Sleepovers Now

About

Sleepovers Now refers to a snowclone popular on Twitter in which a person compares the lighthearted gaiety of sleepovers from their youth to the more morbid topics broached during sleepovers had in older age.

Origin

On January 10th, 2018, Twitter user @lusxt^[1] posted a viral tweet which read: "sleepovers when ur small: omg stop laughing and go to sleep u guys!! sleepovers now: i don't think i'm capable of love." The tweet gained over 95,000 retweets and 341,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Over the course of the following few weeks, the tweet became a template in which other users posted variations with other grim topics broached at older-age sleepovers. Early examples include tweets by @shrimpnosebeats^[2] and @Dylan4Prez_^[3] (shown below).

Other popular tweets include a tweet by @graysons__abs^[4] which gained over 70 retweets and 390 likes (shown below, left). Another by @void_daddy_^[5] gained 18 retweets and 116 likes (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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