TikTokers are putting their family members at risk.
On social media, users are sharing text messages they receive from family members that you just have to “read and move on.”
The trend is for creators to share screenshots of funny messages from parents, siblings and others. Messages vary from overly concerned messages from moms To dad out of pocket jokes.
One video it has received more than 700,000 likes from creator Audrey Saxton of Dallas, Texas. The 27-year-old shared a screenshot of a funny conversation she had with her father.
At the beginning of the message, Saxton's father reminded her to wish her mother a “happy mom's day.” But when she asked if there were any photographs of her childhood, her father responded with an unexpected question.
“Who is this?” – he answered.
“Sometimes you have to read your dad’s message and move on,” she wrote over a screenshot of the message.
Saxton told TODAY.com she responded to her father's message with “15 question marks.” And in true dad joke style, he replied that he was “just kidding.”
“Our text messages never make any sense. There's always a shortage of them, or it takes a few days for someone to respond, and I knew we'd have something funny,” she says.
In another viral video, 25-year-old Ohio native Rania Saleh shared a series of text messages with her niece.
In the screenshot, Saleh's 16-year-old niece Riya told her that she misses her. After Saleh replied, “Actually, I miss you more,” her niece explained why she started thinking about her.
“I was thinking about you today because on Psych we learned about how people's mental and physical health begins to decline after age twenty-five,” the 16-year-old wrote.
Like viewers, Saleh told TODAY.com she laughed after reading the message.
“I gasped and just died laughing!” she says. “I thought, 'Wow, I guess I'm really in my 20s, but I'm going to prove her psychology teacher wrong!' I'm glad she thought of me, but I was just shocked that that was what reminded her to text me and check in!”
“Although it was very funny, it was very sweet of her,” she adds. “I remember texting all my siblings, including her mom, and they were all like, ‘Yeah! Looks like Riya will send a message.” It made everyone's day more enjoyable.”
The “read and move on” trend has resonated with social media users due to its relevance.
Oluwaseye Oyelowo, a 25-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia, agrees. When she heard about the trend, she decided to have some fun by roasting her 22-year-old sister Oluwasayo.
“I felt like people should see what a fun relationship I have with my little sister and how comfortable she is with me,” she told TODAY.com.
IN her postOluwasayo out of the blue asked her older sister, “When will you get paid and how much can I get?”
Oyelowo says with a laugh that this message rings true for her sister.
“Growing up, we were mostly provided for by our mother, and now that I work, I always make it clear that they can ask for anything, just to help take the burden off our mother. So yes, it’s normal for us,” she says. “She is very persistent in her requests and I just laugh because I know her and read her message in her voice.”
So much so that sometimes, “you need to look at your sister’s text message and get on with your day,” as Oyelowo captioned the video.
Oyelowo also received a fitting reaction from her sister when she told her that their posts had gone viral.
“I called my sister and said, ‘You’re famous,’” Oyelowo laughs. “And she said she was putting interest on the money she wanted me to pay for her use.”
