Carp meme (Carp tweets) – is a Twitter flashmob, the participants of which publish photos of fish with the caption “carp”.
Origin of Carp twitter meme
The flashmob has a spontaneous character and has no hidden meaning. It all started with a tweet from user @ dm4uz3. On December 18, 2020, he published a photo of a carp that someone is holding in his hands.
The user has used a button for advertisements. But he did it for a joke. The button will allow you to publish a similar post with the #carp hashtag. This led to an avalanche of monotonous posts that pushed the carp into Twitter trending. In just two hours, over 200,000 people retweeted the “carp”.
The flash mob began to develop and peaked in popularity on December 19. The trend has reached the Russian Internet. This led to the fact that many users began to post pictures of fish for a joke. And other users asked with bewilderment what it meant.
The carp quickly became a meme. People began to make funny pictures with other photographs of fish. And beat the trend in popular formats.
The carp has a lot of fans. The artists began to humanize the new Internet hero and make him an anime version.
By the way, the carp was not left alone. With the popularity of the flash mob, people began to repeat the trick and promote other characters. For example, the favorite of the 2000s is Pallas’ cat.
Meaning of Carp meme
Carp on Twitter is an example of viral spread. One man’s experiment led to an avalanche of retweets and then a global flash mob. And all together it launched one big meaningless meme.
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