Hey you know what’s happening right now? #LessAmbitiousMovies, the craziest Twitter hashtag meme I’ve ever seen, pacing at around 200 tweets per minute. The basic premise is to tweet out the titles of popular films but watered down and less ambitious, get it?
What’s notable about the meme is a) for some inexplicable reason it is not trending and b) that since it started a couple of hours ago the hashtag has suddenly saturated my (and probably your) entire Twitter stream with hilarious faux movie titles like “Being John Stamos,”Harry Potter and the Chamber of Nothing,” and “The Devil Wears Zara.”
Maybe because it’s the first work week after the holidays and we all need to let off a little steam, but there something deeply satisfying about coming up with these. Go ahead try one.
And yeah, someone really should make posters for all the movies.
Update: It’s now trending — I’ve contacted Twitter for more information on how rapidly this is scaling as this as this seems to be the fastest growing hashtag in awhile.
Update #2: Twitter’s response at 9:14 PST, “We don’t have this info easily accessible.” I don’t blame them. In the meantime, here’s the Google Trends graph of the frequency in realtime updates including the hashtag.
And here’s some of my favorites, below:
Edward Fingerhands #lessambitiousmovies—
Meredith Gran (@granulac) January 05, 2011
My Shared Public Idaho #lessambitiousmovies—
Gabriel Snyder (@gabrielsnyder) January 05, 2011
Apocalyse Whenever #lessambitiousmovies—
Dan Frommer (@fromedome) January 05, 2011
Schindler's Shopping List #lessambitiousmovies—
Jonah Peretti (@peretti) January 05, 2011
Actually, white men can jump. #lessambitiousmovies—
brad nelson (@bradnelson) January 05, 2011
Ok you win. RT @ischafer: Sex And The City 2 #lessambitiousmovies—
(@rachelsklar) January 05, 2011
The Perfect Dorm #lessambitiousmovies—
Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 05, 2011
Dumb and dumb #lessambitiousmovies—
Carolyn Penner (@cpen) January 05, 2011
Love this one. RT @moorehn The B-Team. #lessambitiousfilms—
Brooke Hammerling (@brooke) January 05, 2011
South American Pie #lessambitiousmovies—
MG Siegler (@parislemon) January 05, 2011
The Brother Of The Bride #lessambitiousmovies—
Leena K. Rao (@LeenaRao) January 05, 2011
I really don't care what you did last summer #lessambitiousmovies—
drew olanoff (@thatdrew) January 05, 2011
Sailors of the Caribbean #lessambitiousmovies—
Doug Bowman (@stop) January 05, 2011
Honey, I Shrunk One Of The Kids But Left The Other Normal Sized #lessambitiousmovies—
Dan Frommer (@fromedome) January 05, 2011
The Devil Wears Zara #lessambitiousmovies—
Caroline McCarthy (@caro) January 05, 2011
American Neurotic #lessambitiousfilms—
Lux Alptraum (@luxnightmare) January 05, 2011
Something That 25 Other People Have Already Done But I'm Too Lazy To Do A Search #everyhashtaggameever—
Andy Levy (@andylevy) January 05, 2011
Can anyone come up with a good one for Inception? #lessambitiousmovies—
Candi Ligutan (@candiRSX) January 05, 2011
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