These days I’m always a little worried by what I’ll find in a list of Twitter ‘Trending Topics’.
All too often it signals that a bandwagon’s just rolled by and dozens of fuckwits have jumped on it.
One of today’s offerings is ‘#aagill’.
A A Gill – author and restaurant critic – has just confessed to shooting a balloon bassoon baboon.
Smell that?
Yes, it’s the heady reek of moral outrage.
Here are some fairly typical tweets:
matiano_9 RT @uksceptic AAGill shot a baboon “to get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone” fuckin psychopath. #aagill http://bit.ly/2LPu0Y
pmross Get your guns, folks, let’s go “get a sense of what it might be like to kill” a toffee-nosed restaurant critic http://bit.ly/4dm2kP #aagill
Thehumblepie I may be vegetarian, but I’d so shoot #AAGill in the balls.
Some Twitterers, however, have managed to keep a sense of proportion:
Crispian_Jago Ooh jolly good, are we forming a mob again. Hang on, I’ll get me pitchfork #aagill
All this hashtag mania is starting to get very fucking old very fucking quickly…
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Yeah, I never look at hashtag searches – I’d rather see what hashtags come up in the tweets of people I like and have chosen to follow.
That said, AA Gill is a tosser anyway, so it’s nice to see him being Moired
I must confess to taking part in a #frenzy yesterday. It was a funny one though.
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Whereas well-argued, thoughtful and massive harrassment on the web can produce excellent results – see Gibson’s disappearing of the Hendrix “cashcaster”.
Funnily enough, Charles Shaar Murray pondered in an article about the withdrawal of the product whether Gibson had “jumped the shark” with this particular model…..how apt…
I like your Shit Mr C