That tweet quickly went viral - a retweet from author Roxane Gay didn’t hurt - as more people realized the possibly “devastating” interpretation. As the Huffington Post reported in 2018, another Twitter user (since suspended) sparked the same dark interpretations when they wrote, “I’m 22 years old & I just realized that ‘This little piggy went to the market’ doesn’t mean he went food shopping”: The take on the story - that the “piggie” in question was actually being slaughtered and sold, rather than going shopping - has not been confirmed, but it has spread online in the past. It has also spread on Facebook, as a photograph posted on a meme-centric page proved equally popular. The tweet has been widely shared since it was first published on February 9 2021. Just one Twitter post saying, “When I was a little kid, I thought ‘This little pig went to market.’ meant it went shopping”: Adults reading social media got a jolt to their understanding of childrens’ stories in February 2021, as speculation emerged around the nursery rhyme, “This Little Piggy.”
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