The creator of a tongue-in-cheek Facebook event to storm Yangon’s notorious Insein prison has urged people not to take it seriously after nearly 1,000 accounts signed up.
Probably all those people will understand the plan is a joke inspired by a worldwide (and also joke, people) call to “storm Area 51,” the restricted United States military base in the Nevada desert that is said to harbour alien secrets.
But there is always one. And someone who genuinely embraces the meme within a meme outside a prison will naruto run into big trouble (leaning forward with arms outstretched behind, naruto running is the chosen approach to Area 51).
(Naruto run / Viz Media)
“I hope none of them will take it seriously,” said the account holder behind the event, who goes by the page name Agt GvngBvng memes.
After the Area 51 meme, “we decided to make an event,” added the account holder, who was surprised to see that so far 830 are ‘going’ and 1,800 are interested.
“We didn’t expect it was going to be like this.”
Inmate accounts describe a hellish place behind the walls of the prison, which over the decades has become synonymous with inhumane conditions and torture methods—often dished out to the thousands of political prisoners who have been locked up there.
The faux-storming of the jail is set for September 20, in alignment with the extraterrestrial-unleashing gathering in Nevada.
“Be Prepared,” the title of Scar’s villainous song from movie "The Lion King," are the simple instructions for Insein prison, and the event’s discussion board is thankfully (or perhaps eerily) quiet.
The invitation to storm Area 51 has launched other pretend movements, such as a call in the UK to leave work for the beer garden—“they can’t sack us all”—and an event to “find dat big boi”—the Loch Ness monster.
