Elmo, Sesame Street’s favorite 4-year-old, made the fatal mistake of asking X (formerly Twitter) users about their feelings. Yes, as we fully entered the year of our lord 2024, the little red monster wanted to know how his followers were doing.
“Elmo just signed up! How are you all?,” the lovable muppet posted on X, unaware that he had opened the door for generations of jaded adults to attack him mercilessly.
It was a little like asking a coworker “How are you doing?” waiting “Great, how are you?” in response, but instead receives a long list of problems normally reserved for waiters and psychiatrists. Poor, innocent Elmo was inundated with miserable X users filled with existential dread.
Consider the top response to Elmo’s question: “Every morning I can’t wait to go back to sleep. Every Monday I can’t wait for Friday to arrive. Every day and every week for life.” The response received over twelve thousand likes from like-minded X users.
Every morning I can’t wait to go back to sleep. Every Monday I can’t wait for Friday to arrive. Every day and every week for life.
– Contrarian (@ContrarianGuild) January 29, 2024
Of course, this was just the tip of the depressing bout of misery. “I don’t want to be Debbie Downer,” another X user wrote, “but considering she’s a puppet named Elmo and not a real person, she’s the only one who even ‘checks on me’ seems to say it all.”
“The wife left me. The daughters don’t respect me. My job is a joke. Any more questions, Elmo???”, another exasperated one. X user wrote.
Some corners of the Internet speculated how Elmo must feel about the depressing responses.
Other people on the Internet noted how depressing this must be for the normally jovial Elmo. “Elmo reading the answers and QTs,” one user wrote along with a clip of Elmo looking defeated. To heighten the sense of dread, the footage is set to the opening riffs of “Whatever” by Our Lady Peace.
In the end, sensible adults had to enter the picture. Yes, the harassment of poor Elmo by the Internet was so intense that Sesame Street itself had to intervene.
Some X users were baffled that Elmo was dragged so mercilessly for asking an innocent question. “We started this year. HE STARTED IT. “Because of the trauma that hit Elmo so hard, the official Sesame Street account had to tweet out mental health resources,” noted one X user. “We didn’t have all of us traumatized throwing Elmo on my bingo card,” another agreed.
However, not all adults forgot the lessons they learned about kindness and sharing from watching Sesame Street as children. Some X users finally decided to give Elmo some mercy after endless cynicism. “How are you, Elmo? “Enough about us,” he reflects. x user asked.
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Source: vcmp.edu.vn