Worse Than Cheating — Three-panel TikTok screenshot of a young man in a black hoodie with captions about watching the movie Cars being worse than kissing

Worse Than Cheating

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Published October 18, 2026

Worse Than Cheating, also known as Did You Sleep With Him Or Just Kiss Him, is a September 2022 TikTok trend where creators list petty acts they consider more offensive than romantic infidelity, set to a dramatic audio clip from the Amazon Prime series Modern Love. By late September 2022, participating videos on the sound had crossed millions of plays as users swapped punchlines like back-tickling a stranger or watching a favorite movie without their partner.

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Overview

Worse Than Cheating, also known as Did You Sleep With Him Or Just Kiss Him, pairs a frantic Dev Patel line reading with a bait-and-switch punchline. Creators cue up the clip with on-screen text asking what the worst thing a partner could do to them would be, then reveal a tiny or absurd offense instead of actual infidelity1. Common answers include giving someone else back tickles, running errands together, or watching a favorite movie without them3.

The humor sits in the mismatch between Joshua's gut-wrenching confrontation and the pettiness of the imagined betrayal. The audio does the heavy lifting, so most entries stick to lip-sync or straight-to-camera reactions with text overlays, keeping the format low-effort and easy to copy. Some creators flip the joke by picking offenses that genuinely feel worse to them personally, like a partner buying a drink for a friend of the opposite sex2.

Origin & Background

Platform
TikTok (audio sourced from Amazon Prime's Modern Love)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2022

The audio comes from Season 1, Episode 2 of Amazon Prime's Modern Love, released October 18th, 2019, in which Joshua (Dev Patel) demands Emma (Caitlin McGee) tell him whether she slept with another man or only kissed him3. A reupload of the scene circulated on YouTube before TikTok creators picked it up.

On September 11th, 2022, TikToker @aaliyah.gregoryxx posted an early video pairing the clip with a petty-betrayal punchline, pulling over 300,000 plays within ten days1. The same day, @qwixtee uploaded a version that drew more than 1.3 million plays and a quarter-million likes over the next week and a half, which gave the sound its first real traction2.

How It Spread

After the first @aaliyah.gregoryxx and @qwixtee uploads on September 11th, 2022, the sound picked up fast on the For You page12. On September 13th, TikToker @_chelseanna_ joined in with a video that collected over 250,000 plays and 50,000 likes within about eight days4.

The biggest single entry came a day later. On September 14th, 2022, @l1nzo uploaded a take that neared 6 million views and 900,000 likes inside a week, cementing the sound as a running trend rather than a one-day joke5. Documentation on Know Your Meme followed shortly after, listing the clip's origin in Modern Love and tracking the September posting cluster3.

Timeline

2019-10-18

Modern Love Season 1 Episode 2 drops on Amazon Prime, featuring the Joshua and Emma confrontation that supplies the audio.

2022-09-11

TikToker @aaliyah.gregoryxx posts one of the earliest videos set to the clip.

2022-09-11

@qwixtee uploads the breakout entry that crosses 1.3 million plays over the following ten days.

2022-09-13

@_chelseanna_ joins the trend, drawing 250,000 plays and 50,000 likes within about a week.

2022-09-14

@l1nzo posts the trend's largest entry, approaching 6 million views and 900,000 likes in a week.

How to Use This Meme

Creators typically lip-sync or play the Modern Love audio over a static shot of themselves while on-screen text reveals the "crime." The common convention is to set up a serious tone and swap in a minor or ridiculous offense, though some posts play the choice straight to vent about a real pet peeve.

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