Bigolas Dickolas' "This Is How You Lose the Time War" Tweet

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bigolas dickolas wolfwood @maskofbun THE WAY THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE SO GREAT memecatwings Follow i hope that in season two of trigun stampede there's a scene where wolfwood is reading a book that looks suspiciously like this is how you lose the time war. i just think itd be funny. thats his favorite book now 11:27 PM . May 11, 2023 · 128K Views ●●●

Cat Manning @catacalypto May 9 please buy this book because 1) it is a genuinely stunning prose-poetry novella that is unlike anything you will ever read 2) if it hits #1 because a user named "bigolas dickolas wolfwood" tweeted about it that will be the funniest thing ever & you want to be part of history Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai May 9 ok it's at 7 now I'm just going to keep posting these if it keeps going up pls forgive my need to document this fever dream Show this thread #7 AMAL EL-MOHTAR This Is How You Lose the Time War "This book has it all-MADELINE MILLER, New York Times bestength of Cha MAX GLADSTONE This Is How You Lose the Time War > Amal El-Mohtar : ★★★★★ 10,070 Paperback $8.79

Kel @lepØridae May 10 @maskofbun This is unironically the funniest opening paragraph on an article I have ever seen Twitter is a funny thing. It connects us, it gives us access to horrors beyond the pale in our daily news cycle, soon, it will stream Tucker Carlson to bigots around the world. One thing it rarely does is sell books, especially ones that have been out for a few years. That is, apparently, unless you're a Trigun fan named after the sizeable wang of one of its heroes. :

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Bigolas Dickolas' This Is How You Lose the Time War Tweet refers to a viral book recommendation from Twitter user and Trigun anime stan account bigolas dickolas woIfwood (@maskofbun) in May 2023 that recommended the sci-fi book This Is How You Lose the Time War by authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. After the tweet was sent, bigolas dickolas woIfwood's followers purchased the book on Amazon en masse, causing This Is How You Lose the Time War to skyrocket to the best seller's list. The event akin to viral marketing led to many memes, fan art and viral discourse across social media in the days that followed.

History

On May 7th, 2023, Twitter^[1] user @maskofbun tweeted the cover of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's book This Is How You Lose the Time War with a caption reading, "read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious." Over the course of five days, the tweet gained roughly 138,100 likes (shown below).

bigolas dickolas wolfwood @maskofbun read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious. AMAL EL-MOHTAR This Is How "This book has it all." -MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe You Lose : the Time War MAX GLADSTONE 1:39 AM - May 7, 2023 16.2M Views

Going into the next day, May 8th, 2023, the viral tweet started to earn retweets and quote retweets from various authors and book enthusiasts, according to some Twitter^[2] users in @maskofbun's replies. The viral buzz led to co-author of the book, Amal El-Mohtar, posting her own QRT^[3] on May 8th, 2023, gaining roughly 22,500 likes in four days (shown below, left). Later on May 8th, Twitter^[4] user @SravaniWrites tweeted a graph from Goodreads, showing a spike in the "book stats for This Is How You Lose the Time War." The QRT gained roughly 1,300 likes (shown below, right).

Amal El-Mohtar @tithenai May 8 [speechless] bigolas dickolas wolfwood @maskofbun May 7 read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious. Show this thread AMAL EL-MOHTAR This Is How "This book has it all." -MADELINE MILLER, author of Circe You Lose the Time War MAX CLADSTONE :

Sravani (T) Hotha @SravaniWrites. May 8 This is the goodreads book stats for This Is How You Lose the Time War. Hype up your favorite books, people! This is How You Lose the Time War > Stats Average rating Ratings Reviews Want to read Added to shelves 4,000 3,000 2,000 1,000 2022-11-20 2022-11-30 2022-12-10 - The 3.95 123,816 24,888 252,643 413,023 2022-12-20 You Lose 2022-12-30 2023-01-09 2023-01-19 2023-01-29 2023-02-08 2023-02-18 2023-02-28 All 34 Editions Just This Edition 2023-03-20 he Time Wa Show this thread 2023-03-10 Chart type LineChart 2023-03-30 2023-04-09 2023-04-19 bigolas dickolas wolfwood @maskofbun May 7 This Is How 2023-04-29 ... read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

News Coverage

On May 10th, 2023, Gizmodo^[5] and Kotaku^[6] became the first news outlets to cover the story. Gizmodo^[5] stated, "sales of the book on Amazon skyrocketed, landing Time War into the site’s bestsellers list as the sixth most popular book on the platform as of writing." Gizmodo's article caused reactions on Twitter, such as a tweet sent by Twitter^[7] user @lep0ridae on May 10th, that included a passage labeled, "This is unironically the funniest opening paragraph on an article I have ever seen." The tweet received roughly 2,400 likes in two days (shown below).

Soon after Gizmodo, other outlets added to the news coverage, including Slate^[8] which interviewed co-author Amal El-Mohtar. Soon after Slate, Insider^[11] published an article in which they interviewed bigolas dickolas woIfwood.

Online Reaction And Memes

As news outlets started to cover the event on May 10th, various reactions and memes surfaced on Twitter about bigolas dickolas woIfwood's viral promotion. For instance, on May 10th, 2023, Twitter^[9] @tothedeaths edited a book award sticker onto the This Is How You Lose the Time War's cover that namedropped bigolas dickolas woIfwood, gaining roughly 13,100 likes in two days (shown below, left). Also, fan art started to emerge from the discourse, including a meme in a tweet sent by Twitter^[10] user @minaIots on May 10th, gaining roughly 14,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).