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Tana Mongeau’s inner circle isn’t buying the Jake Paul romance, and they say so on camera.

Episode 2 of MTV’s digital docuseries “No Filter: Tana Turns 21” dropped on the network’s YouTube channel on July 15, 2019, and it wastes no time getting into the messiest storyline of Tana Mongeau’s summer. Titled “Tana’s Friends Don’t Trust Jake Paul,” the episode digs into the skepticism swirling around Mongeau’s sudden pairing with the controversial YouTuber, a relationship that kicked off in spring 2019 almost immediately after her very public breakup with Bella Thorne. Between the relationship drama, the episode also follows Mongeau into the ring for an improv comedy battle on MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out.”

• Roommate Ashly Schwan tells Mongeau directly that she’s rebounding too fast, worried she’s diving headfirst into an unstable relationship with the wrong guy.
• Longtime friend Imari Stuart and others in Mongeau’s circle question whether the Paul romance is genuine or just a manufactured spectacle for social media clout.
• Mongeau appears as a guest star on “Wild ‘N Out,” trading improv comedy blows with recurring cast member Justina Valentine.

A Rebound Under the Microscope

The timeline is what sets off alarm bells inside Mongeau’s house. She’d just come out of a headline-making split from Bella Thorne, and almost immediately the narrative shifted to Jake Paul, a YouTuber whose name alone carries baggage from years of controversy and internet beef. Ashly Schwan, who lives with Mongeau and has watched the relationship unfold in real time, isn’t shy about voicing her discomfort on camera, framing it less as jealousy and more as genuine concern that Tana is repeating a pattern of jumping into intensity before the last relationship has even settled.

That tension is the emotional spine of the episode. It’s not friends ganging up on a boyfriend they don’t like personally — it’s friends who’ve seen this movie before, worried about the speed of it all.

The Clout Question

Imari Stuart and the rest of Mongeau’s entourage push the skepticism further, wondering out loud whether the whirlwind romance with Paul is even real or whether it’s engineered content — two of the internet’s most-watched, most-talked-about personalities suddenly a couple, right as cameras happen to be rolling for both of their platforms. That doubt is baked into the episode’s very title, and it’s the through-line MTV clearly wants viewers chewing on.

Her own roommate doesn’t think the romance is stable — and she’s saying it on camera, not in a group chat.

Trading Bars With Justina Valentine

Away from the relationship drama, Mongeau gets a very different kind of test: stepping into the improv comedy arena on “Wild ‘N Out” opposite Justina Valentine, one of the show’s recurring stars. It’s a high-energy, unscripted setting where quick wit matters more than YouTube subscriber counts, and the episode uses it as a breather from the heavier domestic scenes — a reminder that Mongeau’s fame extends past her vlogs into mainstream network comedy.

Pairing the two storylines back to back is a deliberate choice by the producers. One half of the episode is Mongeau under interrogation from the people who know her best; the other is Mongeau performing in front of a live audience with a comic who doesn’t owe her any loyalty. Both settings ask the same underlying question in different ways: how much of what viewers are seeing is real.

Future Trajectory of the Series

“No Filter: Tana Turns 21,” which premiered July 8, 2019, has built its entire structure around messy, real-time access to Mongeau’s transition into her twenties, and this episode is the clearest example yet of that access cutting both ways — it’s flattering when she’s on stage trading jokes with Justina Valentine, and considerably less flattering when her own roommate is questioning her judgment to her face. Given the docuseries’ weekly rollout pattern, viewers won’t have to wait long to see whether Schwan’s warnings about Jake Paul turn out to be right or whether Tana’s circle comes around, the same way MTV has documented plenty of reality-TV comedy battles and cast shakeups across shows like “Wild ‘N Out” over the years.

For now, the episode ends without resolution — Schwan’s worries are on the table, Stuart’s suspicions are on the table, and Mongeau is still very much with Jake Paul. That’s the cliffhanger MTV is banking on to pull viewers into Episode 3.