No doubt, 2020 has been a terrible year for everyone. People have faced a series of unfavorable events including COVID-19 outbreak, airplane crash, wildfires, earthquakes, flood and farmers protest. Moreover, people lost their dear and near ones, their jobs, and suffered from depression and anxiety. Thus Twitter urged people to roast this year.
On 22nd December, Twitter posted a tweet “Roast 2020. Go”. Let’s Check that tweet:
roast 2020. go.
— Twitter (@Twitter) December 22, 2020
The impact of this tweet was so huge that it went viral in a glimpse of time and number wise speaking, it bagged 15 thousand retweets with 132 thousand likes.
Thousands of people around the world participated and posted their content in innovative ways to roast this year. The content included stories about how their year had gone while some stories compared this year to their “worst ex.”
Kudos to Twitter! As they managed to make people engaged as always but also, let them enjoy and share hilarious responses and content. They made difficult times a little merry in this festive season when all are struggling to smile.
The tweet also got responses from several famous brands. Twitter has used some of those responses for its billboard campaign around New York City.
Wanna check out some interesting and hilarious responses??? Dive In
2020 is the person who won’t stop talking to me after I put my headphones in
— Trey Kennedy (@TreyNKennedy) December 22, 2020
2020 was like opening the fridge every five minutes to see if something new was in there. except there was always something new and it was bad
— nesrin danan (@blackprints) December 22, 2020
— Twitter (@Twitter) December 22, 2020
We should’ve muted 2020 in March
— Rising Sun (@ziloow_) December 22, 2020
2020 is that eye lash that goes in your eye and won’t come out.
— Camila (@callme_kamikaze) December 22, 2020
2020 is the friend that says they’re on their way but hasn’t actually left
— Brandon Woelfel (@Brandonwoelfel) December 22, 2020
2020 can find another Galaxy to inhabit.
— Samsung Mobile (@SamsungMobile) December 23, 2020
if 2020 were in my backlog, I’d uninstall it first
— Xbox Game Pass (@XboxGamePass) December 22, 2020
One star ride.
— Uber (@Uber) December 22, 2020
tbh it was kinda pic.twitter.com/RmASUiZRDm
— netflixde (@NetflixDE) December 22, 2020
This is not the first time when twitter asked its users to do something like this. Before this Twitter had asked its users to describe 2020 in one word and this tweet also made a mark, it was joined by brands like YouTube, Subway, Xiaomi and Netflix.
2020 in one word
— Twitter (@Twitter) December 3, 2020
Reboot
— Xiaomi (@Xiaomi) December 4, 2020
Edit
— Grammarly (@Grammarly) December 3, 2020
long
— Subway® (@SUBWAY) December 3, 2020
Unsubscribe
— YouTube (@YouTube) December 3, 2020
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
— Netflix (@netflix) December 3, 2020
404
— Microsoft Edge (@MicrosoftEdge) December 3, 2020
Crashed
— opera (@opera) December 4, 2020
DELETE
— Windows (@Windows) December 3, 2020
Ctrl + Z
— Adobe (@Adobe) December 3, 2020
Hope Twitter keeps on pushing our creativity and let’s us stay entertained and hope this New Year, 2021 brings joy to the world.