A newly married influencer ended up in a fight with a woman after trying to buy her Instagram account for her updated last name.
Katherine Asplundh, formerly Driscoll, married Cabot Asplundh, 27, from a billionaire Pennsylvania family, at a reception in Palm Beach, Florida, two weeks ago.
After the happy couple exchanged vows, the new Asplundh approached another woman of the same name in hopes of buying her Instagram account name.
The newlywed has inadvertently gone viral after contacting the woman who calls herself Kate, who shared the titled messages on social media.
In the exchange, Asplundh can be seen messaging the anonymous user asking if he could buy his Instagram account.
Katherine Asplundh, formerly Driscoll, married Cabot Asplundh, 27, at a reception in Palm Beach, Florida, weeks ago.
After the happy couple exchanged vows, the new Asplundh approached another woman of the same name in hopes of purchasing a new Instagram account name.
Upon reaching out to the woman known only as Kate, who has since shared the messages on social media, the newlywed unintentionally went viral.
Kate responds by saying: ‘That’s my name too. I just googled it and it said selling my username would ban me from Instagram.
Asplundh replies: ‘I bought my username in the past, actually that’s not true.
‘Celebrities do it all the time, that’s how they all have their nicknames as full names.
‘How strange, I didn’t know there was another Asplundh family out there. There [are] There is no Katherine Asplundh in our family.
Then he adds: ‘I see you’re not that active here, but you started Instagram in 2018 but changed your username three times.
‘Is there any way I can get you to change your username once again?’
Kate responds that she uses the account as a secondary account only for close friends and family.
The conversation turns sour and Asplundh replies, “Actually, I don’t think your name is Katherine Asplundh, who would make her finsta her real name?”
“I reported you to Instagram and they can actually tell me your real name. I really hope I don’t meet you because that will be very embarrassing for you.”
After the woman asks the influencer to report her, she confirms that both she and her new husband have reported her.
He then continues to question the legitimacy of his name, who confirms that he is not American and says, ‘Do you have proof that this is your name?’ I would love to see that.’
The legitimacy of his name is then continued to be questioned by Asplundh, who confirms that he is not American.
Kate finally tells Asplundh that if he had been nice about it, she would have considered giving him the account name for free.
The family he married into founded Asplundh Tree Expert, which in 2021 reported revenue of more than $5.4 billion.
Kate then tells Asplundh that if he had been nice about it, she would have considered giving him the account name for free.
She hits back at the influencer and says: ‘But you weren’t. I reported you for asking me to sell my account and another for harassing me. Have a nice day.’
Talking with him Philadelphia researcherKate told the outlet: ‘I was willing to give him my username.
“I just didn’t want to sell it because that would get me banned. After I responded, his messages sounded sarcastic, so I was like, ‘Okay, this isn’t worth it.’
According to her social media pages, Asplundh is originally from New Vernon, New Jersey, and studied at the College of Charleston.
Her TikTok page, called Lost Etiquette, has more than 80,000 followers and more than 5.5 million likes on her profile.
The family he married into founded Asplundh Tree Expert, which in 2021 reported revenue of more than $5.4 billion.
The two met in Prague while Katherine was studying aboard and connected while growing up on the Jersey Shore, according to their wedding website.
Two years later, Cabot, great-grandson of Carl Asplundh, who founded the family business with his two brothers, proposed to her in Mantoloking, New Jersey.
Since then, Asplundh’s social media pages have been filled with comments and he reportedly had to privatize his page before making it public again.
Her TikTok page, called Lost Etiquette, has more than 80,000 followers and more than 5.5 million likes on her profile.
Former Senate candidate and famous surgeon Mehmet Oz is part of the family by marriage; His wife Lisa’s grandfather co-founded the family business in 1928 with his two brothers.
The company, which maintains trees for electric utilities, municipalities and others, is run by the third generation of Asplundh and owned by nearly 200 family members, who are collectively worth at least $3 billion, according to Forbes.
Kate, who only told The Inquirer that her name was Katherine J. Asplundh, shared the exchange on Reddit, telling the outlet: ‘The whole thing seemed silly and ridiculous to me. I thought they would laugh and that would be it.’
One user commented: ‘Legitimate crazy behavior’ I don’t think that’s your name ‘HUH?!?!’
Another posted: “The change from hey girly to letting me see your birth certificate gave me whiplash.”
While another said: “OMG this is crazy – she married into a billionaire family and acts like they’re the only ones allowed to have that last name.”
Asplundh’s social media pages have since been filled with comments and he reportedly had to privatize his page, which has 14,000 followers, before making it public again.
In posts about the wedding, Asplundh described it as the “best day” of her life and shared photos of her in her dress.
According to Instagram, users are prohibited from buying, selling or transferring “any aspect of their account.”
Despite this, an investigation carried out by voice shed light on an entire economy of people selling and buying names on dedicated online marketplaces.
Social media handles are supposed to be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, but in some cases celebrities have used their influence to pass these rules.
In 2019, West Sussex’s Kevin Keiley claimed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle took his name @sussexroyal.
Instagram said the reassignment of the account name was due to Keiley being inactive.
