‘Be Like Bill’ Viral Meme Takes Facebook By Storm

Whether you’re on the East Coast and found yourself scouring through Facebook during this past weekend’s blizzard Jonas or if you can’t help but check social media every few minutes like me, chances are pretty good you’ve found your newsfeed loaded with stick figurers recently.

Here’s the deal: that annoying little stick figure guy is named Bill and he’s arrived to call out everyone for their obnoxious social media behavior in the most brilliantly passive aggressive way possible.

It all started on the Facebook page “Be like Bill“, which has more than 1.5 million likes and shares funny memes instructing people to do exactly that.

To put it this way: Bill is not someone who floods your feed with a million selfies, looking for compliments. Bill won’t post on Facebook to let you know when it’s Wednesday or that it’s raining outside. Bill doesn’t share photos with his girlfriend that make people downright uncomfortable. Bill would never take to Facebook to brag about his (sometimes questionable) accomplishments. Bills knows better than to write hateful things to strangers in the comments section of posts like this one.

Bill is good at Facebook – and he wants to encourage you to be, too.

And now, thanks (or maybe no thanks?) to meme-generating site Blobla, people can actually be like Bill and share their own snarky meme to brag about their polite social media habits…and as we’ve all seen, everyone is rushing to Facebook to tell you all about it.

Now there is no escaping Bill. He’s everywhere, but now Bill is your cousin Todd, your coworker Sandy, and Beth, that annoying woman who literally shares everything she sees. And that’s the funniest part of this entire viral sensation…

Bill would never share all these memes about himself… Bill would probably just opt to hide that person’s post and move along with his day, instead of doing something crazy like writing an article about it — and that’s ok.

Because at the end of the day, there’s a person we should all start being more like… it’s ourselves.

So don’t be like Bill. Be like you.  No matter what Facebook tells you, you are a lot more awesome than Bill… just don’t go rubbing it everyone’s faces.

[Featured Image: Blobla]