https://cafemom.com/news/carly-mercedes-tiktok-dating-sisters
It's a real-life episode of Game of Thrones … or is it an episode of Maury? In a story that will have you literally seeing double, an adorable queer couple named Mercedes and Carly revealed to their almost 600K followers on TikTok that they might be related — and they just discovered this news after two years together. This is a Pride Month gift they'll never forget.
Wait — how could they possibly be related?
Canadians Carly and Mercedes have been documenting their happy queer life together on TikTok, where they've amassed a sizeable following. Their videos include jokes about homophobic family members, their foster dogs, and domestic sapphic bliss. Recently, they uploaded a video where they explained that they found out that their moms both slept with the same guy, leading them to the obvious logical conclusion: could they be half-sisters?
Their resemblance is uncanny.
Their comment sections are flooded with people who are also stunned at their physical similarity, with many joking (?) that they look like twins. Looking at the two, it's easy to see why they might be, uh, concerned about their DNA. Carly and Mercedes do look alike: they both have similar face shapes, lips, eyebrow arches, and even have matching green eyes.
This likely never raised concern for them because dating people who look similar is totally a real thing in the queer community — we call this "dopplebanging," and it happens all the time. Besides, there was no reason for either of them to assume that their looks were more than just a funny coincidence.
Commenters implored them to get DNA and paternity tests.
Naturally, their fans urged the the couple to get DNA and/or paternity tests as soon as humanly possible. "Take the test please you have to know," wrote one commenter, while another implored them to "Take one immediately," to which they replied "WE'RE SCARED." Who could blame them?! Imagine finding out you're related to the love of your life — Danaerys Targaryen and Jon Snow could never.
"If we kiss before we do the test, is that going to affect the results?"
In a follow-up video, Carly and Mercedes confirmed that they did order DNA tests and are waiting for them to arrive. And they're also asking the real question. "If we kiss before we do the test, is that going to affect the results?" they wonder, since the test uses a saliva swab as samples. "Do we have to wait like, 24 hours to make sure our DNA isn't in each others' mouths?" Might be safe to abstain from making out before the test — after all, sisterhood could be on the line.
Still, they're not breaking up over this.
Love always finds a way, right? There's no indication that the two will split up over this revelation, as they make happy-yet-befuddled videos on TikTok. Besides, whatever the result, it isn't their fault and it doesn't change their relationship. It does mean that their dad has a lot of explaining to do. Follow their account for updates on this bizarre sister/sapphic love triangle.
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I’m sure other people here have seen the Daily Mail/trash publications articles about “Genetic Sexual Attraction”—the claim that when relatives meet as an adult they can be insanely sexually attracted to each other bc they don’t have the Westermarck effect. Turns out, it’s not true and those people are just fricked up. They use the idea of GSA to absolve themselves of their attraction. It’s basically been debunked but people keep believing in it as it is on TV, tabloids etc.
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You're telling me people use made up science to justify their sexual fetishes?
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It's not zoophilia if it very slightly resembles a human
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It's not real poop, it's just prop poop.
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You see I'm not gay but fricking twinks is about domination rather than a sexual act
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Marsey trying to find the lie
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I feel so seen
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Stop standing in the way of their love
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People keep "believing" it because they're degenerate coomers and want it to be true.
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Counterpoint is that Amanda Marcotte is a fricking moron and a journ*list, not a scientist, who gives a frick what she thinks about The Science™? I’m inclined to believe the opposite of whatever her radlib takes are.
Human morality is culturally relative, clutching pearls over weirdos or creepy study findings we don’t jive with does nothing. I don’t care if two adults are voluntarily being degenerates together, it’s just more stuff to laugh at.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0146167210377180
Now, that said, someone willing to stray that far from accepted norms is probably a freakshow.
There’s also a lot of other confounding variables to take into consideration in these studies. It’s not exactly a secret that most of these are unreplicable garbage.
edit: just read the wiki article, the talk page is half coomers and half pearl clutchers desperately wanting the opposite thing to be true. lmao
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Of course you'd look into it.
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I saw it on Dr Phil sweetie 💅🏻
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Good thing its not real lol. But yea i think incest people might be extreme narcissists honestly
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