Pearl - The Ghosting Epidemic

Ghosting is the slang term for abruptly cutting off all communication with someone, ignoring calls, texts, and social media without explanation. To avoid confrontation, it s considered a passive aggressive, emotionally hurtful practice most commonly used in romantic dating scenarios, but it also applies to friendships and increasingly in professional or workplace settings. The person ghosting will ignore messages, stop replying, and many block the other person on social media.

00:00:00.000 i think when you're an old woman if he doesn't want to crack that's hurtful because it's like

00:00:04.560 it's kind of like because you know you're like a used car and as a used car you have a discounted

00:00:08.320 price and when you offer the car for free and they're like i'm a i'm good you're like what the

00:00:13.360 all right so uh today we're talking about ghosting today we're talking about ghosting

00:00:18.080 um now the definition i'm actually going to pull up the definition of ghosting definition

00:00:23.760 because i want to be i want to be accurate ghosting is the slang term for abruptly

00:00:28.480 cutting off all communication with someone ignoring calls texts and social media without

00:00:32.880 explanation popularized by the dating apps in the 2000s it means vanishing like a ghost to avoid

00:00:40.240 confrontation it's considered a passive aggressive emotionally hurtful practice most commonly used in

00:00:46.720 romantic dating scenarios but it also applies to friendships and increasingly in professional or

00:00:52.160 workplace settings the person ghosting will ignore messages stop replying and many block the other

00:00:57.440 person on social media the term gained popularity with the rise of online dating and social media

00:01:04.080 i haven't seen him in weeks i've been ghosted she totally ghosted me after our second date i told

00:01:09.520 them i wasn't interested they just ghosted well okay balla let's go show love people thank you

00:01:15.680 thank you so much so okay the epidemic of ghosting i realized this is an epidemic that transcends

00:01:22.640 dating and really is just the way of the world millennial and gen z is the generation of ghosting

00:01:29.520 but i the more i'm talking to people the more i'm seeing this is becoming an epidemic everywhere

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00:02:03.600 in her place today and you can get your friends to stop simping uh people in the service industry

00:02:10.160 get ghosted they'll have customers of 10 years just go ghost coaches are getting ghosted and

00:02:15.360 today i'm at the gym and i made i made friends with a woman and she said her employer ghosted

00:02:22.000 her they just stopped asking her to come into work yeah and it just seems like ghosting is the way

00:02:27.280 forward it's the future if i'm messaging a girl i've never met and she stops communicating then

00:02:31.840 i let it be but if we go on a date and she stops communicating thankful it's only happened to me

00:02:36.160 once but i'm hurt but it hurt like for women i can just speak to like my experience it really

00:02:41.520 only hurts if you cracked um i mean doug mp we were kind of going back and forth about this he

00:02:46.880 said i think when you're an old woman if he doesn't want to crack that's hurtful because it's

00:02:51.840 like it's kind of like because you know you're like a used car and as a used car you have a

00:02:56.000 discounted price and when you offer the car for free and they're like i'm a good i'm good you're

00:03:01.760 like what the i gave you a free car you don't want my free car you don't like what's wrong with my

00:03:05.600 car what's it you know but when you're a young woman you know they want to crack so it's just

00:03:10.480 like he stopped asking her to come to work it sounds like he got tired of asking are you coming

00:03:15.120 or not i don't think that's what it was but i don't know it just seems like um ghosting is the

00:03:20.240 way forward and women invented this women have been ghosting men for 50 years i think or maybe

00:03:26.400 10 years 20 years i don't know women have been in the business of ghosting so i'm gonna have doug

00:03:31.120 mpa come in on this segment because he has strong feelings about ghosting we'll just kind of go back

00:03:35.520 and forth for a little bit now personally um when is it diabolical to ghost somebody is one question

00:03:42.800 i have um my answer i think one date not diabolical first month eh who cares um first three months

00:03:52.400 it really inconsiderate not diabolical but i'm hearing people are getting ghosted from three

00:03:58.800 year two year relationships you know ghosting proves the inability to be direct and honest

00:04:04.480 that's true that's true but anyways let's i'm gonna bring up doug mpa oh no chad's ghost all

00:04:11.440 the time chad's love ghosting you should always text my dad well that was the hurtful part i'm

00:04:16.800 I'm like, Dad, we talk all the time.

00:04:18.900 I'm like, Dad, we talk all the time.

Pearl - March 15, 2026

The Ghosting Epidemic

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