SMORES / GOT ME LIKE....
A Little girl running away post.
Someone in the house says the word "takeaway" in a normal speaking voice from two rooms away. You are already in the hallway with your shoes on, and nobody saw you leave the sofa. A spider the size of a 2p coin crosses the bedroom ceiling. You have been a calm, rational adult for thirty-four years. You leave the room at a speed that would qualify you for a national squad, and you do not come back for the duke of the night. It is 5:01 on a Friday. You say "have a good weekend" over your shoulder, already past the lifts, and the door is still closing behind you. Your laptop is at your desk. It can handle itself. Your friend leans in with a finger raised and says "I'm gonna get you." You decline the offer completely, at full pace, with your arms going and a clear sense that this is not the time for dignity. **Why it caught on:** the picture shows a small girl in a yellow raincoat, caught mid-sprint on a lawn with her mouth open and a bottle of bubble mixture in her hand, a bubble floating behind her. Who she is and where the photo was taken isn't known, but people used it as a shorthand for fleeing: from spiders, from work, from bad news, and, in the case of the food posts, towards something instead. It spread because everyone has run from something with that exact face.