Social Gathering Turns Awkward After Mom of 7 Reveals Her Massive Social Media Following

A mother of seven turned to Reddit for perspective after an awkward moment at a party where she’d only gone to support a friend.

She explained that she usually avoids social situations where she doesn’t know anyone, but agreed to attend because her friend — referred to as “L” — wanted backup while pursuing a guy she liked, “J.” “She really likes a guy… so after some begging, I agreed,” the poster wrote, adding that she arrived intending simply to be supportive.

Once they got there, L spent time talking to J, while the poster hung back on her own. That’s when the party host — who turned out to be one of J’s close friends — approached her and started asking about her work.

He asked what she did for a living, and she told him she runs an art business. According to her post, he immediately launched into a lecture. “Without asking any follow-up questions, he immediately started talking about how if ‘I’m not harnessing the power of social media’ my business is doomed to fail,” she wrote.

She said she tried to explain that she does use social media, but he repeatedly cut her off and continued talking over her about content strategy, SEO and online growth. “He went on and on,” she wrote, adding that it felt like a lot longer than it probably was because she barely got a word in. She stayed quiet mostly because “he really wasn’t giving me time to reply to anything he was saying.”

By the time his monologue wrapped up, a small group of guests had gathered to listen. Feeling irritated but trying to stay composed, she decided to put his confidence to the test. “I asked him, ‘if you are so successful, could I see your Instagram page so I can learn some more tips?’” she recalled.

When he pulled up his account, she saw he had around 20,000 followers. He then asked to see hers and added that, if she showed potential, he could take her to dinner and “teach me his secrets.”

She showed him her profile, which has more than 150,000 followers. Some of the nearby guests asked to see as well, complimented her artwork, and even laughed a little at the contrast between their follower counts.

According to her, the host immediately looked uncomfortable, “mumbled something,” and walked away. He then went over to L and J, and shortly after that, L approached the poster looking upset.

“L came over to me upset, saying I embarrassed her for ‘bragging’ about my follower count and that I should just leave,” the woman wrote.

She stressed that bragging was never her goal. “I really don’t like to brag about my followers,” she said, explaining that while she’s proud of what she’s built, she usually keeps it low-key. In that moment, though, she admitted she was “just really annoyed” at being talked over and condescended to.

Later that night, L texted again, saying her friend should have found a way to end the conversation earlier or somehow signal that she already knew what she was doing. From L’s perspective, letting the man continue his lecture only made the eventual reveal more humiliating for him — which then reflected back on her, since she was interested in his friend J.

The poster said she apologized to L but was left feeling unsure whether she’d really mishandled the situation, especially after learning the host had started giving L “the cold shoulder,” which made L even more upset.

Her other friends, however, saw it very differently. Some of them “laughed and said I did nothing wrong and that he was the one trying to brag,” she wrote.

Caught between those reactions, she turned to Reddit to ask whether she’d gone too far or whether the host had simply set himself up for embarrassment. As one commenter summed it up: “YOU didn’t embarrass this guy. He embarrassed himself.”