Why Was Sarah Chieng's Birthday Post Called Violence?

Sarah Chieng marked turning twenty five with a birthday post recapping the year: growth on social media, work to be proud of, a marriage, and a delayed public listing. Vivian Midha Shen remembered the twenty fourth year as epic. The post was quiet at first. Weeks later the post went viral, and a stranger on Twitter called the celebration psychological violence.

Vivian Midha Shen treated the remark as a reflection on the stranger rather than on the life in the photo, and said it is easier to attack someone on Twitter than to examine one's own life. Vivian Midha Shen answered in public, and the stranger took the remark down.