#AwfullyBritishAmazonReviews
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#AwfullyBritishAmazonReviews, also known as Awfully British Amazon Reviews, is a hashtag used to catalog jokes about reviewing products from the online retailer Amazon with regards to British slang and stereotypes.
Origin
On October 13th, 2019, Twitter [1] user @awfullybritish2 launched the hashtag game #AwfullyBritishAmazonReviews. They wrote, "We Brits love a moan, so this will be right up your streets. Lets play #AwfullyBritishAmazonReviews" (shown below).
Spread
Following the post, people joined the game by adding various "awfully British" reviews. For example, Twitter[2] user @AlanSla90124663 tweeted, "Congratulations to Thomas Cook Airlines on achieving their ambition of zero carbon emissions by 2020." The post recieved more than 1,200 likes and 200 retweets in two days (shown below, left).
Twitter[3] user @MichaelTCoffee tweeted a photograph of the Piers Morgan biography with the caption "#AwfullyBritishAmazonReviews 1p overpriced and vomit inducing." The tweet received more than 990 likes and 150 retweets (shown below, center).
Throughout the day, others joined the game (example below, right).
On October 14th, The Daily Dot [4] covered the hashtag.
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External References
[1] Twitter – @awfullybritish2's Tweet
[2] Twitter – @AlanSla90124663's Tweet
[3] Twitter – @MichaelTCoffee's Tweet
[4] The Daily Dot – Brits are sharing their ‘awfully British Amazon reviews’ on Twitter
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