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But after a half-second of closer inspection, it registers that the missive didnt come from the feds.
It came fromJaboukie Young-White, the comedian andDaily Showcorrespondent, with nearly 700,000 followers.
Death, taxes, a late-night u up?
text from an ex, a Jaboukie Young-White Twitter suspension the only things in this world that are certainties.
BREAKING: Joe Biden is not DEAD.
He just getting some dick.
Weve all been there, hetweeted.
Within the hour, his account was shut down.
Like another light-skin king Jesus, son of God @jaboukierises from the dead.
Currently quarantining in Brooklyn with his younger brother, he says hes chilling and vibing.
Give me an hour-by-hour.
And then Im like,Okay, time to get out of bed.
That usually takes anywhere between five and 15 minutes.
I straight up have not been going outside.
Its been like 14 days maybe.
Oh my gosh.I know, I know.
Im not fucking around.
Then I force myself to shower.
But everyone is sort of in this moment right now, I guess.
I find that the thing thats been really keeping me sane is just establishing little routines, rearranging furniture.
How doesThe Daily Showwork during this time?
We did a Zoom table read, which honestly was pretty smooth.
It was not bad.
Its literally like a Thanos snap: You disintegrate on the internet in real time.
At a certain point, I was like,If I deactivate, then they cant suspend me.
So thats all I need to do.And I was doing that just to be safe a couple of times.
But recently Ive just been likeYou know what?
They havent done anything,so Ill leave the tweet up for like three or four minutes.
But then they I guess caught wind of it.
The Joe Biden one was literally up formaybetwo minutes.
Oh my God.Yeah, and Istillgot popped.
They mustve had tweet notifications on or something.
I used to get in trouble a lot as a kid.
It takes me back.
How many times have you been suspended, to date?I honestly dont know.
Somewhere between three and seven.
Well say seven with a question mark.
I think I came close a couple of times and evaded it.
But I evaded it only because I essentially put myself in timeout.
Someone was like, I have called the police!
People are just inclined to believe whatever they see online.
And a lot of those tweets were so farfetched, but people wanted them to be true so bad.
They liked it and didnt look twice at it.
I feel like Ive succeeded a little bit.
And I feel like in the same breath, the blue-check thing is kind of an extension of that.
There was a period of time where I wanted it so, so, so bad.
I think the checkmark is just a badge of institutional access.
Its not an actual badge of influence or critical thought or opinion or expertise.
I just dont think that it really means that much.
Even though they were on TV onRuPauls Drag Race, they werent verified by Twitter.
So its really like: Truly, what is this measuring?
I did so many internships until I could get a complex.com email and actually get this blue checkmark!
You dont understand how difficult it was for me and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Its just baked into the internet, but people think of it as not the real world.
They think its divorced from these structures, but really its just algorithmically intensified by the internet.
Sorry that I sort of just went on a Dr. Umar Johnson rant.
I get kind of nostalgic scrolling back sometimes!
And then therell be some that are super-dark, and Im likeWow, that was an era for sure.
Its a weird sort of picture diary, almost.
pic.twitter.com/6pBNZqh6qH
Whats your relationship to theJaboukies Deleted Tweets account?
Its really interesting seeing how the tone of the deleted tweets changed.
Because I was, at that time, tweeting knowing that it could have been screenshotted and reposted.
Its fun sometimes, because I forget a lot of this shit that Ive tweeted.
Sometimes Ill laugh at something that I said earlier and feel full Patrick Bateman.
Just because it cant be.
Once you do that, you cant go back.
Its like fucking your best friend: Youre never going to go back to being best friends.
Youre in this weird limbo of like,I know what you look like naked.
You cant go back to normal after that.
Its even tonewise of just the general zeitgeist.
The past few years have just been like titty punch after titty punch after titty fucking punch!
We just beengetting itfromevery single angle.
When I stop to actually think about it, its so wild.
Since the mid-2010s, everything has just been anosedive.
Like I guess Id go back to 2015?
But I wasnt even hot that year.
Its not a year I want to go back to.Yes!Exactlythat!
You put it perfectly into words.
Do I want to be happy and ugly?
