![]() In using screenshots as ammunition to curry favour online, we have the power to change the narrative on how relationships end. Across the pond, former aide Dominic Cummings leaked screenshots of Boris Johnson calling then-health secretary Matt Hancock “totally fucking hopeless” (lol) when their professional relationship turned sour. Screenshots can also be used to rally public support when a relationship breaks down: take Kanye West leaking screenshots of an inflammatory text exchange between himself and Pete Davidson. What are you going to do?” and share their responses. And, of course, we’ve all seen Oloni’s infamous ‘text your crush’ Twitter threads, where she invites users to message their partners questions like “I want some excitement in my life. ![]() There are the ‘relationship goals’ screenshots, where one partner will share cute texts from their other half or participate in TikTok challenges where they post screenshots of their partner’s reaction to a deliberately provocative text. Screenshots have become a way of dictating how we choose to conduct our lives, and especially, our relationships. “A girl who wants to date a guy who isn’t too hairy, has a mostly normal penis and has a job needs to be supermodel level hot,” claimed another. “If you got demands like this you better be a 9/10,” jeered one Redditor, commenting on the screenshot of her profile. YouTubers have made a whole cottage industry out of ‘ sharing receipts’, while the r/choosingbeggars subreddit exists to expose “people who are being way too picky when begging for things.” One unsuspecting 22-year-old girl had her dating profile, where she outlined her preferences in a partner, posted to the forum and lambasted. The internet provides the perfect forum for sharing salacious screenshots. Sadly, many people have fallen victim to increasingly normalised screenshot shaming, where private conversations are captured and publicly aired on social media to mock, vilify or ‘hold accountable’. But worryingly, screenshots are increasingly moving out of the private to the public sphere. Arguably, treating yourself to a little bitch about someone within the safe space of a group chat is fair game.
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