Due to certain legal contracts and ancient rituals, all "Its" revert to a single person after not tagging for 25 minutes.
That person?
Tom Hanks.
this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2026
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I lost the game.
There's an entire movie dedicated to this idea. Called Tag.
If you sacrifice a witch to the archangel Michael and smear her blood upon you the it will be purified. -Corenthians 69:420.
Can confirm this works! Now, unfortunately Bubba makes me "it" every night after lights out.
I stopped being "it" the same time I lost my virginity. Now she's "it." 😌
STI
Sexually Transmitted It
It never occurred to me to tag people with my penis.
I was very slow as a kid due to juvenile arthritis. Thankfully, I outgrew it, but I can almost guarantee I am still it. This is such a whimsical and delightful thought. Thank you for the smile today stranger. I definitely needed it.
Sounds like something that would happen in an Adam Sandler movie.
He's walking down the street in NYC, and some guy runs up behind him and slaps him on the back, yells, "You're it!" and runs off.
"oh shit! I think that was Davey Roberts! We used to hang out on the playground back at PS 119 back when we were kids. I wonder what the hell that was about..."
Cut to Facebook search for Davey roberts
cut to messenger live conversation
"Davey!! Long time no see buddy! How you been?!"
...
"your it" (misspelled, no punctuation)
Sandlers character gets a notification indicating he's been invited to a Facebook group
sees group name
"PS 119 Tag Never Ended"
This winter...
cut to playground stock footage
Adam sandler is...
fast cuts of adults sprinting down alleys
"Still It"
Rated PG-13
Coming to theaters December 23rd
This is an snl thing waiting to happen
Give this premise to Musk and he'll swear his AI can make it a movie in a week!
I mean, it's not impossible for xitter's pedobot to make movies I hear (which is how it earned its name). If you gave me and my old film studio enough cocaine we could script, storyboard, and splice the clips together in about a week. It would not be pretty or up to my [this gets shown to anyone ever] standards for my work, but it could be done.
The only dude at the studio who liked cocaine was the executive producer, and we closed the studio in 2005. We'd realistically need different stimulants or more time
Not Adam Sandler, but... https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d40f0431-daf1-4e13-b03b-95b8b4be860e.jpeg
Actually a pretty good movie
Jeremy Renner broke his leg in this film and it hampered summer of the stunts he was meant to do towards the end of the film. If you keep an eye out for it you can see when his leg gets thicker, to cover up the boot
And the tags get exponentially more forceful as they chase each other down the street, through the park, across a university campus, over the basketball course, until it devolves into a full-on fistfight in the girls locker room ending with Adam Sandler delivering an overly dramatic tearful confession about how he actually cheated at tag that time in school because he was jealous that his friend spent more time with cute Amy, because he missed his friend so much. That means his friend was actually the one who was "it", so they chase each other again.
I have collected 19 its so far after being tagged and refusing to relinquish the power & at this point im not sure many could survive a 19x strength tag
Your comment is amusing. However, reading this comment, and then yours, makes your comment much funnier.
Oof, “tag 19x” lol eek
Hey, if tag works like homeopathy, they are gaining superhuman strength here!
Nah, 19x is concentrated enough to have no effect
Can't tell if you sound like a fun hang, insufferable, or both 😄
Oh we realize. We are waiting. Poised for the moment you least expect to strike and pass on the dreaded curse of it.
Any day now.
Brother you need to pass on the curse? I know a guy who will take it from you, no questions asked. Very minimal fee.
Every town has the guy who will take it from you for a minimal fee
You rang?
Nah. Being It always ended when the game ended and a new It was picked at the start of the next game whenever that was.
You keep telling yourself that. It.
This is kind of like the movie Tag.
No, I was tagged when we went inside when the next lesson started, so it was unfair and didn't count, but I tagged them back and that also didn't count
Not me, I was fast as fuck boah!
I had the cheese touch for 17 years.
Did... Did they lose the game?
They most definitely lost the game. I bet they're breathing so much right now.
I think “it” resolves when the game ends
It's probably me. I never was fast enough for tag. I was great at hide and seek though.
what's worse? not knowing, or knowing?
I'm totally it
Yeah well any of you guys who haven't thought about The Game in awhile, you just lost
The turtle won't help.
What about the turtle underneath that turtle
But the bell rang!
No it.
So that means they never touched anyone in all that time? Highly unlikely.