You know you’ve made it as a popular, demographic-spanning singer-songwriter when technology-impaired moms and Ur-Moms (grandmas) are asking their children for internet pictures of you so they can frame them and place them in their homes. Yep, that’s the status now accorded to everyone’s favourite ginger heartthrob Ed Sheeran, apparently, as evidenced by a request made on Twitter to social media pro and Weird Twitter mainstay @dubstep4dads. Pro Funny Internet Personalities have to take every opportunity to troll, but never more so than when it’s towards a family member, so you can guess the general thrust of what happened next:
It went so well:
my mom asked me for a pic of ed sheeran and i tried to be funny and i edited it i didnt know she was gonna frame it a week later jfc pic.twitter.com/uFNzgnztaF
— goth turtle (@dubstep4dads) July 13, 2017
Detail shot:
Man, the “shape of you” in that “photograph” isn’t looking too good (sorry, but you know we had to do it). No one ever went broke betting against the obliviousness of the average mom, so let’s hope that photo maintains it’s place of honour for a long time to come.