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This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload.
- SourceNot an upload originally
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
An unfinished sentence left up for six hours, and a hashtag used 1.4 million times in a day.
What this was
At six minutes past midnight on 31 May 2017 the President of the United States tweeted the words despite the constant negative press covfefe and stopped. It stayed up six hours. Everyone assumed he meant coverage. Rather than say so he asked who could figure out the true meaning, and his press secretary said a small group of people knew exactly what he meant.
It first appeared in 2017, during the platform era.
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Where it came from
There is no original upload to identify: this Moment did not begin as one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This Moment began as a post on social media, not as a video upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- At six minutes past midnight on 31 May 2017 the President of the United States tweeted the words despite the constant negative press covfefe and stopped. It stayed up six hours. Everyone assumed he meant coverage. Rather than say so he asked who could figure out the true meaning, and his press secretary said a small group of people knew exactly what he meant.
- Where
- Known on X.