Pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees trick media outlets: ‘Rahul Ligma’

NY Post ^ | 10/28/2022 | Thomas Barrabi and Theo Wayt

[Allegra]

Brilliant! 😂😂

[Moorings]

Wasn't there a somewhat lengthy thread earlier calling the fake indian twitter employee lots of names.

Bwahaha...

That was a pretty cool prank. Just seeing the guy holding up the Michel Obama book was hillarious.

[stevio]

I’m sure it was, but someone still bought.

[Clioman]

Don’t forget Sum Yung Gui.

[jdt1138]

“Reporters”

[j_guru]

But he still had Michael Obama’s book.

It’s fine. You can find them at thrift stores, garage sales, and in many trash dumpsters, without lining the Obama’s pockets.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

Flip Wilson had a skit something like this. There was a group of protestors walking in a circle and one told a passerby he was tired and wanted to get a drink and convinced the passerby to hold his sign and march in a circle with a group. Next thing the passerby knew a news truck rolled in and a female reporter charged out to him and started asking him questions. He ad-libbed it saying they wanted more pay and less hours. They asked him what he did and he started describing how he worked on the main frame.

[stevio]

You’re probably right. It is San Francisco, most likely used for toilet paper by the homeless.

[j_guru]

most likely used for toilet paper by the homeless. <—— THIS! Hahahaha

[TChad]

Try it on a search engine.

I did. Of course.

I came up with a ton of hits on the fake Twitter employees, with the information that it was an internet meme popular in 2020. Since I did not want to spend much time tracking it down, I asked on FR, thinking someone might explain it in a few words. That did not happen.

[dinodino]

Their last names together form a popular Internet meme: “Ligma Johnson.”

[monkeyshine]

So these media types lamenting the potential loss of “fact checkers” get trolled into publishing “disinformation”? Clever.

[Freedom of Speech Wins]

The book blew their cover, even left wing journalists had to wonder if anyone could really be reading Michelle Obama’s book.

[DJ MacWoW]

“Daniel” was believable until toward the end. He said he was a programmer/coder and 30 had been let go. They asked how he was told and he said his boss was kind enough to tell them in person. He talked about admiring Musk up until now....and then it went downhill about Nazis, trans and having both a Husband and a Wife. lol

[ground_fog]

I haven’t laughed this hard in awhile. The media deserves nothing but mockery and ridicule.

[Revel]

Sue all involved for liable. Yes that includes the fake media.

[Delta 21]

Look at the 'Oh so concerned' look on the reporterette on the right.

Bravo, Bravo !!

[KC_Conspirator]

Ligma Johnson.

Funny, funny stuff.

[KC_Conspirator]

“I have to go home and tell my Husband and Wife”.

Lololol

[SamAdams76]

The book blew their cover, even left wing journalists had to wonder if anyone could really be reading Michelle Obama’s book.

Yes, that was the jump the shark moment. Too clever by half. Every liberal journalist (and that's all of them) know that it was just a coffee table book, never intended to ever be read.

Otherwise it was a great prank. They just overreached.