Influencer Deletes Instagram Account After Her Bid for Another User’s Handle Backfires
Katherine Asplundh, the TikTok influencer who unintentionally went viral with her attempts to get an Instagram user to give her their handle, has now deleted her own account amid an intense online backlash.
Asplundh, née Driscoll, had asked the current owner of the @katherineasplundh handle if she would be prepared to hand it over after Asplundh tied the knot late last month with Cabot Asplundh, the scion of a wealthy tree service family reportedly worth billions. The negotiations with the current owner, it’s fair to say, did not go well.
The current owner of the handle shared on Reddit screengrabs of the private messages she received from Katherine Asplundh. “I thought this was a scam at first,” the handle owner, who goes by “Kate” on Instagram, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, wrote in her Reddit post. “I would have given her my username for free but her attitude threw me off.”