The notorious Instagram joke thief was never brought to justice, until now.
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During this years Super Bowl, aT-Mobile commercialfeaturing a text-message joke made people on Twitter very angry.
@tmobile stole a tweet!
Despite the criticism, nothing has really stopped their momentum.
So I made a decision a little over a week ago: Id had enough.
He is making a living off of the hard work of other people.
Why were over 14.3 million people following an Instagram marketing account?
Early on, comedian and30 Rockalum Judah Friedlandersuggested the hashtag #FuckFuckJerry, and we wereoff to the races.
This is me being too optimistic, but FuckJerry’s value is their 14.3m IG followers.
It’s a start?https://t.co/KbgoWH7CZf
By now, youmighthavereador observedwhat happened after that.
its not the most pressing issue of the day, but yeah, unfollow this garbage account.
they have stolen jokes from me and many other comedians and profit off it.
The arguments in this are hilarioushttps://t.co/f2VQGoUZUc
The campaigns biggest progress occurred over the past weekend.
FuckJerrys Instagram ticked from 14.3 million followers, to 14.2, to 14.1.
Tebele evenreleased a statement on Saturday, which most comedians and artists thought left much to be desired.
In a way, Instagram meme accounts are a (very depressing) version of organized crime.
(Instagram would not respond to a request for comment on this story.)
Either way, the experiment made a dent.
I think thats a pretty promising start.