[ttldr]

i think both OP and the motivating tiktok have misread, even inverted the narrative.

after rewatching the music video for Dilemma[1], i’m reading the nokia phone scene as: she’s received a message from her “boo” inquiring her whereabouts as she pines after nelly, and is not in fact attempting to send a message to nelly. that the green shirt and white pantsed clad figure outside her window is indeed nelly, and not her alleged boo, is supported by the prior scene in which nelly, clad in same clothes, is seen grinding with kelly in the street.

this changes the narrative of the linked blog post entirely. kelly was sold as a bimbo trying to send a text via a spreadsheet app without internet connectivity, when the facts better support a narrative of her being sent a needy message by this unsatisfactory “boo” in the form of a spreadsheet attachment (what a dork) while she further cements her infatuation with nelly and his unbelievable cheekbones (and inexplicable cheek sticker).

if she’s the recipient of a message, and not the sender, how could the HYPERLINK= VBA function be relevant at all?

[1]: https://youtu.be/8WYHDfJDPDc

phone scene time stamp 3:05

[noman-land]

Fun fact, Nelly nearly played major league baseball[0].

  "St. Louis' very own rapper/actor/celebrity fitness guru was a breakout talent on the baseball diamond, finding solace and stability in the game after his parents divorced and he was forced to stay with a string of relatives. In high school, he was named the MVP of the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Association All-Star Game, and was scouted by the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. But around the same time, he started his first rap group – the St. Lunatics – and scored a regional hit with the single "Gimme What U Got," which led him to pursue a career in music instead. Within a few years, he had the whole word wearing Band-Aids beneath their eyes and spelling things with double-r's, helping to put the Midwest on the hip-hop map."

The sticker is a shoutout to his baseball days, imitating the eye-black[1] commonly worn by baseball players.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/9-musicians-w...

[1] https://www.dickssportinggoods.com/f/eye-black-athletes

[registeredcorn]

Interesting! This gives a lot of context to the song "Batter Up".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNGaa5Opfmc

[registeredcorn]

Dang, I watched the scene and completely agree with your assessment on this!

I wonder if maybe the device had an option to "open with" and it opened inside of "Sheets", instead of whatever the messenger app would have been, for some reason?

[brvsft]

She also tosses the phone aside, like she is annoyed and does not care about the spreadsheet text message she just received or the person who sent it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYHDfJDPDc&t=190s