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- @dril is a pseudonymous Twitter user best known for his idiosyncratic style of absurdist humor and non sequiturs. The account, its author, and the character associated with the tweets are all commonly referred to as dril (the account's identifier on Twitter) or wint (the account's display name), both rendered lowercase but often capitalized by others. Since his first tweet in 2008, dril has become a popular and influential Twitter user with more than 1.7 million followers. Dril is one of the most notable accounts associated with "Weird Twitter", a subculture on the site that shares a surreal, ironic sense of humor. The character associated with dril is highly distinctive, often described as a bizarre reflection of a typical male American Internet user. Other social media users have repurposed dril's tweets for humorous or satiric effect in a variety of political and cultural contexts. Many of dril's tweets, phrases, and tropes have become familiar parts of Internet slang. The author behind dril remained unknown for years, with the few available details about the author's life fueling speculation about his identity. In 2017, a piece from New York suggested the author’s identity, which was later confirmed by dril himself. Beyond tweeting, dril has created animated short films and contributed illustrations and writing to other artists' collaborative projects. His first book, Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection (2018), is a compilation of the account's "greatest hits" alongside new illustrations. In 2019 he announced the launch of a streaming web series called Truthpoint: Darkweb Rising, an InfoWars parody co-created with comedian Derek Estevez-Olsen for Adult Swim. Writers have praised dril for the originality and humor of his tweets; for example, poet Patricia Lockwood called dril "a master of tone [and] character". (en)
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- wint (Twitter display name) (en)
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- A man in front of a mounted microphone wearing a suit, American lapel pin, and baseball cap (en)
- A line art-style illustration of a smug-looking man with sunglasses and a cigarette in the corner of his mouth. He wears a military uniform, including a cape, medals, epaulettes, and an armband that displays the word "Pussy". (en)
- A parade float depicting a man with a thick mustache and a facial expression pinched in disgust, wearing a hunting cap, flannel shirt and scarf (en)
- A smiling man wearing tinted sunglasses and a tuxedo (en)
- A man with a Van Dyke-style beard wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket (en)
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- Armin Rosen (en)
- Clayton Purdom (en)
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- A graph of @dril's follower count since the account's launch in September 2008. (en)
- A self-portrait from dril's 2018 book, based on his Twitter avatar, a blurred image of actor Jack Nicholson's face (en)
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- dril's persona has been compared to actor Jack Nicholson ; former President Donald Trump ; musician and actor Ice-T ; and Ignatius J. Reilly, the oafish protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces . (en)
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- Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection (en)
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- Like Dante or Shakespeare, Dril is a creator of vernacular: If you've ever tweeted about the boys being back in town, or bemoaned some group of people being at it again, or ruminated on things "they" won't even let you do, or asked for budgeting help because your family is dying, you're quoting Dril, maybe without even consciously realizing it by now ... [T]hrough sheer force of genius, his sense of humor has become everyone else's as well. (en)
- We can thank Twitter for mobilizing dissent, humanizing celebrities, and @dril. (en)
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- The A.V. Club (en)
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- no (en)
- fuck "jokes". everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter dot com. i live for this (en)
- "im not owned! im not owned!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob (en)
- Candles $3,600 (en)
- Data $150 (en)
- Food $200 (en)
- Rent $800 (en)
- who the fuck is scraeming 'LOG OFF' at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off (en)
- Utility $150 (en)
- someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying (en)
- i refuse to consume any product that has been created by, or is claimed to have been created by, the (en)
- issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" (en)
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