On May 7, 2018, Maho Okamoto posted a . It read:
“Are you sure you want me? I’m lazy and have all these umbrellas.”
At just 31 syllables in Japanese, the tanka (literally, “short poem”) spread quickly — reshared and rewritten as others swapped out Okamoto’s umbrellas for their own accumulations: “all these open tabs” or “all these clean clothes sitting in the dryer.”
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