Sparkles are all you need to make a good meme

A sparkly new meme took over Twitter this week — one that can be super cute and also pretty violent. (Great!)

Basically, users create a stream of stars and sparkles using text characters, then tweet it out above an image. The idea is that the image will appear to be an extension of the sparkle text: two mediums, one picture.

Unfortunately, as Select All has already pointed out, the meme only works on certain browsers and in certain viewsThe tweet below, for example — the original sparkle meme — looks perfectly fine on desktop but makes no sense if it’s embedded in an article or featured on Twitter Moments. Read more…

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