Strange red sun at 11am !! today Leasowe Wirral @Wirral_Weather @WirralNews @WirralLive @photoweather1 @MoretonWeather @bbcweather pic.twitter.com/50yb9WmGAP
— ILoveThatPhoto (@WirralCheshire) October 16, 2017
The sun and sky turned an atmospheric shade of reddy orange across parts of England today, thanks to Hurricane Ophelia dragging in tropical air and dust from the Sahara, apparently. That's interesting and all, but more interesting than the news itself, as ever, was Twitter's reaction to the bizarre phenomenon.
Some said it was an inevitable consequence of our obsession with Instagram.
Well, the hipsters have finally done it: they've put an Instagram filter on London.#REDSUN #apocalypse #ophelia pic.twitter.com/GBoKHN5mey
— James McNicholas (@jamesmcnicholas) October 16, 2017
Own up! Who's just put a 'sepia' Instagram filter on THE WHOLE WORLD? #RedSun #EndOfTheWorld
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) October 16, 2017
This is one *huge* Instagram publicity stunt #sepia #redsun
— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) October 16, 2017
Others suggested the PR team behind the new Blade Runner film may have gotten a little carried away.
Just walked to Tescos in London... #RedSun #BladeRunnerpic.twitter.com/4tk6dRH8FP
— 🐐 (@eaglemoustache) October 16, 2017
Got to hand it to those stealth marketing guys #bladerunner #REDSUN
— Sathnam Sanghera (@Sathnam) October 16, 2017
Londoners going home tonight like #RedSun pic.twitter.com/jDJB1FWllS
— Rob Pritchard Jones (@robapjones) October 16, 2017
Promo budget for this new #BladeRunner2049 film must be mental... #RedSun
— Pthephenson (@Slate_Grey) October 16, 2017
The sky has changed colour.
— Digital Spy (@digitalspy) October 16, 2017
Hurricane Ophelia or @BladeRunner's promo getting out of hand?#RedSun #EndOfTheWorld #YellowSky #OrangeSky pic.twitter.com/Nho85ckdZL
While others were watching the aptly named Conservative MP John Redwood being interviewed on BBC News at the time.
John Redwood, Conservative MP for Mordor.#redsun pic.twitter.com/8x4wmOyKA8
— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) October 16, 2017
John Redwood just arrived to claim your immortal soul in exchange for those enjoyable decades in the EU and brought his hellscape with him pic.twitter.com/xH3Z1YsmJh
— Archie Bland (@archiebland) October 16, 2017
Needless to say, it wasn't an occasion for boasting about posting about using #nofilter.
Everyone posting pictures of the #redsun and saying "no filter"... you mean except the giant filter of dust in the sky, right?
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) October 16, 2017
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