It almost completely disappeared after the movie left cinemas.
You have to wonder how many social media trends and memes are just fucking bots advertising, pretending to be real people.
It almost completely disappeared after the movie left cinemas.
You have to wonder how many social media trends and memes are just fucking bots advertising, pretending to be real people.
tbh I sorta feel like most pop culture memes are just marketing at this point. If a "meme" is trying to get you to consume something, then it's likely just astroturfing.
"When you chew 5 gum" was kind of funny to me as a meme template before I even realized its origins were a Wrigley product called 5 Gum
tbf that one might have sprung up organically to make fun of the over the top nature of those commercials. But even then, this stuff is always tricky since these companies know how to latch on to those sorts of organic memes to promote their products
It may have caught on by accident for all I know, but I'm sure it was a significant revenue boost when it did.