Our Engagement Post Got Zero Engagement

Let’s call the whole thing off

Emma Kantor
Slackjaw
Published in
2 min readFeb 15, 2023

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Photo by Rachel McDermott on Unsplash

Babe, this is bad. Our post announcing our wedding engagement got zero likes or comments — across all platforms! I’m struggling to understand how this could happen. How could the biggest news of our combined adult lives generate no excitement among family, friends, and bots? The only plausible explanation is that we’re fundamentally…

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Emma Kantor
Slackjaw

Emma Kantor is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor. Words in the New York Times Magazine, the Belladonna, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and more. emmakantor.com