Aimeé
Communicating tone through texting is a subtle art, and no one is better at annihilating someone with just a few syllables like a teenager. If you feel like the biggest loser on earth after texting with someone under the age of 17, just know that you’re not alone.
Dorky adults who love their little siblings, cousins, and nieces have been suffering in silence, and one tweet has brought them together.
Comedian Maggie Widdoes shared a text from a 13-year-old in which she wrote them an excited happy birthday message that included a number of emojis and exclamation points to express her love and good wishes.
All she got back was a “Yeah.”
“Don’t text the 13-year-olds in your life happy birthday unless you’re ready to get full-bodied curb-stomped in return,” Widdoes wrote.
https://twitter.com/mwidds/status/1339051084128481282
The replies are full of screenshots of similar conversations that adults have had with teens, in which the most loving messages are met with silence or gutting words of disinterest. Widdoes found it hilarious:
The responses to this feels like Christmas come early. I hope the kids never stop icing us SO HARD and I hope we never stop sharing it. My god, what a gift!
— Maggie Widdoes (@mwidds) December 16, 2020
Because they really, really are. I’m not sure if teens know how devastating they can be. I suspect so. Take comfort in the fact that everyone grows up and becomes the whack adult eventually.
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man you’re telling me……i couldn’t even try to act cool without him eviscerating me a second time pic.twitter.com/pGfNmGKLs1
— the chinese godfather (@ljkaram) December 16, 2020
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this is me with my teenage brother pic.twitter.com/LsA6vDas8Q
— leigh skarzynski (@leighskarzynski) December 16, 2020
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This is what texting my little cousin is like 💀 pic.twitter.com/ZhwJfjvp87
— Daphne 🌸 (@itismedaphne) December 16, 2020
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my 14 year old brother when a building on my campus literally exploded pic.twitter.com/oq9J1oIxqh
— jules (@gothgrlrights) December 16, 2020
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Also, after that I decided to dig myself in deeper and got annihilated pic.twitter.com/5v6n9HWLIL
— Jess Thomas (@jesslt0000) December 17, 2020
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im still hurt about this one… but at least i got 66.6% love :/ pic.twitter.com/H37YhinNNH
— vivian (@mycatisgoth) December 16, 2020
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— Robby Russell (@robbyrussell) December 17, 2020
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Idk how but These three words made me feel more embarrassed than ever in my life pic.twitter.com/UZoE0uLl1M
— 🍓 (@strawberrycrocs) December 16, 2020
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I raise you this: curb stomped by my brother who had just turned 12 🙃 pic.twitter.com/nLdzhH1B1s
— zayn (@zaynajan) December 16, 2020
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My 15 yo daughter did this to me the other day 😡 pic.twitter.com/RZex7Wdieb
— The Quiet One, MBA (@The_Quiet_One28) December 17, 2020
