A tweet from October 5, 2012 just went viral again:
“Stop chat gpt!!”
People are calling it time travel. Others are calling it prophecy.
But here’s the actual explanation:
The account is Indonesian. In Indonesian internet slang, “gpt” is short for “ga penting” — which means “not important” or “pointless.”
So the tweet simply meant: “Stop sending me useless messages.”
No time travel. No secret knowledge of ChatGPT. Just a perfect linguistic coincidence that aged like fine wine.
Still one of the funniest internet moments of 2026.
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