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Storm Area 51 Music Festival
Developments in this year’s most controversial meme
Do you believe in aliens? Do you want to see them for yourself?
This September may be your chance.
In case you hadn’t heard, earlier this year a Facebook Group was created to organise a raid of Area 51 in Nevada.
The creator of the Facebook group later said that he created the group as a joke, and that its wild-fire popularity had been unintended.
The group exploded and became intensely memed and reported on around the world.
The group declared that “they can’t stop all of us”, and that if we gathered in large enough numbers and “Naruto ran” through the perimeter, the guards would be powerless to kill us all.
Once we theoretically made it to the facility, we’d finally be able to meet the aliens being housed inside and confirm the conspiracy theories once and for all.
Backlash
It goes without saying that the FBI and the Airforce have been vocal in condemning this event. A lot of public officials have taken the event very seriously and…
