Dave Chappelle lied in #TheCloser about Daphne Dorman being Twitter-bullied: #Speedrun Edition!
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Contemporary screenshots posted in tweets from separate users 2 days after Daphne’s death show there were only 9 replies to her “punching down” tweet when she died. 🧵
Thanks to the @internetarchive we can jump back in time to 3 weeks before Daphne’s death…
And she had 9 replies then, too. 🤔
Jump back in time another week to 4 weeks before Daphne died?
Still only 9 replies to Daphne’s “punching down” tweet!
Then just to really bring the point home, let’s hop back to this contemporary screenshot posted ≈6 weeks before Daphne’s death / ≈2 days after she posted the “punching down” tweet. (With a “1d” Twitter timestamp on the screenshot, no less.)
Dave Chappelle and I live in the same village: Yellow Springs, Ohio. I don’t know him. We’re merely co-residents among 3,900 or so others in that same small town. (Though typically Dave’s the only one new acquaintances ask me about when I mention where I’m from.) 🧵
By the way, this is going to be a ridiculously long thread and I’m warning you about that right now. So if you decide to read it, don’t act like you didn’t know what you were getting into.
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When I was younger, I saw a handful of movies Dave appeared in. Villagers would sometimes say things like, “I went to a party with that guy from Men in Tights when he was in YS for the summer one time.” Which I guess seemed like a vaguely interesting piece of local trivia. 🤷