We know what you’re thinking — and we’ve seen your Twitter jokes — but no, this is not a dark drama about how technology infects our lives. This is actually happening.
Currently, people around the globe are chewing their nails down to the bone as the U.S. presidential race draws closer to its inevitable conclusion and many of them want to compare it to their favorite Netflix techno-dystopian binge watching experience.
Naturally, the entire situation reads to many on Twitter as a plot point ripped straight from the Black Mirror writers room.
Again and again, watching the results of the election, social media users kept looking for the pig or Jon Hamm hiding behind the results.
Anyone else watching this new episode of Black Mirror on BBC News?
— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) November 9, 2016
WHY IS AMERICA TRYING TO BE THE MOST TERRIFYING EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR RIGHT NOW?? CAN I CHANGE THE CHANNEL? I DONT WANT TO WATCH THIS SHOW
— Rob Fee (@robfee) November 9, 2016
This is like a horrific Black Mirror episode. I cannot believe this.
— Gideon Glick (@gidglick) November 9, 2016
Wow, tonight’s Black Mirror is fucking terrifying!
— Peter Serafinowicz (@serafinowicz) November 9, 2016
This Black Mirror episode is really dragging, huh?
— Sammy Paul (@ICOEPR) November 9, 2016
scariest episode of black mirror so far
— natalie tran (@natalietran) November 9, 2016
Even the official account for Netflix’s dystopian tech series is in on the joke.
This isn’t an episode. This isn’t marketing. This is reality.
— Black Mirror (@blackmirror) November 9, 2016
Of course, to many the joke feels like a tired one. After all, this is actual — and totally terrifying — real life we’re talking about.
Are we just supposed to say “Black Mirror” or do we have to try to make a joke about it?
— Ken Woodworth (@kenwoodworth) November 9, 2016
PLEASE STOP COMPARING THIS TO BLACK MIRROR THIS IS REAL AND SUBSTANTIALLY MORE STRESSFUL.
— Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) November 9, 2016
BONUS: Obama to Kimmel: I laugh at Trump ‘most of the time’
from Mashable! http://mashable.com/2016/11/08/election-black-mirror-twitter-joke/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial
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