Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars is one of the biggest stories of the year already – and will undoubtedly be the biggest meme of the year, maybe even the decade – but take a moment out of your day to think about the poor man with the Twitter handle @willsmith who has been completely and utterly abused today for no reason other than having the same name as Will Smith the actor.
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It’s kind of strange that the real Will Smith has never tried to purchase the @willsmith Twitter handle – it actually belongs to a video game journalist and podcaster who is probably regretting having it now after all the shit that he’s faced last night/this morning. One of his own tweets, just saying ‘whelp’ after he realised the shit storm that he was about to face managed to clock up 231K retweets, but it seemingly didn’t change anything for the guy:
Whelp.
— Will Smith (@willsmith) March 28, 2022
Real talk, I’m not the person you’re upset/happy with. I make podcasts and video games for a living.
At the risk of making people pissed off at me instead of that other guy, the world would be a better place if we stopped answering words with violence.
— Will Smith (@willsmith) March 28, 2022
I just saw the RAW footage. @willsmith should be ashamed of his damn self. It was a G.I. Jane joke. Total B.S. If it were @TheRock or someone like that instead of @chrisrock would he have done that shit!
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) March 28, 2022
Weakness on your part. And defiance isn’t strength.
— Troy Hinrichs (@YourmanGodfrey) March 28, 2022
@willsmith won best fuck up in Oscars history!!
— ChainLink is bullish (@reality_hitter) March 28, 2022
You mean when @willsmith laughed at the joke first then saw his wife’s response and decided to be a fake ass husband to the rescue? I’ve had alopecia big deal. People made fun of me all the time, I didn’t smack anyone ever.
— Identita (@threefactor) March 28, 2022
Jada boycotted the Oscar’s a few years ago. I say that family needs a time out and they should be UNinvited for a few years. …Award winning or not..make a stance.. He assaulted someone! The fresh prince is not so fresh 💩or entitled.Timeout@home
— MBingham (@Shelkat88) March 28, 2022
You did great on the concussion movie😉.
— FLVM3_WAV3 (@Kxd_Flvm3) March 28, 2022
Wow ! That CHRIS ROCK is one CLASSY DUDE and from one MAN OF COLOR to another Ur an A’HOLE.
— Norman Huntley (@huntleynorman) March 28, 2022
@willsmith why didn’t you smack ol boy she had that entanglement wit 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️👋🏿👋🏿😂😂
— Joy rd kev (@kev_1110210) March 28, 2022
There is no way on planet earth that punk punches Idris Elba and gets away with it 😂. I mean, he couldn’t punch August to save his entangling bald head wife’s cheeks getting clapped for a year!
— Sergi (@sergilekardash) March 28, 2022
Lol. The full range of responses there and those were the only ones that were tweeted in the last half an hour or whatever. Dread to see what else is out there.
Not really sure why people are mentioning Idris Elba or The Rock here, but then I don’t really get why people have to diss celebrities on the internet when they do something like this. Just feel sorry for that other Will Smith guy as his phone has probably exploded at this point from all the notifications he’s been receiving. RIP.
For more of the same, check out all the memes going around about Will Smith and Chris Rock. Never gonna hear the end of it.
