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Paul Mescal Running Away From Women refers to a rumor about Irish actor Paul Mescal going to bars in North London, seducing women for threesomes, inviting them to go for a walk and ditching them later. The gossip started on TikTok on December 2023, inspiring a series of jokes and memes on Twitter / X imagining Mescal running from women.

Origin

On December 23rd, 2023, TikTok^[1] user @erinmarysmith shared a video talking about Irish actor Paul Mescal seducing women at bars in North London, inviting them for threesomes and then running away from them. The video (shown below) amassed over 481,000 plays and 54,000 likes in three days.

Spread

A day after @erinmarysmith’s video went viral, the rumor spread to X, which led to a series of jokes and shocked users discovering the gossip about Mescal. For instance, on December 24th, 2023, X^[2] user @irishcillian shared a video of the Irish actor running paired with the caption “Paul Mescal after taking a girl to a park,” which amassed more than 517,000 views and 20,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On the same day, X^[3] user posted a reaction video of a man smiling paired with the caption “girls with avoidant attachment hearing the paul mescal rumors.” The post (shown below) received roughly 1 million views and 24,000 likes in two days.

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