Tortilla Supermoon

Submission 16,387

About

Tortilla Supermoon was a popular trend on Twitter on November 14th, 2016. On that night, the moon was as close to the Earth as it had been since 1948, making it appear particularly large, earning it the nickname "supermoon." As photos of the supermoon spread, some Twitter users took pictures of tortillas stuck to windows and tried to pass them off as their own supermoon photos.

Origin

The picture most commonly associated with the "Tortilla Supermoon" was first posted on February 10th, 2016, by Twitter user @savannimalz^[1] with the caption "The moon looks beautiful tonight." The tweet, shown below, has over 17,000 retweets and 24,000 favorites as of November 15th, 2016.

Spread

On the evening of the supermoon, @savannimalz picture spread without credit as users joked how the tortilla in the picture looked like it could be the supermoon. It also inspired dozens of similar posts where users stuck tortillas to their windows and called it the supermoon. Huffington Post^[2] picked up on the trend the following morning. It was also a Twitter Moment.^[3]