A Frikkin Hashtag: #ImNotCryingIm or #IAmNotCryingIAm

What excuse do you use to cover up the fact that someone caught you having a little face water? We decided to find out…

[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…]

This was our biggest mass confusion game to date, and we had @JennVoix on co-hosting duties and what a game to start your journey with AFH on… but she did amazingly:

One of the first games i ever ran as AFH had the tag #YouHadMeat but i think we forgot to capitalise the A and so what was meant to be “You Had Me At…” for a lot of people quickly became “You Had Meat” and as weird as that may seem as a tag, enough of you managed to come up with great suggestions for it [Go Twitterer!]

But this week we decided to top that and i’m not quite sure where the misunderstanding came in – somewhere between having the tag approved by The Hashtag Roundup App crew and sharing it with The UnNamed Ones and most likely completely my fault… #AlwaysCutAndPaste #ButBeforeYouMakeTheMistakeKids

So basically it ended up with the game starting with half of the people tweeting #ImNotCryingIm while the app was displaying #IAmNotCryingIAm and i think the actual tag was meant to be #ImNotCryingIAm which is probably the worst of the three #Consistency…

If you’ve never hosted or co-hosted a game then you’ll maybe not be aware that the first few minutes of game time are always the most frenetic. Once a game trends – and ours pretty much always do [thanks to an amazing crew and a lot of people who seem to really love the game – Thank you all!] then it often can be left to play itself… but the first five to fifteen minutes is crucial.

So discovering in minute one that there are two tags and not knowing which one to pick [and for a good few minutes considering the hilarious implications of being able to make both trend at the same time – we didn’t!] and changing your mind [and messages] three to four times meant that things got a little crazy… thankfully i am one of the most chilled people you will find in life [in the right circumstances which don’t involve traffic, field hockey games and losing a board game badly] and we have a stellar gang of amazing UnNamed Ones from all over the world and so we just divided in half and tweeted to both until one started trending and then stuck with that one.

Which is why you may find tweets with different tags in today’s F.L.O.P. list as we grabbed from both lists.

It was a lot of crazy high-intensity fun and i recommend never letting it happen to me again #YouKnowMyHeartAndAll

As per usual i like to send out some clues in the pre-game ad as to what the game might be about:

We got the ball rolling:

Join @JennVoix and @BrettFishA as well as a bunch of The UnNamed Ones as we try our hand at some misdirection with #IAmNotCryingIm

#IAmNotCryingIm merely expressing my pent up frustration at the non arrival of my new onion-cutting protection face mask

#IAmNotCryingIm simply massaging my eyes lightly after another great  @JamesBlunt comeback…

And Jenn was right in there, sifting through the controversy:

https://twitter.com/JennVoix/status/821677585360887810

One wonders what might have happened Trendwise if we’d got it completely right the first time cos both tags took off so quickly it was ridiculous…

We had visits from at least three of our top bots:

And our Tune Bot gave us a great and appropriate tune for this game:

And the game really went quite crazy and seemed to be one that people really enjoyed and got into and so without much further ado about nothing, here is the list of Top Tweets that is more affectionately known as:

The FISH List of Prizeworthyness [F.L.O.P.]

Generic Rob was feeling a little pessimistic about this one:

Reesie was in on the crazy from the beginning:

While Jayme really brought us the feels:

Hee Hee and she said “boobs”:

Teresa scored some easy IT Crowd points:

https://twitter.com/doctorwho_dat/status/821708936491503616

John has a very different way to express himself:

While Tom was scoring for Misdirection:

Rob was simply doing his bit for the water restrictions:

While Tal was just a victim of nature:

Dave blamed his own personal nature:

While Richard was just going through a phase:

Reesie reminded us of the first, no the second rule of Tweet club:

Who provided us with an alternative description of the facts:

https://twitter.com/WhoBrannigan/status/821680521130508288

Sonu was in two minds, and faces:

Geoffrey was just being moved:

It was AJ’s line anyway:

Apurva was just doing gym vibes, you know:

Rob was working out gender stereotypes:

While John wasn’t afraid to be really real:

Rob continued to try to put a political spin on it:

While Tiffylady was letting the waterface flow:

No Patrick confirmed it was an allergy:

Crip was keeping it clean:

While John didn’t seem to have much choice:

Neither did Tommy:

While Marilyn was just showing off her party trick:

Lisa was taking shots:

While Silent K… yup, we get you K…

Warren was suffering with a case of mistaken identity:

While Wannabe seemed in need of a check up:

Melody went a little science theory on hers:

Agent 47 should have some other things on his mind:

Christian was struggling with co-dependency:

Computer was having some painful flashbacks:

Meme had a tall task:

While Tom phoned his in:

So many great tweets and of course there were many more we didn’t get to, but thanks to everyone for weathering the storm of Exact and Less Exact Hashtag Tags and for still managing to make the game last as long as it did…

There were however a number of tweets which rose to the top of the pile in the game and all of those made it on to this week’s:

F.L.O.P. EIGHT

[8] NMEV scores Higher Grade Points [is that even a thing?] for this Dictionary Page Turner

[7] Linkbud had us with this classic we-know-where-it’s-going-but-still:

[6] Richard got all foreign on us:

[5] Warren scores Cleverness points:

[4] TresOui was being all secret agenty:

[3] Ah, Jayme had us with this one:

And while we acknowledge and celebrate A Frikkin Hashtag as a FAMILY game and really appreciate all of you who do make the effort every week, i felt like this week’s F.L.O.P. 2 skirted so close to the edge but completely deserved a mention for being so brilliant:

[2] Tom, Tom, Tom… no words…

[1] But this week’s Top F.L.O.P. is one which just had to be included on absolute brilliance of word play. Well done Diealated:

Well done everyone and thanks for playing! We will be back every Wednesday at 1pm South African time and 6am EST

Keep the WIT in the Twitterer.

love brett fish and No_bob [the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin]