Why Brooklyn Beckham Is Trending: Family, Loyalty, and the Quiet Violence of Unfollowing

Brooklyn Beckham is trending, and this time it’s not about photography, cooking, or being a Beckham by inheritance. It’s about family. Or more accurately, the very public unraveling of one.

On December 20, 2025, Brooklyn unfollowed both David and Victoria Beckham on Instagram. Not long after, they unfollowed him back, and the internet noticed immediately.

In 2025, unfollowing your parents isn’t just digital housekeeping. It’s a message.

The Social Media Disconnect

As of now, none of the Beckham family reportedly follows Brooklyn or his wife, Nicola Peltz, and Brooklyn and Nicola don’t follow the Beckhams either. That includes brothers Romeo and Cruz. (Harper, still young, doesn’t have Instagram.)

It’s the kind of clean break that feels intentional. Cold. Final. And deeply modern.

This isn’t a messy subtweet situation. It’s absence. And absence always speaks loudest.

Christmas, But Separate

While the Beckhams prepare to spend Christmas in the UK, Brooklyn and Nicola are reportedly in Miami, expected to celebrate the holidays with Nicola’s family instead.

There’s something quietly devastating about holiday separation. It’s not dramatic, but it’s definitive. Choosing where you spend Christmas is choosing where you feel safest.

David and Victoria’s Quiet Reaches

Before the unfollowing, there were signs—small, careful gestures that felt like attempts to hold the family together without making things worse.

David posted a nostalgic throwback photo with Brooklyn and his younger sons, Romeo and Cruz. Many read it as an olive branch. A father saying, remember us.

Victoria shared footage showing that her mother had hung up a Christmas stocking for Brooklyn, a soft, symbolic gesture that felt deliberate. Tender. Hopeful.

And then… the unfollow happened.

Which is what makes it sting more.

The Toll It’s Taking

Reports suggest the feud is “taking its toll” on the Beckham family, and honestly, that feels obvious. You don’t get to this point without exhaustion. Without conversations looping and looping until silence feels easier.

This isn’t just celebrity drama. It’s a family fracture playing out in real time, through platforms that reward speculation but offer no healing.

Cruz’s Quiet Moment

In the middle of it all, Cruz Beckham shared a beachside photo from Brazil, a rare glimpse of Brooklyn, Cruz, and Romeo together. Brooklyn had his arm around his younger brother. 

It felt intentional in its softness. Like saying, we’re still brothers, even if everything else is complicated.

My Thoughts 

There’s something uniquely brutal about family conflict in the age of social media. You don’t just fall out... you also disconnect publicly. Everyone can see it. Everyone has an opinion.

Brooklyn Beckham trending isn’t really about Instagram. It’s about boundaries. About choosing your marriage. About the quiet violence of realizing love doesn’t always mean alignment.

And maybe the hardest part isn’t the unfollowing.
It’s the fact that no one is rushing to refollow.

Because sometimes, distance isn’t drama.
It’s survival.

xoxo,

Ashley Adeniran