Are YouTubers Tana Mongeau and Jake Paul pulling off an epic prank or truly in love?
While fans are still unsure whether their elaborate engagement is real or not, one thing can be determined: the ring is fake.
Last week, Mongeau celebrated her 21st birthday with an over-the-top party in Las Vegas, which was filmed by MTV and culminated at TAO, where Paul, 22, got down on one knee with a strawberry kiwi Ring Pop and the cubic zirconia ring from Adina’s Jewels, Page Six Style has learned.
Mongeau showed off her faux bling on Instagram; the ring features a large rectangular center stone with tapered baguette side crystals and retails for $125.
While her fake diamonds looked like the real thing, it could be because the rest of the jewelry Paul gifted Mongeau was also cubic zirconia. Despite a combined estimated net worth of more than $12 million with her alleged fiancé, the YouTube star stacked up four different eternity bands ranging in price from just $88 to $125.
Mongeau, who previously dated Bella Thorne and Mod Sun, started seeing Paul in April after her split from the “Midnight Sun” star and rapper. She has dismissed fan speculation that the engagement is a prank or meant to increase their popularity on social media, and cheekily joked about how much attention their getting with the announcement.
“When ur real life engagement raises ur instagram engagement > 😍 HI FIANCÉE,” she captioned a photo of the proposal — which included a cake with an oversized diamond ring on top — on Instagram. Paul captioned the same pic, “till clout do us part💵 .”
Their nearly 24 million combined subscribers have a right to be skeptical about the engagement: In a 14-minute video entitled “We Actually Got Engaged” with a behind-the-scenes look at the entire weekend, Mongeau let it slip that the Mercedes Benz G-Wagon car Paul allegedly bought her as a gift was also a stunt to “the Instagram gods” in an attempt to get more than one million likes on social media.
Relationships may fade, but social media is forever.