If the Sad Hulk song had a visual image
this would be it. When I first heard about this I didn't feel bad for
this kid Teddy Mazzini because they invited a bunch of kids from his
school to his 6th birthday party and no one showed up. I'm damn near
40 and have had only two in my life. I felt bad for him because one
of his parents was pretty shitty for taking this picture and posting
it online. I get it. People like to overshare their kids lives
online. A lot of times its shit that does not need to be documented
in photo form but it is, like the shame of having a party and no one
showing up. This is the kinda stuff that people can end up in therapy
over. Seriously. In the next twenty years there are gonna be a metric
shit ton of folks in their early 20's in therapy because their
parents posted some stuff of or about them online that comes back to
haunt them let alone the stuff they post themselves that'll keep them
from being employed because for some reason kids think its cute to be
racist online. They say that the Internet never forgets. It does.
Then it remembers again. Just ask James Gunn.
His dad said “I was bummed, I was
bummed out for sure. Teddy, the biggest thing for him was having his
classmates there, so not seeing them show up an hour into the party
was disappointing. He's 6, so he was distracted by the arcade games,
the pizza, he got over it quick. He's tough. But when Sil (the
mother) told me she was posting the photo, I told her not to do it,
but she did and it took off. It's pretty wild.” Teddy's mother said
“I was kind of shocked and then at the end when I had to pay for
it, I was upset” regarding the $130 bill for the pizza. “That's
why I wrote a message. But I never expected any of this, for this to
go so viral.” Ah. So she skipped right past petty which would have
been emails to every individual family she invited to messy by making
it public. That is the difference between the two by the way. Messy
is public. Petty is intimate.
