Guess what? It worked. The Twitter user got his treasured RT:
Here’s what hip hop star J. Cole said about the young man’s death-threat tweet:
Promise made, promise kept:
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347033536966041600
Where was the young Twitter user’s mother during all this? Why, right there in the room, of course.
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347036101686464512
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347036627832545280
The young man said it was a BB gun and wasn’t loaded:
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347048044719661058
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347054345960951809
Nevertheless, he seems unhappy with the attention his tweet is receiving:
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347055958163353600
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347056377551798273
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347058424212770816
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347061174346592257
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347126446206099459
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347141517539942401
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347180761721495552
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347244756235075584
https://twitter.com/_TzC_/status/347250874101420032
Many Twitter users are responding with laughter or support:
https://twitter.com/KarlHuntley/status/347255841717624832
https://twitter.com/QueenS0SA/status/347257655875743744
Wait. It gets worse:
https://twitter.com/PB9_Parsifal/status/347245384172720128
Something is wrong with these people.