A NEWLY married bride is being slammed as entitled for allegedly bullying an Instagram user to change her handle.
Katherine Asplundh, nee Driscoll, married into a prominent Pennsylvania billionaire tree service family and wanted her new surname to reflect on her Instagram profile.
Asplundh attempted to switch her Instagram handle from @katherinedrisc to @katherineasplundh.
But as Asplundh, who married Cabot Asplundh on April 27 in Palm Beach, Florida, learned, there’s more than one Katherine Asplundh.
The newly married bride reached out to the other Katherine Asplundh, who goes by Kate and already had Asplundh’s desired Instagram username, and offered to buy her handle.
Kate shared the absurd social media exchange, which immediately went viral.
“I was wondering if I could purchase your username from you. Just got married and this is my new name!” Asplundh messaged Kate.
Kate replied, “Hi congrats! That’s my name too.”
She went on to inform Asplundh that she could be banned from Instagram if she sold the handle.
Asplundh fired back, saying celebrities purchase handles from other users, “I purchased my username in the past actually that’s not true.
“Celebrities do it all the time that’s how they all have their handles as their full names.”
The newly bride then questioned Kate’s legitimacy, saying she did not believe there was another Asplundh family in America.
“I reported you to Instagram and they’re actually able to tell me your real name I really hope I don’t know you because that’s gonna be really embarrassing for you,” Asplundh raged.
“I’m asking you to change your username because you’re pretending to be someone you’re not. Which is illegal.”
Kate reassured the seething bride that her name was, in fact, Katherine.
Asplundh again attempts to get the username by showing Kate a Facebook search of the name Katherine Asplundh.
“The family I just married into is the only Asplundh in America,” the bride said.
Kate responded, “I’m not American.”
‘SNARKY’ REMARKS
However, the bridezilla continued pressing and demanded “proof” that Kate was who she claimed to be.
Kate brushed off Asplundh’s demands and blasted the bride, “Why do I have to send you any proof of who I am?”
Kate ended the conversation by telling the demanding bride she had filed two reports to Instagram, one for asking to sell the account and another for harassment.
“Have a great day,” Kate concluded.
Kate told The Philadelphia Inquirer she was open to giving Asplundh the handle for free.
“I just didn’t want to sell it because that would get me banned,” she said.
“After I replied to her, her messages came off snarky, so I told myself, ‘Ok, this isn’t worth it.
“I’m sorry we share the same name, but just because you got married doesn’t mean you can have my username.”
Many online users came to Kate’s defense, blasting Asplundh as entitled.
“The pivot from hey girly to LET ME SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE gave me whiplash,” one Reddit user said.
Another user claimed to have gone to college with the bride, writing, “Went to college with her. She’s an annoying brat don’t give it to her.”
Meanwhile, several Instagram users flooded Asplundh’s posts by mocking her conversation with Kate.
“No! I’m Katherine Asplundh,” one user wrote.
A second said, “Me when I’m Katherine Asplundh.”
Who is the Asplundh family
The generational wealth of the Asplundh family dynasty was started in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania by brothers Griffith, Lester, and Carl Asplundh.
– The family originally moved From Sweden to Philadelphia in 1882.
– In August 1928, the brothers formed the Asplundh Tree Company, which clears vegetation and trim trees for electric utilities, telecommunications companies, municipalities, pipelines, and railroads in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
– The company also offers power line design, construction, engineering and inspections, meter reading, GPS mapping, utility pole maintenance, roadway lighting, and traffic signal construction and maintenance.
– Forbes has listed the Asplundh Tree Company as the 109th-largest private company in America and the fifth-largest in the state of Pennsylvania.
– The company is run by the third generation of Asplundhs and owned by nearly 200 family members – who have a collective net worth of at least $3 billion, according to Forbes.
– One famous Asplundhs family member is Lisa Oz, the wife of Mehmet Oz, better known for his television show The Dr. Oz Show.
Lisa Oz’s mother is Emily Jane (Asplundh) Lemole, and her grandfather was Carl Asplundh, one of the founders of the Asplundh Tree Company.