The Chicago Bean Facebook Events trend began in late 2017 when users started creating increasingly surreal and absurd public events centered around the 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Millennium Park. Popularized by events like 'Windex the Bean' and 'Push the Bean into Lake Michigan to see if it floats,' the meme highlights the internet's penchant for collective, nonsensical humor directed at iconic landmarks. These 'events' often garnered tens of thousands of RSVPs from people who had no intention of attending, turning local geography into a digital playground for high-concept irony and civic trolling.