25 Times People Realized That They Were The Only Ones Buying A Product

It's been a few years since Laney posted about their brother's passion for chocolate milk, but we reached out to them via email and lucky for us, they were happy to have a chat with Bored Panda. "I was a junior in college when I tweeted this, and my brother was a senior in high school," they explained. "He was on the school’s wrestling team and was burning a tremendous amount of calories. I did the math back then, and he was averaging around 7 glasses of chocolate milk per day."

"When my mom told me about this interaction with the cashier, I thought it was funny, and tweeted it out right away," they continued. "I never expected it to get as much traction as it did, but it took off immediately. It wasn’t long before I had big Instagram meme accounts asking to repost it, and I even had a company reach out and send me a bunch of free Nesquik."

We were also curious how Laney feels about a tweet of theirs from 2019 still circulating online. "It’s pretty surreal to see this tweet still going around. I’ve had a lot of old friends across every stage of my life reach out when they see it’s been reposted again, tagging me on Instagram or texting me TikToks," they shared. "At this point, many of the reposts have gotten more likes than I ever did on the original tweet!"

As far as the reactions the tweet has received, Laney says their favorite response was from a TikToker who said it was an “old meme that was proven false.”

"I don’t know exactly what evidence they found that made them conclude it was fake," Laney noted. "But unless they were in contact with the cashier or my mother, it seems unlikely that they had anything tangible."

We also asked Laney if there are any products that they're single handedly creating demand for. "I’m definitely not making any regular purchases anywhere close to the scale of what my brother was doing back in 2019," they shared. "I have been told that I’m weird for liking banana Laffy Taffy’s, so if those ever get discontinued I’ll be very disappointed."

As far as what Laney's brother, Lex, has to say about all of this, he wanted to share three things with Bored Panda: "I pretty much never drink chocolate milk anymore. I was a wrestler at the time. And I regret nothing.”