Alien hunt on FB and why Agent J has passed on the baton to ‘Thor’
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If Agent J is listening in, then the feed on his micro-receiver would sound something like this: Mayday, Mayday. Aliens under attack! Repeat. Aliens under attack!
Over the last couple of days, a Facebook event, seeking a collective enterprise to unearth aliens out of notorious and fabled Area 51 site in the US by storming its gates, has gone viral prompting in its wake a slew of memes and online discussion threads across the globe.
The event bannered ‘they can’t stop all of us’ has been signed up by more than half a million people who will, if the event rolls out as pledged on the social media site, barge the gates of the guarded Area 51 Site in the desert of Nevada in a classic enactment of real-life raid redemption. The date on the Facebook event page hosted by Shitposting cause im in shambles and SmyleeKun is September 20.
Area 51 has found, in obsessive references and through countless reenactments in Hollywood movies, a cult status owed primarily to the secrecy surrounding the site. The US military site (It’s an air force base) has been long believed to be a secret holdout for tapping into aliens and their technology a la Men In Black, the ’97runway hit, which presented a parallel universe on earth co-inhabited by aliens with Tommy Lee Jones (Agent K) and Will Smith (Agent J) playing their distraught guardians. The IMDb lists the movies and games that have Area 51 embedded as a part of their storyline. Some of them like the Independence Day and its sequel, Taken, Source Code and Zero Dark Thirty, have been commercial successes or critically acclaimed, or both.
The massive interest in the Facebook UFO hunt that is a borderline prank has got the believers in alien apocalypse, social media geeks, The X-Files enthusiasts, trolls and troll hunters equally interested, many of whom have pledged their support to the petition and be at the gates of the facility on the appointed day.
The unusually high interest in the event spawned scores of memes and trends (Area 51, Area 51 plan) fuelling the discussion on the event and in consequence breaking the Internet. So, booking a date with aliens would require to trespass on human property first, and not before a human versus human conflict is set into motion.
Agent J must be like, “what the hell. Not my shit anymore. Agent H this one’s yours. Over and out!”
Aliens must be wondering: What the Earth!
