My 15 seconds of fame came from a typo on a $3 estate sale sign

I put up a sign on a lamp post in my neighborhood for an estate sale. Misspelled 'estate' as 'escape' by accident. Someone took a photo, posted it to Reddit, and it got 40k upvotes in a day. Local news called. People showed up to the sale just to see the sign. The weird part is the sign was gone by noon but the meme version of it is still floating around. Anyone else have a random misspelling or dumb mistake blow up on them?

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thomas.parker23d ago

Three years ago I misspelled "antique" as "antique" on a Craigslist ad for a dresser and it got picked up by a local Facebook group. Next thing I know my phone is blowing up with people wanting to buy the "antique dresser" as a joke. I sold the dresser for $200 which was double what I was asking. My advice is ride the wave while it lasts because these things die down fast. After about a week nobody cared about the typo anymore and I went back to normal. Keep the sign if you can or at least a screenshot of the meme version. In a year it'll be a funny story nobody in your real life remembers.

lucashart23d ago

That part about it dying down after a week is so real lol. People act like internet fame is forever but it fades fast. Honest question for you @thomas.parker - did you ever figure out who bought it or what they did with the dresser after? Like was it just sitting in some college kid's living room as a conversation piece for a few months or what. I always wonder about the after story for stuff like that.