Peep Texts (ぴっとく) is a Web Video series where stories are played out in text conversations.
The videos cover various topics such as marriages and divorce, stalking, bullying and so on. The English channel can be accessed here
. The original Japanese channel can be accessed here.
Peep Texts contains examples of:
- Education Papa: A rather dark example. Duncan berated his son Kyle and often made him study for long hours despite his wife's objections. While Duncan and Kyle were spending time alone, Duncan pushed Kyle down the stairs. When his wife found out, she divorced him, and he went to jail.
- Ms. Red Ink: Sasha has a spending problem which left her in debt and unable to pay her taxes. She tried to beg her ex-husband Rick to pay her taxes for her but he refused and told her family. Her parents paid the taxes but they forced her to get a job to pay them back.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: A common type of antagonist in the stories are mother-in-laws who interfere with their offspring's partner's lives. Examples include:
- Linda forced Mary to do her chores even going as far as to order to do gardening during a heat wave. When Mary ended up collapsing due to the heat, Caleb disowned Linda and no one else wanted anything to do with her.
- Linda
- Parental Neglect: Benny's mother often left him alone to be with her dates and barely fed him. He stole his mother's phone to contact his older brother David. When David heard Benny's plight, he immediately took custody of him and their mother no longer received child support payments.
- Playing the Age Card: Hillary is Esther's mean sister-in-law tries to force Esther to watch her son despite her protests. At one point Hillary insists that since Esther is younger than her, it means she has to do whatever Hillary says.
- Playing Sick: Robby faked having cancer and tried to divorce his wife to cover up the fact that he was cheating on her with Abbie.
- Pop-Up Texting: The core of these stories. Texts appear on the screen, which are then "read out" by the respective senders.
- Pushing the Debt: Sasha is a spendthrift who doesn't have enough money to pay her taxes and tries to get her ex-husband Rick to pay them. She insists on having Rick pay them even when Rick points out Sasha could just ask her parents to help her or go to the town hall to get a tax reduction, simply because she doesn't want to embarrass herself by letting people know she's poor. At the end, Sasha's parents pay off her taxes after she goes to the town hall for a tax reduction, but force her to Work Off the Debt.
- Turned Off by the Jerkass: Ava is a shallow woman who abandoned her daughter Emma and gave her up to her sister-in-law because Emma was ugly. Ava's husband was so disgusted by Ava's actions that he divorced her.
