What a ridiculous trend!
Twitter users are asking each other how something as dumb as ankle scarves could be real.
Welland Im afraid to reveal this, because so many real media outlets are falling for itits not real.
Its an obvious joke.
Some of you have already noticed that the scarves in the picture are Photoshopped.
Thats because there is no ankle scarf trend.
Im not saying that theres really only one person who once wore tiny scarves on their ankles.
Im saying that the photo comes fromthis joke article on the German satire site Der Postillon.
Then the Italian satire siteLerciosyndicated that article.
The better-known outlet Country Living thensyndicated this post word-for-word.
The blog for radio station mix 105.1 alsoaggregated the story.
Both publications tweeted the story with incredulous captions.
For the story to get this far, multiple people had to ignore some obvious warning signs.
The BestProducts.com blogger might not have looked at any other page on Lercio, the satire site.
They also had to ignore the fake-looking picture of ankle scarves as they copy-pasted it onto their own sites.
But no one has time for that.
In his essential essayFalse Witnesses 2, Fred Clark refers to the Anti Kitten-Burning Coalition.
This accomplishes nothing, since almosteveryoneis against kitten burning, and that didnt stop the kitten burners.
It only gives the speaker a false sense of moral superiority.
What you see with the ankle socks trend is the much more innocent version of this.
We all get to feel superior to those fictional trend worshippers buying scarves for their ankles.
And because feeling superior feels so good, wehateto get called out on it.
Theyll defend their bit of fun and they willnotlike you coming in and trying to make them feel foolish.
Lets be honest; you dont have time for that.
Some day, itll be you who falls for the hoax.
