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=== Beginning ===
=== Beginning ===
On the 15th of November, an announcement was posted in the #announcements channel by the user Wurzt that told members to start sending messages with the #RipDrake hashtag on the Twitter platform, many other servers such as [[Dogelore]] or [[Irony Hub]] also helped with the effort of pushing the hashtag into the trending section of Twitter.
On the 15th of November, an announcement was posted in the #announcements channel by the user [[Wurzt]] that told members to start sending messages with the #RipDrake hashtag on the Twitter platform, many other servers such as [[Dogelore]] or [[Irony Hub]] also helped with the effort of pushing the hashtag into the trending section of Twitter.


This goal was finally met and thanks to that many innocent individuals were caught up in a somewhat elite act of ironic trolling.<ref>[https://i.gyazo.com/36c19d8aaa4f84df29d0755b8b1324b9.png Screenshot of a message in the #announcement channel related to #RipDrake going trending in the US.]</ref><ref>[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/528925949568483328/777333032226783262/image0.png Screenshot of many unrelated twitter users getting trolled by #RipDrake]</ref>
This goal was finally met and thanks to that many innocent individuals were caught up in a somewhat elite act of ironic trolling.<ref>[https://i.gyazo.com/36c19d8aaa4f84df29d0755b8b1324b9.png Screenshot of a message in the #announcement channel related to #RipDrake going trending in the US.]</ref><ref>[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/528925949568483328/777333032226783262/image0.png Screenshot of many unrelated twitter users getting trolled by #RipDrake]</ref>

Revision as of 14:42, 24 February 2023

The Rip Drake hashtag was an effort to make a popular Twitter hashtag, on social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as Twitter or Instagram as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme.

The hashtag would try to falsify Drake's, an american rapper's death, this hashtag originates in the Whenthe server.

Rip Drake

Beginning

On the 15th of November, an announcement was posted in the #announcements channel by the user Wurzt that told members to start sending messages with the #RipDrake hashtag on the Twitter platform, many other servers such as Dogelore or Irony Hub also helped with the effort of pushing the hashtag into the trending section of Twitter.

This goal was finally met and thanks to that many innocent individuals were caught up in a somewhat elite act of ironic trolling.[1][2]

Rip Drake Goes Mainstream

The #RipDrake hashtag appearing in the trending section of the United States of America.

All of this resulted in an official statement from the Twitter team, [3]calming many people down who actually believed that Drake died from unknown causes.

After everything was over, wurzt posted a list of the most notable people who helped powering the hashtag. Afterwards, Wurzt thanked every single notable person that helped with powering the hashtag, also thanking them in the process.[4]

Announcement that sent a message to the general public about #RipDrake
An innocent individual caught in an elite act of trolling.

Thank @Wess☻ for making the idea with me in vc

Thank @Moe_ for being a first responder and advertising this on Irony Hub

Thank @cristen for advertising this on Dogelore

Thank @andromeda for being a first responder and making that heaven image

Thank dactyl for making the fake shooting article along with inflating the tag

Thank @super sonic fan for making the fake genius article that went viral on my account

Thank @astralsky for making the rick roll latlmes article that i tweeted

Thank @aterr for inflating the tag at the beginning

Thank @(n04) for above Thank fritze for above

Thank @Extra for above Thank @nikkouga for above

Thank @Aeri for above (he showed up in a news article too)

Thank @Bucket for above and getting his account banned Thank

@Deleted User for above

Thank @SpangleMoth for above

Thank @SpeedPlatinum for above

Thank @hav for above

Thank @Ohio for above

Thank @Ray P. Miners for above

Thank @𐍀𐍂𐍉𐌳 for above

Thank @GROTESQUE for above

Thank @quoge with beans for above

Thank @Cosmic printer for above

Thank @Allah #FREEJADE for above along with trolling the people sending hate and shit even 12 hours later

~ Wurzt

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