Fake Avatar Lines

About

Fake Avatar Lines refers to a social game on Twitter in which people post incorrect quotes from James Cameron's film Avatar after it was announced that the film's sequels would be the most expensive of all time. At the challenge posed by a Twitter user to quote a line from the film, people posted incorrect quotes from the film.

Origin

On September 29th, 2017, Variety^[1] reported that Fox executive chairman Lachlan Murdoch stated that sequels to James Cameron's Avatar would be "the most expensive films of all time." On October 1st, Twitter user @xtop^[2] quoted Variety's tweet about the news and stated "I dare anyone following me to, without cheating, quote a line from AVATAR, the top grossing movie of all time that no one cares about." The tweet gained over 2,000 retweets and 5,700 likes, as well as 1,800 replies.

Spread

People responded to @xtop's tweet with incorrect lines from the film made in parody of Avatar. A large amount of the jokes centered on taking famous quotes from other films and shoehorning Avatar into them. For example, Twitter user @cushbomb inserted Avatar into a famous line from Snakes on a Plane (shown below, left). User @MrAlAnderson quoted lyrics from Eiffel 65's "Blue," in reference to Avatar's blue Navi (shown below, right). @xtop's tweet has been quote-tweeted hundreds of times with different lines^[3] and the jokes were covered by The Daily Dot.^[4]

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