About

Co-Star Notifications are parodies of push notifications sent to a Co-Star Astrology^[1] app user's phone that includes a short horoscope usually using cryptic emojis or bold/ intense messages. The app Co–Star Astrology allows the user to read their birth chart, compare it with friends and receive Astrology updates.

Origin

On April 17th, 2018, Twitter user @ktkittelson^[2] posted a screenshot of a Co-Star notification with the caption "i love co-star’s cryptic push notifications" (shown below). This was the first instance of someone publicly commenting on their unusual notifications.

Spread

On October 9th, 2018, Twitter user @shezdying^[3] tweeted "co-star rly notifications really are like 'fix ur life u dumb bitch.. the stars hate fags." and i'm rly like "Tea <3'" which became the first parody of a Co-Star notification (shown below, left). The tweet gained 99 likes in five months. On March 9th, Twitter user @matfock^[4] tweeted, "Co-Star last year: your day at a glance – 😘🌸🥰🎉 Co-Star now: your day at a glance – If you don’t get out of bed right now I am personally going to crawl out of the phone and beat the shit out of you, you lazy bitch" (shown below, right).

On March 16th, Twitter users began creating a notification imitation format on twitter like @misszupancic^[5] who posted the format that includes the text "𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 have you considered killing yourself?" (shown below, left). The tweet gained 52 likes in two days. Twitter user @DYamashige^[6] used a similar format using the text "𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 Fuck You" (shown below, right).

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