Since it first aired, Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment has been nothing short of genius. It’s lent a different perspective on people’s tendency to celebri-hate for no reason other than hating the famous – it’s been part eye-opener, part funny machine. The Jimmy Kimmel Show recently came out with its fourth run of the popular bit, and it still had laugh-inducing content that we all were looking forward to … only they seemed a little too perfect – it almost felt like they were written specifically for the show. Journalist and writer Rebecca Dana decided to investigate the authenticity of the tweets and found out that some of the handles and tweets flat out couldn’t be found on Twitter.
Gawker dug a little deeper into all the tweets featured in all four “Mean Tweets” episodes and found that while the first two installments of the series used 100 percent legit tweets and Twitter users, the later episodes’ tweets left a lot of room for doubt. So we dug deeper yet and applied Status People’s Fake Follower Check to all of the “Mean Tweets” Twitter handles to see what we could fine. And you know … for sheer entertainment value. I also checked to see if they had any similarly hateful tweets to check if their Kimmel-used content matched up.
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Note: Twitter data doesn’t get indexed by Google 100 percent of the time, so it’s a lot harder to find out outside of Twitter if the tweet really was posted or not, and Twitter users’ feeds with over thousands of tweets don’t show older posts anymore (which I went through with the first two Mean Tweets episodes), so whenever that happened, I just made an educated-yet-wild guess.
Mean Tweets episode #1
Episode aired March 2012
Alleged Tweet: @katieachavez – “@joelmchale is a huge d-bag”
Sample Tweet: If you start mowing at 7am I sincerely hope your lawn mower breaks, or you get deported, or you have a 4th family move in to your 3 bedroom. (May 10, 2013)
Status: Could be real, but tweets before July 17, 2012 are no longer available on her Twitter feed.
Confirmation:
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Alleged Tweet: @Frenchy_Rhei – “Yea…@realdavidcross is not my kind of comedian”
Sample Tweet: #NeverSatisfied story of my life (May 13, 2013)
Status: Original tweet no longer exists, but poster has a tweet (posted on the day the episode aired) that verifies the sentiment. She back-pedaled, though.
Confirmation:
@n8burn lol David Cross has his moments, just not my kind of comedian. I like him as an actor, though
Sample Tweet: I don’t really like you (May 12, 2013)
Status: Can’t check if the actual tweet still exists since her Twitter feed only archived tweets to as early as April 2012, but she did retweet something that could prove this to be real.
Confirmation:
Alleged Tweet: @BeepCreep1 – “Yo @kevin_nealon you suck fat balls”
Sample Tweet: Hey @kevin_nealon – just saw you on TV. I bet you smell funny. (June 27, 2011)
Status: He did post the tweet (see below), but he also only has 8 tweets posted in two days back in 2011, two of them about Kevin Nealon. He could be real.
Sample Tweet: This b**ch is connected to an oxygen tank & she’s eatin edibles lmao what???? #BatesMotel (May 13, 2013)
Status: I’m actually not sure – the earliest tweet available (dated February 27, 2013) on her feed says her Twitter is new, but that doesn’t mean the tweet featured on the first “Mean Tweets” episode couldn’t have happened. Let’s just say she is real, but we can’t no for sure when it comes to the tweet in question. (This user does have a lot of “ugly” tweets though, which makes her capable of posting it in the first place).
Status: Account protected, so I can’t verify whether the tweet exists, his/her follower health and post a sample tweet. The fact that it’s protected should be a good enough indicator that he/she is a real person, at least.
Confirmation:
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Alleged Tweet: @FilthyRichmond – “Can it be my turn to punch @andydick until there’s bones in his stool?”
Alleged Tweet: @BigGrains – “If Mike Piazza’s hair caught fire and someone put it out with a cast iron skillet, you’d have Danny McBride.”
Account stats: 1 tweet, 0 following, 1 follower
Status: I didn’t bother checking this account’s follower health since it only had one tweet and was following zero people. It also has the default egg profile photo, a clear indicator of phoniness. This tweet is probably fake.
Confirmation:
If Mike Piazza’s hair caught fire and someone put it out with a cast iron skillet, you’d have Danny McBride.
Alleged Tweet: @PassMeTheFunk – “There’s a new show where James Van Der Beek plays James Van Der Beek guys get your backpacks n boots this is the apocalypse I’m sure of it.”
Alleged Tweet: @The_McCabe – “I would rather chop my arm off & fist myself with my detached limb than watch ‘Katie Perry the movie.’ What the fuck is wrong with the world”
Alleged Tweet: @aimeenancygrace – “Did you know that if you skinned Larry King & ironed out his leather, you could make enough coats to give 1 to every poor child in America?”
Sample Tweet: funny how all my “””friends””” talk shit about me 24/7 (May 14, 2013)
Status: She changed usernames to @madisondavide7, but tweets before February 2013 are no longer viewable on her Twitter feed. The tweet below is older than February 2013, but it only proves the name change, not the tweet posting.
Status: He got featured again? He claimed that his tweet about Matt LeBlanc was bogus, so maybe this one is, too – they’re weirdly both about stars being old. But I can’t be sure … because he Favorited this post:
Sample Tweet: Cut cut my lip with a razor, I have preparation H under my eyes and my hair dryer is dead. Apparently I’m going for the swamp rat look (April 14, 2013)
Alleged Tweet: @ntguido31 – “@TomArnold, you are an inspiration to all fat dumps who love cocaine and love to f**k fat disgusting chicks. My hairy penis thanks you.”
Sample Tweet: got my mom a clay mould of my dad’s cock for mothers day, needless to say she didn’t like it…she f**kin loved it! great gift! pcs luv NT (May 12, 2013)
Status: Real
Confirmation:
@tomarnold youre an inspiration to all fat dumps who love cocaine and who love to fuck fat disgusting chicks. my fat hairy penisthanks u
Status: Account has been suspended, so I can’t verify stats, follower health, and whether or not the tweet was really posted.
Confirmation:
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Alleged Tweet: @Pamvantrance: I am not being mean but why does @andersoncooper remind me of dinosaurs?!?!?
Status: Twitter says the username does not exist, but Googling the handle reveals a few pages that prove someone used to go by that name. Can’t find her new Twitter profile, but according to Twitaholic, this is her. Still can’t be sure if the tweet is real or not, but we’re sure the Twitter handle at least used to exist:
Confirmation:
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Alleged Tweet: @jranimo – “Eric Stonestreet. Why so awkward and yelly?”
Status: Although the follower check says this account has no fake followers, I still find it odd that it only has four tweets, three of them posted on the same date and one about Danny McBride, who was also referenced in an earlier tweet. I may have to call shenanigans.
Confirmation:
@tenaciousdYou guys are like Lennon and McCartney, only fatter and gayer.
Sample Tweet: In our continuous effort to be more like Starbucks, we will now be selling cake pops, except while wearing purple shirts #dumb (May 13, 2013)
Alleged Tweet: @Zyx443: “Hey @zachbraff, I could take a picture of a piece of sh*t in my toilet and it would be a better movie than Garden State.”
Status: Twitter says username does not exist. Searching for the username didn’t yield usable results. Could be fake.
Confirmation:
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Alleged Tweet: @misschel[blurred]: “I’ve never seen the fuss with russel brand, he’s a hairy non funny t*@t”
Status: Googled the tweet using both the correct and incorrect (featured on Kimmel) spelling of Brand’s name, results don’t seem to include a direct Twitter status link. It was also hard to get any close results since the username was partially blurred beyond recognition.
Confirmation: None
Alleged Tweet: @tweetlikeitsmyj: “F**k @BradPaisley and his f**king country singing f**king face.”
Status: Account has been suspended, so I can’t verify stats, follower health, and whether or not the tweet was really posted.
Confirmation:
Alleged Tweet: @saaanex9: “@KellyRipa is kind of amazing, when you think about how hard it must be to balance that huge head on a tiny body.”
Follower health: 0percent fake, 0 percent inactive, 100 percent good
Status: Although follower check says this account is 0% fake and has over 200 tweets, the fact that it has 0 following and the default egg profile photo both scream fake.
Confirmation:
Kelly Ripa is kind of amazing,when you think about how hard it must be to balance that huge head on a tiny body.
Alleged Tweet: @Ryne[blurred]: “Whenever someone tells me that I look like Andy Samberg, they’re basically saying: ‘Guess how big your nose is … very big'”
Status: Searching for the tweet on both Google and within Twitter yields no result using a handle that begins with @Ryne. The only tweets that come up in Twitter were posted the same date the episode aired. Handle too blurred.
Confirmation:
Alleged Tweet: @TWOSOUTHWRECKIN: “Dear @nodoubt, The only thing in doubt is whether us music makes me want to puke or kill myself & then puke. Sincerely, everyone.”
Status: Account has been suspended, so I can’t verify stats, follower health, and whether or not the tweet was really posted.
Confirmation:
Alleged Tweet: @MikLacey27: “I can’t figure out if Elisabeth Moss is attractive or not.”
Sample Tweet: The girl at Steve Madden just tried so hard to get me to buy the sandals I tried on that I almost gave in… even though they didnt fit. Ugh (May 14, 2013)
Status: Not real, according to @kcbeerminx (see below). And even then, this account only has two tweets and the default egg profile photo, so yep, fake.
Confirmation:
@harryhooks86 LOL nahh those tweets in that segment of Jimmy Kimmel were fake i just made this account for shits :P
Alleged Tweet: @GOLF-GUY_127: “It’s a good thing Ray Romano is funny because his face looks like a dump I took today”
Status: GOLF-GUY_127 does not exist, according to Twitter (and a dash in your handle is impossible). GOLF_GUY_127 only has 2 tweets, both were posted AFTER the Kimmel segment aired. GOLFGUY127 doesn’t have the offending tweet, but he DID link to a Youtube video of the segment after it aired. I say it’s bogus.
Confirmation:
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I’m not the golf guy you’re looking for. OR AM I. DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNN.
While it seems like a great many of the tweets were real, and most of the accounts were, the last two installments of the series definitely raise some eyebrows as to their authenticity. It seems crazy to suggest that Kimmel and co. would have to create hateful messages to celebrities, considering the wealth of them out there, but there’s always a chance the writers wanted to control the funny. Mark this down as one of life’s little mysteries.
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Since it first aired, Jimmy Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment has been nothing short of genius. It’s lent a different perspective on people’s tendency to celebri-hate for no reason other than hating the famous – it’s been part eye-opener, part funny machine. The Jimmy Kimmel Show recently came out with its fourth run of the popular bit, and it still had laugh-inducing content that we all were looking forward to … only they seemed a little too perfect – it almost felt like they were written specifically for the show. Journalist and writer Rebecca Dana decided to investigate the authenticity of the tweets and found out that some of the handles and tweets flat out couldn’t be found on Twitter.
