I Was Just Making a Joke, So How Did It Become an Urban Legend?

"You've got some real chubby little guts."

Lin Mo was just playing around with a recently viral meme, photoshopping a picture of a little yellow kangaroo.

He didn't expect to wake up and find the image had over a million likes, with the whole internet going wild making their own versions.

[A delivery rider can cover 800 kilometers in a day.]

[It can find any address in the world.]

[I hear that if you say "Chubby" three times at midnight, it'll show up at your door.]

The more ridiculous the rumors got, the harder Lin Mo laughed.

Until midnight.

A knock sounded outside.

A little yellow kangaroo, identical to the one in the picture, stood at his door with a takeout order, tilting its head and grinning at him.

At the same time, a System alert sounded.

[The viral meme has surpassed 1,000,000 views.]

[Collective belief has formed.]

[An urban legend is becoming reality...]

From that day on, Lin Mo realized things had spiraled completely out of control.

Netizens said Chinese people could fly, and the next day someone really did float onto the trending list.

Netizens said a certain drink would never expire, and it really did become eternal.

Memes, mondegreens, AI videos, surreal viral jokes, urban legends...

As long as enough people online believe in something,

what's fake can become real.

And the scariest part is, even now, netizens still think...

They're just playing around with memes.