Twitter takes over Radford

With roughly 500 million people on Twitter, it is no surprise that parody accounts are popping up left and right. For some, there is nothing more annoying than seeing random accounts with stupid jokes or rants being retweeted. For others, it is a step up from seeing the details of people’s daily lives pop up on their timeline.

There are always going to be the dumb and slightly embarrassing accounts, like ‘Average Shark’ and ‘Anti Joke Apple’. The you’ll-only-think-it’s-funny-if-you’re-drunk accounts like ‘Party Problems’ or ‘Texts From Last Night.’ Then there are the college-specific accounts like ‘Radford Probs’ and ‘Raddy Brunette.’

A lot of the Radford specific accounts I’ve come across are normally just angsty single girls that would rather be anonymous or fraternity brothers that want to brag about how much they drink. The question of how they become so popular is something that I don’t think really has a true answer. Most likely, they make the account, tell a few friends to follow them, but keep it anonymous. Then with their friends retweeting or favoriting their posts more people can see their account. The best thing about these accounts is that you never know who the person is. Most people like that air of mystery, so they enjoy following them to see what they’re going to say next.

Some of my personal favorite Twitter parody accounts are ‘Condescending Wonka’, ‘First World Problems’ and ‘Texts From Last Night.’ ‘Condescending Wonka’ is basically just an image of Willy Wonka with a funny patronizing statement like “Oh you just graduated? You must know everything” or “You’re only 18 and you’re engaged? You must be really mature for your age.”

‘First World Problems’ reminds everyone just how spoiled we are with posts like “The egg holder area in my new refrigerator is too small for the amount of eggs I usually have” and “My mom bought regular Oreos instead of Double Stuf.”

‘Texts From Last Night’ is an account that posts hilarious texts from people that were drinking or partying the night before. “(215): My brain is opting to stay half drunk rather than relearn how to think. The rest of me is in no position to argue” and “(914): Well his arm’s broken so they only cuffed his good wrist to his belt. That’s how he cast smacked me in custody.”

Twitter has become such a huge and popular social media site that accounts range from detailed descriptions of people’s lives to hilarious anti-jokes. Anything goes. And with the option to post anything you want, anonymously, people will want to create more and more of these parody accounts, either to satisfy a need of their own or maybe just to make people laugh. Whether you like them or not, these accounts are here to stay.

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