People these days use social media to poke fun at many things, including the heightened expectations of romantic effort put forth to create the perfect date on Valentine's Day. On Twitter, the hashtag #BadValentineIn5Words looks at the other extreme of how a horribly wrong that occasion can go. The trend produced a collection of disasters, all described in a neat quintet of words, some with an image to finish off the main idea.
Beloved TV shows got in on the whole thing:
That's not what she said. #BadValentineIn5Words #TheOffice
— The Office (@theofficenbc) February 9, 2016
Classic horror films did as well.