play it are we allowed to play it should we just play it yeah yeah i am very similar to you it's why my name is carmen winstead i'm 17 years old i am very similar to you did i mention to you that i'm dead not quite similar. The girls pushed me down a sewer hole to try and embarrass me. When I didn't come back up, the police came. The girls said that I had fell and everyone believed them. How does she know?

She's on helium, bitch. Honestly. How does Carmen know to recite all of that? She doesn't. And the police came. Right, Carmen. Yeah. know to recite all of that she doesn't and the police came right carmen yeah before who's got the time to be making these you're so funny as well i feel like nowadays the new age one is like it'll have something like carmen but then you'll watch a video and it's like it just pops out at the end to scare you or scary maze game is that what it's called? Are you still playing that? 2023.

Is that what it's called? Yeah, babe. But that lived and died about 10 years ago. Love that shit. Friday night entertainment. Christy, let's go again. Let's go again. Do you remember the first time you played that shit? Oh my God. I wet myself it was terrifying i definitely wet myself and then you'd pass it on to we are the

human chain mail i think we used to do it back in the day we'd have to go around use someone else's dial up to yeah in what's this maze yeah stupid i think it's a good way to kind of like scare my like my nephews and stuff yeah watch this quickly yeah and it's like yeah that was me back in the day but try carmen on them next i think i don't know i don't think they'll believe it gen z are too clued up all right yeah i don't know yeah yeah they won't believe it yeah jokes all right