Millenials, who are responsible for the over-use of the metaphorical term Viral in social media, are now being exposed to the original meaning of the term Viral.
The Coronavirus is actually going viral.
Perhaps after they see the negative aspects of going viral, they might change their use of the term currently used in a positive sense in their social media experience.
Going viral for Millenials is a great acheivement, a thing to be sought after, a sign of greater status and popularity.
But now the term is being reclaimed for its original literal use. And it's not so positive.
Going viral will soon take on a whole new understanding.
People infecting eachother with this virus in communities will spread exponentially with death as the unimpeded result.
A video on Youtube goes viral, but no one dies. Theses videos are not infective or deadly, but they spread and spread rapidly, as people share the videos with people who share them and so on.
Perhaps from this terrible global crisis, the term going viral will be second-guessed before being used to express an excitement of popularity in social media.
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