Here’s the story behind the viral tweet from 2012 “Stop chat gpt!!”
A completely unremarkable tweet from 2012 has suddenly resurfaced for one very particular reason. It reads:
“Stop chat gpt!!”
That’s it.
Which, viewed through the eyes of someone living in 2026, does feel a little cooked.
The tweet was posted by an account named Marieanne, under the handle @Meytrullers17, on October 5, 2012.
The original post is still sitting there on X, looking suspiciously like somebody tried to warn us about ChatGPT ten years before it arrived.
There is one fairly major problem with the theory.
OpenAI wasn’t founded until 2015, three years after the tweet appeared, and ChatGPT itself wasn’t publicly launched until November 30, 2022.
So unless Marieanne had access to a DeLorean, the words meant something completely different at the time.
Which apparently, they did.
As the tweet started making the rounds again, Indonesian users quickly stepped in with the missing piece of context: “gpt” can be used as an abbreviation for “ga penting” or “gak penting”, which roughly translates to “not important”, “unnecessary” or “pointless”.
Stop chat gpt!!
— Marieanne (@Meytrullers17) October 5, 2012
Marieanne’s account is Indonesian, and Indonesian publication detikInet has reported the same explanation from local users responding to the newly viral post.
Read in its original context, “Stop chat gpt!!” is closer to saying “stop sending pointless messages” or “stop the unimportant chat.”
So, sadly, we have not uncovered evidence that someone knew artificial intelligence was going to consume the internet back when ‘Call Me Maybe’ was still everywhere, no matter how much we want it.
What we do have is a near-perfect example of how the internet can completely change the meaning of something simply by removing its original context.
It helps that the coincidence is absurdly clean. “Chat” was already sitting there as an English word, while “gpt” happened to be an Indonesian abbreviation.
Ten years later, OpenAI stuck “Chat” in front of GPT – Generative Pre-trained Transformer – and suddenly one irritated Twitter user becomes the Nostradamus of AI.
The account reportedly stopped posting in July 2013, long before ChatGPT became a thing, so there was never some later explanation to be had.
So there you have it, just a regular everyday occurrence of Indonesian slang that took 14 years to land.
