WHILE Hurricane Ian caused extensive damage to many areas, there were still some relationships that were affected by the destructive tropical storm.
While electricians and repairmen attempted to fix the hurricane’s damages, subcultures of working class began to verbally attack one another on TikTok.
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What is TikTok’s line wife?
Line wives are the women and their significant others who work as linemen, electricians and repairmen.
TikTok users claim that the line wife’s life is defined by a few identifiers, which are specific to their way to live.
Netizens shared their frustrations at the fact that line wives must deal with extended absences from work by their partner.
Linemen and storm technicians are called in to help recover areas damaged by a natural disaster such as Hurricane Ian.
A lineman’s absence from home for a long time can cause line wives to face many difficulties while on the road.
What is the trend in line wives?
Hurricane Ian caused a lot of problems for residents of Florida and other southern States in September 2022.
Utility giants believed to have sent down a large number of their technicians and electricians to help their designated areas in preparation for the disaster.
Some TikTok users in Florida claimed to see an increase of new Tinder profiles in their area who happen to be repairmen.
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After spotting their Tinder profile, the women who claimed to be the partners of the TikTok linemen spoke out.
The line wives revealed that their husbands had discovered about Tinder via other social media users. They then took aim at the mistresses of the lineman.
Line wives are other women and third parties who live apart from their relationships.
The online wrath of line wives has been centred on bucket bunnies, and ‘rowhoes’.
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What happened to the line wives?
A variety of “bucket bunnies” started posting Tinder profiles from their areas that were linemen to get backlash from line wives.
While referencing The Hunger Games, one lineman’s wife posted: “I am a pipeline wife. Before TikTok, we dealt with row hoes.
“I stand with all the linemen wives as they prepare to take on the Florida bucket bunnies. Blue collar is not a trend, it’s a lifestyle.”
Another self-declared line wife shared similar sentiments and commented via TikTok “This life isn’t a trend and being a bucket bunny isn’t attractive.”
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“I’m pretty sure I can speak for the majority of line wives… I promise you the men fear the wrath of their old lady more than anything Hurricane Ian is dishing out right now,”Another comment.
Another woman, who claimed to be a line-wife, filmed herself explaining that: “Many of you women don’t realize these men are gone all the time.
“If you’re okay with going to every family event by yourself, and being asked one million times “Where’s your husband?” This could be your life.
“While that storm money is flashing around and you see all of the good-looking guys, I promise you it takes a certain kind of woman to be a line wife.”
Virtual onlookers try to make sense out of the subculture’s ongoing feud while line wives, bucket bunnies, row hoes and others are throwing insults at one another on the internet.
One user on Twitter repurposed the yelling girl meme and said: “me last week: wow hurricane ian looks rough.
“Me today: SO THESE LINEMEN TRAVEL TO FLORIDA TO REPAIR POWER LINES AFTER HURRICANES AND THEY GET ON TINDER THERE TO CHEAT ON THEIR WIVES AND THE MISTRESSES ARE CALLED BUCKET BUNNIES AND THE BUCKET BUNNIES AND WIVES ARE FEUDING ON TIKTOK.”
Another person tweeted: “The Row Hoes and Bucket Bunnies will flourish so long as the Line Wives and Petroleum Matrons remain divided.”
“So the line-wives are linemen’s wives and the bucket bunnies are their mistresses,”Twitter user added another user who tweeted a photo Joe Biden taken in the middle a conference to make it funny.