Last week, Vogue published an article titled “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?”

“The script is shifting,” wrote the author, a British social-media influencer called Chanté Joseph. “It is now fundamentally uncool to be a boyfriend-girl.” Yesterday, she discussed the story’s devastating impact in an Instagram video. “So many girls have messaged me saying they broke up with their boyfriend because of my article, because they realized he was embarrassing, and it was embarrassing.”