Going Viral over Adult-Only Weddings
Give us your most inappropriate responses!
Last week, in a completely unexpected turn of events, a Threads post asking a simple question about the wording for wedding invitations blew up:
The question was:
Wedding invitations: what do YOU think is the classiest way to say “this is a childfree wedding?”
And wow, did Threads have opinions about that. 🥸
As you can see, there were over 4,200 replies and nearly 7,000 likes. You have to understand how massively outside the norm that is for me. I only have 300 followers on that platform. That’s it!
On a typical day, I’m lucky if any of my posts get even ONE look, maybe one like. On a good day, I’ll get 5 likes! Maybe even 100 views.
This one got over 1 MILLION views. A million people saw this! That’s more than the entire population of Austin, Texas. Or either of the Dakotas!
Which is still completely unfathomable to me. Like, wut? Can y’all please listen to my podcast too, please? Even 0.1% of those listening to my show would boost it into outer space!
For the record, only 22 people listened to the podcast the next day. 😞
As you can imagine—or maybe you’re not a woman on the internet so this has never happened to you—lots of people made up a story in their heads about why this question even exists, and then came to the comments to fight out about it.
Even people who know me personally had to give me a piece of their mind about how children belong at weddings. 🤦🏻♀️But hey, when life hands you lemons🍋make yourself some margaritas!
Unfortunately I’m in the middle of a hellacious chronic illness flare-up where drinking alcohol might literally kill me (found out the hard way that it could require the use of an epi-pen, oops!), so the margarita in question is now simply content for the show.
With over 4,000 comments, there was bound to be some gold in there. Like this special favorite captured by Dinkypod, another childfree podcast account:
Kelsey Anna (@CanadianKels) responded with:
“In the spirit of our shared heritage, you are encouraged to bring your children as a sacrifice to Satan. Sacrificial ceremony to follow cake cutting.”
Hilarious!
In keeping with the spirit of sharing margaritas that won’t kill me, and since it’s the summer wedding season, the rest of this month will be dedicated to sorting through the wild commentary this post produced, and then telling you about it. Both here and on the podcast.
My partner-in-crime and loving husband Ryan will join me to share it with you. Because yes, even reading words off a screen and into a microphone is a lot for me right now. 🤷🏻♀️
We’re giving shout outs to every comment we use, so if you’d like to get in on the fun with a non-alcoholic margarita, drop your response in the comments. Here are some gems from former guests:
Leave yo kids at home, we gettin’ crunk. You a ho. (Erik, episode 59)
Put an NC-17 rating on it 😂 (Rena, episode 40)
Get the gist? The more inappropriate, the better. If nothing else, I could use the laughs!
And if you have delicious mocktail recipes, feel free to share those as well. ⏬⏬⏬
WOW. Just as I was about to hit publish on this, I got a notification on Threads.
Turns out another account ran with my idea and reposted it for their own content farming. Which is gross enough when bots do that, and it’s unfortunately bound to happen when something gets popular.
But to steal from another small creator is pretty disgusting. Here’s hoping that James and Kerrie will have the day they deserve! 😈
