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Baby we were born to be viral content

You've probably seen that note written by a local dad to excuse his daughter from being late for school following the Bruce Springsteen show at the TU Center Monday night. It's gotten a ton of shares and it's been all over the local media today. And it's already spreading into the national and international media.

Whether intentional or not, that note is pretty much perfect viral content fodder. So to help, we've pre-written headlines for a bunch of websites in the event they pick up the story for their own traffic trolling and hot-taking:

Buzzfeed: 17 reasons you wish Springsteen note dad was your dad (gif listicle)

Vox: How one girl was excused from class following a Springsteen show, in one note

Slate: It's not only OK for parents to bring their kids to school late, it should be encouraged

Vice: Inside the dark world of manufacturing family memories

Reddit: I wrote a funny late note for my daughter following a Springsteen concert, AMA

FiveThirtyEight: That Springsteen tardy note has a 73 percent chance of working

The Atlantic: Are we all viral content now?

Pitchfork: Dad shares derivative tardy note after exposing daughter to late-Bruce

NPR: What a sociologist says about that Bruce Springsteen school note

Mashable: The most Boss late note ever

NYT: In Saratoga Springs, an excuse and a memory to last a lifetime