She’s in a locket?!?? Someone has to help her!
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2026
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Was in someone's locket. The chance of the locket still existing 80 years later is slim.
there's a reason you don't get invited to parties
How young does one need to be for this ancient internet zing to possibly mean something?
to add to the bad party guests here
it was very likely in her own locket, and she put it there. If someone else got it, there is also a good chance they took her out of it, to reuse it.
Wh... who puts their own photo in a heart locket..?
So, it looks like that thread was nuked, and I only can reply to this because it was in my notifications. Weird how tripping through history is so sensitive about some light hearted stuff. Anyways...
Often someone will buy a locket, put their picture in it, then add a picture of someone they love. They either then wear it as a sign of that relationship, or gift it to the other person. Most of these lockets are not made by a third party and gifted to someone in the relationship, from someone outside of it. Sometimes there is only one person in the locket, and some sentimental writing, or something, on the other side, but the vast majority is two people, honoring some sort of relationship between the two.
Single-sided lockets were equally common, if not more, because they were usually cheaper.
I think single-sided ones were used more often for a romantic partner, while double-sided ones were used to hold photos of a person's parents or kids.
Allow me to clarify, I am speaking on the fact that it is A. a heart shaped one, and B. I am not being totally inclusive in my example which was only to demonstrate why a picture in a locket would likely have been put there by the person who's picture it is. Even in the case of a single sided locket, the picture in it would most likely be of the person who is giving the locket to another person as a gift. You would probably not wear a locket with only a picture of you in it. Exceptions apply, but they are not as common. One of the most common exceptions you brought up, a parent may put a photo, or photos, of their children in a locket they intend to wear, without a picture of themselves. However the majority of lockets are gifts. This isn't even to get into things like ones that had hair and finger nails, and shit in them, as those most of their popularity in the 20th century, which our example is from.