#HimToo: A Strange and Hilarious Online Saga Reaches Its Logical Conclusion
A mom posted a picture of her son, saying he was a good boy whose romantic life was being curtailed due to a fear of being #MeToo’d. The hive did the rest.
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast
They could make this one a case study in media class.
Log on to Twitter this morning and you might be forgiven for thinking that a new #HimToo movement is exploding.
It’s not.
This mini viral saga began when a user who went by “BlueStarNavyMom3” posted the following tweet of her son (it's now been deleted along with her account, for reasons that will become clear, so please excuse us sharing a screengrab of the original).
It soon inspired a host of parodies, the best of which we present below.
It might just have continued like this had not the son in question swiftly joined Twitter and posted the below, rebuking his mother for her Trumpian criticism of the #MeToo movement:
And his brother joined in on the fun, too: