Bruce Wayne Gets Dead Parents, Peter Parker Gets Dead Parents, Harry Potter Gets Dead Parents / YOU ALL GET DEAD PARENTS!!
A Oprah You get a post.
The office manager brings in a box of leftover conference lanyards and announces it like a lottery win. By lunch, everyone has three, nobody has a use for them, and the drawer in your desk is now a museum. Someone in the group chat finds a 10% off code and forwards it to everyone they have ever met. It works on one brand of socks. It expired on Tuesday. The enthusiasm remains. A relative discovers a pyramid of free samples at the shopping centre. You leave with four sachets of moisturiser, a tiny spoon of yoghurt and a pen. You were only there to return a charger. Every January, someone shouts "new year, new me" with the energy of a person handing out prizes. By the second week, the gym bag has become a very expensive chair. **Why it caught on:** the line comes from Oprah Winfrey's talk show in 2004, when she gave every member of the studio audience a new Pontiac G6 and kept pointing and shouting that they each got one. The template is a still of her with arms flung wide, and it spread because the structure is so easy to reuse: swap in anything, from free covid to a new year, and the whole room gets one.