Black Twitter Renames New COVID-19 Variant ‘Omicron’ To Omarion Variant

Omarion Trends On Twitter After The Introduction Of New COVID-19 Variant

Laughing the pain away: Black Twitter has found yet another serious moment to turn into a hilarious one.

Following the latest discovery of a new COVID variant, Omicron, folks on social media have found a new replacement name for it. People are now calling it the Omarion.

On Monday, an NICD presentation a flagged a large number of COVID-19 admissions among infants aged under two years as an area of concern. But von Gottberg cautioned against linking that with Omicron just yet.

“It looks like in fact some of those admissions might have started before the emergence of Omicron. We are also seeing that there was an increase in influenza cases just in the last month or so, and so we need to be really careful to look at the other respiratory infections,” she said.

“We are looking at the data very, very carefully, but at the moment I’m not too sure that we can link it definitively to Omicron.”

One user jokingly said on Twitter, “The Omarion variant is no joke. It can cause a cardiac condition where it puts an icebox where your heart used to be.”

Another added, “So Black people are just going to be calling it the Omarion variant till further notice. Got it.” See some reactions below:

That Omarion variant gon have unvaxxed folks doing this? pic.twitter.com/e5hXHMz9Sd

— jujoffer (@jujoffer) November 27, 2021

Finding humor in this pandemonium is what’s helped me get through this thing. Cus the way I been chuckling at y’all calling it the damn Omarion Variant?! pic.twitter.com/E0iAewFATO

— Cindy Noir✨ (@Ebonie_QT) November 30, 2021

The only thing that can stop the Omarion variant. pic.twitter.com/gTBbUxbij4

— Negus Moe Man 🇺🇸 (@dareal88keyz) November 30, 2021

Not the Omarion variant and the booster having a lil tussle pic.twitter.com/xjlqcB1zwO

— ✨Suge🎄Lite✨ (@Kamifaine) November 30, 2021

The omarion variant attacking my white blood cells pic.twitter.com/9ee6ggHCtX

— Justin (@justinc_l) November 27, 2021

Waking up seeing Omarion trending and getting excited for new music just to find out that’s what y’all are calling this new variant. pic.twitter.com/wzjd1GU5cY

— Karmin (@beingkarmin) November 30, 2021

Lemme schedule this booster shot cuz Omarion got me fucked up

— ᴍʏ sᴘᴀᴄᴇsʜɪᴘ? ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴀ ᴅᴏᴅɢᴇ (@BarkyBoogz) November 30, 2021