Train Passengers on Smartphones During Apocalypse

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Passengers on Smartphones During Apocalypse, also known as People Ignoring Fire Laughing At Their Phone, refers to an AI-generated video of train passengers looking at their phones and smiling while ignoring massive fires breaking out outside the window as the train continues moving. Posted in late July 2024, the video achieved virality as a meme format in the following days as it was paired with captions about people ignoring negative developments.

Origin

On July 30th, 2024, X^[1] user @Web3Career posted an AI-generated video of passengers on a train looking at their smartphones and smiling while massive fires break out outside the train window, engulfing cities and nature. The video, captioned with a joke about European developers, gained over 665,000 views, 840 reposts and 9,000 likes in one week (shown below).

Spread

In the following week, the video was spread on X / Twitter, where it was used as a caption meme format. On August 1st, 2024, X^[2] user @BGatesIsaPyscho posted the video with the caption "What Leftist Liberal Labour voters look like in real life." The post (shown below) received over 540 reposts and 1,600 likes in five days.

On August 2nd, 2024, X^[3] user @jesse_marioneau posted the video with the caption "Average person right now", with the post garnering over 11,000 reposts and 31,000 likes in four days (shown below).

More notable caption memes based on the video were posted on X / Twitter in early August 2024.

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