#LessAmbitiousMovies Aims To Sort Of Take Over Part Of Your Twitter Stream

Hey you know what’s happening right now? #LessAmbitiousMovies, the craziest Twitter hashtag meme I’ve ever seen, pacing at around 200 tweets per minute. The basic premise is to tweet out the titles of popular films but watered down and less ambitious, get it?

What’s notable about the meme is a) for some inexplicable reason it is not trending and b) that since it started a couple of hours ago the hashtag has suddenly saturated my (and probably your) entire Twitter stream with hilarious faux movie titles like “Being John Stamos,”Harry Potter and the Chamber of Nothing,” and “The Devil Wears Zara.”

Maybe because it’s the first work week after the holidays and we all need to let off a little steam, but there something deeply satisfying about coming up with these. Go ahead try one.

And yeah, someone really should make posters for all the movies.

Update: It’s now trending — I’ve contacted Twitter for more information on how rapidly this is scaling as this as this seems to be the fastest growing hashtag in awhile.

Update #2: Twitter’s response at 9:14 PST, “We don’t have this info easily accessible.” I don’t blame them. In the meantime, here’s the Google Trends graph of the frequency in realtime updates including the hashtag.

And here’s some of my favorites, below:

https://twitter.com/#!/granulac/status/22520192374411264

http://twitter.com/#!/gabrielsnyder/status/22509055503241216

http://twitter.com/#!/fromedome/status/22493359511707648

http://twitter.com/#!/peretti/status/22509954883649536

http://twitter.com/#!/bradnelson/statuses/22500680912609280

http://twitter.com/#!/rachelsklar/status/22491275823423488

http://twitter.com/#!/sacca/status/22507002223656960

http://twitter.com/#!/cpen/status/22500256579059712

http://twitter.com/#!/brooke/status/22502869248774144

http://twitter.com/#!/parislemon/status/22501128826527744

http://twitter.com/#!/LeenaRao/status/22499834715971584

http://twitter.com/#!/thatdrew/status/22498350678941697

http://twitter.com/#!/stop/status/22498260279099392

http://twitter.com/#!/fromedome/status/22495436023533569

http://twitter.com/#!/caro/status/22494991045632001

American Neurotic #lessambitiousfilms

— Lux Alptraum 🦋 luxalptraum.com (@LuxAlptraum) January 5, 2011

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