The Archive of Our Own lyric trend brings a Tumblr meme to Twitter

By Morgan Sung2021-06-04 20:21:06 UTC A viral tweet is bringing the fanfiction community together under the lyrical genius of Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years,” and it’s bringing a long-running Tumblr meme format to Twitter.  The song was written for the 2011 masterpiece The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 but, thanks to the enduring enthusiasm of the Twilight fandom, it resides in the hallowed halls of evergreen meme material.  Emma Logsdon, a Twitter user and fanfiction enthusiast, brought “A Thousand Years” back into the spotlight with a viral lyric video that used titles on the fanfiction platform Archive of Our Own for each lyric. The video, which they posted Thursday night, has more than 460,000 views and inspired other Twitter users to start using the meme format as well.  Fanfiction writers are notorious for either not being able to think of titles or hating the titles that they do come up with, Logdson noted in a Twitter DM, so many resort to using tangentially related song lyrics.  Although Logdson is one of the first people to use Archive of Our Own titles for lyric videos on Twitter, this format has existed on Tumblr since at least 2019. Logsdon was…
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