The NPR Facebook page is usually filled with news and posts about their radio shows. But on Monday, an unusual post popped up on the page. It looked like it wasn't meant to be there — but thousands of people saw the accidental update anyway.
The mysterious status update was about an anonymous Ramona who seems to really, really love cats. The post s stayed up for only 10 minutes before someone took it down, but for those 10 minutes it was spread all over the internet via screenshots and tweets.
Many users were curious as to who — and what — Ramona is, while others just loved the post's pure adorability on a day darkened by the Las Vegas massacre.
Either way, Ramona has stolen the heart of the internet, and now we know exactly who she is.
Keep scrolling to learn more about Romana and the strange Facebook post.
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[H/T: BuzzFeed]
On Monday night, a strange update appeared on the official NPR Facebook page.
The update, which mentioned an anonymous Ramona, was quickly removed. An update said that it was intended for a personal Facebook account — a mistake that anyone could have made!
But the damage had already been done. All across the internet, people were desperate to know more about Ramona.
Many fell in love with how pure and sweet the post was, especially following the tragic loss of life in Las Vegas the night before.
Others felt a kinship to little Ramona, who clearly loves cats more than anything else on this earth.
There was even some confusion as to who exactly Ramona was. A child? A cat? Something else?
People begged NPR for updates about Ramona (there was even a petition), hoping that the accidental poster wasn't facing any punishment at work for his innocent mistake.
Finally, NPR gave its fans the update they wanted, along with this adorable picture of Ramona!
Ramona's dad is Christopher Dean Hopkins, swing editor at NPR. He says he meant to post the Ramona update to his personal Facebook but made a mistake. When he realized what he'd done, he rushed to fix it.
He says, "My job is to promote our good work, and I catastrophically failed in that last night."
But most people didn't consider Christopher's post a failure. NPR writer Tanya Ballard Brown writes:
But what Hopkins didn't anticipate — and we didn't either — was how much people needed something "feel good," after back-to-back-to-back-to-back tragedies — the Las Vegas massacre and the devastation in Puerto Rico, Florida and the Texas Gulf Coast from hurricanes.
And Ramona — who isn't quite a year old yet — was it.
Entirely by accident, one adoring dad's innocent mistake became an internet sensation and a source of comfort for hundreds of strangers.
Hopefully, sweet Ramona will get to spend lots of time with the cats she loves so dearly — she definitely deserves it!
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