The Scientific Community Has Questions About The ‘Petal Fold’ Reaction

Neurologists at no fewer than two universities have reportedly been forwarded the video by colleagues with the subject line ‘have you seen this.’ The petal fold — a complex maneuver that requires folding upward while simultaneously pressing inward — is performed with such fluid precision that one researcher described it in a tweet as ‘a masterclass in applied spatial reasoning and I am not okay.’ The tweet got 400,000 likes from people who have never thought about spatial reasoning in their lives.

Michael’s Craft Stores Reported A 3,400% Sales Spike In Origami Paper. No Further Comment.

Industry analysts are describing it as ‘completely unprecedented’ and ‘genuinely baffling from a retail data standpoint.’ Origami paper — which previously moved about as fast as you’d expect origami paper to move — is now backordered at every major craft retailer in North America. One Michael’s store manager in Ohio told a local news outlet, ‘I’ve been working here eleven years and I’ve never had a man in his thirties urgently ask me where the washi paper is while making zero eye contact.’ Eleven years. Never.