Pixar Pipe Dream Comes True: Your Cure For “The Mondays”
I now present you with a tweet that will cure your Sunday night blahs or your “Case of the Mondays.”
No, not the gif. That moment in the film made me as angry as the characters in Office Space.
But I digress.
Here’s the buried lede. Or tweet. Whatever. Here’s the cure:
Ten years ago, I said “One day”
Yesterday, I said “Day One” pic.twitter.com/2XYtziH5xF
— Janel Drewis (@the_jan_man) March 3, 2020
“When you wish upon a star…” indeed.
Lisette Voyko of Forbes wrote up the background on the post:
Topline: A California animator’s tweet celebrating her new job at Pixar—ten years after she vowed to “one day” work there—received the most likes and the most retweets on Twitter this week, according to data compiled by NewsWhip, a social media tracking firm.
- Animator Janel Drewis, aka @the_jan_man, posted the tweet March 3: “Ten years ago, I said, ‘One day.’ Yesterday, I said, ‘Day One,’” she wrote.
- A picture of her outside Pixar’s gates ten years ago—along with a new picture of her about to enter the gates on her first day of work—accompanied the tweet.
- Her tweet had over 213,000 retweets and over 1.2 million likes by Friday afternoon, and was the most-liked and RT’d tweet since the previous Friday, February 28, 2020.
- “Ok I got A LOT of new followers in the last 24 hours. Hello new people!” Drewis tweeted the day after she went viral, adding, “I hope you’re ready for lots of photos of my dog!”
Ok ok here you go pic.twitter.com/FAsxrjrvnh
— Janel Drewis (@the_jan_man) March 4, 2020
What I love about this? You just never know.
A reminder…
- Back in 1920 a young entrepreneur named Walter Elias Disney and his company Laugh-O-Gram studios filed for bankruptcy.
- Eight years later, Mickey Mouse was born.
- Seventeen years later, Snow White hit movie screens.
“It was prophesied that nobody would sit through a cartoon an hour and a half long. But we decided there was only one way we could successfully do it and that was to go for broke—shoot the works.”
So, whatever you’re doing today. Go for broke. Shoot the works. Who knows where you’ll be in 10 years!
