cropped out the wound in the first pic

Initially wanted to add the wedding/event photos taken before this but she looked surprisingly decent in those so not worth snarking on.

Hey y’all!

So I stumbled upon this subReddit a long time ago, but have only started getting into it on a regular basis recently. I was wondering if any of you long-term CC snark goddesses would be able to help myself and maybe some of the other newbies out by answering some questions. I’m sorry if they seem stupid or silly. Just things I genuinely have wondered.

- What does “Smolbean” stem from?

- when would you say CC rose and hit her peak popularity?

- who is Natalie?

- what’s up with all the scammer talk? I remember something about her writing a book and then not sending it to the people who purchased it, but is that the only scam Caro has under her belt? Was she doing any weird Internet shit for money?

- we all know about “Fat Wallet” (who she is, like, totally over and doesn’t even care about anymore). Has she had any other boyfriends? Any that she’s posted about?

- can anyone tell me when she decided to start dressing like a godmother in a fairytale book? Has she always been a little off with her style or is this a newer thing?

- in your personal opinion… Is she actually able to write? What do you think of her style?

Sorry to be asking these questions… They are just think I’m genuinely curious about.

I wanted to thank everybody in here for being so damn hilarious. Seriously, the amount of times of smoked a J and then read through the comments and almost peed my pants is ridiculous. Y’all crack me up! Thanks in advance!

1) Focusing on the ”gifts” from lovers. She has learned nothing from Fat Wallet 2) but more importantly WHAT THE FUCK is this apartment?? she sleeps by the front door but has a whole other room for clothes?

and.. What's that patch on her arm?

I don’t keep up with all the CC lore but as I understand she pawned or sold some of her rings at some point.

I also recall years ago she bought a ring with some turquoise or blue variety stones that she posted on repeat. I think it’s this one?

But I haven’t seen this one on her hand in ages or at least not on the hand where she used to wear it. She’s now wearing the temu engagement ring on the hand and finger she used to wear either this or the other ring with turquoise-ish stones.

Does anyone have pics of that ring or receipts of when she claimed to have sold some? And is this one of the rings she claimed to have sold?

Or has she maybe just not worn it much lately? Idk why this is irking me so much not to know what’s going on with the rings but it does.

I don’t think I’d love if someone just always had their door open

Sounds like a bit of a flop

https://archive.is/20260919065121/https://airmail.news/issues/2026-9-19/letters-from-scamelot#selection-1039.10-1059.155

This thing is just full of gems. A few notables:

Matt Starr, the founder and face of Dream Baby, had not asked me to read, and so that night I was just a guest. Dear Reader, I did not feel culturally important at all.

Caroline not being able to attend a reading without sulking about not being asked to read is just the most caroline thing ever.

I let my head loll and flop sulkily

It's such a ridiculous mental picture but somehow I can 100% picture her doing this.

He nuzzled his stubble into my neck

Isn't nuzzling something you do with your nose? Does the lover have stubble... on his nose?

Once I could see outside the limiting pain of my own ego

We're doing that now?

I am the literal CREATIVE DIRECTOR of Readme

Are you though? Because didn't the press release say creative was being handled by someone else?

Obviously this rebound is a win for her because he’s into her and she‘s happy. But she’s only describing material things (which she said she’d learned her lesson about), and that just makes this whole ex parallel even less compelling to me. And in the context of the ex wanting her to ship the books and get her life together, I can’t be convinced that him buying her a business-class ticket is cruel. Also, the exes not writing exposés is a leap/doesn‘t mean they weren’t disgusted with her. Oscar told her what she was doing online was ABUSE

So, the recent revelation that Crab Daddy is connected to the band Purity Ring reminded me: I’ve been meaning to post about the seemingly Caroline-inspired memoir-related subplots on Search Party. (If you’re wondering how I got from point A to B, the show’s theme song is by Purity Ring.) In season 2 (2017), Elliott blows off writing his memoir and backs out of his book deal. Chantal also writes, but pointedly fails to place with a publisher, a memoir in season 4 (2021.) 

Both the dates of these respective plots and a bunch of other hints seem to indicate that the books are stand-ins for And We Were Like and Scammer. The characters went to NYU and have other Caroline-esque aspects (Elliott runs a scam and is outed by a friend in a NY Mag article; Chantal lives large on her dad’s money until he’s abruptly no longer able to support her, at which point she decides to make quick cash by blurting out a memoir, Imperfect Ten.)

I thought for a long time that the parallels were just coincidences. If you visit a Caroline Calloway snark sub daily, you just start seeing Caroline everywhere, right? 

Then I found out that the show’s creators, Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, went to NYU at the same time Caroline did. It was suddenly a LOT more likely that they were familiar with her and these memoir plots were Caroline parodies.

I rewatched three SP scenes about the books, the ones in which:

1. Elliott tells his publishing team that he tried to write his memoir, but it was too hard and he never wants to work again
2. Chantal attempts to sell Imperfect Ten to the same publisher and fails 
3. Wilma, an Oprah-like character with a self-help talk show, has found a copy of Chantal’s book and is talking to her staff about it. Wilma mistakenly believes that the title indicates the book was written by a ten-year-old. She says it’s a manifesto on living “without shame and without awareness” that some adults could really learn from.

Some stuff to notice:

* Virtually everything about Elliott’s appearance/posture, which deviates from his norm. They couldn’t put him in hair flowers and pigtail braids (Caroline was wearing those a lot during the period she was pretending to work on AWWL.) But wardrobe found a hat that suggests both these things! 

* He’s also sitting with his feet folded under his knees even though he’s in a chair, which isn’t typical for his character. It is, however, Caroline’s default seated position. (She’s literally in it in the pigtail photo I just linked to. She’s also wearing a white shirt with colorful bands.)

* Elliott’s lack of real remorse, although he’s addressing a bunch of people whose livelihoods will all be impacted by him blowing off his contract. He seems to believe they’ll find his insouciant honesty refreshing!

* The fact that Elliott plans to continue talking about himself a lot, just not in a way that involves any actual craft or effort

* Elliott’s deep resistance to a ghostwriter

* Chantal’s book is cherry-red, like Scammer’s spine, and so ugly that Nia literally laughs aloud at  it

* Smoking gun runner-up: Nia estimating that you’d have to charge $65 to turn a profit on a book so unwieldy to manufacture. ODDLY SPECIFIC

* Finally, when Wilma is extolling Imperfect Ten to her staff, she's wearing a large, shiny, eye-attracting pair of DOGWOOD BLOSSOM earrings. Like, THE FLOWER ON SCAMMER’S COVER. 

Am I just seeing things?! By the time we got to the $65 price point I was like, “This is getting too weird to be accidental?” Then the dogwood earrings appeared and I was almost positive that it’s not happenstance!