The French Revolution Twitterstorm

Versailles, 1789. Queen Marie Antoinette wakes up to find #LetThemEatCake trending – and it's not a baking show. In this digital-era revolution, an out-of-context tweet ("Just have cake then 🤷‍♀️") has Paris in full meltdown mode. Hungry peasants have formed a Facebook group "Bread Grievances – Unofficial" that's gained millions of angry followers overnight. Parisian influencers are livestreaming from bread lines, and even the palace's TikTok account is getting dueted by enraged bakers tossing baguettes like dodgeballs.

As mobs gather (organized via a secret Telegram chat called "Bastille or Bust"), King Louis XVI goes live on Instagram to calm things down. Bad move – the comments are flooded with knife emojis and "🎶 All Star but make it Revolution" references. The Bastille's Yelp page gets bombarded with 1-star reviews ("Terrible service, would storm again"). When the revolutionaries finally "unfriend" the monarchy, it's literal: they hack the palace's mainframe – er, gate – and drag out the royals.

Marie Antoinette tries to apologize with a Notes App screenshot ("So sorry, didn't mean literal cake!") but it's way too late. The guillotine comes out like the ultimate Account Deletion. Selfies from the crowd show victory signs with the hashtag #NewFranceWhoDis. In this wild reimagining, the French Revolution plays out as the messiest social media cancellation in history – proof that even a queen should think twice before hitting "Tweet."

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