Gabriela, who uses TikTok, says her boyfriend made up his whole college history, from his GPA to a claimed bowling scholarship, and she found him out by checking the university directory.
On TikTok, Gabriela posted a story that has drawn close to 975,000 views and 1,474 comments. Her boyfriend, she claims, told everyone he was a pre-med student at the University of Florida, even though he had never enrolled there.
How Gabriela Caught Him
A TikTok content creator named Gabriela became suspicious early in her relationship after her boyfriend had trouble answering questions about his classes. She was herself a pre-med student at UF who knew the courses and professors personally.
He did research on the classes pre-med students usually take, which gave him a way to sound knowledgeable about specific subjects. When she asked him for the name of his biochemistry professor, though, he couldn’t give it. Since there was only one professor for the course, Gabriela says that made her more suspicious.
She looked for his name on UF’s student directory and couldn’, hoping to find him there. She says that search turned up nothing, which proved that he had never enrolled at the university.
The Admitting Call
When Gabriela faced him directly, her words were these: “You didn’t go to Florida. You didn’t go to UF.”.
According to Gabriela, her boyfriend confessed to lying about his college experience at that point. He admitted to fabricating assignments, producing a class schedule, and pretending to study for pre-med classes.
“We fake studied together,” Gabriela said. “He was studying for nothing!”
The GPA and the Scholarship
Her boyfriend, Gabriela claims, fabricated his own GPA as well. When she asked him what it was, he supplied a figure that happened to be 0.1 point higher than hers.
“This is my favorite part,” Gabriela said. “I asked him what his GPA was. . . I told him my GPA first. Conveniently the GPA he made up was 0.1 point better than my GPA.” She said he confessed to making up the GPA just to one-up her, literally!
Her boyfriend told Gabriela he went to Midland University in Nebraska on a bowling scholarship, but admitted that he had actually spent two years at Santa Fe Community College before dropping out.
What Viewers Said
The video’s viewers noted how much effort he put into keeping up the story, and some went so far as to speculate that he felt intimidated by Gabriela or regarded their relationship as a contest.
“It’s kinda crazy how I’ve heard so many people who fake going to school to their friends and family… like what you going to do on graduation day?”
A reader remarked, “Pathological liars are so insane like all the work they do to maintain the lie they could’ve just actually done the thing they’re lying about.”
One person admitted being afraid of Gabriela. That individual stated, “He def was intimidated by you and couldn’t stand the fact that his gf was doing better than him.”
The End of the Relationship
She told Gabriela she still loved her boyfriend, yet recognized she needed to end the relationship due to how readily he had lied to her and the people in his life. Following a confrontation, Gabriela says he admitted to his family and friends too.
He finally thanked her for exposing the secret, she said, because it allowed him to live his life honestly.
Verification Note
The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the events described in Gabriela’s TikTok video. The details in this article are based on Gabriela’s account of her relationship and the reactions and speculation shared by commenters on her video.
The account comes from Gabriela herself, and it covers a number of important points along the way.
- She caught him in the student directory.
- He admitted to lying about college on the phone.
- He confessed to his family and friends.
- He thanked Gabriela for exposing him.
The Daily Dot’s inability to verify the account doesn’t change the shape of the story. Gabriela’s version is the one she told, and her TikTok video has drawn attention for a reason: it’s a remarkable level of effort devoted to a lie that could have been avoided with a single honest conversation.
The confession call was the moment of truth. Gabriela’s simple question — “You didn’t go to Florida. You didn’t go to UF.” — broke the illusion. He admitted everything.
Viewers continue to ask themselves a central question about the story: what possible reason could there be for someone to put in so much effort into lying, instead of simply doing whatever it was they claimed to have done?
Source material: “Woman Says Boyfriend Faked His Entire College Experience, Including a Made-Up GPA: ‘He Was Studying for Nothing’,” The Daily Dot.
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