Never mind the ability to conduct interviews and generate stories, the first question in any new media job interview going forward should be: Do you have any idea what irony is? The thing is, with these types of posts, I think many of the content aggregators actually do know, they just don't care, which is a lot worse. We're living through a human centipede of condescension here. Luke O'Neil only tweets serious things. He is a good Twitter boy - lukeoneil Sign In Create Account. This story is over 5 years old.
When sarcasm goes wrong January 5, , pm. Unsurprisingly, the tweets only added more fuel to the fire, generating further negative responses from the worked up fans of The Beatles. Starting on January 2nd, , a variety of music and entertainment news sites began reporting on the Twitter feud between the fans of the two musicians, with many outlets initially reporting that younger fans of Kanye West are oblivious as to who Paul McCartney is, [1] [3] [4] [6] including ABC's Good Morning America which highlighted the tweets in a concerning light shown below :.
On January 5th, the music site Billboard [8] wrote about how people should calm down, as the tweets were trolling and they fell into it. That same day, Twitter user Desus Nice desusnice , believed to be one of the first commenters to jokingly ask on Twitter who Paul McCartney is, shared a Vine video clip featuring an excerpt of a TV news program segment discussing the tweets and voice in the background exclaiming "poor folks, they just don't know any better.
In the next 72 hours, the Reddit post to the article garnered more than 1, upvotes and comments. Show Comments. Accidentally going viral made their business model of "selling necklaces" in exchange for charitable donations which can't be tracked public knowledge. Inspired by earlier memes about Mozart playing dubstep, vids in which The Beatles perform slightly different music make the decisive argument for the Brits being the best band of all time.
At a crucial moment in a game between the Chicago Bears and Pittsburgh Steelers, Cassius Marsh was called for taunting: except everyone is certain he didn't do anything close to taunting. This has rallied the fanbase to stand together against one thing they all agree is bad: NFL Taunting Rules. Living in England it's kind of hard to get away from them. I was pretty much raised on The Beatles. Yeah, I know who he is. Lofgren: I wouldn't say "fan.
I like a few of their songs. I'm not a huge fan, no. Lofgren: After the first two hours or so, it got maybe one or two retweets and a couple of favorites And then someone told me that it was on Buzzfeed and I was shocked, because obviously I didn't know that it had that sort of reach and I was shocked that Buzzfeed would pick up on it -- a story like this. Then I saw that other people had tweeted similar things and mine started picking up -- a bunch of retweets and stuff.
From there, it got just as popular -- if not more. Lofgren: At first, I was a bit upset. Already subscribed? Log in. Forgotten your password?
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