Sources are reporting that Bridget Renner of Kalamazoo, Michigan, has begun referring to just about everything as a “mood,” both in conversation and across her various social media platforms.
Friends and family say this trend has been taking place on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. From pictures of dolphins to tweets about enzymes, nearly everything imaginable has begun to be classified as a “mood” by the 26-year-old social media manager.
“It’s getting pretty outrageous,” says Bridget’s friend, Allie. “It’s like, a bookshelf is not a mood.”
Often used as a brief descriptor to indicate a person’s emotional or physical state, the word “mood” on social media has resulted in many funny and relatable posts. Bridget, however, has been seen as abusing this meme with images that could only be considered a mood in the wildest stretches of the imagination.
Bridget’s standards for what constituted a “mood” apparently began to decline sometime last October, friends say.
“She used to be discerning with it,” Allie tells us. “She’d share a sleepy dog and go ‘mood’ and I’d be like, yeah. For sure that’s a mood.”
But Bridget’s definition of a mood became broader and broader. Soon, gone were moods of sleepy dogs, and in were moods of inanimate objects and intangible scientific concepts.
“I just don’t get it,” says Bridget’s coworker, Robbie. “Last week she retweeted a tweet about gravity and said ‘BIG MOOD’. How is gravity a big mood, Bridget?”
Among the various entries in Bridget’s ever growing mood catalogue are: bumblebees, the Spanish American War, the film Wreck-It Ralph, credenzas, fax machines, and, most recently, the state of Arkansas.
“Look, I’ll grant you that there are some places that could be considered a mood,” says Allie. “But Arkansas is never a mood.”
Whether or not Bridget will set some better guidelines on her daily mood allowance in the future remains to be seen. For now though, her followers will be left puzzling out how Bridget considers certain furniture pieces or historical figures to be a representation of her current emotional state.
“I guess I can’t argue with it too much,” says Allie. “Maybe for some people, a random tree is a mood.”
