Congratulations! You made it through another Valentine’s Day, a day of waiting for chocolates to go on sale and suddenly discovering that hundreds/thousands of people you know on the internet are cuffed.
Maybe you posted about your Valentine, or maybe you chuckled at videos of a capella singing valentines and secretly thanked the higher powers that no one ordered public humiliation for you. Either way, The Rib has done its due diligence on the day’s content and put together some tips and tricks for if or when your situationship becomes… more.
1. The secretive soft launch
Maybe it’s a silhouette, a carefully cropped mirror pic or simply a hand. Perhaps it’s just a picture of the flowers they got you. It might be a “Knives Out” mystery for others to uncover your special someone’s identity, but you can just sit back and enjoy the game.
2. The hard soft launch
It’s still a soft launch, but you were a little more crafty and gave us just enough to identify your bae and contend with the realization that yet another person is taken and the Tinder pool is being drained faster than tuition is increasing.
3. The soft hard launch
You gave us enough preparation to see this one coming. You abide by the philosophy ‘pics or it didn’t happen’, and you provided the pics. We’ve seen you and your Valentine out and about before at the Nelson line, the Vdub waffle station, and the 1 a.m. Jo’s line, so while it may be news that you’re now official, it wasn’t groundbreaking… much like some of Tucker’s “news” on our dear school.
4. The hard hard launch
It’s BeReal time, and you haven’t been very real with us for a while because surprise! You suddenly have a Valentine nobody saw coming. Good for you, but please keep it PG for the children and for those of us who would like to enjoy munching on candy from the Goody Grams we got for ourselves in peace.
5. The post.
Cupid really got you, so much so that you’re dedicating an entire square of real estate on your profile to your Valentine, and not even charging them rent. You’ve already committed, so might as well make everyone slightly uncomfortable and share a full 10 image carousel of how this is your world and we’re just living in it.
All that said, while Valentine’s Day is a nice time to share love with the people you care about, it’s an even nicer time to share love with yourself. Because you deserve it. And because stories expire in 24 hours and posts can be archived or deleted and sometimes you just have too many p-sets, papers and problems and not enough time for someone else and theirs.
Godspeed in all your future social media endeavors. And your real-life ones too.
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