Turns out, however, that Bee Movie’s memetic roots date back even further. In an absurdly thorough look into Bee Movie’s Tumblr-era resurgence, New York discovered that the film’s modern-day appeal began sincerely, with users genuinely inspired by the film’s opening salvo about how “bees don’t care what humans think is impossible.” Sincerity, however, is the quickest route to irony these days, so the whole thing quickly morphed through a number of monstrous forms.
Beginning in 2013, for example, a good way to own your enemies was to post the entire Bee Movie script onto their Facebook timeline. As the article puts it:
This trick — which could cause the unwitting victim’s phone to crash — quickly became a standard internet prank, thanks in a large part to the efforts of Pastebin user KIDOUYUUTO, who uploaded the entire script(which had been lifted from Script-o-Rama) to the site. It would go on to wreak havoc across a number of platforms over the next two years, reaching its zenith in 2015 — when the Facebook page “bees don’t exist” posted the entire Bee Movie script as a life event.
If you’re interested in how the internet can mold the innocuous into the insane, the whole breakdown is interesting. If you’d rather just watch Bee Movie without all the fuckery, drop Jerry Seinfeld a line. He wants to make a sequel, apparently.
