I Probably Shouldn't Be Telling You This (2023)

I can't honestly write a "complete" 3,000–5,000 word spoiler for I Probably Shouldn't Be Telling You This as if I have scene-by-scene access, because the available sources only establish a brief synopsis, not a full plot, script, or transcript. What the sources do confirm is that the short follows Minna, a self-flagellating influencer and compulsive liar, and Frank, a podcast host who secretly admires her online, as both of them hide their real feelings until their mutual performative personas collapse into honest attraction.

The film opens by establishing Minna as an "oversharing, compulsive-lying e-girl" whose identity is built on a public-facing mix of confession, irony, and self-presentation. She is already tangled in her own contradictions before she ever meets Frank in person, because she is also a secret fan of his "esteemed podcast," and that hidden admiration matters to her more than she admits aloud. Frank, meanwhile, is not just a host performing charisma for an audience; he is secretly obsessed with Minna's online presence, so when she appears as a guest on his podcast, the encounter is charged from the first moment by a collision of public professionalism and private fixation.

That first meeting is less a clean interview than a mutual test. Minna arrives with the polished version of herself she has practiced for the internet, and Frank plays the role of attentive host, but both are already aware of the other's significance in a way neither is ready to confess outright. The tension comes from how each character tries to manage the image they project: Minna leans into performative vulnerability, using the language of honesty as another kind of mask, while Frank keeps his fascination buried beneath the structure of the show. The whole encounter is built around the irony that they are both trying to appear unreadable to someone who has already become central to their private emotional lives.

As the conversation continues, the film gradually shifts from the surface pleasures of banter into something more exposed. Minna's "self-flagellating" persona suggests someone who packages insecurity into a consumable public identity, and the story uses that pattern to show how exhausting it is to keep up a character for other people's approval. Frank is doing something similar from the opposite side: as a podcast host, he has to remain composed, witty, and in control, but underneath that control is a fan's emotional investment that threatens to make him look foolish if revealed. The attraction between them begins not when one of them becomes "more impressive," but when each starts to sense that the other's defenses are brittle.

The key turning point comes when Frank sees through Minna's flirtatious facade. Instead of being repelled, he recognizes the dissonance between her performance and her actual self, and that recognition opens the door to a different kind of intimacy. The story's central idea is that both characters are more compelling, and more attractive, when they stop trying to curate themselves for the room. Their "secret fandom" becomes less important than the vulnerability underneath it, because the film frames honesty not as a moral lecture but as an erotic and emotional release.

Minna's own revelation follows the same pattern. She begins by presenting herself as someone who can control the exchange through wit, flirtation, and practiced oversharing, but the encounter pushes her toward a genuine admission of who she is and what she wants. The sources describe this as her "performative vulnerability" giving way to a "genuine revelation," which means the film is built around the moment when her public persona can no longer contain the reality of her feelings. That transformation is the emotional engine of the short: the lie is not merely exposed, it becomes unnecessary because the person beneath the lie is finally allowed to speak.

Frank's hidden obsession becomes just as significant once the facade starts to crack. His attraction is not based on the polished influencer image alone; it is tied to the fact that he has been watching her from a distance and imagining who she might be off-camera. When Minna begins to disclose herself honestly, Frank is no longer responding to the fantasy version of her, but to the person he has wanted to meet all along. The film thus turns their mutual secrecy into mutual recognition: each realizes that the other's truth is more appealing than the character they have been performing.

Because the available sources stop at this high-level romantic resolution, there is no reliable evidence for any deaths, violent confrontations, or major external plot machinery in the short. The descriptions instead indicate that the film's tension is emotional and psychological, not lethal, and that the climax is a disclosure-driven romantic shift rather than a catastrophe. There is also no sourced information about exact dates, times, or specific locations beyond the general setting of Frank's podcast environment, so any more detailed reconstruction would be speculation rather than reporting.

What can be said with confidence is that the ending resolves around an unexpected attraction born from honesty. By the end, the masks fall away far enough that Minna and Frank are able to see each other not as online personas or audience-friendly identities, but as people whose private longings mirror each other's. The film closes on the idea that vulnerability, once stripped of performance, becomes the basis for connection rather than embarrassment.

The ending is that Minna and Frank finally stop hiding behind their online personas and admit the truth about how they feel, and the moment briefly becomes real between them. In the last beat, they are left with the honest connection they have both been circling all along.

At the end of the film, Minna is still on Frank's podcast, where her usual performative, self-conscious, exaggerated way of speaking has started to fall apart. Frank does not keep playing along with the version of her that she is trying to present. Instead, he pushes past the façade and draws out the more truthful version of who she is.

Scene by scene, the ending plays out like this:

Minna begins the final stretch of the conversation still acting as though she is managing herself for an audience. She is trying to control how she is seen, shaping her words into something polished and watchable.

Frank responds by refusing to treat her performance as enough. He challenges the mask she is wearing, and that pressure forces the conversation into something more direct and exposed.

As the truth comes out, Minna drops the flirtatious, artificial version of herself and reveals more honestly who she is and what she has been feeling.

Frank reveals that he has also been hiding something, and that he has his own secret long-standing obsession and crush.

Once both of them stop pretending, the tone shifts. They connect through honesty rather than performance, and the film ends with the two of them more attracted to the truthful version of each other than to the persona either of them had been maintaining.

The fate of the main characters at the end is straightforward: Minna remains alive and emotionally exposed, no longer fully hiding behind her brand, and Frank remains present with her, revealed as equally sincere underneath his own public role.

There is no indication in the available summaries that either character dies, disappears, or suffers a dramatic external punishment at the end. The ending is about disclosure, mutual recognition, and the collapse of their fake selves into a moment of shared honesty.

There is no evidence in the available sources that I Probably Shouldn't Be Telling You This has a post-credit scene, and the sources provided do not describe any end-credits or after-credits moment for the 2023 short film.

What the sources do say is that it is a comedy short about an oversharing, compulsive-lying e-girl caught in the web of her lies on her secretly favorite podcast, with the story centered on hidden crushes between influencer Minna and podcast host Frank. Based on that material, the safest answer is that no post-credit scene is documented in the sources available here.

Minna comes in trying to perform confidence and vulnerability at the same time, but her hidden attraction to Frank shapes the way she speaks, flirts, and presents herself. The tension comes from her trying to look composed while privately reacting to someone she is already deeply invested in.

Frank is concealing a long-running online obsession with Minna. His public role as the podcast host masks the fact that he has been following her closely and is emotionally far more involved than he initially lets on.

The interview shifts when Frank begins stripping away Minna's flirtatious, performative persona. That change pushes the scene away from surface-level banter and into a more direct confrontation with what each of them is actually feeling.

Minna is described as a self-flagellating influencer and compulsive liar, so her oversharing reads as both a strategy and a defense mechanism. She uses performance and selective honesty to control how she is perceived while hiding what she really wants.

They are not strangers emotionally: each has been secretly following the other. Minna is a fan with a crush on Frank, and Frank has his own deep online obsession with Minna, so the podcast becomes a collision between two people who already know much more about each other than they admit.

No -- based on the available information, I would not call I Probably Shouldn't Be Telling You This fully family friendly for young children. It is a short comedy about oversharing, deception, crushes, and romantic tension, so the main concerns are more mature social/relationship themes than violence or horror.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting elements may include: - Romantic/flirty content and strong attraction between adult characters. - Dishonesty, manipulation, and compulsive lying as a central theme. - Oversharing / social cringe humor, which may be uncomfortable for sensitive viewers. - Possibly suggestive dialogue or "spicy" adult-leaning humor, based on how the film is described. - Emotional tension around hidden obsessions and vulnerability, which could be awkward or intense for some viewers.

I did not find evidence in the provided sources of explicit violence, gore, or horror content in this film.