Just as you'd ask a belligerent guest to leave your house party, sometimes you have to kick assholes off your Insta-feeds and Twitter timelines. Hate-filled political rants, idiotic memes, unchecked racism, icky oversharing –– at some point, enough is enough. We asked friends and co-workers what sent them over the edge and made them finally unfollow someone. Here's what they said."So many identical selfies. Chill, bro." - DJ Freelance Love, 27
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"Nobody cares about your fucking marathons." - Michael, 33"Posted selfie wearing 'proud introvert' shirt." - Eve, 23"They started earnestly retweeting Julian Assange." - Larry, 29"Shut up about your food blog." - Lauren, 25"Oh good, you started CrossFit. Wow." - Brian, 43"All lives matter? All the unfollows." - Tamika, 24"Retweet replied every damn Trump tweet." - Sara, 22"Would tweet at porn stars. C'mon." - Dani, 25"Your baby's cute. Fuck your baby." - Milli, 26"Bragged about paying off student loans." - Pilot, 29
"Horrible food pictures from trendy restaurants." - Mike, 38
"Still making "but her emails!" jokes." - Amelia, 37
"She was too thirsty for likes." - Nissa, 33
"Anything "relationship goals" or "couple goals af." - Ashley, 23
"Their retweets were trash, not funny." - Swabreen, 33
"SO. MUCH. Whiny white privilege…DAMN." - Alyson, 42
"She found Jesus but lost fun." - Kelly, 23
"Thought Planned Parenthood sold baby parts." - Katie, 35
"His mediocre band got too successful." - Allie, 24
"Comments were just opportunities to gaslight." - Sarah, 36
"Dated, trusted, fucked, then he ghosted." - Kerry, 33
"Let me play devil's advocate here…" - Sara, 33"Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually. Actually." - Maura, 28"Her feminist platform was for profit." - Mary Kate, 29
"Her snarkiness when Joan Rivers died." - Courtney, 39
"Ever saying Bernie would have won." - Dawn, 34
"Would not stop talking about fluoride." - Kevin, 31
"All performative piety all the time." - Jill, 33
"Supported guns and Bibles in schools." - Courtney, 38
"Fan of Philadelphia Eagles and Trump." - Casey, 35
"No one's life is that perfect." - Amanda, 39
"I couldn't handle the wine memes." - Alex, 33
"Always on vacation. It was annoying." - Jake, 33
"We hadn't talked in seven years." - Jenn, 27
"Sick of her unhinged transphobic rants." - Dennis, 34"Constantly promoted her shitty articles. Nope." - Lindsey, 23Follow Anna Goldfarb on Twitter.