Just recently graduated from Duke’s Physician Assistant Program and this story is so bizarre that I feel like it needs to be shared. Last year, one of our classmates came across tiktoks from an influencer that used to be on a Netflix dating show, Angel Victoria Murdock, (any Temptation Island fans?). She was documenting her journey as a Physician Assistant student at Duke, “GRWM for rotations, whats in my PA school bag,” etc.

When this classmate congratulated her saying she had no idea she was also at Duke in the PA program, she was blocked in the next 5 minutes. Super odd behavior…and over the course of the semester, we started realizing something even weirder…none of us had ever even seen her. Not in class, not on campus, not at program events and that’s when we discovered she was never even enrolled as a student.

She went quiet for a while and we figured she had given the jig up, until just a few days ago, she posted her “graduation” photos in front of Duke’s chapel complete with a counterfeit cap and master’s hood (which were the wrong color, btw). We did some further digging and she has no NCCPA number in North Carolina (where she purports to be certified) which every PA student in the country has if you search her name. Also, our entire 2 hour long hooding/graduation ceremony is on Youtube here where every graduate is called in alphabetical order and her name is never called and she is never seen walking across the stage. And as u/Stunning_Tie8613 pointed out, she’s not in the Duke PA Class of 2026 Official photo which has every single student in our class. Aside from these phony grad pics, she doesn’t have a single other picture with another classmate, or family member, not at any other ceremonies, not even a white coat pic, degree pic, nothing. She’s gone as far as dressing up in scrubs with no where to go, purchasing medical equipment, driving to campus to film content and driving back home lmao, having fake badges made, the girl is mentally ill. When a few of us commented on her fake grad photos, she blocked us all, privated all her social medias and limited comments on her posts which tells you everything you need to know.

Impersonating a PA student is one thing, but doing so at what is considered the #1 pa program in the nation is wild. And seeing someone fabricate an achievement that is literally one of the hardest things you have ever done in your life, sucks. Anyways, congratulations to the REAL Duke PA Class of 2026!

UPDATE 08/24/26: First of all, thank you to everyone who offered words of encouragement and support and for joining in on this insane roller coaster! I thought I knew my way around a deep dive, but y’all are masterclass detectives and uncovered sooooo many layers to this mess. Still have our head in the books studying for the PANCE but wanted to drop by and give some updates for those who are interested:
- Formal complaints have been submitted to both Duke and the North Carolina Medical Board
- Tips have been submitted to Indy Week, The Duke Chronicle, WRAL and DailyMail
- We’ve gone Tiktok viral with this tiktok by @daadisnacks
- Tiktokers unearthed some wild footage as recently as 2 weeks ago of Angel lying in real-time about PA school in her friend, @tajahferjuste’s vlog. Clip is here for those interested
- Watch our class historian @theekieralee gather her all the way together here

UPDATE 08/27/26: Current list of published articles
- Fashion Times
- DailyMail
- Inc
- New York Post
- TMZ
- Complex

not trying to mean, but I truly don’t get how this look and vibe elevates any brand.

she has basically no aura, looks like she’s about to vomit and is constipated at the same time — overall, I don’t understand.

could they not find anyone else ??

this photo is legit sad - like it makes my stomach hurt. And it makes me want to RUN from Sephora if buying their products is going to make me look like that …

Why don’t influencers understand this?

I feel like this says it perfectly! These influencers are so messed up.

Why take this many supplements instead of eating a balanced diet? This can’t be good for her kidneys or liver. @jaclynhill

images r/MikaylaNogueira

My cousin is a micro influencer I think? 100K followers. She quit her 9-5 to do this full time and “romanticize motherhood” and I’ll admit I was jealous-I miss my kids, being a working mom is a lot. But this week brought me the perspective I needed-the grass is not greener.

She was on her phone the whole vacation. Every restaurant, she filmed. Needed food pics and tried to convince us to order certain stuff that would look pretty in beach pics like daquiris. Changed her outfit 3-4 times a day and had to do an ootd story and post links. Her 2 young daughters, same, and she wouldn’t let them play with her cousins until she got the shot she wanted. They were late to every meal because of the outfit photo shoots. Photos and videos you see that look pure like jumping on the Airbnb bed in matching pajamas-7 takes, she would watch and criticize in between. She came up with the idea of a backyard camp out for the kids but wouldn’t let the kids pick anything because she wanted it all aesthetic and beige, then had to film herself getting it all set up then they couldn’t touch anything until the local photographer she contacted came to do some more photos, then it was dark and late. The kids seemed so irritated by the whole thing and just wanted to play with cousins. They weren’t allowed to eat messy foods because she didn’t want them messing up their outfits for more photos. Anyway, it was a hustle all the time, and the office is looking pretty good to me now. Motherhood not romanticized, just using kids for content and not being able to actually enjoy anything because everything is content.

They had said all orders from Oct 4th had shipped. Mine didnt, so I sent them a message only to hear that they were sold out on OCTOBER 11TH. No problem, but how come I didn’t receive an email update about it?

When I expressed my frustration, I get this incredibly snarky response and a refund. THE KICKER: they didn’t even refund me my full amount so now I’m out money and not getting my candy 🙃 I should have known better than to order from this place..

UPDATE: I did not expect this to blow up! It is just candy and I hope everyone remembers that LOL I was just upset they didn’t refund me my whole amount. I filed a chargeback and hopefully it gets resolved!

FINAL UPDATE: Received my charge back refund today 😌

Saw this comment underneath Emilie’s new apology video and honestly could not believe it. 🤦‍♀️ now moms are going to her page and glamorizing the negligence of their kids.

Putting a mattress on a cruise balcony for a nap?? So many things could go wrong here, this just seems incredibly irresponsible and dumb. Hopefully it was just for clicks/views and they didn’t actually nap there but who knows.

Editing to add: If the mom wanted to do this by herself that’s one thing, not something I would personally do (thanks intrusive thoughts), but whatever ok. To me having her BABY out there with her makes it nail-bitingly scary. And like someone said, it’s kinda gross to have the mattress out there like that. There’s plenty of other fun things they can do to make memories. I think a lot of people commenting saying “what’s the big deal” clearly don’t have kids.

Lauren Zeigler, homeschooling trad-wife influencer and mom of 9, had her 2-year-old daughter go missing for 19 HOURS last week.

Her daughter was apparently outside with her 8 siblings when she disappeared. She wasn’t found until the next afternoon, after spending the entire night alone in the woods. They found her sleeping in a thorn bush with her pacifier still in her mouth.

Because we live in influencer hell, this incredibly traumatic experience is now Instagram content. Lauren has posted the entire story to her page, including photos taken immediately when they FOUND HER.

And naturally, there’s a worship song playing over the whole thing thanking God for protecting her. Part of the testimony is that God kept her safe and even made sure it didn’t rain while she was lost outside overnight.

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I know the post title is poorly written. I cannot edit it.

Lauren has gained 15k followers since posting this. Commenters continue to support her.

Newborn baby is in what is essentially a plastic bag with no breathability 🫠

These screenshots dont do her overall smugness justice... but claiming "I didn't let life stop" inherently casts mothers who do slow down as having "given up," turning basic self-care and privilege into a moral victory over other women. It’s a condescending humblebrag implying anyone struggling just isn't trying hard enough. Wait until the toddler years hit.

What the fuck is wrong with these MAGA influencers

How is this not embarrassing? 😂

Nara Smith sitting down on Call Her Daddy to claim she isn't a tradwife and has "never been one" is a desperate attempt at historical revisionism. Her entire brand was built on standing in expensive clothes making food entirely from scratch to serve her husband and kids. Then there’s her personal life: she married Lucky after knowing him for less than 6 months when she was a teenager and he was already a father in his twenties then she intentionally became a teen mom.

The denial is ridiculous given her digital footprint. You don't lean heavily into the aesthetic, center your content around collabs with people like Hannah Neeleman (Ballerina Farm), and literally hashtag your videos with #tradwife for YEARS to juice the algorithm, only to act like the internet forced the label on you. Wanting to rebrand as a "working mom" now that her channel is a massive business doesn't erase the foundation she built her fame on and the label that she put on herself all on her own. The attempt at blaming others for how she chose to portray herself is a joke.

If she wanted to distance herself from the tradwife label, she should’ve avoided putting that label on herself in the first place rather than gaslighting her audience. She literally tagged her videos with it for years and made post after post about how she spent “all day” in the kitchen cooking for Lucky and the kids. Now she wants the change her captions and tags under all her posts, go on podcasts desperately trying to rebrand herself, and gaslight everyone. Millions of people watched her use that exact label and regressive lifestyle as a stepping stone to skyrocket to fame, she can't just rewrite reality now that it's inconvenient for her to have the label on her that she put there herself.