Marked Safe From
Where it came from
A repurposed Facebook "marked safe from [disaster]" notification — originally meant for real emergencies — turned into a joke template around 2018 where the "disaster" is a trivial online trend you're not participating in.
A mock Facebook notification reading "[your name] has marked themselves safe from [some recent trend, discourse, or phenomenon]". The "disaster" is always something minor but culturally inescapable — a TikTok trend, a celebrity scandal, a new streaming show everyone's watching. The joke is the disconnect between Facebook's serious safety-check UI and the pettiness of the thing being survived.
The format relies on everyone recognizing the Facebook notification style instantly. Once you know what it's parodying, the joke is automatic — "marked safe from the new Beatles movie discourse".
Still used. Works particularly well on Twitter and reshared as screenshots.
Search interest, over time
↳ data courtesy of google trends
