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Twitter is having an absolute field day with Adam Levine's alleged racy DMs

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"I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner," Levine said in a statement. Shlomi Pinto/Getty Images.
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It's a bad week to be Adam Levine.

The longtime singer of Maroon 5 is in the hot seat after a 23-year-old influencer Sumner Stroh accused him of having a year-long affair with her while married to his wife, Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo. 

In response to Stroh's initial TikTok video, which revealed screenshots between the two, Levine released a statement denying an affair, but acknowledging that he "crossed a line." 

"I used poor judgment in speaking with anyone other than my wife in ANY kind of flirtatious manner."

In the days following Stroh's revelatory TikToks, at least two other women have come forward to say they'd also received flirtatious messages from "The Voice" judge.

More screenshots of Levine's sometimes aggressive (alleged) flirting appeared in the ether.

And then came the memes. 

Some memes have been mocking his cringe-y texts:

 

The news gave a lot of people a chance to let out their feelings about "The Voice" coach and Maroon 5:

Gaga stans felt vindicated:

And Taylor Swift fans got in on the dunking, too:

And then things took a turn when two other women released additional screenshots:

 

Twitter users were more than a little stunned:

While others were angry:

 

And some just wanted to talk about it:

But no matter how the Adam Levine texts made you feel:

 

Just remember: 

 

 

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Julie was an executive editor at Business Insider overseeing digital culture and entertainment teams. She was previously Business Insider's Singapore Bureau Chief and helped launch Business Insider's presence in Southeast Asia. Before joining Business Insider in 2018, she wrote and edited for BuzzFeed and New York Magazine, among others. She has a master's in media and cultural studies from the University of Sussex and a bachelor's degree in Women's Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.You can follow her on Twitter or Facebook.
Charissa Cheong
Charissa Cheong
Charissa Cheong is a senior first-person reporter on Business Insider's Business Contributors and Freelance team, based in London. She covers: Relocation and immigration, how employment visas impact careers, what it’s like working at the world’s biggest companies or alongside its most prominent leaders, how the AI revolution is affecting professionals, and more. Charissa’s work spans a wide range of topics, but the unifying thread is first-person storytelling — sharing people’s unique career and life experiences in their own voice, with their own words. She writes in Business Insider’s signature “As-told-to” format, which is designed to highlight powerful perspectives in a conversational way. She also commissions and edits personal essays from freelance writers and contributors. Charissa joined Business Insider in 2022 on the digital culture desk, covering family vlogging, online harassment, and influencer culture. She moved to the contributors and freelance team in 2024.She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA in English and holds a gold standard NCTJ Level 5 journalism diploma.