Woman Creates Justin Bieber-Inspired Email Signature (Exclusive)

• Jessica Stahle first became obsessed with Justin Bieber in 2010 when she was 12 years old
• That’s when he decided to dedicate his email signature to the “One Less Lonely Girl” singer.
• Over the years he kept the signature for nostalgic reasons, but deleted it when the email was no longer important. However, this year, after his agent called him, he learned that the signing did not disappear as easily as he thought.
• She posted about the situation on TikTok in September, and the video went viral and has been viewed more than 300,000 times.

Jessica Stahle It was a huge event. Justin Bieber has been a fan for as long as he can remember. The Los Angeles native first met the pop star in 2017. The Real Jackson, Vice Presidentand from there, he says, he fell down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos and music videos and became “obsessed.”

It made sense that Stahle decided to dedicate her email signature to the “One Less Lonely Girl” singer in 2010, when she was just 12 years old.

“Justin was sporting that iconic bowl cut/flip hairstyle when I first became a fan. Then, one day, he cut it off and couldn’t do his famous flip anymore. I was floored,” Stahle, now 26, tells PEOPLE exclusively. “AOL and Gmail chats were extremely popular around the same time, and everyone had fun signatures at the end of their messages.”

“I wanted to have my own signature and when Justin got his new haircut I wanted everyone to know how I felt about it. So I signed it ‘~I’m in love with Justin Bieber’s new haircut!!’ I updated it as !’ ” he continues. “As a 12-year-old, I wasn’t sending a lot of important emails, so it just kind of stuck.”

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Over the years, Stahle kept the signature for nostalgic reasons, but deleted it when the email was no longer important. However, he did not realize that the signature did not disappear as easily as he thought.

Earlier this year, Stahle sent a quick email to his manager about a scheduling change that involved a co-worker on the email chain. He sent the email from his laptop but realized he hadn’t deleted the signature when it was sent. He got nervous and texted the coworker he’d informed him about, asking if he should accept it or ignore it.

“He told me I had to accept it or it would look more unprofessional,” Stahle adds. “And I immediately responded by saying, ‘Please ignore the auto-signature on my last email.'”

Stahle thought it was a one-time, embarrassing mistake and it would be water under the bridge, especially since the manager he sent the email to was someone he didn’t see often. However, two weeks later, the situation came to his mind again.

While she was doing administrative work with another manager and a few co-workers, they were making small talk when her manager suddenly said: “You know what I love, Jessica? Your cute little signature at the bottom of your emails!”

“At that moment I completely froze,” Stahle says. “I didn’t think anyone knew about the email I sent to my other manager, but I thought maybe that manager had told her. So I still had hope that this was a one-off situation.”

As she stood there in shock, her co-workers kept asking what her manager was talking about, to which she replied: “Yes, at the end of all of Jessica’s emails she says something about Justin Bieber’s hair.”

Stahle’s co-workers began laughing, and Stahle asked his manager if the first manager had told him about the email. His manager replied: “No, I have information in most of your emails. It’s in every single one.”

Stahle collapsed to the ground. He almost always made sure the signature was erased. When he got home he decided to investigate. After reviewing his past emails, he discovered that the signature appeared on every email sent from his laptop. The signature was not visible when I was drafting an email, but it was there when the email was sent; It was hidden under the three-dot menu.

“That’s when I reevaluated everything,” he says. “I started wondering if important people had seen the signature at the bottom of my professional emails. I lost sleep over it, questioning all the possible consequences. It was quite embarrassing.”

Although he was ashamed of his mistake, Stahle has now learned to laugh about it. “I guess I’ll have to update my signature; this time with something a little more professional.”

In September, Stahle decided to share the story. tiktok. He felt his experience could help others feel better about their own embarrassing moments. To his surprise, the video went viral and received over 300,000 views. She says the comments section made her “crunch” because it was overflowing with people sharing their own stories.

“I hope my videos teach people not only to control their email settings, voicemail, and ringtones, but also to help them feel better about their own lives and make them laugh,” Stahle says. “I also hope it brings a sense of community, because ultimately, even though we’re adults now, a lot of people my age can relate to the fact that we all used to be obsessed with a male star. We’re still 26-year-old fangirls at heart in the 2010s.”

“To everyone who saw my signature and didn’t tell me about it, I would like to add that it’s okay, I forgive you,” he continues. “I would also like to add that I’m still a big fan of Justin Bieber and his family. Just because I no longer have my signature and the haircut has changed doesn’t mean I’m any less of a fan. Belieber 4 lyf.”