Being a reporter is a wild and wonderful thing. Some days, you get to go about your business as usual. Other days, you spend ages combing through the finer points of incest legislation.

That’s right, folks—there’s a viral TikTok going around, and it’s sparking online debates about exactly how much shared DNA is too much when you’re fighting on the battlefield of love. But worry not: The Mary Sue is here to walk you through what initially went down in the TikTok video itself, and then subsequently through what the law actually has to say about it all.