TOP TRENDS: #1000WaysToDieInKenya

If the first thing that came to mind when you read that headline was  the popular docu-fiction series which airs on DSTV’s Sony Max Channel, then your right! Well, partly right.

1000 Ways to Die, now in its fourth successive season, takes a look at unusual supposed deaths and recreates them, even going ahead to contact experts and professionals to analyse the situations and explain how they could possibly happen.

Shows have had such strange names as ‘Tweets from the Dead’ and ‘An App Called Death’ and have had audiences glued to their screens since 2008 when it aired on AMerica’s Spike TV, and was later introduced to Kenya though Sony Max on DSTV.

Kenyans have twisted the title of this show on Twitter, coming up with the global trending topic > #1000WaystoDieInKenya exploring various myths, actions and urban legends that may lead you to lose your life. It all started with this fairly innocent tweet which was meant as banter:

Theerafter, it’s exploded on the social network to become the 3rd top global trend at the time of this post.

Enjoy a selection of some tweets that precede…

A number of Kenyans on twitter though have come out tweeting that this may be the wrong picture of Kenya portrayed, and have come up with a ‘counter trend’ titled #1000ReasonstoBelieveInKenya