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: Photos of former Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and reporter Dianna Russini at a honeymoon resort in Sedona sparked significant NFL community discussion.

Twenty years ago, a honeymoon existed only in a leather-bound album or a dusty VHS tape. Today, the pressure to produce public proof of happiness has overwritten the experience of happiness itself. Psychologists weighed in on TikTok duets. Dr. Alisha Fernandez noted: “When you perform an event for a future audience, you dissociate from the present. Maya wasn’t in the Maldives. She was in a content studio. Her brain never released the dopamine for ‘vacation’ because she was stuck in the cortisol loop of ‘production.’”

As with any viral moment, internet humorists quickly took over.

: Dealt with a viral backlash and a subsequent apology video from its founder regarding a lack of diversity on a brand trip. The “honeymoon phase is over” for Threads