Anyone getting fed up of people posting about their ‘wholesome weekends’

[BluntJoker]

Keep seeing this pop up and think they sound pathetic . Am I alone in finding this annoying?

I'm rather fond of a wholesome weekend. I enjoy a whole pizza followed by a whole cake whilst binge watching a whole series of Little House on the Prairie and ignoring the whole fucking world. Give it a go, it's great.

On a serious note, have never encountered the phrase before today.

Wholesome (adjective) - conducive or suggestive of good health and physical wellbeing.
Sound in body, mind, or morals. Somebody who is pure of heart, devoid of corruption or malice, modest, stable, virtuous, and all-around sweet and compassionate.
Given some of the posts above, the second definition is somewhat ironic.

I have had a "wholesome" morning so far, looking up recipes, having a shower and folding laundry. A bit of wholesome ironing may follow.

I will get less wholesome later with a large glass of single malt scotch :-)

But seriously, almost everyone seems to be out in the fresh air (nothing wrong with that) pretentiously calling it "forest bathing"...

Obviously veering off the point of the thread here, but Northern Lights look very different with a camera than with the naked eye, that is absolutely true (and a bit of a disappointment to me when I realised it. But that doesn't mean all those coloured photos are fake. Of course some were additionally enhanced, but not all.

Why do so many MNers follow people they don't like on social media? (Possibly: why do so many MNers dislike their supposed friends?) That's the real question.

I don't get annoyed by my friends' posts because I like them and I like seeing them happy.

I would probably get annoyed by twee hashtags but I wouldn't be friends with that sort of person in the first place - I've arranged my adult life to get away from conformist basics and have largely succeeded.

Wholesome weekend to me is just doing normal things that we did EVERY weekend as a child of the 80s. Now it’s an actual thing to label this weekend 🤣 Someone needs to tell these influencers that this is called real life and most of us live it every weekend 😆

Delete social media. You will miss it at first but honestly, whatever small amount of "hacks" or information you don't see that would be actually helpful is so worth it for not seeing all the other shite on there.

I re-download it if I do want to check on a local business (i.e. check the soft play isn't closed for a special event or whatever), and now that I don't engage with it I realise how batshit it is.

I find this social media move towards telling people what to think / feel about them quite strange and controlling. It's both needy and badly concealed, I can see they require approval and yes, it's a bit pathetic.

As in, telling me one is blessed/ wholesome/ other adjectival phrase rather than allowing me to draw that conclusion from what I see. I quite often think 'ill be the judge of that'.

I live 200 miles from my entire side of the family. A lot of DHs family are in a different country. Many of the extended family are older now and don't use things like WhatsApp (several don't even own a smartphone) but they do log onto FB on their computer of an evening and look at what their friends and family are up to. It's a very quick way to share with the whole family in one move.

I share photos of our weekend or days out or just something cute/funny DD has done, purely so they can see them. It means we feel connected and they get to see parts of her life that they wouldn't be able to usually because of the distance. If we all lived in the same place, I probably wouldn't use FB at all. I barely use anything else SM wise.

Our weekends probably do look "wholesome" because what we all enjoy is being in the garden or taking a trip to the park or walking somewhere nice with the dog while DD looks for different flowers or red leaves or pinecones. We also usually take a picnic on days out cos it saves money. I didn't know it was a "thing" to be "wholesome" these days (possibly not the worst craze that's been about). But I don't post to irritate anyone or be seen as "better than". Just to show family how DD is growing up and what were all up to.

Don't know whether anyone else would see it mind, as my privacy settings are pretty tight, mostly only family can see everything.

Yep. Gen X are used to wholesome walks through fields to get to raves.

This is so true. I’m a few weeks in to deleting mine. I’ve set up a burner account where I have no friends and use it to occasionally check our local community pages.
Living in the real world is so wholesome 🤣🤣

I know what you mean OP. The ones who post their "spend a wholesome weekend with me / spend a day with me resetting" and they have a reel of them going to the farmers market to buy fresh flowers, back to their cottage to bake bread and make elderflower drinks, then sitting and reading a book (which they're obviously not reading seeing as though they are filming themselves!) whilst a candle flickers in the background. All to the sound of calming music or birds cheeping. Irritating as fuck. And then everyone comments "This looks amazing!" "Wish I had your life!". Well, um, yes. That's exactly the intention of the video.

The amount of time and effort that must go into making sure everything looks perfect, setting the camera up in different places round the house, editing the videos, applying filters etc etc... It must takes hours. I can't think of anything less relaxing or wholesome on a weekend tbh!

Nobody is bloody forcing you to be on social media.

Yes, yes I would 😂

Because it’s quicker to post them once for everyone to see and I’m fundamentally quite a lazy person 🤷‍♀️

I also don’t really care what strangers think of me. I just find it quite amusing that so many people sneer at others having fun and enjoying themselves.

It’s like competitive misery on here at times.

This!!!

We wake up on a Saturday, one of us goes to make a coffee to bring up to bed, chill for an hour or so, get up and take the dogs for a big walk, come home, DH makes breakfast whilst I start cleaning the house. After breakfast DH goes out into the garden (or does stuff in the house if the weather is shit), then a walk into the local village mid afternoon with the dogs. Maybe a coffee or glass of wine somewhere. Back home to make dinner, chill out and either read or watch a film. Never have I thought it was wholesome - it's just a weekend 😂

Maybe I'm missing a trick though!

No no. They’re probably telling the the truth about what they have done. But it’s not been “wholesome”. It’s just been easy and it’s gone their way. Good for them. Nothing wholesome about it though.

If someone posted about what an exhausting/ fun and happy weekend they have had I would see that as more genuine. “Wholesome” is just 🤢.

Quick photo of your coffee in bed, #wholesome. Congratulations, you're an influencer 🤣

Maybe take a break from the Internet, it doesn’t seem to be making you very happy.

I don’t think people are talking about those kinds of posts. It’s more the performative/ posed and hashtags ones done for likes. Not the natural ones. I love seeing people out on their SUPs, up a hill, wild swimming etc… but I hate the obvious posed /edited ones done for social media rather than the actual experience itself. I hope I’m explaining it!

Apparently when we could all afford actual Sunday Newspapers and the perfect Saturday or Sunday morning involved lying in the sofa drinking (home made) coffee ‘with the papers’ there was a ‘thing’ where people felt depressed and inadequate because their lives didn’t match the Interior Decor / Fashion / Recipes / Restaurants / Holiday Cottage recommendations of Saturday Guardian Ot The Observer etc.

Yes! The performative ones and the ones I am ones I am on about. The only people who use wholesome are the ones who are overthinking their social media post to try and make it look perfect.

A fun and happy weekend camping is different to a “wholesome” weekend camping. One is natural and the other is cringey bollocks.

I know what you mean exactly! The ones who are out for a "wholesome" walk in their immaculate outfit and walking boots, carrying their takeaway coffee with their immaculate little dog (usually a cockapoo or dachshund) 😬

I know the kind you mean but I just don’t get why people are so wound up by them.

I agree the posed/performative posts make me roll my eyes but why do you follow those people? Why are you friends with them?

I'm mostly friends with people who have a similar sensibility to me - we'd all find that stuff a bit cringe so none of us do it. But even outside of that social circle, I'm only friends - IRL and on social media - with people I actually like. So if they did that I might roll my eyes but it wouldn't stop me liking them, I'd accept it as a character foible. And it wouldn't annoy me to the extent of bitching about it on the internet!

I don’t follow people like that but I know they exist. I just have an opinion about them that’s all. It doesn’t mean I follow them though.