Two runaway llamas were on the loose for hours today, followed by local camera crews and covered by all of the major news outlets. Predictably, the best responses to the chase, however, came from Twitter.
Twitter tracked the highs and lows of the llama chases, from the early close calls to the ducking-and-weaving through traffic and that one time they totally ran right into each other:
GO WHITE LLAMA GO
— Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 (@penguinrandom) February 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/digimatized/status/571038922446409729
https://twitter.com/_Cooper/status/571040477438480384
#TrueDetectiveSeason3 pic.twitter.com/buFYLB7g7H
— . (@MarisaKabas) February 26, 2015
Stay around for this llama coverage. Don't go anywhere; alpaca lunch.
— Linda Holmes thisislindaholmes.com (@lindaholmes) February 26, 2015
But first llama take a selfie pic.twitter.com/UEzwCrjvNy
— Javi Moreno 🇧🇷🇲🇽 (@Javi386) February 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/_Cooper/status/571065838226309123
https://twitter.com/jayberger/status/571043500042555392
https://twitter.com/selenalarson/status/571042206280081408
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/571160718680068097
Once the chase ended, though, the memes started rolling in.
Guys. @sbstryker & @lolacoaster http://t.co/FNbmzJe249 pic.twitter.com/sC7yQitSdZ
— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) February 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/AndrewWK/status/571089937933557760
Llama drama. pic.twitter.com/lt6RZNURWZ
— Disney (@Disney) February 26, 2015
Some users decided to tie the llama chase back to the FCC net neutrality vote and celebrated the fact that two llamas dominated the news cycle, if only for a day:
So basically the FCC said "Internet is all yours guys" and we decided to engage in llama watching and arguing about dresses because INTERNET
— Anne Stickney 💙 (@Shadesogrey) February 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/jonahray/status/571153655614672896
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/571158731024666624
I think I speak for *literally all of mankind* when I say @NBC should replace 'The Slap' with a weekly hour of llama lassoing. #MustSeeTV
— Tom Bricker (@Tom_Bricker) February 27, 2015
Boomers: Where were you when JFK was shot?
Gen X: Where were you when Challenger exploded?
Generation Llama: Where were you when #TheDress?— Peter Hartlaub (@peterhartlaub) February 27, 2015
And Zach Braff won for the perfect non-sequitur of the day:
https://twitter.com/zachbraff/status/571131873570586624
Source: Twitter