Bottomless Pit Supervisor

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Origin: Twitter

Year: 2022

Type: Pop Culture Reference

Added Jun 24, 2022 at 06:50PM EDT by Philipp.

Updated Jun 24, 2022 at 08:20PM EDT by Philipp.

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Bottomless Pit Supervisor refers to an AI-generated greentext story in which a person working as a bottomless pit supervisor one day discovers that the pit is no longer bottomless. Posted on Twitter in June 2022, the story achieved viral popularity online and has been referenced in memes.

Origin

On June 14th, 2021, Twitter^[1] user @funnycats22 shared several of AI-generated greentexts created with the GPT-3 language model. One of the shared greentexts told a story of a person working as a bottomless pit supervisor who one day discovers that the pit in his charge is no longer bottomless. Unable to fix the issue, the person quits his jobs and becomes a regular pit supervisor instead. However, on his first day, he discovers that the new pit is bottomless (shown below).

write me a 4chan greentext >be me >bottomless pit supervisor >in charge of making sure the bottomless pit is, in fact, bottomless >occasionally have to go down there and check if the bottomless pit is still bottomless >one day i go down there and the bottomless pit is no longer bottomless >the bottom of the bottomless pit is now just a regular pit >distress.jpg >ask my boss what to do >he says "just make it bottomless again" >i say "how" >he says "i don't know, you're the supervisor" >rage.jpg >quit my job >become a regular pit supervisor >first day on the job, go to the new hole >its bottomless Font

The tweet received over 13,200 retweets and 72,100 likes in ten days.

Spread

In the following days, the post received viral spread through reposts. Additionally, in the Twitter^[2]^[3] thread, other users replied with AI-generated greentexts based on the same prompt (examples shown below, left and right).

write me a 4chan greentext >be me >bottomless pit supervisor >every day, have to go down into the bottomless pit to make sure the workers are ok >one day, i see a worker just sitting there, not doing anything >i go over to him and ask him what's wrong >he looks at me and says "i'm tired of this job" >i ask him why he's tired of his job >he looks at me and says "because it's a bottomless pit" >i tell him that he's not the only one who feels that way >i tell him that i understand how he feels >i tell him that i'm tired of my job too >i tell him that i'm going to quit my job >i tell him that i'm going to jump into the bottomless pit >i tell him that i'm going to do it right now >i count to three >i jump into the bottomless pit >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling >i keep falling and falling si koon falling and falling Font

write me a 4chan greentext >be me >bottomless pit supervisor >every day, have to report to work and make sure the bottomless pit is running smoothly >one day, notice that the bottomless pit is starting to fill up >tell my boss about it >he tells me to just keep an eye on it and let him know if it gets any worse >a few days later, the bottomless pit is almost full >tell my boss and he just tells me to keep an eye on it >pit fills up >boss finally comes to check it out >he just looks at it and then looks at me >"well, shit" Font

Following the viral spread of the post, it was referenced in memes. For example, on June 18th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user @LilithLovett posted a POV meme referencing the story that gained over 3,600 retweets and 52,000 likes in one week (shown below, left). On June 19th, iFunny^[5] user Asbestohs reposted the image, with the post gaining over 12,500 smiles. On June 20th, iFunny^[6] user Fave replied to the image with another reference, with the post gaining over 10,500 smiles in five days (shown below, right).