"Sometimes I Just Want To Copy Someone Else’s Status"
Join the madness
Okay, so basically the title is pretty much self-explanatory. The general idea around this internet meme is that it's a viral round robin. Tim Waters from the UK, on August 26th, posted "Sometimes I just want to copy someone else's status, word for word, and see if they notice". You would think that something as simple as a post like that on Twitter would have little to no influence on anything. Wrong! This one little post has turned into a viral round, so to speak. This is because the post could be referring to itself and copying re-posting that same status ABOUT copying a status is like a big joke on the person who posted it before you posted it. Its like "the song that never ends" which only ends if the singer gets sick of singing it. Well in this case, this rather stupid internet meme has the potential to never die until people have gotten completely sick of it and stop posting it.
This all sounds quite petty and stupid, and in many respects that is correct. On the other hand, if you have millions of people surfing the internet aimlessly, bored at any given second, you never know what might catch their attention, and appearantly this is the best that they could find to run with. It is what it is I suppose.
-Evan
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