Monster pretends to be Rick And Morty creator on Twitter, cancels show
One handy trick among Twitter’s blue checkmark crowd (polishes apple, takes a large, crackling bite) is that, by changing your display name, bio, and image, you can much more realistically impersonate other famous people. The only thing giving you away is your actual handle, which most people don’t pay much attention to anyway. This is probably not kosher with Twitter’s terms of service, and will likely lead to some sort of crackdown in the near future, but in the meantime, why not pretend to be Rick And Morty creator Justin Roiland just to troll the show’s much-maligned fans and see what sort of response you can get?
That’s what Mashable writer Alex Arbuckle did a few days ago, and, while he pulled out of all of the stops to enrage that most enrage-able of modern fanbases, for the most part things went fine.
It started thusly: