“There’s No Such Thing as a Saturday,” and Other Potential Viral Crazes
Posted by: in World of Warcraft, tags: Anonymous Post, Bizarre, China, Commercials, Crazes, Excerpt, Flu, Gaming Forum, Jia, Mom, Mutant Strain, New Virus, Phenomenon, Phrase, Sars, Swine Flu, Wikipedia, World Of Warcraft wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
There’s a new virus making its way through China. Don’t panic—we’re not talking about a mutant strain of SARS or swine flu. We’re talking about a bizarre but harmless viral phenomenon that began a few months ago. It started as an anonymous post on a World of Warcraft gaming forum that said, “Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat.” The phrase caught on and started appearing everywhere: on t-shirts, in commercials, in songs. It even has its own Wikipedia page.
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