About

CNN's #FactsFirst Ad refers to a viral advertisement by CNN in which a narrator informs the viewer they are looking at an apple regardless of whether or not someone attempts to convince them it is a banana.

Origin

On October 23rd, 2017, the @CNN Twitter feed tweeted the video along with the message "'Some people might try to tell you that it's a banana.' #FactsFirst" (shown below). Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 48,800 likes and 24,400 retweets.

“This is an apple, Some people might try to tell you that it’s a banana. They might scream, ‘banana, banana, banana,’ over and over and over again. They might put BANANA in all caps. You might even start to believe that this is a banana. But it’s not. This is an apple.”

Spread

Shortly after the ad was published, Twitter user @LeonHWolf tweeted "Ooh! Ooh! Now do 'man' and 'woman'," garnering more than 9,800 likes and 3,300 retweets over the next day (shown below).

That day, several posts mocking the ad reached the front page of /r/The_Donald. Also on October 23rd, Twitter user @grozadarius posted a remix of the ad featuring a picture of a banana (shown below).

On October 24th, the @BuzzFeedNews Twitter feed tweeted a banana joke video created in a similar style to the #FactsFirst ad to @CNN (shown below).

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