![]() ![]() Hamster Cult soon grew as a trend in a similar fashion to Lana del Ray cult, with memers following each other en masse. On February 20th, 2021, Twitter user tweeted screenshots of a conversation on TikTok in which the Lana del Ray cult members were bombarded with people from other cults, including one called "Hamster Cult" (shown below). However, the emergence of the group inspired parodies to mock the fandom. Within 24 hours, the trend went viral on TikTok, with many changing their pictures to that of Lana del Ray. In February 2021, fans of the singer Lana del Ray began expressing their fandom through a faux group called "Lana del Ray cult." To join the group, one must change their avatar photo to a picture of del Ray smiling. The tweet received more than 32,000 retweets and 87,000 likes within three days (shown below). Two days later, on January 19th, Twitter user shared Avuelix's version of the meme. On the same day, iFunny user Avuelix uploaded a version of the video from the opposite perspective (shown below, right). The post received more than 4,600 upvotes (shown below, left). On January 17th, iFunny user JEPSI posted a video of the hamster video chatting on Apple's Facetime application with the hamster. The posts received over 8,300 and 5,400 smiles in one year, respectively. On January 18th, 2019, iFunny users Avuelix and Jepsi posted memes imagining a Facetime call between Staring Hamster and Staring Kanye (shown below, left and right). This post received more than 15,000 views and 4,183 likes in one week (shown below). On January 16th, 2019, Instagram user benisblaster edited the video to loop the hamster silently staring into the camera to Instagram. ![]()
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