"I love my regular person celebrities who are only famous to me and my dumb friends. These are people who would never assume that eight morons get together to name their group chat after them and screen shot every [Instagram] story that they have - just for the group, just for fun."
"The person just has to be going 'normal mode' all the time - and for some reason, for your group, it scratches such a beautiful itch, where everything they do is important. Maybe it's a girl you went to high school with who posts her sock collection. Or your ex's cousin's mother-in-law, who's a Disney Adult and a recovering MLMer."
"There's a barista/bar back in South Philly named Curtis and I need everyone to know that my group chat reacts to seeing him in the wild the same way you would if you saw your favorite celebrity."
Comedian McKenna Moore advocates for group chats to adopt a 'normal person deity'—an ordinary individual whose everyday life becomes a source of shared entertainment and inside jokes. Unlike actual celebrities or influencers, these normal people deities should be genuinely unremarkable individuals going about their daily lives, whether posting sock collections, working as a local sports announcer, or being a barista. The appeal lies in collectively treating their mundane activities as significant and worthy of constant discussion and screenshot sharing. This concept has resonated widely, with people sharing examples of their own normal person deities, including local figures, acquaintances, and even service workers who have become the focus of their group chat's attention and humor.
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