"Once COVID Is Over" Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like
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About
"Once COVID Is Over" Is Starting to Sound a Lot Like is a phrase that became popular on Twitter in early 2021 as a way to humorously imply that the COVID-19 pandemic will not end any time soon, comparing the phrase "once COVID is over" to something else that is unlikely to happen soon.
Origin
On January 21st, 2021, @JASSS2232 tweeted,[1] "'Once COVID is over' is starting to sound a lot like 'When I win the lottery.'" (shown below). The tweet gathered only 56 likes and 16 retweets in 5 days.
Spread
On January 22nd, 2021, @smirhnn tweeted,[2] '“Once COVID is over” starting to sound a lot like “when Rihanna releases a new album”' garnering over 233,000 likes and 51,600 retweets in 4 days (shown below).
On January 23rd, @_justwinnie tweeted,[3] '“once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “once im not depressed anymore,”' garnering over 597,000 likes and 86,000 retweets in 3 days (shown below, left). On the same day, @FlNEANGEL tweeted,[4] '“once COVID is over” is starting to sound like “when i meet harry styles”' garnering over 28,600 likes and 4,000 retweets in a comparable span of time (shown below, right).
On January 24th, @venusized made another tweet[5] following the trend, garnering over 100,000 likes and 21,000 retweets in 2 days (shown below). On January 26th, The Washington Post[6] published an article on the trend.
Various Examples
Search Interest
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External References
[1] Twitter – Once COVID is over
[2] Twitter – 'Once COVID is over” starting to sound a lot like “when Rihanna releases a new album'
[3] Twitter – once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “once im not depressed anymore
[4] Twitter – once covid is over” is starting to sound like “when i meet harry styles
[5] Twitter – once COVID is over” is starting to sound a lot like “once i get my license
[6] The Washington Post – ‘When covid is over’ sounds like ‘when I meet Harry Styles’: The new pandemic meme, explained
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