The Real BookTok Romance in 2025 : Are Nick and Cassie actually a couple?

Picture Credit : Nick Wilkins (@n1ckwilkins) on Instagram.

Are Nick and Cassie the ultimate booktok couple or are they doing it only for PR?

If you’re active on booktok things or randomly started seeing and following the Nick and Cassie thing from your TikTok for you page and are very much confused, well welcome to the club. Because it is equally confusing and cute like what is actually happening. Is this fate or scripted? So, I did some digging and here’s everything you need to know.

Who Are Nick and Cassie?

Nick and Cassie both are popular content creators. Nick is from the USA, and makes humorous and lip sync videos and Cassie makes bookish and hopeless romantic content. Both are in their early twenties. Nick gained his popularity for this humorous, relatable content and especially cosplaying JJ Maybanks character from outer banks, a popular netflix show. Nick looks a lot like the character and creating content helped him gain popularity and fame.

And Cassie is one of the popular booktok creator. Who makes content related to books, movies, music and being a hopeless romantic. They are both active on social media but mostly on Tiktok.

How Did It Start?

Summer 2024 according to Cassie’s You Tube, when a post came up on Nick’s spotlight Nick and Cassie should date because they are always complaining about being single and lonely. But The internet probably thinks it started when Nick reposted an edit ofCcassie and nick and everyone started flooding their socials with comments that they need to interact and stuff. Both Cassie and Nick are known for being hopeless romantics and not finding their first love yet. So the internet kept on commenting and eventually Nick decided to shoot his shot and made a video asking Cassie how’s it going? And later Cassie replied to Nick’s Tiktok “Whats poppin good lookin?”.

Then they started their online interaction while adding their version of humor to it. Like how it feels to have a crush, putting a face to the dreams, relating to Taylor Swift love songs and having their main character moment and actually preparing for their first date and more content related to the situation, And slowly they started having their own fandom “Nassie” as fans gave them their ship name. Even they made them a song too which happens to be a trending song of January “Lovers by Anna of the North”.

After weeks of giving hints they might actually meet and go on a date. Their fandom went insane when Nick posted he’s flying somewhere right before valentines day. And eventually both of them started leaving easter eggs for their fandom that it is actually happening and well It actually happened. Some people spotted them together at first and the day after valentines day they officially announced that they had their first valentine. Now they are posting content together.

So Are They Actually a Couple or Is It a PR?

Okay so in my opinion I think it’s a publicity stunt no matter how cute I find these two. if they actually wanted to date they would keep it private at first because both of them are popular content creators. And it would affect them a lot that way. And, after mentioning that it started in summer 2024 I am convinced they planned out everything for a while and waited for love season. Because everything started at the start of February and they went on a date on valentine’s day and posted relatable contents the following week.

Everything seems well planned, how they built their online relationship and keeping up the suspense not only gaining popularity but also profiting off it. Not to mention both of them have gained over a thousand and millions of followers on their social media. Also my theory could be wrong and they might actually be a couple and decided to begin their relationship like this. But if my theory is even a bit correct I don’t know exactly how they are going to keep up with this situation for the longer time but I’m here for the ride,