Twitter
At the behest of @FanSince09, I am documenting the twitter meltdown that occurred on November 28, 2012. Gather round as I recount this glorious night.
If you are an Eagles fan, you probably recognize the man on the right. He’s been seen booing the selection of Donovan McNabb on ESPN, he’s been on TV crying when Brian Dawkins left Philadelphia and he gets a pretty decent amount of face time simply because of how absurd he is. But what you probably didn’t realize was that this crazed, attention starved man didn’t have a twitter so someone took the liberty of making a parody account that mocks Shaun (that’s his name).
It all started at approximately 8:48 EST on November 27th as some unknown genius created an account named “@ShoulderPadsGuy”. Little did this unnamed person know, he would set off a twitter fire storm that ended up involving Brian Dawkins, Hugh Douglas, a slew of Philadelphia fans and a lot of hilarity.
Hi haters, made a twitter so all of my fans can keep up with me!
The account toiled in twitter irrelevance for about day and @FanSince09 was peddling the parody account around twitter when suddenly, @ShoulderPadsGuy got a retweet from Brian Dawkins:
RT @: .@ You are my favorite player of all time. If you re-tweeted me, it would be the ... http://t.co/B3wusRjD
And then, things blew up as Brian Dawkins learned the account was fake and he had been duped.
U got me. Thought u were the real Deal. But your not. Shaun's a friend of mine. So Do me a favor a please stop bro.
Hi everyone, this is the REAL Shaun, ive decided to go onto twitter to clear the air. Please disregard @
@ this is the real Shaun Young, please stop telling people @ is me. Thats slander and I want people to no the truth
@ Dawk, i appreciate the help, Im on twitter now to stop all this from happening
And then, bedlam.
B-DAWK JUST SNITCHED ON MY MANS SMH
@ @ Wait, so which one of you is real? Have we been tricked?
@ @ which is the real Shaun?!?!???
@ @ he seems pretty legit. Has a picture being grown man sky diving with face paint and shoulder pads on
"I MUST DEFEND MY GOOD NAME AS GROWN MAN WHO WEARS SHOULDERPADS AND FACEPAINT TO EAGLES GAMES!"
@ wearing face paint is part of my ritual. I pride myself in being like Brian Dawkins
@ @ Dawkins doesn't wear face paint.
@ @ he wears a nose strip and has a ritual. I do the same
@ @ @ Wait, is this the real account talking, or the parody account?
@ @ @ No, he's here. Prove you're real. I'm leaning towards @.
RT @un My brother isn't on Twitter! This is sick and fake! I'm requesting a trade out of Philadelphia for both of us!
@ @ I sacrifice goats and wear a robe made of human skin. Does that make me like B-Dawk?
@ @ I have a ritual based on fandom, not religious beliefs. you are being ridiculous, i like to idol myself after dawk
@ @ Dawk is very religious. You clearly don't know much about him.
Are we sure this is really @? I don't know what to believe anymore. Is there a god?
@ @ dawk is not muslim. the things u listed above, dawk does none of them. what are u trying to get at
@ @ @ Put your pads on, I'll meet you in the parking lot and plant your dumbass
@ You're a clown. The game isn't about you. You obviously need the attention. You look like a crossdressing pirate
CHICKEN FIGHTS! HALFTIME of the next EAGLES game: Shoulder Pads Guy & Glen Macnow vs. FAKE Shoulder Pads Guy & FAKE Glen Macnow. EXCITING!!
SOMEONE MUST STOP THIS TRAVESTY OF REALITY
This is some Inception shit, ock.
@ @ just to let you know, SHAUN YOUNG IS NOT ON TWITTER. They are all FAKE PER HIM
.@ @ will the real shoulder pads guy shaun please stand up I am so confused are you both fakers??
@ @ wait how do I know you are not a faker
And then amidst complete chaos, Brian Dawkins steps in.
VIDEO
OK now Brian Dawkins is using youtube videos to try to mediate a twitter beef about a fake version of the shoulderpads guy at eagle games
We've reached critical twitter, folks.
But wait, Shaun wasn’t done yet, he felt compelled to reach out to Hugh Douglas, aka TurboBird.
@ Hughhhhhhh, how you doin buddy
Oh shoot, @ has contacted the TurboBird. All we need is Rabs to get involved and everything will finally come together.
Now, for those of you who don’t know, Hugh Douglas does not like being called #TurboBird
Hugh are you gonna take this? RT @ hey @, why does everyone on twitter call you Turbo Bird?
@ @ I wish somebody would call me that to my face!
@ @ @ just waiting for the first guy to call me that to my face
SO now Hugh Douglas is physically threatening people because they told fake shaun about his fake nickhame. LOL this night.
@ @ @ @ I saw it on @ and on @. It must be true.
@ Hope youre not including me in this man, no idea what that even means..
@ @ @ do me a favor. When you meet me call me that. Pretty please!!
This is threats!!! I'm sincere!! #JayZ
@ I'm not trippin. Call it giving you the heads up
@ nobody calls me that. To my face..
Twitter thuggin right here!! <~~~~~~~ all day!! DOWNTOWN HARTFORD IN DA BUILDIN!!
And to sum up the night:
So we have 19 Shoulderpad Shauns, Brian Dawkins trying to make peace, the battle of the Macnows, and Hugh Douglas threatening people
@ I think they're both real and this is a publicity stunt so he can claim Fireman Ed's "biggest attention whore" throne.
this has gone far enough, the real shaun young is @ please give him a follow
And that’s the way it happened.
