A dog appreciation Twitter account is at the centre of a huge online controversy after it tried to flog hats with a misspelt tweet from the President of the United States on them, and if that isn’t a huge indication of the insane weirdness of 2017 then I don’t know what is.
ME: the covfefe fallout claimed dog rates guy
DR: indeed24HR AGO
ME: the covfefe fallout claimed dog rates guy
DR: you are having a stroke— DougExeter (@DougExeter) May 31, 2017
WeRateDogs, a Twitter account with well over two million followers, took a break from its usual good posting of dogs to jump on the ‘covfefe‘ bandwagon (in reference to a misspelt Trump tweet) that basically melted Twitter for a good six hours yesterday.
This is Dewey (pronounced “covfefe”). He’s having a good walk. Arguably the best walk. 13/10 would snug softly pic.twitter.com/HciEaJkC4D
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 31, 2017
The 20-year-old who runs the account, Matt Nelson, saw an opportunity to further jump on the covfefe thing, and quickly made a ‘Covfefe AF‘ hat for his merchandise shop.
But then Nelson decided to donate all proceeds from the hat to Planned Parenthood, and people just got so incredibly mad.
PUPDATE: half of all profits will be donated to @PPact
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 31, 2017
It’s your biz, but this is a terrible business decision imo
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 31, 2017
I am unfollowing. Enjoyed it before. Hopefully someone else starts a new dog rating twitter
— Chris® (@cali_chriss) May 31, 2017
I always liked cats better anyways.
— Ron M. (@Jewtastic) May 31, 2017
He’s now posted a THREE SCREENSHOT MESSAGE apologising for the whole damn mess.
“If my actions offended you, I’m sincerely sorry,” he wrote. “Alienating a portion of my audience is stupid and unnecessary. Different opinions are good and conversations about those opinions are valuable. Dogs are bipartisan and that’s why my following is diverse and my account brings people together. Last night I jeopardised that, and I’m sorry. I’ll do my best to put the train back on the tracks to the wholesome, pure, escape from reality account you have all come to love.
Regarding the events of last night.. pic.twitter.com/dGkqOJA3SK
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 31, 2017
WeRateDogs is now back to rating dogs.
We only rate dogs. This is quite clearly a smol broken polar bear. We’d appreciate if you only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 pic.twitter.com/g2nSyGenG9
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 2, 2017
Photo: WeRateDogs / Twitter.
