When Threads Get "Messy"

I can't look away . . .

Threads sometimes get "messy", "controversial" or "fun". When this happens, it's inevitable that someone make mention of popcorn or posts an animated gif of someone or something eating popcorn.

I think that it's time to move on, and employ some new tactics for expressing that one is interested in the drama that is unfolding. I mean, my grandfather was holding up hamster-eating-popcorn signs in vaudeville theaters during the Great Depression. Let's move into the future.

Ideas?

(cue the clever posting of popcorn gifs in response)