Getting that elusive blue tick on Twitter can take ages – years even. We’d know, as ours just got verified this week, and we’ve been around for yonks (go on, give us a follow).
Aussie hip hop duo and One Day crew members Jackie Onassis, unfortunately, no longer know the joy of that sweet validation from the Twitter gods, after pushing their luck a bit with a spate of trolling.
The pair, made up of vocalist Kai Tan and producer Raph Dixon, recently drew the company’s ire after making some rather political tweets relating to their name, which of course refers to former First Lady and wife of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
They’d originally received the verification because, of course, they are the official Twitter account of their own band. When they switched their profile around a little, however, they started causing a bit of confusion – and that’s where the trouble started.
Now, looking less like a Sydney music duo and more like, well, the now-deceased Former First Lady of the United States of America, they started to have a bit of fun at the expense of an unsuspecting Twitter audience.
It began pretty gently, all things considered…
…but things began to escalate very quickly.
According to Raph, who detailed the entire shitstorm on the band’s website, they started to draw some serious attention with a tweet featuring President Obama awarding the Medal of Freedom to Ellen Degeneres, but the real trouble began when they posted the “avant garde” thought below.
Now, with the eyes of Twitter well and truly on them and wondering either how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was tweeting from the grave or, more reasonably, how an impostor account got verified, the shit hit the fan.
The alt-right got involved, people kicked up a storm and started pointing fingers at Twitter for the mess, and understandably enough the duo soon lost their blue tick – and their account.
You can read the whole sordid tale over on the band’s website, which includes plenty more of their controversial posts, and some hilarious reactions from confused victims. From now on, you might just have to stick to Facebook for more cheeky antics from the Jackie Onassis boys.
