26-year-old bans her aspiring influencer cousin Emily from using her apartment as a content studio after she breaks rules, trashes the place, and blames her for not being supportive: ‘she let herself into my apartment using an emergency spare key’

The 26-year-old finally gets her dream space, lit beautifully by natural sunlight and the quiet joy of independence. Enter cousin Emily, a 23-year-old influencer hopeful armed with ring lights, ambition, and zero respect for boundaries. She asks to film in the apartment because the lighting is perfect. Reasonable request, easy rules. Clean up after yourself, don't move the furniture, and don't come over uninvited. Three rules, three violations.

While the owner is at work, Emily lets herself in with the spare key meant for emergencies. She films her "morning routine," which apparently includes turning the living room into a post-production disaster zone. Candles melted on the table, makeup smeared across the bathroom, a shower curtain apparently used in a stunt sequence. When confronted, Emily calls it "small stuff" and tries to spin the chaos as artistic inconvenience. The conversation derails when she claims her cousin's lack of support is why her career isn't taking off.

AITA for telling my cousin she couldn’t use my house as her content studio anymore after she caused a huge mess and blamed me?

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The aftermath is pure digital melodrama. Emily posts vague stories about fake family while the actual family divides into camps of dream crushers and realists. But generosity doesn’t make someone a set piece. The cousin didn’t stomp on opportunity; she stomped on boundaries and melted wax onto them for good measure. Every influencer starts somewhere, but maybe that somewhere shouldn’t be someone else’s home. Creativity is inspiring until it starts using your emergency key as a work badge.