Is NOBODY wrong in the post ? POST : This week is my school's musical, and I'm in the pit. I did audition, and I almost got cast in the lead role, but lost out to someone who the teachers liked more personally.

Monday I posted to my Instagram story saying something to the effect of "Other schools choose good musicals, we got a bad one, literally any other musical would be better (also I'm not blonde enough to get a role)". I don't have any screencaps, so you'll have to trust me when I say that it was about the musical itself and not our production for it. A friend DMs me saying the post comes off as unnecessarily rude and may sound like undermining people's hard work. I do agree with her that my tone comes off as aggressive and write another post clarifying that my issue lies with the writing of the musical and not our take on it, and that I apologize if it came off as hurtful to anyone. I did delete the apology post after the original one disappeared, but now i realize that i should've either left it up or deleted the first post the first time someone DMd me about it.

On Wednesday, I get to school and my friend/stand partner (who doesn't have instagram) asked if I posted anything mean about the cast. Turns out someone saw the post and started this telephone game about how I don't like the cast/think they're doing a bad job or something like that, including allegedly telling one of the teachers. I know that whoever started talking about me doesn't know me well because my friends would never do that.

My plan is to wait for it to blow over and not say anything about it unless someone else does, but it's just eating me.

Tl;dr I said that the musical the teachers chose was bad (with a little bit of casting salt that I've been open about since the cast list went up; trust me, it was oof), my tone clearly came off as rude, now some unknown number of people think I hate the actors or something like that.