A video of a crowd going wild over a screensaver has gone viral for a very niche reason
When Twitter user, Aggressively Adan, posted a clip of a crowd of people watching a screensaver, he probably expected a fairly small amount of interest – after all, it’s no sneezing panda. This is the clip, courtesy of SpartaYoshi.
this is so wholesome pic.twitter.com/S3FfQXpS9h
— Aggressively Adan (@manicsocratic) December 3, 2018
It raises two questions:
1. Why does the crowd go wild?
2. Why has it gone viral?
There are two kinds of people – those who know and those who don’t know.
If you don’t get why this is so meaningful, you’re probably too young to use an elevator without parental supervision https://t.co/kE1ZxqXPGC
— Shak (@NotShak) December 3, 2018
I'm not exactly sure what quite is happening here
— Daliman (@daliman13) December 3, 2018
https://twitter.com/ab0vthenflu3nce/status/1069729063374336000
1900s: We’ll have flying cars by next century
2018: https://t.co/9x4teNNc6X
— ツ (@meckr) December 3, 2018
You just gotta believe. https://t.co/JC97wkWbqp
— Roo Bus (@TheRealRooBus) December 3, 2018
Adan explained it to those not quite clear.
DVD players would commonly use that bouncing logo as a screensaver when idle. You could watch it for hours on end and it would never hit a corner.
Seeing the logo actually hit the corner is as miraculous and awesome as a soccer goal.
— Aggressively Adan (@manicsocratic) December 3, 2018
It’s a good job he did.
I thought they were getting excited, because it turned orange….
— Tony Lusietto (@Tone_Balone1991) December 3, 2018
You may be familiar with the phenomenon because of this scene from The Office.
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/OilIDR9fcO
— Nikki (@FreckledFessy) December 3, 2018
Sadly, all may not be as it seems.
People actually think this is real? pic.twitter.com/aipN8Lfi9C
— Nick Culleton (@Nicmiccul) December 3, 2018
This video edit is awesome. If a group that large were actually standing around watching a DVD screensaver, it would be equally awesome.
— Brian McCrery (@brianmccrery) December 3, 2018
I suppose we’d better go back to watching The Office.
Video source: YouTube
