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Thirst Traps: Why Mom's Phone Is Always Blowing Up
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults), Book 13
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 13 2020
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.07 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Mom's phone is always blowing up. You've noticed. Mom has gotten very particular about her angles. Mom's ring light is now a household fixture. Mom's follower count has been going up and the notification sound has become the ambient soundtrack of the home. This book explains thirst traps: the art of the calculated photograph, the strategy of the caption, the specific intersection of lighting, angle, and audience that has made mom's phone the busiest object in the house at eleven o'clock at night. Mom is a content creator now. The content is documented here.
This adult parody book addresses the social media phenomenon of the thirst trap through the lens of a child narrator whose mom has discovered this particular format and deployed it with the enthusiasm of someone who has found a new skill and is using it. Mom is receiving attention. Mom's phone confirms the attention multiple times per hour. The book explains the mechanism behind the attention, the technology that supports it, and why mom's ring light is staying on until after bedtime.
This Book IS For:- Adults who are familiar with the thirst trap as a format and find the mom-as-practitioner angle exactly right for a parody
- Children of a certain age who have noticed mom's relationship with her phone has a specific and evolving quality
- Fans of dark humor about social media culture that uses the family-home setting for maximum recognition value
- Gift-givers attending a bachelorette party or divorce party where the newly single mom energy is the theme
- Moms who have the ring light and the follower count and do not find this framing illuminating
- Social media professionals who feel the thirst trap deserves treatment as a legitimate content strategy rather than parody
- Readers who need the mom character to be doing something the family approves of uniformly
- Anyone whose mom's ring light situation is too new and too real for the distance required to find it funny
- Bachelorette parties and divorce parties where newly active social media behavior is a discussed phenomenon
- White elephant exchanges where at least one person in the group has a mom, which is everyone
- Gag gifts for anyone whose mom's phone activity has generated more conversation than her actual conversations
- Mother's Day, if you know her well enough, and if she has the ring light, and if you have confirmed the relationship is solid
The ring light is a household object that generates a specific question when it appears in a parent's bedroom: what specifically is it for, and who is it for, and what is happening on the platform receiving the content it produces. This book answers those questions in illustrated cartoon form with the earnest educational tone of a child narrator who has done research and arrived at conclusions. The conclusions are accurate. The phone keeps blowing up. The conclusions are the book.
Buy it for someone who has asked why mom's phone is always blowing up and received an unsatisfying answer. Buy it for a mom who has the ring light and can laugh about it. Buy it because thirst traps are a cultural phenomenon of significant scale and this is the first illustrated guide to them that uses the family home as the setting. Mom figured something out. The notifications confirm it. The book explains the mechanism. The ring light remains on.
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