That Viral Area 51 Event Has Been Removed By Facebook
Someone really doesn't want us to see them aliens.
Devastating news, folks: Facebook has removed the Area 51 raid event for violating its Community Standards.
If that sentence means nothing to you, here’s a quick recap: a few weeks ago, a meme page and a Twitch streamer walked into a bar created a Facebook event titled Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us, which proposed that thousands of people storm a secret US military base called Area 51, which has long been rumoured to hold aliens.
“We will all meet up at the Area 51 Alien Center tourist attraction and coordinate our entry,” the event description read. “If we Naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens.” In case there are any boomers reading this, let me be clear: this was a joke.
Nevertheless, the event went viral, with more than a million people clicking attending. Some people have gone so far as to book out the 14-room inn in the nearby town of Rachel, Nevada, and the US military has had to warn people not to actually follow through on the raid. Still, for most of us, the event remained a delightful meme — a beacon of alien light in trying times.
Until Facebook had to come along and delete the page, that is.
“Storm Area 51”, the Facebook page seen by millions of people around the world, has been taken down. Not sure what’s going on but am trying to get a comment from Matty Roberts or Jeremy Corbell. (Matty created the page.) pic.twitter.com/GF0OBRySgK
— George Knapp (@g_knapp) August 6, 2019
A few days ago, the event page mysteriously became unavailable to anyone who tried to view it. Two days ago, the event’s creator posted on a screenshot on Facebook showing a message reading “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us has been taken down by Facebook because content posted to this event went against our Community Standards. Repeated Community Standards violations can lead to your Page getting unpublished.”
Unfortunately for whoever’s trying to stop this raid, the date (September 20) has spread well beyond Facebook. A number of users have suggested that the event now be modified to begin with “storm Facebook”.
And to think, all we wanted to do was see them aliens. At least we’ve still got them memes.