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After “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Heather Gay announced Bravo’s upcoming series, “Surviving Mormonism,” members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints started a trend on X of what “surviving” church is like for them.

The trailer was released on Tuesday and shows the series is focused on allegations of abuse within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Productions like “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” and “Surviving Mormonism,” highlight mostly negative aspects of the faith, leaving the impression for some that religious bigotry is involved in the framing of the show.

Members of the church who disagree with that framing decided to respond in a light-hearted way by showing how they “survive” positive aspects of the faith.

Others have taken a more serious-minded approach to critiquing Bravo’s new show.

One X user said, “I’d love a bit more journalistic integrity from Bravo that would isolate these incidences instead of painting an entire group of people a certain way because of a handful of bad apples.”

Another wrote, “‘Surviving Mormonism’ may be a truthful title if the church was corrupt and destructive. But it is not. Some bad (even awful) experiences of people in relation to a couple of members of that church does not allow them to say that they ‘survived’ the church, in any honest or genuine way.”

What does ‘surviving Mormonism’ look like to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

The memes about “surviving” church life began as a trickle and turned into a fire hose on Thursday.

Jared Bell, who lives in Utah County, posted a photo from his doorbell of a man in his congregation holding a plate of cookies on his porch.

He captioned his post, “’Surviving Mormonism,’ but it’s just my minister bringing me cookies and checking up on how my family is doing.”