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Elmo's innocuous check-in is met with 'existential dread' and mental health crises

Elmo greets guests during H&M x Sesame Street at H&M Flagship Fifth Avenue Store on Sept. 14, 2019, in New York.

LOS ANGELES — We are "Not good, Elmo. Not good," but thanks for asking.

The beloved "Sesame Street" character put feelers out into the ether Monday, the final Monday in what feels like the longest January ever, checking to see how everyone was doing with a seemingly innocuous tweet.

What transpired was an existential crisis by way of X users sharing their sense of overwhelming dread and anxiety — from the personal to the global — that got even the little red Muppet in

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