Hashtag #HillaryForPrision began trending on Twitter Monday morning — and no, this writer didn’t just strike a typo on his MacBook Air.
There may be no “I” in “team,” but there’s definitely one in “prison” — and ONLY one. So, how did this misspelled hashtag make the Top 2 in America, just behind trending phrase “Happy Halloween,” which isn’t going anywhere today? According to a bevy of Twitter users that appear to be Donald Trump supporters, this was the only way to sneak the phrase past Twitter’s allegedly liberal censors. Plus, “prision” is “prison” in Spanish, which may actually make this more clever (and perhaps, ironic) than it appears at first blush.
The social media website itself didn’t have a comment on the matter when reached by TheWrap. A person associated with the company did, however, send us some FAQ and media coverage language that appears to suggest a denial of the censorship-bias allegations.
Read some of the explanation tweets, which start to feel logical after a few hundred:
https://twitter.com/stldesktop/status/793077694300774400
https://twitter.com/buckychris/status/793077628349456385
#HillaryForPrision <— @twitter you might as well stop censoring now. She's cooked!!!! pic.twitter.com/yCC0fKCxO2
— ForgottenMan (@BmslaytonBrad) October 31, 2016
Twitter is a real communist jerk to have #HillaryForPrision trending instead of #HillaryForPrison!!!
— John doe (@juhhhjgghk) October 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/Jenn_Abrams/status/793060961255034880
Of course, those clarifications aren’t stopping those who likely skew liberal — or, at least are sticklers for proper English — from mocking the misspelling. Enjoy a small sample of those here:
https://twitter.com/MichalDinal/status/793082112027025413
https://twitter.com/TheNewBermuda/status/793082074706153473
https://twitter.com/danilovechkin/status/793081987531702272
why is #HillaryForPrision trending y'all can't even spell prison
— hayden (@haaydeenn) October 31, 2016
I guess if we're going to have a low-information misspelled hashtag, #HillaryForPrision, how about we launch #DeplorablesForBetterSpelling
— Johnny Action Space Punk (@JohnyAction) October 31, 2016
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