13-05-2025
Sabrina Carpenter Changes Birthday Instagram Caption
Sabrina Carpenter was forced to change the caption on her birthday Instagram post after pretty much none of her millions of followers got the joke.
For reference, one of our fave pop girlies turned 26 on Monday, and she marked the occasion by sharing two photos of herself posing in a beautiful #cottagecore bathroom.
This appeared to be a reference to her iconic digital footprint, with the star's social media posts from when she was a literal child still live on her now-verified profiles — including all of the times she would aspire to have more followers.
If you need reminding, Sabrina first found success as a child actor, which included starring in the Disney Channel sitcom Girl Meets World in 2013. She turned her attention to music in 2014, but didn't really start to break into the mainstream until the success of her 2022 album, Emails I Can't Sabrina has been working seriously hard to build her public profile this entire time — with X followers always appearing to be her ultimate barometer of success.
However, all of this lore was lost on the people of the internet in 2025, and Sabrina ended up being harshly criticized when her caption about wanting 50 million followers for her birthday was taken seriously.
In response to a Pop Crave tweet about her original caption, one popular reply reads: 'this is an embarrassing thing to ask 😭she should just be grateful for the followers she has…' While somebody else tweeted: 'begging for followers? 😭,' and another sniped: 'Her begging for followers it's really not about the art to her just fame we can see that with the music too.'
And it looks like Sabrina saw the criticism, too, as within hours she'd changed the post's caption to: '26 years of jokes not landing.'
Welp! Happy 26th Birthday to Sabrina — we can only hope that the online negativity didn't dampen her special day!
