Since the cockcrow of clip , human beings have been covering their gamey bits with flora — or at least that ’s what the classicist motif ofputting common fig tree leaves over nuditywould have you believe . This age - old practice session late saw a social media resurgence , with dozens of Facebook substance abuser post their own semi - nude plant photos online .
Over the weekend , a Facebook mathematical group dedicated to one of the most innocuous hobbies possible — houseplants — in brief twist contentious after a user posted a photo of himself holding an orchid while shirtless . But just as quickly , the drama became an “ I am Spartacus ” moment for trou - dropping plant owners , with other group members stake plant pic in a state of undress in solidarity against body - shaming .
It all started with group phallus Jason Howell , who post this harmless selfie of him holding an Phalaenopsis orchidaceous plant he said he had purchased at Aldi ’s to theHouse Plant Hobbyist group , which has well over 100,000 members :
Illustration: Hudson Hongo (Photo: Getty)
The picture did not go down well with a small minority of jumpy users . Many of the negative post they left have been deleted , but here ’s a verbal description of the result chaos with spate of “ opine of the shaver ” thinking viaReddit ’s r / hobbydrama board :
[ P]eople were getting sick about this picture . The OP was angry because her kids would often browse facebook with her ( ? ? ? ? ? ) and ostensibly a characterisation of a guy holding an orchidaceous plant without his shirt off was enough to make her intend the radical was virtuously faulty . A cluster of other multitude were preach with her , read that they rent their nestling look at their phones or whatever and they were leaving too , because they came here for plant , not porno . This was go on and on and people keep notice , until in the end the military post was deleted and the gentlewoman presumptively leave the group .
Well , that controversy spark off a revolution , because I have never had so many picture of people posing naked with plants covering them up in my life-time .
“ If I ’m home all I have on are short , ” Howell secern Gizmodo via Facebook Messenger . “ I had been home a twosome hours before taking the picture . I was surprised anyone cared I was shirtless . It was scantily my pectus . ”
Again , this is over a guy posting a photograph of himself bind a plant shirtless — utterly PG - rated , and something that could be see anywhere men are gardening . In other words , it amounted to body - shaming , a form of bullying doings characterized by hostile and/or reactionist criticism of others ’ body .
This kicked off a stampede , with twelve of users posting photos celebrating body positivity and others dismissing the group ’s misguided “ prudes . ” ( Gizmodo wo n’t republish these exposure without permit , but trust us , there are a fortune . )
“ All in all it was a dead body positivity bowel movement that was start to show that we endure each other , ” she sum . “ The admins and mod put up our member , and our members underpin each other . We even made a C. W. Post for them to comment their pictures , and even plan to make this a monthly place . ”
It ’s not the first time drama has overpower House Plant Hobbyist , grant to Valentine , who told Gizmodo they get “ get footling storm about poppycock every once in a while ” that “ usually snowball for a few daytime and then everything calms back down and everyone just goes back to wanting a variegate ceriman or a pink princess philodendron . ”
Howell said he “ wake up up the next Clarence Shepard Day Jr. to so many presentment and a one-half all in phone battery ” due to the out-and-out quantity of people posting their own photos in solidarity .
[ h / t Reddit ]
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