LOS ANGELES — We are “Not good, Elmo. Not good,” but thanks for asking.
The beloved “Sesame Street” character put feelers out into the ether Monday, the final Monday in what feels like the longest January ever, checking to see how everyone was doing with a seemingly innocuous tweet.
What transpired was an existential crisis by way of X users sharing their sense of overwhelming dread and anxiety — from the personal to the global — that got even the little red Muppet in his feelings. He probably did not expect the internet to unload its collective anguish in his replies — but that it did.
“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” the tweet said, eliciting more than 12,000 replies, 47,000 retweets and 115,500 likes by Wednesday morning.
“Every morning, I cannot wait to go back to sleep. Every Monday, I cannot wait for Friday to come. Every single day and every single week for life,” X user ContrarianGuild replied.