Does the best tea come from strangers? One Denver-based bartender says “absolutely.”
Over the caption “I can’t help it, the tea is too good,” Gabriella Masseran (@gabriellamasseran) is spilling tea of her own—namely, when customers settle up with Apple Pay.
Over 55,000 people have watched her TikTok.
In the beginning of her video, she notes, “There’s a lot of people paying with Apple Pay recently, and that’s totally fine.”
As she pantomimes carefully holding an iPhone and swivels from the customers at the bar to the register behind it, she gleefully says, “But just to let you know, I have to take your phone behind the bar to put it on the credit card device thingy, so I see everything on your phone.”
“Everything,” she emphasizes.
That’s right. She sees your wallpapers, clocks your screen savers, reads your text previews, and perhaps most tellingly, she’s noticing how you name your contacts.
Why Is That Really Your Wallpaper?
Masseran says she’s seen some absolutely bonkers things. “I know I shouldn’t be looking, but y’all have some wack-a– backgrounds,” she says.
And she admits that she’s “totally judging you.”
Discussing the wallpapers she’s seen, there’s a point where she pauses as if she’s sorting through a library of images she can’t unsee. “I’ve seen some crazy things. … I’ve seen a naked girl on it,” she says before wondering what would compel a person to put these images in a semi-public “place.”
“I’m like, ‘Why is that your wallpaper?'” she questioned.
Text Messages
But that’s not all. Those late-night, “you up?” texts? Yes, she sees those, too.
“Yes, I read your texts. My eyes are drawn to your phone. I can’t help myself,” she says, quasi-defending her inability to look away.
Once Masseran says she saw a guy get a text from two different individuals. He’d called them, “No. 1 Main H– and No. 2 H–,” she alleges.
“I have so many questions,” she says, before issuing a warning.
“Girls, be wary out here in Denver,” she says.
How?
Viewers are hung up on the logistics—whether or not Masseran’s workplace should have a mobile card reader, how much a bartender can see on a card screen, and what their wallpaper says about them.
“Do you work at a 3rd world dive bar? You don’t have a detachable reader?” one questioned.
In the comments, Masseran clarified how she sees those screens. “After the transaction goes through, it goes straight to the wallpaper,” she shared.
But independent confirmation comes from a presumed service industry worker, Aemeax (@aemeax). They wrote, “Hahahaha, I accidentally read texts all the time.”
Expectation Of Privacy?
So what’s the proper smartphone etiquette? According to the site It’s a Southern Thing, “If a text comes in while you’re holding their phone, don’t read it. And don’t judge the amount of unread notifications they have.”
BroBible reached out to Gabriella Masseran via her TikTok direct messages and to Apple via media email. We’ll update this if they get back to us.
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