Internet trends keep changing and each trend or meme lasts for a few good days. The latest to the list of such meme trends is the red flags. Users have been taking to their Twitter, Facebook and Instagram handles to share images and emojis of red flags. Now, the microblogging site,Twitter themselves have joined the bandwagon and shared the companys red flag situation.
Social media has been flooded with memes related to the red flag today. Ideally, the red flag is a term used to signal a problem. A red flag in a relationship is something that the other person finds disinteresting. Making it a trend, people began sharing their own creative versions of red flag memeson social media.
Joining in on the banter, Twitter took to their official handle which often puts out tweets in jest, posting ared flag tweet. Im not on Twitter, wrote the microblogging platform, addingseveral red flag emojis. The tweet was quickly accepted by the Twitterati who rushed to the comments section to make their own versions of the 'Red flag' memes. Interestingly, fellow companies and brands including the likes of Samsung, Zoom and Ubisoft saw Twitters banter and joined in on the trend.
Replying to Twitter's tweet, smartphone giantSamsung wrote, "Idk I'll just get a phone that does all the same stuff as last time." Many saw Samsung's comment as adig at their rivalApple. Meanwhile, fellow phone maker OnePlus tweeted I charge overnight, addingred flags. "I leave myself unmuted while I eat," commented video conferencing application, Zoom, while video-game developers Ubisoft pushed their own game Far Cry 6 by tweeting chorizo isn't that cute with red flags. With the red flag memes gaining momentum on social media, Twitter's post has now blown up the trend with more and more users retweeting the same with their creative versions of red flag memes.
Earlier on October 4, while Facebook experienced an unforeseen global outage on its digital infrastructure,Twitter took a harmlessdig at the company. While users worldwide were denied access to platforms includingWhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, Twitter took the opportunity to crack a joke bytweeting Hello, literally everyone. The tweet went viral with Mcdonald's and other brands joining in on the unforeseen situation.
Though Twitter made the tweet on their official handle intending fun amid the global shutdown of Facebook's services, WhatsApp was the first in line to respond with a hello, adding the waving hand emoticon. Instagram alsoimmediately responded to the tweet, Hi, and happy Monday taking the humour a notch up. Meanwhile, Reddit joined the thread, asking Instagram: How are you doing, Instagram? The platform further addressed the photo-sharing app as a social media manager jokingly.As Twitter welcomed literally everyone on its site, one among the first to respond wasMcDonaldsofficial Twitter handle that joked: Hi, what can I get you? Twitter hilariously responded, 59.6 million nuggets for my friends, referring to Facebook and Instagram's roughly estimated followers (on Twitter).The tweet went on to become a popular meme.
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