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 edit
Beginning edit
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 edit
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. Also thanking them in the process.[4]
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
References edit
- ↑ Screenshot of a message in the #announcement channel related to #RipDrake going trending in the US.
- ↑ Screenshot of many unrelated twitter users getting trolled by #RipDrake
- ↑ Screenshot of the official statement from the twitter team.
- ↑ Screenshot of Wurzt's announcement thanking everyone who powered the hashtag.