- Content: Erin and Ben Napier Call Out ‘Nasty’ Comments: ‘Do Better. Be Sweet’
By Movieguide® Contributor
HOME TOWN TAKEOVER hosts Erin and Ben Napier are calling out their followers who are leaving “nasty” comments about their renovations, encouraging them to “do better.”
“We need to talk about something. The comments on my Instagram have been really not nice,” Erin said in an Instagram video. “Nasty,” Ben chimed in.
“Really rude, some of you guys. Y’all realize we design these houses for people who really live in them, and they really read your comments. You’re not hurting my feelings at all. But you are being really ugly to the people who are living in these houses,” Erin continued.
Ben added, “If you can’t think of something nice to say about these people’s homes, then don’t say anything at all.”
“Hello! You’re not gonna hurt my feelings,” Erin continued. “But you are going to hurt someone’s feelings who lives in that house. You know better, guys. Do better. Be sweet. Like I tell my little girls, y’all can be grown-ups and be sweet.”
Ben explained that some people “are being rude and being mean because they want to be hurtful, and that’s the saddest thing about social media.”
“And if you’re one of those people who are on social media, unfollow me now. Thank you. Or I can do that for you if you’d like,” Erin said.
However, the couple is grateful for their other fans’ support and encouragement. “For all those who left sweet comments, keep on being you. You’re awesome,” she said.
Erin recently clarified a controversial design choice some fans called “so bad.”
“I know y’all were upset I asked for the striped awning vs. the arched porch: it was edited such that you didn’t hear the part where we learned the cost to do that (about $3500) would have made it too expensive to have any woodwork and larger trim inside,” she wrote. “The juice wasn’t worth that squeeze for us—millwork is the difference between new construction and historic homes when you’re talking interiors, and with LVT floors we needed every last bit of character inside.”
The couple aren’t strangers to controversy, especially regarding their views about social media.
Early this year, Erin called out Big Tech for censoring her anti-social-media content.
Movieguide® reported:
Napier shared how Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has restricted her posts about Osprey (Old School Parents Raising Engaged Youth). The organization recently held the first-ever Osprey Festival, where families took part in social-media-free activities, but when Napier tried to post pictures of the fun, she noticed something strange.
“It would seem that the powers that be would rather our kids be staring at phones than living their real lives, doing, playing, adventuring. So it’s best to try to shut us up. We are bad for business, baby,” she wrote. “If the ways big tech is censoring good causes doesn’t worry you, it should. You may not hear from us much anymore because they don’t want you to.”
Movieguide® previously reported why the Napiers keep their daughters off of social media:
“I am so thankful I grew up without the crushing pressure of social media,” she continued. “As a highly sensitive artistic kid, the criticism or silence of ‘likes’ would’ve hurt me deeply. It would have shaped me into someone, something else. I read once where we should only accept the criticism of people who know us and love us well enough to deliver it gently and in a way that helps instead of hurts.”
Napier called social media “the harshest criticism of all,” as well as “a distorted and broken and misguided kind of critic who sets these young people without their fully developed emotional minds on the wrong path.”
“Is it mean to keep [my children] from communicating with smart phones? I don’t care,” Napier concluded. “I’m also keeping them from finding a distorted picture of who they think they need to be, porn, hate, the criticism of strangers. Childhood is so short. We’re gonna savor every last second of our girls’ that we can.”
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