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?

Yes.
A smutty video would be more interesting.

You don't have to "follow" anyone to see these posts. I literally follow about 3 accounts on TikTok but you see them when you are scrolling through. And people are allowed to have an opinion on them.

Seems to me like “wholesome” is a rebrand of “quiet” or “free”.

In a way this is good, makes a change from everyone feeling like they need to be out out and doing expensive stuff all the time.

But would be better if people felt they could just admit they had a quiet weekend or a low spend weekend without feeling the need to call it “wholesome”

Agree. But the irony of these posts (and what the OP is getting at) are the polar opposite of wholesome, quiet or free. As what they are actually doing is spending the whole weekend on social media. What looks like a simple video of someone going about their "quiet life" is actually hours and hours of staging, filming, changing lighting, editing....

People get wound up because humans are programmed to notice fake things and be wary. For example when David Walliams smiles and it never reaches his eyes. It makes you feel uncomfortable and discomfort makes you irritable.

We can tell the difference between someone taking a great photo by chance and a curated one narrating the story for you. I do not like being influenced into seeing a particular version of someone. And yes they are inviting you to believe they are better than you.

The heavy handed ones usually make me feel the opposite. There are countless documentaries backing up the fact that many of these families who try too hard to look perfect are actually fucked up and sometimes even abusive.

If you’re really enjoying your weekend you’ll actually be living it, not worrying about camera angles, filters and the wording of the post.

As they say, it’s really not that deep.

Okay - but why does it matter?

Just block/scroll/move on instead of sniping and sneering about it constantly.

Never read one of those posts.

Why does anything matter? It's an opinion on something in the public domain.

I don't suppose trans issues affect most people in their day to day life. But people still comment and voice their thoughts on it. Harry and Meghan don't have an impact on anybody's life but people still talk about them and have opinions on them. A random MNer posting about a car blocking her drive doesn't affect a single other person on this website but plenty of people will comment and give advice.

It's a forum to talk about things - important or not - so maybe take your own advice and scroll on if you're not interested?

@Starlight1984I’m on the thread because I genuinely find it fascinating that so many grown adults feel the need to snipe and criticise about how other grown adults choose to spend their time.

I have an Instagram friend who does this. I worked with her a few years ago and she did nothing but complain about her husband and her mum (who had no interest in her, or her young children at that time).

And yet nowadays every post depicts their perfect life, dog walks in the countryside with the kids, with her parents, multiple photos every week of meals she has cooked and cakes she has baked.

Friend had quite an unstable childhood and her mum wasn't interested in the children until recently (presumably now they are older and easier) so my theory is that friend is determined to have (or at least project) a perfect, wholesome and stable family life. She is a lovely person so I don't mind the photos at all but I know others who have said it's all very 'look at me and my perfect life.'

Yeah, it’s gross.
so many people on mine talk about having the most amazing weekend, how they’re so lucky blah blah.

How many people actually live in the moment and have time to really appreciate what’s going on around them?

All these people have really young kids. There’s nothing wholesome about your kid kicking off and crying over everything all weekend. It’s all a load of shit with everyone trying to portray a perfect life to everyone.

It’s always the ones that post a tonne of stuff like this that split up as well!

Rant over. I just find it sickly. Just have a nice weekend and not tell everyone?

But.... You're doing the exact same? Sniping and criticising anyone who has an opinion....?

It doesn’t bother me.
‘Wholesome’ is just a buzzword to mean a quiet and calm weekend, usually in nature or a weekend spent with family doing cute family things. I don’t really know why that would annoy people.
How do you know it’s fake? Were you there in person? If it makes people feel good putting a few pics up, It’s not hurting anyone is it?

Sure, have a moan about it, but as another poster said, it’s not that deep.

Where are you reading this? FB or similar?

Maybe, just don’t 🤷‍♀️

I’m not meaning to snipe at people’s opinions - I’m genuinely trying to understand why people are so bothered by what other people choose to post on their own social media to the point of making threads on here to slag them off and laugh at them.

I detest the overuse of the word wholesome. Since when was going for a walk, spending time with family or cooking a meal a big deal?

Now that is wholesome!

Yes

never seen this before - is this like the live laugh love trend 😂

Yes frankly. Partying, drama, arguing - yes please!

Wholesome you say OP? Ah yes @Comtesse I remember those sorts of weekends. Also ‘dirty’ weekends I particularly miss those now I am old.

is that what the Dowager Countess would say in 2025 😂

Joking aside, I suspect it's come about to describe anything low tech for the COL (chronically online)

So people complain it's fake yet worry because people are jealous by the fakeness?