If you’re not familiar with Dril, you must not be terminally online, and for that, I’m jealous of you. What you need to know is that Dril is Twitter’s best poster, an internet phenomenon, and he has been since the late-2000s. He gained over a million followers over two decades, posting tweets that frequently get integrated into the larger Internet lexicon of screenshots people save to use as reaction memes. One example is the“im not owned! im not owned!!” tweet. Another,when he begged for help budgeting to save his family. Yet another,when he tweeted the words ‘skeleton war’ for the first time.
Sometimes his posts are satire, and sometimes they’re just about piss and balls. One thing is clear from profiles and interviews on him – he does not think highly of Twitter. He also does not think highly of Twitter Blue users. In a tweet earlier this month, he said in typical dril style, “theyre gonna put me on the board of divorced fat fucks in charge of this shit. i got 1000 ideas to make this web site suck even more Dick”.
Somehow, Musk has mismanaged his company so badly that people are not only refusing to buy Twitter Blue, they are refusing to have it even for free, as it’s largely considered a mark of shame at this point. Ever since Twitter Blue was launched, people who paid for their blue tick have been mocked online with a deluge of memes along the lines of “haha this mf paid for twitter”.
Of course, Elon Musk wouldn’t let that slide. The @BlockTheBlue account was suspended very soon after news platforms started writing articles about it. Unfortunately for Musk,@drilwas already on-board, leading to the funniest series of tweets the weekend could bring. When speaking toMashableabout #BlockTheBlue, he said, “99% of twitter blue guys are dead-eyed cretins who are usually trying to sell you something stupid and expensive, and now they want to pay a monthly subscription fee to boost their dog shit posts front and center”, and that it was “funny” to block them and encourage other to do the same because it’s the opposite of what they want.
When the BlockTheBlue Twitter account was shut down, drilposted a picture of a blue checkmark in a toilet, which attracted a lot of blue check-havers to his mentions where they defended themselves. Shortly after, he replied to the original tweet with “Ah they got me. Im fucked” and a screenshot of a blue tick next to his name. Afterwards, he started changing the name on his profile – apparently, if you change your name, the blue check goes away until Twitter re-verifies you. Many celebrities, including Chrissy Teigen, have used this to get rid of their verification status.
For some reason, Dril’s checkmark kept returning. One user chronicled it, tweeting about how the checkmark would only remain on Dril’s account for less than a minute before he would change his name again, removing it. As of the time of writing, Dril’s account is now unverified. His display name is currently “slave to Woke”, and he has reported that he is currently “under review” and no longer allowed to change it. His last few tweets have been dragging Elon Musk specifically. I can’t help but wonder if his account will get suspended.
As Dril told Mashable, “everyone has always Hated twitter, even before the day elon dragged a sink into the main office while grinning like a doofus.” He continued, “nobody respects it, it is almost certainly responsible for a sharp increase in overall human misery, and if my brand must suffer so that this entire Shit hole will perish, that is fine to me.” It’s fine to me too, Dril.
