AGE: 20

Date of performance: 04/04/2025

Language: English

Nationality: American

Occupation: Student 

Primary Language: English 

Title- Chain messages 

Context- A shares that in middle school, there was a period where a mass text would be circulated throughout the school with a message along the lines of “send to x amount of people or something will happen”. A recalls the first time he experienced this—he was genuinely scared of the consequence if he didn’t send it to the correct amount of people. He still is apart of some text chains, but now isn’t afraid of them. 

Analysis-  Legends are a part of the narrative genre of folklore—stories that are located throughout the world with unknown truth. The mass text chain A shares is an internet legend, circulating throughout different regions that carried an uncertainty of its validity when it was trending.