In what may go down in history as one of the best college pranks of all time, someone using the email address hotlineblingblingboi@gmail.com has been sending University of Michigan students a barrage of emails that, unsurprisingly, contain single lines from Drake’s hit song “Hotline Bling.”
Inevitably, many students took to Twitter to show off the emails.
https://twitter.com/appalbttmjeans/status/697560279941562368
https://twitter.com/mollylactose/status/697563832080846852
https://twitter.com/annaharitos/status/697560291249299457
When your email gets hacked, that can only mean one thing.
— Michigan Students (@UMichStudents) February 11, 2016
Even the university’s student newspaper, the Michigan Daily, got in on the action, tweeting a poll in an attempt to determine how many students have heard from hotlineblingblingboi@gmail.com.
.@UmichStudents, have you been receiving e-mails from hotlineblingblingboi@gmail.com?
— The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) February 10, 2016
Some students have gleaned bits of information about the sender by clicking the “Show Original” link on the dropdown menu at the top of the message. The source is cited as “Michael’s Macbook Pro” and described as being part of an “LSA Sophomore Initiative.”
https://twitter.com/wing_squared/status/697563193607065600
https://twitter.com/MackGillis/status/697562268003860481
Whoever you are, hotlineblingblingboi@gmail.com, thank you for this. Sure, you’ve annoyed countless college students and potentially jeopardized your education. But this still makes for one of the best pranks of 2016 so far.
Screengrab via DrakeVEVO/YouTube
