We’re at full red alert folks when it comes to my attempt to get a woman with at least one million followers to direct message me.
Here’s the situation. A model with north of four million followers sent a direct message to a Twitter account unprompted by myself, which is part of the rules. We’re currently withholding her name until we figure out if this counts as a win or not.
Here’s where it gets really stick. It’s an account I oversee, @TheSmokeRoom, but it’s not my personal account.
Here’s a reminder of the background for the celebrity DM challenge:
Some of my enlightened coworkers and I got into a heated debate about whether or not I could ever get a famous woman to hit up my DMs (emphasis added). Well, we’re about to find out just how easy or hard it truly is. After about half an hour of debate, we finally settled on some ground rules.
They are as follows:
1) The woman must have at least a million followers on social media.
2) I am not allowed to contact them first. They must contact me first. Obviously the whole purpose of this would be defeated if I sent the initial message. Messages can come through on any platform. Twitter, E-mail (hookstead@dailycaller.com), Facebook or however they get it to me (emphasis added).
3) It must be completed before April 18, 2018. I turn 26 on April 17, and we’ve agreed on this deadline for this experiment.
Some are arguing the challenge has been effectively won because the wording of the rules is broad and vague enough to allow for a Twitter account I oversee to be my own. The people on this side are using “my DMs” in the rules as a crutch and backing it up with “can come through any platform.”
However, some are saying that it had to be my personal account. Here’s the thing. At no point in the initial rules is the word “personal” even mentioned. Not once. So, we’ve found ourselves in a very gray area. This seems like a letter of the law vs. the spirit of the law kind of situation.
I think I’ve won if we’re going simply by the letter of the law, but I can see the counter argument for how I haven’t won by the spirit of the law. Honestly, this seems like something the Supreme Court has to decide at this point. How are we to interpret the rules?
Like I said, we’re in a full blown crisis right now. I’d say it’s the equivalent of DEFCON 2. Missiles aren’t flying through the air just yet, but we’re mobilizing for inevitable problems.
Part of me just thinks the haters will never accept a victory. People always hate the successful, and maybe others are envious. I have no idea. Let’s not forget that I had a porn star DM several months ago, and I didn’t even count that one at all.
So, feel free to weigh in with your thoughts. Have I won the challenge, or does the fight continue on?
Personally, I think it’s game over, and I’ve been crowned king of the internet once again.
