“Stop writing to me!” » A few days before Halloween, let’s talk about this very sticky archetype, a sort of omnipresent specter, which sometimes invites itself into your nightmares (and often in your text messages): this ex who hasn’t given up (you, therefore) . For five years, the Instagram account Exrelou, founded by thirty-something Martin Bachelard, has published the best screenshots of the worst messages from exes of all kinds. He even made a book about it, Ex idiot. You have a new message (JC Lattès, 2019).
The idea came to him during WhatsApp conversations during which he and his friends shared their romantic woes. It is January 2018, and Martin has just left his girlfriend, who is having a bad time, to the point that one day he finds the windows of his vehicle shattered, as he said. has The Obs. With his friends, he began to list angry, gritty or sad messages from exes (anonymized) to share them with the general public, taking inspiration from the American account Textsfromyourex (3 million subscribers). The account is then fed by subscribers (415,000 to date).
Besides these nuggets of rejected lovers (and it must sometimes be said that they are downright “forcers”), the success of Exrelou lies in its legends, incomplete and hilarious: “I want you to give me back my bread machine, signed Your ex in trouble. »
Everyone takes it for granted (men and women), and the whole range of exes is represented: the nostalgic lover, the trendy “charo” cad (the compulsive ladies’ man), the control freak, the hypochondriac and these stalkers (“trackers”) borderline sociopaths, such as this young man who reports by a photo that he is in front of his ex’s door, but that “it’s just for thinking”.
“One last time, I promise”
Red card for the ex male jerk who tells you from the meeting on Tinder that “all [s]“The exes were crazy.” And also for that manipulative woman threatening to throw herself out of a window if you think about leaving her for good.
One of the best represented categories concerns ex alcoholics, the type who send you a “I miss you” at 4 a.m., to excuse yourself once hungover to the souvenir section. This Instagram also details all the strategies – like this ex very attached to a pair of worn socks that she left at your house on purpose – used to try to see your loved one again (one last time, I promise).
What does this account say about contemporary rupture? SMS and other ways of communicating digitally obviously make things more spontaneous and sometimes brutal, especially when you are left “in sight”, a feature present on most online messaging services. Thanks to ex relou, mocked by Internet users, we can also distance ourselves from our former traveling companions. Moreover, between this account and Lonely loves, always on Instagramon which Morgane Ortin collects screenshots of love messages, sometimes there is only one step!
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