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Fake Texting
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What are our characters to do when they want to look busy, avoid small talk, hide their embarrassment, back out of an uncomfortable situation, or create a minor distraction? Why, they should play with their cell phone and pretend to be texting. Cell phones and smartphones are ideal props. Always ready in our pockets or purses and no one can see what you're actually doing. Fiddling with your phone like checking social media or using applications can achieve similar results. Perhaps the character has No Social Skills. They're extremely socially awkward and would rather pretend to be doing something else than talk to another human being. Perhaps the character Hates Small Talk: Introverts usually don't enjoy talking about unimportant stuff and will find whatever excuse not to engage in discussions with no real depth. Perhaps they just don't want to bother/be bothered and their jerk side is showing. Perhaps they only do it to create a distraction and to appear innocent if they do something suspicious. All variants of Phoney Call are related, but pretending to be talking to someone else requires better acting skills than writing some non-sense text or actually checking your social accounts or apps. See also Fake Static. |
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Dropped link to BoBurnham: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
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Pretending to check a text is mentioned in Be More Chill during the song "Michael in the Bathroom". | |
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| Be More Chill (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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| Fake Texting / int_2a8943c0 | type |
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In the Miraculous Ladybug fic "Tender Words", Gabriel Agreste is fake texting when Adrien is injured in an akuma attack. | |
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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries: When Jane and Charlotte discuss Darcy's developing interest in Lizzy, they portray his poor social skills and awkwardness in their "costume theatre". Charlotte says he should work on his game. Apparently, Darcy was fake texting during their night out. | |
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| The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Community: Jeff is an aloof cool guy who is frequently seen texting throughout the first three seasons. When he finally encounters his Disappeared Dad in the fourth, he reveals that there was no one on the other end and has been texting nobody. Mentioned in his epic rant to his father who wants to take credit for how cool and awesome Jeff turned out. | |
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Dilbert: A proto-version appears in an old strip where Dilbert is attending a conference. On returning from the bathroom, Dilbert finds that everyone else has migrated into conversational groups, leaving him to pretend to look at the schedule so he doesn't look like a social reject, then another five minutes being exactly that. | |
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Pokémon World Tour: United: In order to find out whether her cousin Amelia is a crooked cop, Rose Jenny pickpockets Amelia's phone-slash-Pokedex to go through its contacts and messages. In a moment of Refuge in Audacity, she plays up her Bratty Teenage Daughter reputation within the family to pull out the phone in front of Amelia herself and search it while looking like she's busying herself with it while an otherwise important conversation is going on. | |
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| Pokémon World Tour: United (Podcast) | hasFeature |
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| Fake Texting / int_49340431 | type |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Boyle gets super strong pain meds, gets super relaxed and super honest. So he admits he does fake texting. Holt pretends he got a text when he wants to back out from an uncomfortable conversation with Jeffords and his wife. In "The Party", the detectives are invited to Captain Holt's birthday party. Terry wants to keep them in line and tries to enforce good behaviour. The first thing he says is "no staring at your phones". |
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Young Adult: Mavis appears to be texting while waiting for Buddy at a restaurant; the camera immediately cuts to show her typing gibberish into a message with no chosen contact number. | |
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| Fake Texting / int_a61bda23 | type |
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In Life Is Strange, Max describes one of her classmates as "hiding behind his phone", presumably via this trope. | |
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
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Phone Tropes | |
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The Newest Ones in the Book | |
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Truth and Lies | |
| Young Adult / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| Pokémon World Tour: United (Podcast) / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| Community / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| Be More Chill (Theatre) / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting | |
| The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (Web Video) / int_adeeb7b | type |
Fake Texting |
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