Girls Are Hiring "Honey Traps" To Test Their Partner's Loyalty

In a recent TikTok fad that is taking the country by storm, women are employing content producers to contact their lovers in order to see whether they would cheat.

Using a tactic called a "honey trap," TikTok influencers like Livi Shelby, 19, sneak into the direct messages of unsuspecting males to see if they will start flirting with them online.

These content makers' services are frequently sought after by wary women, while some men also provide them, and can lead to relationships disintegrating due to a lack of trust between the pair.

Livi recently explained the procedure in an interview with radio host Daisy Maskell for the C4 series Cheat Detectives: The Loyalty Test.

“You don’t answer if you’re going to be loyal, so if they’ve answered ‘hey’, they’re halfway there,” she explained.

“Some have said, ‘no sorry, I have a girlfriend’, but to me that’s still not good enough. Some of them will even go and like my pictures back, and that’s when you know, ‘yeah, I’ve got you’."

Daisy asserted that many people would prefer to learn of their partner's infidelity directly rather than through a TikTok video because the technique is contentious.

Despite this, Livi insisted that she had no remorse for her odd behavior and even used one unaware man as a subject in a loyalty test for the documentary.

This required looking up the man's Instagram account and concentrating on his passion for vehicles while writing to him.

“It’s pretty sneaky, it’s a bit sly,” she admitted.

“But then at the same time, I do think because of my own experiences with boys, they’re not the only one, there’s other boys, so you can just leave and find the next one who’s nice.”

Although Livi doesn't charge for her services, she does share videos of the online messages she has sent and received.

“I tell people that if you don’t want them posted, then I don’t do it, because that’s what I do it for, the content on there,” she said, explaining why this is a condition of her work.

She believes that this is a reasonable exchange for not receiving compensation for her research.

“I reckon I could have [charged] and at one point, I did make a joke about it, I was like, ‘I should be charging for this’.

“Obviously, I didn’t but there was a point where I must have had thousands of DMs. I was like, ‘even if I’d charged like a pound…’ It was crazy.”

Although the tendency can lead to the dissolution of otherwise good relationships, the documentary had a happy conclusion since the man Livi contacted did not reply to her messages.