This is Bill
Bill sees his friends posting funny pictures of stick figures on Facebook.
Bill clicks the link and sees what the stick figure says about him.
Bill is a part of the trend.
Be like Bill.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As I'm sure you've seen already, a new Facebook app called "Be Like Bill" made by a website called Blobla has gone completely viral.
Basically, the app lets you tell off your friends with a randomly-generated meme instead of angrily posting a status to your own page.
Here are some of the best examples:
From: http://en.blobla.com/bla/be-like-me-be-like-bill
From: http://en.blobla.com/bla/be-like-me-be-like-bill
Now, like any meme, it's getting blown out of proportion. Not only are these pictures probably flooding your Facebook timeline, but they're spreading out among the internet.
Multiple Facebook groups have popped up posting similar content under the "Be Like Bill" moniker, but the "official" one now has over 1.5 million followers. It takes submissions from fans and turns them into new posts.
However, a lot of the posts don't follow the same "Be Like Bill" storyline so it just seems like it's somebody trying to cash in on the meme's popularity
From: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialBLB/
The Queensland Police Service also tried to ride the wave of popularity behind "Be Like Bill" when they posted this status to their Facebook page Sunday night:
From: https://www.facebook.com/QueenslandPolice/
So, like it or hate it, "Be Like Bill" is here to stay. At least until another cat video goes viral and takes the spotlight.
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