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20 Times Twitter Grappled With The Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known

By Ally Dinning
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Published 4 years ago

Few people would put the words "memes" and "wisdom" into the same sentence, but sometimes the two go hand in hand. When the New York Times published an essay in 2013, the last thing they could have predicted was how its conclusion would morph into a meme five years later known as The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known. Recently, Twitter has kickstarted a renaissance of the classic phrase, giving its own platform-specialized twist. Get ready to ponder the rewards of being loved.

Meta

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Mesa Having An Existential Crisis

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The Big Blue Realization

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Nice Sweater Tho

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Is It Still A Loss?

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Positronic Brain Malfunction

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Please Emotions, Don't Turn Me Into Marketable Plushies

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Bowser Standoff

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That Divorced Guy Energy

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There's A Metaphor Here Somewhere

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Looks At The Camera Like I'm On The Office

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Trauma Is Magic

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Oh No

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Damn Fine Epiphany

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The Chosen One

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Lolcats Levelled Up

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Lala Gone Rogue

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You Are Lisa Simpson

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Duality of Slavoj

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Reap What You Sow

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