When you think of parodies only one name should come to mind: Wierd Al Yankovic. He is the master and he has proven it again on Twitter.
Poking fun at the recent suspension of Kathy Griffin from Twitter, he said that Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Yankovic in the movie, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, was suspended for being a parody account. The joke is that Radcliffe does not have social media and while some account was suspended it was not Radcliffe. Yes, this editor happens to be a giant Harry Potter fan so we would KNOW if Harry Potter himself had a social media account. YAY! You all get to benefit from our oddly specific nerdy knowledge. 🙂
Oh no, they suspended @danielradcliffe's Twitter account! Wasn't it obvious he was doing a PARODY???
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) November 7, 2022
TONS of people fell for the joke and they are REALLY MAD!
* @danielradcliffe acts as a parody of a parody musician and promotes that parody with a parody on twitter*@alyankovic, the irony is so thick, you can cut it with a scalpel…like a surgeon. https://t.co/QvxuYrQzHR
— Pamela Horton (@PamelaHorton13) November 8, 2022
And yet JK Rowling's TERF ass is still on this app. https://t.co/0UydEbFF5T pic.twitter.com/hvruaNY5hg
— Courtney | Carlos trash (@courtney_bolton) November 8, 2022
— ♠️Audsauce♠️ (@Audjuice9989) November 8, 2022
The OMG JK TERF Twitter faction was SUPER mad at the idea she is still allowed to speak her mind.
https://twitter.com/Theresoucefult1/status/1589802915124105217
Look, Musk is not a right winger even a little, but this person is just mad that rules have been applied to all sides and not just conservatives on the platform and no matter what Musk does with Twitter, watching liberals melt down over even application of rules will have been worth it.
The fact people are taking this as "he must've mocked Elon" and completely missing the fact that
1. He just started in a satire movie about Weird Al Yankovich, that's the joke.
2. Daniel Radcliffe doesn't have Twitter this was just some dude pretending to be him. https://t.co/ZTiL07taQw— Techless 🐨 | 👑💌 Kaizocrew Clipper (@SachiCantTech) November 7, 2022
Well played 🤣
— Angie M (@angiemoshonas) November 8, 2022
(The joke is that he's never been on Twitter) https://t.co/6s5cC3oGEj
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) November 7, 2022
(to all of you not realizing this. It's a joke. The mentioned account never was Daniel's account because he has no social media himself)
— Daniel Radcliffe NL (@DanJRadcliffeNL) November 7, 2022
https://twitter.com/JesseCox/status/1589746168204230656
And we rest our case. Weird Al is SO good and the MASTER of all things parody that most people are not sure if it is true. Let us simplify the issue: A fake Daniel Radcliffe account was suspended for pretending to be Weird Al, however, the account was never the real Daniel Radcliffe and there will always be only one Weird Al Yankovic.
Stay Weird. And GO VOTE!
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