The internet loves @dril. No one Twitter account captures the general ridiculousness of the internet. But most people didn’t know who ran the account, and that was fine. Then on Friday, people began talking about someone revealing dril’s identity and personal information, also known as doxing. The information was apparently revealed on Tumblr.
However, it’s not necessarily a new phenomenon. There are Tumblr posts several years old that claim to know who the man behind dril is (click here if you want to know), as well as tweets that confirm the name. A discussion on Reddit about dril’s identity was posted two months ago.
But it’s a Tumblr post from Thursday and corresponding reactions on Twitter made dril’s speculated identity go viral. And people are blaming Tumblr.
https://twitter.com/seungylee14/status/931591481827082240
Twitter users, especially fans of the @dril account, aren’t thrilled about the news. They don’t want to know the identity of the person who runs the account.
https://twitter.com/sheapforwheet/status/931589247777128448
https://twitter.com/mr_bobloblaw/status/931602756384772096
https://twitter.com/tatebjames/status/931603793464254465
Wanting to know the identity of Dril is why nerds suck
— 10,000 Motivated Rats (@bombsfall) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/zlingman/status/931599809810538496
look just because we might have found the corporeal manifestation of dril at this point in history doesn’t mean we know who dril is
— vestenet @ year of the drag-on dragoon (@vestenet) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/kept_simple/status/931599839674208257
If you have spent any amount of reasonable time trying to figure out who Dril is, you should never be allowed to vote.
— Brian Coulter (@PhilaBCoulter) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/mag_tweets/status/931598129471852544
https://twitter.com/sung_minkim/status/931590239214215168
The doxxing of dril pic.twitter.com/gdASGflKRH
— Max Verboten (@CandyAppleAlly) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/andymoney69/status/931595226774429696
Some Twitter users offered a way to protect dril:
The only way to protect dril is for everyone to say “I am dril” like the “i’m spartacus” line
— Good Tweetman (@Goodtweet_man) November 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/elinfinitoadios/status/931604660120567808
We are all dril. Isn’t that the point of the account?
