Southwest Airlines New Routes Have Meme Historians Giggling as They Reveal the Corporate Origin Story of Every 'Recreational' Trip to Denver
Historians of internet culture have traced the comedy gold in Southwest Airlines new routes back to a 2012 Tumblr post where a user confessed, "I only go to Denver to buy legal weed and cry in an airport bathroom." The airline's expansion into secondary cities like Bozeman and Eugene now fuels a generation of memes labeling every layover as "recreational," with one viral tweet cheekily claiming, "The irony is that my 'adventure' to Phoenix is just a 4-hour layover where a grandma offers me beef jerky and I overthink my life choices."