About
#feedthepatrick is a hashtag that became very popular around januar, 2013.
Origin
To celebrate his 100K subscribers, a french minecraft youtuber named Aypierre made with his friend azenet a special computer on their minecraft server, that was able to display all tweets with the #feedthepatrick on a screen. Then Aypierre did a live showing this and asked the viewers to tweet #feedthepatrick to check if it was working.
Spread
That’s when the hashtag started growing out of control, a lot of people tweeting it, at first in the minecraft community, french and english, and then people that weren’t even playing the game. Lot of people were tweeting it without understanding, but it became one of the most popular hashtags in the world in one night.
Some of the people tweeting it
The original youtuber, aypierre, made a video to explain what happend (french)