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The internetap memes and reactions to Area 51 raiders

Fake Facebook event draws 1 million RSVPs as Air Force discourages hopeful attendees

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One million people clicked “Going” in response to called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us,” set up to organize a Sept. 20 raid on a US Air Force in Amargosa Valley, Nevada that’s a decades-old focal point of alien conspiracy theories. Attendees are vowing to go “see them aliens,” but a spokesperson for the Air Force told the Washington Post it is aware of the faux mass invasion of its base and “discouraged anyone from trying to come into the area where we train American armed forces.”

According to , anonymous administrators of the public meme page “” teamed up with a Twitch video game streamer named SmyleeKun early in the week of July 1, to organize the event. Fake events on Facebook have taken off as a prankish form of internet humor in the last five years, including Limp Bizkit concerts in Detroit and . But the Area 51 raid’s stats may prove it as the internet’s funniest joke format since .

https://twitter.com/ThatOneweeb0000/status/1149659837225033729

https://twitter.com/spookylemons/status/1150140982605832192

https://twitter.com/FATSOKREAM/status/1149825329596260352

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https://twitter.com/ImBarbaraPool/status/1149698451694919680


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