A Frikkin Hashtag: #IfIWasYou

Meghan Trainor sang, “If I was you, I’d wanna be me too” which got stuck in my head for a few weeks and inspired me to ask what you would do if you were me, or she, or them…

[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…]

Every good game need a good co-host and this week it was Sambo aka @abtsag who was in the mix:

i generally like to invite people who have been playing AFH for a while to co-host with me and when someone’s tweets are constantly in the mix and on the F.L.O.P. Top Tweets list, then it’s usually not long before they get a call from me…

We sent out the invite:

And then a couple of example tweets:

#IfIWasYou i would diversify the voices that i invite to speak to me in terms of books, podcasts, movies, blogs and really listen well.

Join @BrettFishA and this week’s co-host @abtsag for a @Meghan_Trainor earworm-song-inspired game on @HashtagRoundup game of #IfIWasYou

[With special mention to Patty aka @VAFunnyLady who designed the above Profile Pic for AFH which we are super grateful for]

A little misdirection is always something we appreciate:

#IfIWasYou i would stick to the claws. Oh wait, that’s Hugh. Never mind.

#IfIWasYou i would avoid the following things. A lot.

Sambo got into the vibe quickly with these two Misdirectionals:

The game quickly trended and a number of our favourite bots came to visit:

Even giving us the right song for the game…

And then of course there was you…

As always, too many brilliant tweets during the game to grab them all, but some of the ones we saw and loved and thought were worth sharing were the following:

FISH LIST OF PRIZEWORTHYNESS [F.L.O.P.]

Jimish was first with some Teacher’s Pet points for this greatness:

While Jayme was representing the Grandma Police, which while correct from a grammar perspective, was not the song we were parodying:

We had some support though:

And then there was John saying, “Let’s get going with the game people!”

While Rob decided to just tongue in cheek it:

Richard had us a little nervous:

While Toya got philosophical or metaphorical or something:

Tom seemed a little concerned:

While Helen had noticed something in the background:

A-Geek’s felt a little Forced:

Andrew played with the tag:

Katt seemed to be suggesting something:

Toya Binged us:

Goolo grossed us out just a little bit #CanNotUnseeThat:

Richard looked at the practical implications:

John was joking about this. You were joking, right John? Uh, John?

Chef got literally literal:

Dave made it personal:

Barry was all about the whimsy:

Mallow got a little creeeepy:

Mark gave us a final warning:

Alika was all about the reverse psychology:

While Lisa’s cat was trying to tell her something:

Helen tried to keep it tactful…..ish:

While Thrifty was into some weird dog jenga biscuit stuff:

Wal gave us a freebie warning:

While J was pointing to a higher power:

Finch kept his eye on the ball [if not the glass]:

i do not even have words for this next one:

William brought the Coolest Dad EVER status:

While Martin was pretty sure he was legit:

Hag was waiting in anticipation:

While Erin was every woman!!!

While Patty illustrated how important our poetic licence was:

Dogma was in the… well, dogma box?

Which brings us to this week’s F.L.O.P. FOUR – tweets that rose just a little bit higher than the rest:

[4] Starting off with this absolutely beautifully sarcastic one from the Pattster:

[3] This brilliant perspective reminder from K:

[2] This TOOLATE warning from The Mit Mot sisters

[1] While Maria was tops this week with this reminder of one of my favourite Ace Ventura lines ever:

Thank you so much to everyone who played. Appreciate you all keeping it FAMILY and focusing on the FUN, on the CLEVER, the MISDIRECTIONAL, the RANDOM [but related] and of course all things PUNny.

Shout out to The UnNamed Ones who are the live ghosts of co-hosts past and to Sambo for helping make this yet another memorable game. To those involved in the @HashtagRoundup app which is the FREE app you can download to be alerted to all future games that are on the go.

And to all of us, for doing our bit to keep the WIT in the Twitterer.

No thanks to Meghan Trainor who didn’t come and play the game, but big thanks for a super stunning ear worm song that has made me so happy and i do hope she accidentally stumbles into this tag sometime and see all the love she got

See you next week – stay kind and non stalkery…

love brett Fish anderson and No_bob [the world’s most famous stuffed dolphin!]