As of this writing, Inday is currently the most popular fictional character in the SMS community these days. But did you know that before Inday,?there’s already this fictional character Ederlyn who has always been mentioned on several text jokes in the texting community?

Ederlyn’s first text message contains an invitation to come to her birthday party:

Ui, invited tau s bday party
ni ederlyn 2m ng 6pm.

CnO b un? Kilala m b?
FinOrward lng skn e.
Hahahahahaha. Kulet. :)

When you first read the text message, you probably won’t think it is a joke, but rather a wrong-sent text message and you might delete it immediately. But after you receive the second one,

Uy asan ka na? D2 n kaming
lahat ikaw n lng wla.
Nklimutan mo na ba
birthday ko? =c

-ederlyn (wahaha part 2)

that’s only when you’ll realize that this is a joke based on the first text message. It is too fun not to forward and that’s how her fame started. The people who receive the jokes contributed more jokes and made a series of jokes that made Ederlyn’s story more interesting. More and more fictional characters were introduced as the story progresses (Arman the suitor of Ederlyn, Chona Mae jealous of Ederlyn’s popularity, etc), creating a short SMS teleserye of some sort. Here’s another text joke where Ederlyn announced her plans of participating in a famous event called Lovapalooza:

mga peeps, kita-kits tayo sa
mall of asia sa feb 10. let us
break the record again!
-arman and ederlyn

And the more text messages you receive, the more you’ll know Ederlyn. She even invited everyone to add her friendster account!

Eiya..add nyo naman ako s
friendster nyo. Kainis kyo,di
nyo manlang ako ina-add.
Tampo nko. Seryoso ako!

ederlyn_ito@yahoo.com

And her text messages went on and on. I think, this is the effect of the unlimited texting promo of a certain telecommunications company. But when the telco increased its unlimitxt prices, Ederlyn’s jokes were affected and so her fame faded away.

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