Why Do People Post Thirst Traps On Twitter?
By: Elo Osiki
Tags: Twitter, Girls, Semi Nudity, Social Media, Clout

(Then act outraged when people comment about their body?)

I genuinely struggle to understand the reasoning behind posting semi-nude and/or revealing pictures of oneself on social media. Sometime last year, a 19 year old posted a birthday picture of herself on Twitter. In the picture, she was wearing a very revealing dress and obviously, minus bra. A good portion of her breasts were out on display (made visible by the cut of the dress). Many men in the comments, talked about her breasts, which were in plain sight. They made a lot of derogatory comments and particularly touched on the fact that her breasts didn’t look firm and was sagging. These comments were rather insulting and they were in the majority.

I think the next day or so, the 19 year old came back to quote the tweet, saying she would delete it because of so many degrading comments about her breasts. She said it was supposed to be a birthday post but they turned it into something else and made her feel bad about herself. Some people later said she even deleted her twitter account and left the app for good because she felt so bad about the comments. At this point I feel compelled to say that if she really felt bad about the comments, quote-tweeting the picture was probably not the way to go. I mean, you know how Twitter works, when you quote-tweet something, you’re bringing it back to the timeline. If she was that upset about the comments and still retweeting the tweet the next day for more people to see the original tweet, well, I don’t know….. I don’t get….

“Nobody has laser eyes to see through your clothes when you come correct. But when you bare it all, it’s like you are baiting them……”

I’d probably sound like the devil if I say I had no sympathy for her but I’m not the devil so I won’t say that. To be honest though, I need to understand why she posted that picture in the first place. She could not have used a picture where she was wearing a tee shirt or anything less revealing? It absolutely had to be that dress and no bra?? I feel like she gave them the ammunition that they used to attack her. Nobody has laser eyes to see through your clothes when you come correct. But when you bare it all, it’s like you are baiting them, daring them to say something. I’m sorry, but these people need very little push to go all out.

Now I’m not saying the commenters did a good thing o. Far from it. I mean, I would never post such comments on someone’s tweet or encourage anybody to talk like that to a stranger on the internet. But I wouldn’t post pictures of my breasts on Twitter either. Because I know the kind of response it will attract. It really feels like she went looking for trouble and she got it in spades, then started crying.

Let me try this analogy: If I leave my car doors wide open in the street with the keys in the ignition and I go into my house to take a nap, when I come back down and I find that the car has been stolen, am I allowed to cry about it? After leaving the car out in the street like that? Isn’t that kinda like an invitation for car-jackers to strike? Like, even if they didn’t have any plan to steal cars that day, and they walk by my car to see it open like that, it’d be hard for them to resist the temptation. It seems like I handed the opportunity to them on a platter. They are not good people anyways so they won’t have any attack of conscience to stop them from stealing the car.

Bringing this to the discussion at hand, you know that these men are dogs (to use your own words) yet you post thirst traps for them, literally throwing them a bone and you expect them not to jostle for it? Balance me real quick! What did the 19 year old expect? What was the intention behind putting up such a picture? Did she seriously think she’d put that picture up and people would be sending her love and light? For real? She was serving breasts and getting offended when people started talking about them? Please make it make sense!

A lot of people came out to vilify the commenters afterwards. They said it was very crude and rude of them to make such comments on someone’s birthday post. Erm, hello, something was front and centre in that picture. Something overshadowed everything else in the picture, even overshadowed the tweet that accompanied it, and they really expected everyone to keep mum about it? I mean, come on! It was the freaking elephant dancing on the table! There was no damn way you’d look at that picture and not notice her boobs. She may as well have put them on a tray. But people were angry that people commented on something that everyone could see. Okay.