For April fools this year I thought it would be a good idea to prank my girlfriend and fake delete her Instagram account. Although, not without good reason. Instagram is an absolutely toxic platform, she is totally mesmerized by it…wherever we go in the apartment, in the mall,when we go to a restaurant, in the car, everyday… it’s all the time, she is on IG at least 3-4 hours throughout the day. After this happens, usually she gets completely moody and depressed, making everyday life absolutely miserable (guys will understand what I’m talking about, this can happen from time to time in a relationship, but in this case it’s literally everyday). So anyways, as a funny but well intentioned prank I thought it would be a good idea to fake delete it, we both leave our phones around the apartment, and don’t have passcodes, so while she was watching Tv, I logged on and changed the username and password, so if you go back in it the app it will say like incorrect login information and if you search the username it says account not found. Fast forward maybe 20 minutes later this is what followed: she’s like where is my phone? So I just say you left it in the kitchen, she grabs her phone, maybe 10 mins go by, her: starts freaking out, her: I can’t log in, me: very nonchalant about it I just say it’s no big deal relax it’s not the end of the world Ava, her: getting more frustrated Me: starting to laugh a little, her: getting more pissed, stop saying it’s no big deal omg your so annoying me: Look your not going to like what I’m going to tell you, but it’s for your own good, I deleted your IG, her: Are you f****ing serious? Me: it’s 100% gone her: many expletives later her: starts chasing me around the house her: also throwing things at me a pillow, Cheerios box, clothes, Eventually Me: laughing calm down it’s a prank, it’s a prank I just changed the login, Her: john it’s not funny, you don’t understand the time it takes etc etc. then she grabbed my bonsai tree off the kitchen table and threw it at my 8k Flatscreen TV so now at this point I’m out four grand for a Tv and $500 for a bonsai tree, which the TV is bad enough but then on top of that I lost the bonsai tree which is non replaceable I ordered that direct from Japan I had that one for 4 years, it grew like 3 inches, i can’t just go to walmart and pick up a new one, the guy working there in the garden section Harpeet I’ve been down this road before I ask him where are the shovels, and he says “what is that”. Me: pissed many expletives later Fast forward Me: Sleeping on the couch, the next day we kind of make amends and each apologize although you know things didn’t really sit right with me. So I actually deleted her ig account this time, and the gmail account linked to it, so there’s zero chance of recovery, the account is gone. I’ll admit at first I did have second thoughts but ultimately I think I made the right decision. AITA?

Update: We Broke Up