Oh, what a joy!
This satire of a Twitterstorm is generally applicable, but you may detect the closeness to the manufactured outrage last week over Tesco selling the Inflatable Gay Best Friend, a silly novelty item based on a patronising stereotype - and mistakenly listed as suitable for 3-4 year-olds.
The usual tedious gay hysterics over-reacted, and...
And as with Tom Phillips' brilliant piece for Buzzfeed here, the Twitterstorm grew and grew and grew, a celeb tweeted, someone started an e-petition, and someone started another pointless online petition, then it started trending, the media turned it into a story, someone boring called for a boycott, politicians jumped on the bandwagon and so on and so on and so on ad Twitter bloody nauseum...
As often happens with satire it was worth noting how many people could not see that it was their behaviour that was being satirised; smile and click RT.
And, as with any great satire, it was also making an important point, not just about these little outbreaks of mass hysteria, but also about how damaging these pink pearl-clutchers and pitchfork-wavers can be.
Anyway, just wanted to save this one for posterior.
Please bear it in mind the next time you get an "outraged" tweet or RT, and/or get asked to sign a silly e-petition about inflatable anti-gay Russian Nazi pasta dolls or whatever.
PS This was Fagburn's favourite, by the way...
PS Buzzfeed also compiled The 15 Best Reactions To Coming Out Day.
Err, can anyone explain what number 12 is doing in there?
It seems a perfectly innocent tweet...
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