The Twitter account @dril is the source of some of the purest internet humour of our era. With no clue as to the identity behind the tweets aside from a blurry image of Jack Nicholson used as a profile pic, @dril nevertheless became the shining star of Weird Twitter. The following gems are just a few of his gifts to the world at large:
if your grave doesnt say “rest in peace” on it you are automatically drafted into the skeleton war
— wint (@dril) July 28, 2013
THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset.
ME: I agree— wint (@dril) September 28, 2014
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying— wint (@dril) September 29, 2013
“im not owned! im not owned!!”, i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob
— wint (@dril) November 11, 2011
blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin
— wint (@dril) June 3, 2014
And the perennial favourite:
IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL
— wint (@dril) May 22, 2012
The account is a work of art, a blessed respite from the Bad Blue Website in the form of the utmost parody of the Bad Blue Website itself. We are lucky to share an internet with this mysterious, shouting figure, whose ouvre has become so recognisable as to spawn a (very good) parody account called Everyone Is Dril.
But like anything good online, @dril, too, has been violated.
Yep, for reasons unfathomable, someone has taken it upon themselves to dox the person behind the account.
More than one someone, in fact – it appears that fans of the sprawling and incomprehensible comic Homestuck are behind the discovery of @dril’s real identity. They reportedly outed him on Tumblr because they suspected he had something to do with the recent release of a game that features in the comic.
While the intent behind the doxxing was not malicious, you bet people are upset about the possibility of reality encroaching upon one of the last pure Weird Twitter accounts. We all remember what happened to @horse_ebooks in 2013.
https://twitter.com/seungylee14/status/931591481827082240
https://twitter.com/sheapforwheet/status/931589247777128448
https://twitter.com/tatebjames/status/931603793464254465
Wanting to know the identity of Dril is why nerds suck
— Roko’s Brocialist (@bombsfall) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/mag_tweets/status/931598129471852544
look just because we might have found the corporeal manifestation of dril at this point in history doesn’t mean we know who dril is
— vestenet @ Birdie Wing AOTY (@vestenet) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/zlingman/status/931599809810538496
https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/931599839674208257
https://twitter.com/sung_minkim/status/931590239214215168
By the way, we are absolutely not going to link to the Tumblr post in question that purportedly outs @dril. If you want to ruin the one truly good thing on the internet, you can do it yourself.
and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.
— wint (@dril) December 29, 2014
