Early this year, Kenyan digital creators Warren Frank and his girlfriend Whitney Muniko rose to fame on TikTok.
Their videos shared the pair’s daily lives with viewers, and their youthful approach to relationships, as well as consistency, captured the attention of the masses.
The couple’s shared channel on the platform, Warren and Whitney has an impressive following of over 330,000, and the two have garnered a cumulative like count of over 11.3 million likes.
“Bye bye baby, I’ll miss you,” Whitney says on one of their most watched videos, before leaning in and giving Warren a kiss.
She is heading out for her classes as a first year university student.
“Take care and stay safe,” she adds.
Warren then probes her about what she will say if people ask about her relationship status.
“Niko na bwana. Anaitwa Warren (I have a husband, his name is Warren)… my husband, not boyfriend!” she shoots back as the two continue to flirt.
Warren seemingly wrote the caption on the viral clip.
“These 7am classes always got my baby waking up so early. Anyway she deserves a promise ring, right?”
All seemed to be going well for the pair, until reports of a leaked explicit film with Warren on it shook up their reputation and relationship last month.
Gossip website BNN claimed that the young man’s sensitive videos have been released on Telegram.
On Friday evening, Warren took to his Instagram account to share a voice note that suggests his girlfriend Whitney is having second thoughts about their relationship.
He started out by writing on his stories: “I don’t usually check my girlfriend’s phone, but well I happened to this time and wow I just learnt a lot.”
“After listening to this let me know how you would react if you were in my shoes.”
He then added that voice audios that followed had been taken from a conversation between Whitney and a friend.
On the audios, heard by Habari Digital, a voice thought to be Whitney’s said: “I try to give myself strength but I feel like giving up. Juu naona like nimejiharibia jina (I feel like I have ruined my reputation).”
She then mentioned the leaked videos, and expressed humiliation.
“I usually feel bad daily… One day our child will grow up and see. Nitamwambia nini? Naweza jitetea niseme (what will I tell him? I can defend myself and say) that was not me, clearly. The lady’s back can be seen, and they think it is me.”
Whitney’s purported voice then emotionally recounts how she feels like the world is against her, adding that she will follow her mother’s advice and distance herself from the leaked video, which she insists does not feature her.
She has remained silent in the wake of Warren airing their woes.
After sharing the voice notes, Warren wiped out all the photos of Whitney from his account, and shared a cryptic message: “God is in control.”
But it was a move he reversed just minutes later, suggesting that the two may be working things out.
The couple welcomed their first child together, a baby boy, in July.
They spoke to Lynn Ngugi in a candid April interview, where they shared their love story and opened up about past traumas.
“[Kenyans] should not be questioning me (for being 19 and pregnant), because it is a decision. I sat and decided on my own,” Whitney said, as Warren chimed in: “This is the way we have decided to write our story.”
“Let us go through the experience. One day we will share whether it’s right or not.”
