About

Acacia and Baby Photo "Men Only Want One Thing" refers to a selfie photograph of Instagram and Tumblr influencer Cacia Kersey, also known as Acacia Clark or Acacia Brinley, and her baby lying down in a bed and looking into the camera. The image was originally shared in 2018. It later resurfaced in a viral July 2025 tweet from Twitter / X user @GentlemenGuideX, who captioned it, "Men only want one thing." The tweet received viral quote-tweets and sparked discourse about Tradwife fantasies among Manosphere internet users. Some believed that Acacia Clark looked 14 years old in the photo. Others referenced that she had an OnlyFans account and was allegedly groomed by her ex-husband.

Origin

On August 22nd, 2018, Pinterest^[1] user Claire posted a photo of a young woman and a baby lying down on a bed and taking a selfie. The woman in the photo was Cacia Kersey, formerly known as Acacia Brinley Clark, who currently posts on the Instagram^[2] account @acaciakersey.

Many photos of Clark and the baby were posted during that timeframe online.^[3][4][5] The baby was hers, whom she had when she was 20 in 2018.^[6] Other X^[11] users have claimed that she was 18 in the photo.

The Pinterest post received over 11,700 likes in seven years (shown below). It's currently the first discovered upload of the photo.

Spread

The photo was used in the viral posts and memes in the following years, surfacing en masse in the mid-2020s.

For instance, on December 30th, 2024, Instagram^[7] user @mygirlishlife used the photo in an image macro, captioned, "Imagine you are in the office and your wife sent this to you (You won in life)," gaining over 772,800 likes in seven months (shown below).

"Men Only Want One Thing" Tweet

On July 22nd, 2025, X^[8] user @GentlemenGuideX tweeted the photo of Cacia and her baby, writing, "Men only want one thing." The post gained over 42.6 million views and 77,000 likes in three days (shown below).

On July 23rd, X^[10] user @Xzilarator_clan quote-tweeted the post, writing, "I genuinely can't comprehend how much I fucking HATE this image and tweet," receiving over 283,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On July 24th, 2025, X^[9] user @Slatzism quote-tweeted the post, writing, "So funny to see men writing all kinds of tradwife fanfiction about this pic in the comments, meanwhile this woman is a single mom with an OnlyFans," gaining over 101,000 likes in a day (shown below).

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