A misunderstanding about White Day

It is White Day in Japan today. White Day is a month after Valentine's Day and was created as a day to reciprocate for gifts, mainly chocolate, received on Valentine's Day. You will find more information on City-cost about White Day in Japan if you are interested. But what I want to share in this post is an unpleasant experience I had one White Day, on social media, due to a misunderstanding.

Several years ago, I shared a post on X, then Twitter, with some cute chocolates my kids got on White Day, with a caption to that effect. Some randomer saw the post and obviously didn't read it properly and just homed in on the "White Day". He then retweeted it, using the quote option where you add your own caption too, and made a remark making out that I was a white supremacist. I deleted the tweet and it was quite a long time ago so I can't remember exactly what it said, just the sentiment.

The truth is that I didn't need to delete the tweet, unlike the original retweeter, the people that saw his retweet actually took the time to read my original post and understood that it had nothing to do with white supremacy and it was about a holiday in Japan. He had dozens of people calling him out for not reading my post properly and trying to make a story out of nothing. It was probably my most read tweet of all time! But I didn't want the drama, so I deleted it to prevent any further misunderstandings about White Day!