Out-of-Office: I Faked an Away Message to Test a Situationship

This Escalated Quickly · Jun 26, 2026 · 8m

Ridiculous statement: I programmed a fake "out-of-office" reply to trick a situationship into revealing itself. In this episode Liv confesses the petty experiment, reads the glorious receipts, and serves a hot take: if you’re inventing social experiments to gauge someone’s interest, you might be single, but you are entertaining. This monologue recreates the setup (the exact message), the nervous waiting, the escalating texts, and the spectacularly awkward misfires—imagine a one-person group chat doing all the voices. Between sarcastic analysis and unexpectedly honest moments about insecurity…