You know those moments where you read something online and suddenly your entire worldview shifts?
I’m not talking, like, a kitchen hack where you find out the hole in your pasta scoop measures a single serving of spaghetti.
I mean the stuff that keeps you up at night.
This tweet is one of those moments.
Every group chat births a second smaller group chat without the annoying people, and if you think yours doesn't, I have some bad news
— Kyle ? (@KylePlantEmoji) March 23, 2019
Oh.
Oh no.
Do you have a long-running group chat full of good friends and quality banter?
Of course you do. Group chats are the only real social media thing anybody actually uses. Whether it’s on Insta, Facebook, WhatsApp or whatever,
But did one of you start a second one with a smaller group, possibly because the first one had someone’s terrible ex in it, or because one guy won’t stop sharing links to his own podcast, or because Georgia takes all the roasting too seriously?
No?
I’m sorry. You’re Georgia. Or possibly the podcast guy.
I have plenty of sub-groupchats with my big, sprawling, four-year-old thread of good mates – they’re usually around certain events, like a festival or footy game several of us are going to, or a girls-only one, for example.
But if there’s a main sub-chat, I’m not in it.
The scariest movie of the year may be Jordan Peele’s Us, where Lupita Nyong’o and her family are confronted with a group of people who look exactly like them.
But the scariest thought of 2019 is the realisation that your group chat might have a doppelganger that’s almost identical – except you’re not in it.
[The disciples]
Judas: chats been real quiet lately
[The disciples 2]
Jesus: omg he won't shut up
— Kyle ? (@KylePlantEmoji) March 24, 2019