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Joy-Anna Duggar was clearly feeling the love during a recent car ride with her husband, Austin Forsyth, but fans couldn’t help but notice that her attempts at showing him some love seemed to be ignored. After Joy-Anna repeatedly told Austin how she felt, his lack of response left some fans and critics feeling super uncomfortable.
19 Kids and Counting and Counting On fans, and those who watched the shows out of sheer curiosity over the years, watched Joy-Anna and Austin develop a real bond as they entered a courtship and then an engagement. To some, they seemed like a couple who actually had things in common beyond wanting to rush to the altar and consummate their marriage. But others see Joy-Anna simply following Austin’s lead, even now.
Joy-Anna Duggar’s exchange with Austin Forsyth doesn’t really seem like he likes her.
In Joy-Anna’s video, she is in the passenger seat as Austin drives. They each blow the wrapper from their plastic straws at each other. When Joy-Anna blows hers at Austin, he takes it and tosses it to her side of the car. She then zooms in and out and says multiple times that she loves him. Unfortunately, Austin does not reply to share the same sentiment.
But that’s because Austin doesn’t reply at all. And he does seem to be a man of few words when a camera is pointed at him, so we can maybe, possibly, sort of give him the benefit of the doubt in this instance. But even in the comments on Joy-Anna’s video, some of her followers weren’t sure what to make of the exchange.
One person wrote that Austin “always seems so angry.” Another wrote that the exchange between Joy-Anna and Austin was “sad.” But it was on Reddit where people really popped off, as they so often do, about what they really think of Joy-Anna and Austin’s marriage, with this video being proof of the negative assumptions that some have.
Some believe it shows a side of Austin that doesn’t even like Joy-Anna.
The Reddit user who shared Joy-Anna’s video wrote that Austin’s side-eye to Joy-Anna in her video “really brings it all together” and shows, at least according to the Redditor, how much Austin might get annoyed with Joy-Anna.
“Joy posted this video on her insta story of Austin ‘flirting’ with her,” the user wrote in the post. “This is what she considers to be flirting? Are they okay? It looks like he genuinely hates her. While she’s fawning over him. Classic.”
Another wrote, “He’s never been happy about being on camera, it annoys the f–k out of him. I often noticed Joy uses this sing-song voice whenever he gets like this. As if she’s making light of the subject when he’s just turbo annoyed.”
When someone commented a screenshot of Austin with that side-eye, someone replied to them with, “He hates her. That video was so hard to watch. He’s miserable and she pisses him off. He’s so hateful.”
People have speculated about Joy-Anna’s marriage before.
On another Reddit post about Joy-Anna and Austin, users suggested that, because their relationship wasn’t shown much on Counting On before the series was canceled, viewers didn’t get a chance to see the true nature of their relationship short of edited scenes. Some people even suggested that their scenes were edited in a way to make it seem like they were better matched than they are.
A Redditor commented on the thread with, “I remember footage of their honeymoon where they were on a subway I think and she said ‘kiss me’ to Austin. He looked mega annoyed and said something like ‘what are you doing’ or ‘stop.’ Like Sir. She waited her whole life to be kissed and you’re making her feel insecure about it on your damn honeymoon?!”
Then again, maybe Austin is just terrible at being on camera.
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