A Belgian 16-year-old named Delphine went viral for missing the release of Taylor Swift's eighth studio album, "Folklore," while on a two-week camping trip.
"In the weeks leading up to my trip, I had been joking about Taylor deciding to do something like that again when I wouldn't be home to know about it," she told Insider in an interview conducted via email.
"Something in me told me not to open the letter in front of everyone else, so I went to one of the tents on my own and opened it there," she told Insider.
Delphine said it was "pretty hard at times" to be present for the two and a half days remaining in the trip knowing that "Folklore" had been released. .
As Delphine processed the news that she'd once again missed one of Swift's surprise releases, people circulated her final tweet before she left in anticipation of her reaction.
When she turned on her phone, Delphine said she was met with an inpour of direct messages, more than 10,000 likes on her tweet, and about 25,600 new Twitter followers
It was already crazy to find out my own tweet was at 10k, but then I discovered that other people had viral posts about me, which made it even weirder to experience," she told Insider
As Delphine prepared for bed around midnight on July 30, the same day she got back from her camping trip and found out about her viral tweet, she received an unexpected reply
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