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yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:46 AM Oct 2020

let's make it go viral

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let's make it go viral (Original Post) yuiyoshida Oct 2020 OP

"go viral" now has become real... lapfog_1 Oct 2020 #1

The phrase is good Roy Rolling Oct 2020 #3

Nice find,.... thanks for sharing.... magicarpet Oct 2020 #2

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

1. "go viral" now has become real...

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 01:57 AM

Oct 2020

I hope someone comes up with a new phrase

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)

3. The phrase is good

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 04:31 AM

Oct 2020

But the usage is stupid. Nobody makes something go viral. A virus duplicates on its own, nobody “makes it go viral”. 😂😂

The whole concept is for a tiny germ to multiply from invisibility to overwhelming influence on its own, without outside help.

It’s one of those phrases that makes me cringe, irregardless if it’s a whole ‘nother definition all of the sudden. 😂

magicarpet

(14,149 posts)

2. Nice find,.... thanks for sharing....

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2020, 03:10 AM

Oct 2020

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