I almost feel bad for major brand accounts right now. It started with that dude who went viral for asking Wendy’s to send him a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets in exchange for 18 million retweets (currently up to 3.2 million RT’s). Now you’ve got every hustler on Twitter trying to hit up brands for free products in exchange for retweets and virality.
Sometimes, though, the brand has no intention of sending someone free products. In the case of Mercedes-Benz, they’re just trolling, and this dude got trolled hard. Just like the Wendy’s chicken nuggets dude this guy was trying to trade millions of retweets for something free:
https://twitter.com/Abdinoorx2/status/852195863942352897
But then it backfired:
The dude getting trolled appears to not be taking the joke as well as the rest of the Internet. He’s out there tweeting ‘fuck your brand’ to Mercedes-Benz USA because he’s salty that they won’t be giving him a free automobile:
https://twitter.com/Abdinoorx2/status/852277346644242432
Naturally, the reactions to that tweet are pretty good:
Good, go get a job and buy your own car and stop with this RT nonsense lol
— Da Nancified One 👸🏽 (@Da_BossLadyy) April 13, 2017
— aug (@Firegetsmehard) April 12, 2017
Nah lots of people work hard to make such cars, they don't pay those workers with RETWEETS #respectabenz!
— Osigwe (@tha3pLe) April 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/Serbian_Savage/status/852359823203028994
Boycott cause you didn't get a free car…? pic.twitter.com/bzJKnIzchN
— Michelle Luna 💫 (@shewolfeyes) April 19, 2017
As for the original tweet, it’s only got just over 9,000 retweets. Roughly 20 million short of the required 20 million retweets he needed. If he’s going to be all butthurt over Mercedes-Benz trolling him he could’ve at least tried to get more than a handful of RT’s, no? Poor effort.