There was the black and blue dress, now there’s the blue sofa. A piece of furniture is, in fact, the new sensation of the Internet. An initially basic story but only social networks can make it so epic. It all starts with one designer, Amanda Joy, revealing on TikTok her find of the day: a designer blue sofa, billed as the “Bubble 2” model offered by French furniture brand Roche Bobois, selling for an additional $8,000. . -Atlantic (5000 euros in France).
The TikTok video thus shows the young woman discovering this sofa on a sidewalk in New York and then taking it home to clean it. The furniture is in fairly good condition, but logically dirty after having been outdoors for a while.
a lot of questions
And this is how multiple theories and speculations about the famous sofa are born: who could have abandoned such an expensive sofa on the sidewalk? For what reasons? Can the sofa be infested with fleas? Many unanswered questions.
The original video on TikTok quickly accumulates more than 61 million views, but it is mainly thanks to Twitter that it explodes with a netizen who shared the video: Added 110 million additional views. Given the phenomenon, Amanda Joy had to give news of the famous sofa.
The designer claims the sofa sat on the sidewalk for less than 24 hours, but was mostly cleaned for two weeks. As to why the furniture was thrown away, he indicates that the sofa has stains and tears, which may have led its former owners to leave it on the street.
Fake or not?
The young woman also assures that it is not a fake by Roche Bobois, relying on the details and the product label. In fact, many internet users had researched and claimed that the sofa came from a site like AliExpress.
As the Twitter account points out. Observers, this blue sofa story quickly became a meme, overused and reused by netizens. One of the running gags includes pretending to be the sofa’s previous owner and saying that something horrible happened on it.
Proof of this is the success of this story, some tweets accumulate close to 350,000 likes, a fairly honorable score for a case that should have been swept under the rug.
Source: BFM TV
