Solitude Experiment

About

Solitude Experiment refers to a copypasta inspired by a tweet in which a user posted a video of a house on an island and said, "Solitude experiment. $10,000 to stay here for a month. No neighbors, internet, electricity and cell phone. Enough food and supplies for 30 days. Can bring books and pet. You accept?" The tweet seemed like a tremendous deal to many on the site, and they parodied the tweet by using its text and adding pictures of humorous locations.

Origin

On October 11th, 2019, Twitter user @TrevDon^[1] posted a video of a house on an island with the text, "Solitude experiment. $10,000 to stay here for a month. No neighbors, internet, electricity and cell phone. Enough food and supplies for 30 days. Can bring books and pet. You accept?" The tweet gained over 1,600 retweets and 14,000 likes (shown below).

Spread

Many were quick to say the "experiment" was a great hypothetical deal. Replies to the tweet featured many enthusiastic replies, including tweets from @MikeGAnthony, who tweeted Shut up and take my money (shown below, left). User @Glifsey tweeted a GIF of Shia LaBeouf indicating they'd take the deal (shown below, right).

Others turned the tweet into a copypasta. User @Tenacious_Diaz tweeted the copypasta with a video game map, gaining over 570 retweets and 2,400 likes (shown below, left). User @franzferdinand2 used the copypasta to make a joke using the 1967 film The Prisoner, gaining over 30 retweets and 100 likes (shown below, right).

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