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Weird Twitter

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A subculture of anonymous users with ironic usernames on Twitter who achieved outsized influence through viral tweets and proximity to journalists, reaching peak relevance during the Bernie Sanders campaigns.

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"It's March 2012 now, I'm involved in something called "weird twitter". "There are no women on the internet" is marked by TV tropes as a "discredited trope" and seen as a tasteless, bigoted sentiment. There are no women on the internet."
There are no women on the internet · u/kwijibolord · ↑128 · 2025-10-18
"the era of the anonymous nobody with an ironic username, simplistic black & white worldview, tens of thousands of followers due to having a mildly-amusing viral tweet or two roughly a decade ago, is coming to an end. and while it's true that twitter was long ago supplanted in terms of pop culture re"
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