With her daughter's birthday coming up, one hip mom designed and purchased a custom Snapchat filter [1] that her daughter Jenna could use throughout the day at school. Despite the sweet gesture, Jenna was admittedly a little taken aback (read: embarrassed) when she first discovered the filter.
In a tweet, Jenna shared a picture of the filter [2] with a caption that read, "My mom does the absolute most." She also shared a screenshot of the conversation she had with her mother about the filter. Jenna's mom said, "I made a custom birthday Snapchat filter at your school today from 9-2 but I never got an email saying it went live. Do you see it?" Jenna responded, "Why would you do that?"
My mom does the absolute most pic.twitter.com/VPFzZ2EguB [3]
— jenna fluegeman (@jfluege) March 30, 2017 [4]
Jenna later realized that her initial response was a little harsh. After the internet fervently came to her mother's defense, Jenna responded in another tweet [6] and said, "I obviously thanked my mom for it and it was very thoughtful but I didn't want that attention from my whole school." While we would certainly love a custom-designed filter [7], this incident proves that parents can never win while their kids are teenagers.