Seems these days, the best way to express your anger at a company is to create a parody twitter account and combat that anger with some tongue-in-cheek humor.
The Iphone 4 reporting tons of problems with losing connection based on a hardware problem has left a large number of consumers so angry, they think it’s funny. Not to blame them either, with a response to the problem from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, of “Don’t hold it that way”, you can’t blame people for laughing at his douchebaggery.
And low and behold, that response has come back to bite him in the ass with a Parody Twitter Account.
This is not actually Stevey posting his stupid thoughts (Although we wish it was). However, the account does prove to be entertaining every time Apple tries to make a move.
Here are some of his latest “Job-isms”
"Don't hold me that way."
“Holding a press conference Friday…. and we’re not going to hold it wrong”. 16 minutes ago via Twitter foriPhone
“iPhone 4 is a revolutionary, magical product. Why? It can make your reception disappear like never before.” about 21 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
“Forget the bars. iPhone’s AT&T signal level will now be represented by a happy face or a sad face. #MoreFacesinMorePlaces “ 6:49 AM Jul 14th via Twitter for iPhone
Also out there in the twitter world, the infamous polluting evil entity that is BP, has also been graced with a slap-in-the-face parody Twitter account.
@BPGlobalPR is the parody twitter account listed as “BP Public Relations”- but sadly it’s almost indistinguishable from the real BP public relations account (It just has about 10x more followers and is a heck of a lot funnier). The account boasts its actually doing something for the tragedy of the Gulf Oil Spill. Selling T-shirts with the “BP Cares” line, for $25, has already contributed $20,000 to the fund. You can actually get one here (Hopefully people understand the joke and don’t automatically hate you when they see it).
The account has also been surprisingly nominated for Vh1′s “Do Something” awards.
Let’s take a look at @BPBlobalPR ‘s hilarity.
"Oops! Mommy, I spilled!"
“Attn: BP Employees- Office supplies do not belong to you. Please have some respect for other people’s property. #bpcares ”
“Of course we released a terrorist so we could drill in Libya! We’d suck Osama’s dick if he came oil. http://ow.ly/2b5Wl”
“Here’s the truth: we got food poisoning from shrimp one time and said, “Let’s make sure that never happens again.” #bpcares
Don’t forget to check other people’s responses to the #bpcares Hashtag discussion.
Other Parody Twitter accounts (we will list but won’t get into for now)
- Ron Jeremy (*Caution with your exploration of this one!*)
- Michael Bay (Lol, Michael Bay)
- Helen Keller (For those Apples to Apples fans, you know this is the best one)
- Facebook PR (In respect to our last blog post)
- Paramount Films (Used to be just @paramountfilms…. The REAL Pfilms couldn’t take the sarcasm)
- Nick Nolte (Crazy Nick Nolte!!!)
- Dr. Tobias Funke (Thank God we can still get our Arrested Development fix.)
- Anderson Cooper 180 (In parody of Anderson Cooper 360 – His inner-thoughts)
- Drunk Hulk (WE SPEAK CAP LOCK TILL DIE)
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