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.

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    1 month ago

    “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 not-immune-to-propaganda

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      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