Caleb’s studly saga began with the now infamous hashtag #WestElmCaleb, which currently boasts more than 108 million views on the video-sharing platform.
There, the legend of New York City’s most eligible f – – kboy, West Elm Caleb, was spun: He is allegedly a young, lightly mustachioed furniture designer named Caleb with a nasty habit of aggressively wooing his dates before disappearing from their radars.The Post has attempted to reach out to Caleb and his supposed high-end home furnishings employer to hear their side of the story.Alas, it remains to be seen if the object of half the internet’s collective rage is even real.
“West Elm Caleb?” several sympathetic scorned women asked in the comments, all hoping to compare notes on The original TikToker outing “West Elm Caleb” admitted that she had never met *the* “West Elm Caleb” — but that many women had contacted her about the same man, leading her to share their stories in the hopes of calling out a serial ghoster.Caleb eventually became somewhat of a quickie viral mascot — or folk anti-hero — for the dreadful realities of online dating.
As the online explainers rolled in and the hot tweets fired off, so too came the intelligentsia’s raging hot think pieces. By Friday and into the weekend,from writers breathlessly intellectualizing Caleb’s actions and the reactions to it. First, Caleb seemingly deserved our wrath. According to Julie Krafchick, co-host of the podcast “Dateable” with Yue Xu, dating apps provide an “anonymity that allows people to do things” they wouldn’t do otherwise.