An example of a contemporary "luck generation" chain letter sent by e-mail. [Collected on the Internet, 2000] CASE 1: Kelly Sedey had one wish, for her boyfriend of three years, David Marsden, to ...

These three examples are only the most recent update to the chain letter formula, which has been around since at least 1888. Over the last two decades, they’ve been given new life and ubiquity ...

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Unlike the unfortunate Zorin Barrachilli, the chain letter lives on. If that 1974 sample from an online archive of chain letters sounds familiar, it’s probably thanks to generations of e-mail ...

Performative Chain Letters. The latter category appears to be overwhelmingly popular — but perhaps that's only because it exists in the most public arena known to mankind: Instagram Stories.

This clipping from the Syracuse Herald on May 8, 1935 shows overworked postal workers in Syracuse carrying heavy loads of mail. This was at the point when the dime letter fad was at its peak, with ...