it is absolutely a full time job, dealing with this Shit.

August 25, 2018 1:26 PM

VICE interviews @dril
posted by Going To Maine (34 comments total)

I couuld not even begin to imagine what the young man from Peru who previously owned "@Dril" was thinking when he chose this avatar, before my Social Media Management Firm seized his account and bulldozed his home

Oh yes, yesyesyes

(had no not never ever heard of this at-dril entity previously)
posted by sammyo at 2:26 PM on August 25, 2018

The interview, of course is largely as @dril, but it’s surprising to me that people close to him/her have apparently been aware, even given the doxxing. I suppose I tend to assume that Twitter alter-egos are top-secret and you don’t want to blow your own cover.
posted by Going To Maine at 2:26 PM on August 25, 2018 [3 favorites]

When I see that Twitter handle I wish I could stop thinking of the Ray Bradbury story "Zero Hour."

‘Can’t,’ said Mink. ‘Drill’s waiting for me.’
‘Who’s Drill? What a peculiar name,’ said Mom.
posted by doctornemo at 2:46 PM on August 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

Is that tag some kind of metajoke or did you accidentally use two Ls?
posted by axiom at 2:55 PM on August 25, 2018

I love dril. He is god-tier at shitposting, but occasionally has tweets with lines that could rival Shakespeare. I feel wholly represented by his content.
posted by FirstMateKate at 3:01 PM on August 25, 2018 [12 favorites]

dril is weak salsa and he was a terrible father to me and my seventeen digimon
posted by phooky at 3:45 PM on August 25, 2018 [19 favorites]

an andy warhol of that turd website
posted by wires at 3:46 PM on August 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

As for the amount of time, tweets can take anywhere from 1 second to 10 years to create, depending on how good they are.

Is this something I have to be the Undisputed King of Twitter for? The quality of my tweets seems to be completely unrelated to how much time and effort I spend painstakingly crafting them.
posted by ckape at 4:28 PM on August 25, 2018

Is that tag some kind of metajoke or did you accidentally use two Ls?

Shouldn't have drunk one beer before hitting post
posted by Going To Maine at 4:58 PM on August 25, 2018 [1 favorite]

one beer is the worst. wait until two or seven. then post.
posted by daq at 5:10 PM on August 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

Shouldn't have drunk one beer before hitting post

I find two is the proper pre-post consumption.
posted by Thorzdad at 5:10 PM on August 25, 2018

You should try ticklestakingly crafting your tweets.
posted by rhizome at 6:11 PM on August 25, 2018

What do you do to unwind after a long day?
i will never un wind

What a mood.
posted by brook horse at 6:46 PM on August 25, 2018 [2 favorites]

One last rep.
posted by sideshow at 6:48 PM on August 25, 2018

you call this a menu?? where the FUCK are the Heart Healthy Essentials

posted by octobersurprise at 7:03 PM on August 25, 2018 [5 favorites]

Heh I was wondering a while back who the hell dril was and why I followed him. After some extremely cursory research (i looked at his twitter profile for possibly 15 entire seconds) I decided he must be a mefite, I just wasn’t sure who. And that is how he has stayed categorized in my brain.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:21 PM on August 25, 2018

There are comedians who search for years for that one legendary line, and @dril has so goddamn many.
posted by Merus at 4:08 AM on August 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

We Are Dril is the new I Am Groot.
posted by Major Matt Mason Dixon at 6:26 AM on August 26, 2018

Is this something I’d have to have a tv twitter account to understand?
posted by From Bklyn at 7:12 AM on August 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

me no understand

i am now officially Too Old for twatter
posted by lalochezia at 7:27 AM on August 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

The budget post is probably the best twitter post in history, and I imagine I will be making dumb references to it for years to come.
posted by graventy at 7:46 AM on August 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

@dril: @McDonalds and it is necessary, I believe, to threaten your customers with some sort of villain, to increase the perceived valueof your food

I just laugh so hard every time I think of it, and it's terrible, can you imagine explaining this to someone who is not on Twitter?
posted by grandiloquiet at 7:54 AM on August 26, 2018 [5 favorites]

I don't care who dril is, I just want to know where the Nicholson picture is from.

Is this something I’d have to have a tv twitter account to understand?

Most probably.
posted by rhizome at 10:28 AM on August 26, 2018

From Bklyn: "Is this something I’d have to have a tv twitter account to understand?"

I have a twitter account and I don't understand it either. I never heard of @dril until now and I'm not really getting the humor.
posted by octothorpe at 10:46 AM on August 26, 2018 [3 favorites]

> Heh I was wondering a while back who the hell dril was and why I followed him. After some extremely cursory research (i looked at his twitter profile for possibly 15 entire seconds) I decided he must be a mefite, I just wasn’t sure who. And that is how he has stayed categorized in my brain.

It's me. I'm dril.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 10:53 AM on August 26, 2018 [4 favorites]

I knew it.
posted by Going To Maine at 11:14 AM on August 26, 2018

I've only seen them 280 once, and I think it was an accident.

Also, I believe everyone only has one great @dril tweet inside of them.
posted by chinesefood at 12:59 PM on August 26, 2018

Is this something I’d have to have a tv twitter account to understand?

I was visiting my brother a couple of weeks ago, an extremely not online guy with a nice house and a nice family and at one moment I chuckled when I thought of how most of the stupid shit I think of every day would not make even a bit of sense to him.
posted by octobersurprise at 3:48 PM on August 26, 2018 [7 favorites]

I remember a few years ago I was trying to show someone -- someone both in the internet business and somewhat meme-aware -- I was trying to show someone @darth...and I got nothing. Zero. I think you just have to see that one tweet that speaks to you at the moment you see it, then you get in the flow of their...personality. It's a uniquely Internet phenomenon and I'd maybe even go so far as to call them a literature.
posted by rhizome at 8:53 PM on August 26, 2018 [2 favorites]

My absolute favorite dril-related thing, apart from of course "I will face god and walk backwards into hell," is this found poem composed of rearranged dril tweets.
posted by yasaman at 12:49 PM on August 27, 2018

It's amusing to me how I grew up online, am part of the generation that has adopted these various platforms, yet Twitter is just an alien world to me. I think I get it, but I just don't go there or ever cross with it besides instances like these. I'm too young for this.
posted by GoblinHoney at 12:50 PM on August 27, 2018

From the interview:

Most people I know are aware of the ways I debase myself online. It feels normal not to talk about it so we don't talk about it much.

Same, tbh.
posted by mhum at 3:25 PM on August 27, 2018 [2 favorites]

strutting around in my stepson cowboy hat looking for an ass kicking

posted by octobersurprise at 5:26 PM on August 27, 2018 [1 favorite]

Occasionally someone will try to find the origin of the phrase "then I will turn to face God and walk backwards into Hell!" and when they dig up the original source you can hear the "NO WAY" from halfway around the world.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 4:03 PM on August 28, 2018 [2 favorites]