This is Sohail. Sohail works in higher education and at nights he also does some yoga instructing. He's 30-years-old, lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota and says Starbucks always gets his name wrong.
For Christmas 2016 Sohail's parents gifted him a unicorn mirror. Here it is. Sohail loved the mirror but so did his sister, Sohaila. "[She] has always wanted everything I've been gifted," Sohail told BuzzFeed News.
In an effort to please both of their children, Sohail's parents set out to have another mirror made. The only problem was that they didn't have any photos of it to show a woodworker. After messaging her son multiple times with no success, Sohail's mother ended up using photos she found on his social media. "I was forced to use the only photos of the mirror I could find which were your gd smut photos," she wrote in a message to Sohail.
Sohail said that after being introduced to his Instagram account, his mum began describing his photos as "smutty".
"After my sister read some of the comments [to her] she soon learned such words as 'thirst trap', 'daddy' and 'VPL'," he said.
After exchanging a few more messages with his mother, Sohail tweeted out the exchange. People loved it. "This is the result of me not getting back to her quick enough," he wrote.
Soooo my mom & dad are commissioning a recreation of the unicorn mirror they bought me from an estate sale because… https://t.co/YFxrMEZI83
Over 2,000 people have retweeted Sohail's tweet and people are just a little bit obsessed with his parents.
@sideofhail "gd smut photos" sounds like my mom too lmaooo
@sideofhail omg I love seeing accepting loving funny POC parents 💓💓💓💓
@sideofhail We don't know each other, but I need to thank you for bringing this tweet into my life.
Sohail said he was grateful that he had a special, cheeky relationship with his parents.
Now, Sohail's sister can expect a mirror of her own. But Sohail says his will always be more special.
