Where were you when the meme world ended? On Thursday, October 28, megapopular Twitter meme account @findurmeme — at the time with more than 400,000 followers — was suspended, sending stans and groupies into a panic. Throughout its tenure, the Twitter page became the holy grail for reaction memes, hard-to-find videos, and viral clips from very specific pop-culture moments. (Wendy Williams saying, “She is the moment,†or Trisha Paytas eating butter noodles for eight seconds until saying “so good.â€) Their sudden absence is big! It is (cc: my Vulture colleagues) HOLD YOUR HORSES major.
In a DM to Vulture, the owner of the account — who also posted from their burner @findurvideo on the same day, reassuring the world they were “working on getting†the OG account back up — said the reason for the ban was “platform manipulation or spam.†They also wrote that it seems like Twitter is taking similar action with larger accounts for the same reason, referencing a “grip of [suspended] K-pop accounts.†The @findurmeme owner has submitted an appeal and is currently “devastated†over the suspension, as are their devoted followers. In a statement to Vulture, a Twitter spokesperson said that the account referenced “was permanently suspended due to violation of the Twitter Rules against spam and platform manipulation.â€
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
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