What do you do when your Hashtagging Game has been around for a whole year? Why, you throw an anniversary celebration party of course.

On the 19th of October 2016, A Frikkin Hashtag did just that and hordes of old ex-hosts joined the regular loyal UnNamed Ones Crew and threw the biggest anniversary game possible.

[The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from all around the world take part in what is called a Hashtag game. @AFrikkinHashtag [say it out loud] is South Africa’s #1 Hashtag game and is always a lot of fun. The F.L.O.P. [or Fish List Of Prizeworthyness] is the collection of some of the best tweets from each week’s game and is what all seriously comedic Hashtaggers aspire to…]

As per tradition, i sent out a few tweets just to, you know, get the ball rolling:

Starting with this ad in which i tried to squeeze in every co-host that has ever co-hosted AFH and boy, there’s been a lot of you.

Hashtag game co-hosts

Everyone enjoys a good anniversary celebration right? But what would be a strange or unusual thing to #MyAnniversaryCelebration? #NailedIt

Hashtag game

IT’S HERE EVERYONE!! One year of AFrikkin Hashtags so let the celebrations begin as we play #MyAnniversaryCelebration on @HashtagRoundup

Hashtag starter

And it wouldn’t have been an anniversary without a nemesis dig directed firmly at K Dawg:

We all know my nemesis @KeshaTedder is going to create an anniversary for her 10000th Jar Jar Suit appearance…

Hashtag Game nemesis

It was a SUPER STOKE to have so many of the former co-hosts making promos of their own or giving Shout Outs to the game:

HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS CO-HOSTED A GAME WITH ME, some of you more than once – i really have been fortunate with an amazing crew throughout the year and it’s testimony to the amazing game we are creating together that so many people have been so keen to climb on board and co-host. i REALLY APPRECIATE EACH ONE OF YOU SO MUCH.

As Jayme pointed out, this was a QUICK TRENDING game:

i imagine everyone knows by now who our FAVOURITE BOT is and he came to visit [which always signifies it is officially a game for us]

Our Australian UnNamed One Tal has been collecting bots and one of his menagerie [and a new favourite] also stopped by:

And then of course there were all of you – as i say pretty much every week there were SO MANY GREAT TWEETS and we could not capture them all, but some that really stood out for us were these ones and comprise this week’s F.L.O.P. and if you are one of the few [or maybe the many] who still don’t know what it stands for, her is this week’s:

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS [seriously, that’s what it stands for, look at the first letters, my name is Fish]

Typical of Grendel, trying to sneak an edgy almost-not-quite-family one in, but we let it slide:

Just to say that AFH has chosen to be a FAMILY FRIENDLY game and for the most part you guys have really respected that well – i feel like most other games don’t have the same kind of boundaries and so holding back on some of the dodgier tweets from one game is not going to kill you. So THANK YOU to everyone who gives us their best FAMILY FRIENDLY tweets or who has been gracious and patient with me when i’ve called them on others… you rock!

Feels like K Dawg has been hanging out with Taylor Swift a little too much:

Zenmeister Zen is just trying to get kicked out of the club with this offensive raiSIN-loving tweet…

And let me interrupt to give the HUGEST SHOUT OUT to Zen Rand who always makes an extra promo for my game, has been super excellent in promoting other games and mentoring first time hashtagging hosts and is just an absolute legend of love and light in the community. We really appreciate you Zen and so many people have been positively influenced in so many ways by you. Thank you sir. [Bows]

Christine was all about giving pees a chance:

Sometimes Zen just likes to see things as they are:

Judie seemed a little too excited for this party so we put her in charge of ice-breakers:

Rob too likes living dangerously:

My nemesis K Dawg pretending that she hates me, but we all know the truth:

Matt was on the hunt for the real thing:

John got a little creepy on us:

Matt got a little lyrical:

Jayme fired up the pun machine:

Noiseboxer had some pain we all feel:

Grendel made a lot of friends:

Although we would expect nothing less than this [or maybe a combo of the two?]:

Veldlot was humming the tune to “All by myself”

Brian was a week ahead of us:

Toni gazed into the mirror:

Shota got Nationally personal or historical or something:

Dave was the only one in 2016 still referencing “that game”:

While Geff holds to his traditions:

Tal seemed to be doing some wishful thinking:

Finch seemed to be pushing it:

Christine was waffling on about something:

 

Reesie just knew that hers would offend:

Jenni was stoked about her actual anniversary and us with her:

Keith got bat:

Richard’s celebration took a turn for the worst:

Gardener kept his clean, well barely:

Tom was a little more realistic:

Richard had the tunes all organised:

Monster T knew what he wanted:

OP resonated with a lot of people:

Joanne managed to work the word “poos” into the description of her party:

https://twitter.com/LadyBabyLovebug/status/788689202699464704

Crumbs had cat issues:

Shea snuck this one in and being the party game we let him have a quack at it:

Lady D has mommy issues:

Geek has been banned from manning the snack table:

Charley was lost in her celebration:

Dogma brought my favourite Larsen to the party:

Ian had a lesson for us all, which we will all continue to ignore:

Emporium had a special type of party in mind:

While Gardener… um… still on that clean thing…

And Spacs was making sure the choreography was all in sync:

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO PLAYED AND WELL DONE TO ALL WHO MADE THE F.L.O.P THIS TIME – Our Anniversary game was such a fun game and just an amazingly generous vibe and thanks to all of you who trended with us and especially those of you who shared some love for this game. Big SHOUT OUT again to The UnNamed Ones who work in the background every week to make sure each game is a winner. We really want you to have fun and be inspired and bring the LOLs…

But as always, there are a few special tweets which rise to the top and this week we have five of them, which really hit us hard in the best of ways and so let’s hear it for this week’s:

F.L.O.P FIVE

[5] Kasia had a real reason to celebrate:

[4] Glenn brought the really real:

[3] While my future [this week] co-host Shota Landia provided this absolute winner:

[2] Charley brought the best Misdirection tweet of the day:

[1] But it was UnNamed One Katt who had another incredible reason to party and we are definitely celebrating this one with her:

We play FAMILY HASHTAGGING GAMES every Wednesday now at 1pm South African time and 6am EST and we would love for you to join us as we seek out the FUN and the CLEVER and the MISDIRECTIONAL and the RANDOM [but related] as well as all the PUN-ishing ones you can bring. So keep showing up, keep having fun and we will as well. See you in year two.

THREE CHEERS TO AFRIKKIN HASHTAG – join us on the @Hashtag Roundup app which has just had a complete makeover so if you used to use it but stopped for any reason, check out the new one and get playing.

All the best
From your host Brett Fish and the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin, No_bob [who doesn’t bob!]

i will leave you with this picture of a kid dressed up as Popcorn:

popcorn kid