Fred Young took things a bit further, sharing what he claims was a joke about their meeting on to Twitter. He never expected it to "blow up". Photo / Twitter
Fred Young met Taylor Jordan on the beach in Miami during Spring Break and asked for her number so they could hit up the best parties that night.
She agreed, but never responded to a text he sent later on.
No different to countless other encounters that would be going on during the celebrations, right?
Well, Young took things a bit further, sharing what he claims was a joke about their meeting on to Twitter. He never expected it to "blow up".
Young posted this message along with a photo of Jordan and other women on the beach:
"Met a couple new girlfriends in Miami. Plot twist: I actually got their numbers, but now they're back home with their boyfriends and won't reply. I miss them though. Twitter do ya thang ig (sic)."
His Tweet received more than 7000 likes and 2000 retweets, but Jordan's response got a whole lot more attention.
"LMAO, first of all, I don't have a boyfriend," she wrote on Twitter. "I just didn't reply."
Now, her response has been retweeted more than 80,000 times.
Jordan, 21, told news.com.au she felt she was being shamed over what was actually a very innocent meeting.
"My friends and I met him on the beach where he offered us some shots, asked for a picture, and then asked for my number so he could text me about the parties later," she said. "I didn't end up (needing) any party information that night, so I never responded when he (texted) me."
A friend later alerted her of Young's Twitter post, sending her a screenshot.
"I was upset and bothered by it to start with. I don't like when people try and portray me differently than I am, or portray a situation differently than it was," she said.
"I saw it as him taking a shot at me and the other girls in aims to 'publicly shame/humiliate' us in a way.
"People's comments before I responded were negative and made comments that were suggesting us to be 'hoes in Miami' and that's why I chose to respond. He felt entitled to a response, didn't get one, then tried to gain something from it by taking it public lol (sic)."
And the drama was only getting started.
"Then once I do respond, also publicly, it's suddenly a joke and I've 'taken it too far'. There's a constant tug of war being played between men and women and the women's right to either say no, or to ignore all together — is she being a b**ch if she says no, or if she says yes then decides she doesn't want to talk?"
When approached by news.com.au, Young said it was all just a joke and no big deal.
"So me and my friends were talking to girls on the beach trying to figure out what was the best event for the night," he said.
"We would exchange info with them. As you can assume it begins to become a lot of people in your contacts after a while so I decided to ask her and the two other girls if I could get a picture to remember them.
"Later that night I texted 'Taylor' and only her and she didn't reply. Fast forward a week later, I see a lot of tweets circulating of people meeting girls in Miami and not getting their numbers so I decided to make a satire of that with the photos I collected."
He claims he didn't expect such a huge response to the post.
"I didn't even intend for this to blow up. I only had about 300 followers at the time, I thought only my close friends would see."
His final message to Taylor?
"It's not that deep, bro."
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