As you’ve probably gathered by now, the world did NOT end last Saturday at 6PM as 89-year old Bible scholar Harold Camping predicted it would. Unlike Y2K, where multiple new stations covered the moments leading up to the supposed crash of society, we sat back waiting, laughing at this prediction. In fact, 67% of the tweets about Saturday’s “rapture” fall into the “jokes/humor/sarcasm” category. Regardless of your beliefs, it’s interesting to see the majority social reaction to this moment in news; take a look at this infographic, fromCrimson Hexagon, on twitter activity regarding the “end of the world”:
People on twitter weren’t the only ones poking fun at the event. Buzzfeed put out a photo blogcalled “32 Pictures You Need to See Before You Die” that attracted 82,003 Facebook likes. (Pictures included serious images such as a baby penguin meeting a baby dolphin and a dog at a bar.”) Also, Aol started a live blog (on their “Weird News” channel) called “Rapture 2011: Apocalypse Now,” which aggregated news from across the internet — almost entirely humor based.
If you missed out on tweeting with the 3rd most popular trending topic hashtag #iftheworldendsonsaturday, you can start planning your social comments for your #judgementday party on the next predicted date of Oct. 21, 2011.
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