‘Breakup Text’ After Second Date Goes Viral, Becomes Cautionary Tale Of Social Media Shaming


A “breakup text” gone viral hasn’t had the effect blogger Quin Woodward Pu expected — in fact, probably the opposite occurred.

Thanks to a BuzzFeed post titled “This Is One of The Most Brutal Responses To A Breakup Text You’ll Ever See,” Pu has been featured on some of the most trafficked sites on the social web. And unfortunately, her irrational reaction to not closing on a third date is forever enshrined in viral text exchange meltdowns.

It seems Pu was hoping to inspire commiseration and perhaps a bit of naming and shaming action when she gave the guy who gave her the elbow what-for in a text message volley — but she seems to have inadvertently caused a reaction opposite to the one the young woman perhaps anticipated.

Quin shared the denial that enraged her in a post titled “I’m 26. What’s a filter?” over on her blog. In it, she explains that the guy she’d been out with twice turned her down for good.

After she joked about wearing a ballgown to their next date, he replied by apologizing and explaining he is in a “state of flux” right now and “not looking for a relationship.” The unnamed man closes by telling Pu that she is smart, funny, and cool, and probably won’t be single for long.

A lot better than some textual breakups, right? Wrong, according to Pu, whose rage is vibrating off the pages of her blog when she fumes:

“I was stunned into paralysis. I had no words–this never happens–and I just felt short of breath. There were many things that pissed me off, but I was so flustered I couldn’t even articulate them. Again, this is a serious problem for a writer and effusive communicator… I was still so agitated 10 hours later that I had to leave opera rehearsal early. This is a serious no-no, given that opening night is Saturday at the Organization of American States.”

Oh no, he didn’t. After explaining why she went public, she adds this terrible tidbit to the breakup text story:

“So then it came. ‘And it came. And it came.’ –(illicit tax-payer funded sext. Don’t worry, these have since been screenshotted to his superiors).”

Pu thinks the breakup text drama is funny, and she has not elaborated on the insinuation she forwarded alleged “sexts” to the unnamed man’s superiors.

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