“Last year i told my mom i was pregnant with my 4th baby just 8 months after my husband’s vasectomy…” The line sits over a selfie shot in a parking lot, with bare winter trees overhead, Rheagan Schaefer grinning beside her mother, who is in a pink pullover and holding a toddler on her hip. … Read more
A whole chicken apple sausage, an entire unpeeled cucumber and half a dragon fruit sit on the plate Tiffany Magee holds up to the camera. “Daughter made me lunch today,” she says, “so let’s go over what she made me.” The bowl of cottage cheese beside them has a skull drawn on top in mustard. … Read more
Two days before a birthday party, Sierra Zagarri stood behind a navy blue counter that was still tacky with contact paper adhesive and told the camera, “I completely forgot that I started this project.” Her plan for the day was a bottle of alcohol based hand sanitizer and a squeegee borrowed from the kids. @sierra_zagarri … Read more
“Let’s do my skincare and cry,” Lacey says at the start of her TikTok, and the skincare never really happens. Posting as bbylaceyxoxo, she sits in a white T shirt under strings of fairy lights, a puffy pink headband pushing back her hair, wiping her eyes. Her firstborn son, she says, “was supposed to move … Read more
The camera starts on hospital bassinets holding swaddled newborns, then pans across the room to a mom lying on her side in a hospital bed, phone in hand. By the last few seconds of the 10 second clip from Haley Cain, who posts as haleyrcain, the screen fills with what she is actually looking at: … Read more
“Um, excuse me, little ears listening,” is how one mom says another parent opened the conversation at the park. “We try to keep the park language clean. You probably shouldn’t say that around them.” Her answer, she says, was that her son had been about to pull down his pants and pee on the slide, … Read more
The first shot is the whole story: a baby sitting in front of an open cabinet under the kitchen sink, with a bright blue puddle of soap spreading across the pale plank floor around him. The Instagram reel from kelciepickard then follows the cleanup from start to finish. Her caption heads off the obvious comment … Read more
On screen, people in white protective coveralls and masks work their way through a home where trash and boxes cover the stairs, the hallway and nearly every inch of a room’s floor, filling grey bins and black bags as they go. Over the footage, Tanika of rvlivingwitht talks for 140 seconds, and her subject is … Read more
“So my 20 year old son called me,” begins the Instagram video from thats_inappropriate, and the very next line in her captions is his opening complaint: “I’m exhausted.” Filming herself in front of a wall of windows, she asks him why, then lets his answer pour out one burned in caption at a time. According … Read more
“In July of 2007, I closed on my New Orleans property,” says the woman who posts as @iamjodibrown, walking a beach with a row of white high rises behind her. What came next takes her a few seconds to tell. She packed up, sold “99% of everything I owned,” kept “a small five by five … Read more