If you see different popular cartoon characters from the animated world taking over your Facebook homepage lately, there is no need to wonder why. Similar to the previous celebrity doppelganger craze, this time the users of this gigantic social networking site are changing their profile pictures, which is suppose to be their recognizable picture, with images from their childhood of the cartoon characters they liked the most.
The trend-tracking website, Know Your Meme, stated that this trend of changing your display picture to a cartoon character was originated by the Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. The trend-tracking website claims that the first original message which was spread in Greek, which if translated, meant: "From the 16th to the 20th of November, we shall change our profile pictures to our favorite cartoon characters. The purpose of this game is to remove all photos of human for a few days from Facebook." The message was spread so quickly and was adopted on such a large scale that it did not remain a Greek message anymore.