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I intentionally sprinkled in references to Anderson Cooper’s jab such as “Holiday Inn” that should’ve made this an obvious joke to anyone who read it. However, people thought Sean Hannity really lost his Pasta Pass (which, as we all know, has not been sold since 2019).
What I didn’t write intentionally was the typo many people have since pointed out: “viscous” instead of “vicious” People latched onto that really quick, mentioning “alfredo” enough times for me to crave it. I think this typo contributed to this tweet being shared.
Posting to your own timeline for an audience that is familiar with you is one thing. However, when it leaves your network through retweets and quote tweets, the context is lost instantly. People were retweeting and quote tweeting faster than I could keep up with.
People joke that social media managers have a rough time when something like this happens. I know that to be true, and I didn’t consider that aspect seriously enough. Nor did I consider that my verified badge on Twitter would lend credence to something as stupid as this.
When my dumb joke about revoking Pasta Passes is believed to be true by *actual journalists* and causes *actual stress* for people who now have to deal with my joke, I think it becomes not *just* a joke. So, I deleted the original tweet.
That's what made the joke so sticky
Don’t even doubt it. That last sentence IS the viral ingredient of our times. Makes shit funnier (a lil salami), plus anal retentive peeps unintentionally spread them by “correcting”.
it was a really good faux pasta
I was wondering if that was intentional or not. It's what reminded me that fact checking is a good thing.
Yeah...I was going "Rag-u" for the typo.
Ah, see, a lot of the spam/trollish things I’ve encountered lately have poorly spelled words as a kind of “tell. That’s mostly why it caught my attention. That & how many people have actually spelled words wrong or said words wrong on real tweets by poor decision-makers.
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