Sometimes you send a message, and the moment it delivers, your stomach drops. You stare at the screen. You consider faking your own disappearance. You wonder, with some urgency, whether your brain should be studied for scientific purposes.
It’s not that bad. You’re fine. Because somewhere in the darker, weirder, less filtered corners of the internet, there are screenshots that make whatever you sent look like a formal letter of recommendation. An Instagram page has found them, and we have arranged them here for your viewing pleasure and your immediate comfort, because nothing restores faith in your own social functioning quite like seeing others fall.
And if you happen to recognize yourself in any of the following, then this is a safe space. A safe space with a strong suggestion that you log off, go outside, and perhaps have a quiet word with yourself about what you’re doing out there.