• PrivateNoob
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    1 year ago

    Actually, how did the 2012 thing became such a viral trend? Literally even news sites aired it SEVERAL times here, and I already thought that’s it was a dumb conteo story. (I was 11 then)

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      As someone who was in his late teens then, I don’t think many people really seriously believed that the world was going to end in 2012. It was more of a running joke. I remember that a few days before the 21st of December, someone posted on a forum for students of the university I was then attending that exam results were going to be posted on the 21st; someone else responded “oh, so for some who took this course the world will actually end on that day”.