Tech17 Things People Who Are Addicted To Meerkat Are Sick Of HearingSMH if you're not a thinkfluencer using the latest in social video livestreaming, you might as well just get a flip phone.By by Katie NotopoulosBuzzFeed News ReporterPosted on March 18, 2015, 1:47 amTwitterFacebookLink 1. "Meerkat? Never heard of it." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. "What IS Meerkat?" 3. "I don't understand why you'd ever want to stream stuff to strangers on the internet." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 4. "Please stop talking about Meerkat." Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee Gary Vaynerchuk with Meerkat Founder Ben Rubin at SXSW 2015. http://t.co/ywuNjwDzo1 11:02 PM - 17 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT A REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING AND IT'S CALLED MEER FUCKING KAT 5. "Only weird randos use Meerkat, not anyone I'd want to actually see livestream their lives." jimmy fallon @jimmyfallon |LIVE NOW| Monologue rehearsal. 2 #meerkat http://t.co/AzMk1WsTEW 07:57 PM - 17 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite Hey idiotface, did it hurt when you fell from idiot Heaven? Because it looks like you hit every idiot brand on the way down. 6. "Why are you pointing your phone at me? Are you videotaping right now?" Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 7. "Please stop Meerkating." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 8. "I wish Twitter had its own livestreaming video thingy so I didn't have to go to another app" Marcus Karoumi @MKaroumi I LOVE Meerkat but it would be better if Twitter had it's own live streaming video thingy that's "native in feed". 09:10 PM - 12 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite [cannot reply due to rage blackout] 9. "I'm not sure of the impact of Meerkat." (said by someone in the music industry) Eric Peckham @epeckham If anyone in music isn't sure impact of #Meerkat...there are about 15 high-quality front row streams of Lil Wayne at A-Grade party right now 05:49 AM - 15 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite WEEZY BABY 10. "Stop saying you're 'Meerkating so hard' it's not a thing don't say that stop trying to make that a thing." johnny ♕ cranston @jCran_ I'm gonna @AppMeerkat so hard when I'm at @sxsw 12:35 AM - 18 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite Let's remember who the thinkfluencer is here, pal. I'll give you a little hint: it's not you. 11. "Meerkat is the breakout app of this year's SXSW." Casey Newton @CaseyNewton A social app broke out at SXSW. In 2015. The crazy story of Meerkat: http://t.co/11Ro0Ov3nT 06:37 PM - 17 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite NO. IT IS NOT JUST THE BREAKOUT APP OF SXSW. IT IS THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGICAL STEP IN DECADES. IT'S NOT A FAD. IT'S A WAY OF LIFE. 12. "I'm not downloading any new app until the actress who played Punky Brewster does." soleil moon frye @moonfrye |LIVE NOW| Me & my daughter are doing an after school project with a friend. Check us out #meerkat http://t.co/HDAN1PrhqM 11:59 PM - 17 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite GUESS WHAT BITCHES? 13. "I'm the executive at Twitter who made the decision to cut off Meerkat's ability to get your Twitter contacts and then bought a separate streaming app." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 14. "It's the future of journalism." (said by some faker to The Verge) 15. "I was trying to tell you about how my father has cancer, and you kept derailing the conversation to talk about Meerkat." Josh Constine @JoshConstine SXSW is moot. No one can learn about anything new because every conversation ends up being about Meerkat. 01:01 AM - 16 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite Cancer can be cured. Addiction to Meerkat can't. 16. "Can you not Meerkat for like one second while we eat dinner with my parents? This is important to me." Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 17. "I'm leaving you." Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar Meerkat + Twitter + GoPro = Future of news. By 2020, 6 billion people will own a smartphone. 12:55 AM - 18 Mar 2015 Reply Retweet Favorite The fucking future of news, baby. The fucking future of news.