Meet 24-year-old Daisey Miller and her husband, Matt Beaton, 25.
The two recently built a regenerative garden in their yard, where they spend time. "It’s been our favorite place to spend our free time. Every morning, we wake up, make coffee and breakfast, and go out to our yard (with our cat, Yogi) to have coffee and visit before we start our days and head to work," Daisey told BuzzFeed.
"It’s such a great way to relax, connect, and laugh together before the busyness of the day," she added.
Well, Daisey, who owns a beauty business called The Wholistic Esthetician, surprisingly ignited a firestorm on Twitter when she tweeted about having coffee with her husband ever morning in said garden:
my husband and i wake up every morning and bring our coffee out to our garden and sit and talk for hours. every morning. it never gets old & we never run out of things to talk to. love him so much.
People immediately got mad — they centered themselves and made assumptions about the couple's financial status:
@lilplantmami I wake up everyday with chronic pain (tarsal tunnel syndrome), and wash my OCD medication down with an iced oat milk latte. But Wuteva -PotatoE poTotO ama rite?.
@lilplantmami This is cute and all but did you think of all the people who wake up to work grueling hours, wake up on the streets, alone, or with chronic pain before posting this? You should be mindful next time before bragging about your picture perfect life... You might upset someone.
@lilplantmami For hours? But what if we weren't inherently wealthy and have to work and stuff? Lol
@lilplantmami i mean good for you, but 1) don’t y’all work? 2) hours seems like a stretch to me. 3) don’t y’all run outta shit to talk about? you can’t sit and talk to someone for hours every single day, there’s not enough going on to do that. especially if half the day is y’all talkin 😂😂
@lilplantmami What is the purpose of this communication? Im happy for you but it’s just smug, self satisfied bragging if it’s true. Your partner is most likely embarrassed by the tweet, or at least should be. That is unless you are flogging something
Despite the backlash, a lot of people defended Daisey and her tweet:
“Eat the rich” has gone from “no one should be a billionaire” to “no one living above the poverty level treating themselves and their husband to morning coffee in their garden should be happy”
@lilplantmami The internet is filled with waaayyyy to many miserable people! Jeez! How did this beautiful thing i read cause this many negative comments? Idg I’m sooo confused 🫤
That lady said she enjoys mornings with her husband and folks said not on my watch
And the backlash itself even became a meme:
@lilplantmami The tweet: 👫❤️💐🌻🌼☀️☕☕ The replies:
@lilplantmami The Tweet: "My husband and I are happy and are making the best of our mornings with the time we have on this earth." The Twitter Response:
@DellaLupi @lilplantmami
After the backlash, Daisey tweeted that the assumptions about them being "rich" were false. "We've worked extremely hard to get to where we're at. We live very minimally and consciously and work jobs that match our lifestyle and allow us to live the life we do."
As for the firestorm of negativity, Daisey said, "I thought the backlash was so silly! I never thought someone could take what I said and turn it into something negative. Thankfully, the negative comments quickly got drowned out by so many positive and kind comments."
