Twitter is a jam , but mockery story Twitter is a societal networking hellscape unto itself . Between theBlack Stewie GriffinsandPharrell ’s hatsis a blackened hole as old as time , pulling all of # teamfollowback into its gawk maw . I ’m talking , of class , about the Will Ferrell account .
Of all the parody twitter account flavors out there — and there areMANY — Will Ferrell is believably the most numerous and decidedly the most pervasive . Doa immediate search ; I bet you roll in the hay someone following one of these imprecate thing if you do n’t follow one yourself . Some of these history proclaim to be real , others are more honest about their name - hijacking , but all of them are fuck terrible , and none of them have anything to do with Will Ferrell because Will Ferrell , of course , is not on Twitter all .
But in this chaos , a structure exists . One can not relegate Will Ferrell accounts by content , for they are all terrible . Not by display name or embodiment for they all share like , cheapjack camouflage . But Twitter handles — the right @YourNameHere — are different . These are throttle real - estate . There can only be one @WillFerrell , one @Will_Ferrell , and so on . These user gens form the battleground on which 100 if not thousands of Will Ferrell accounts vie for purchase , where every lampooner must find out a foothold , or cash in one’s chips .
Misspellings
The ur - handle , the properly spelled@WillFerrell , is a tweetless egg - avatared account with 12.2 K following and no signs of life .
But fortunately the name Will Ferrell — with its ‘ rr ’ and its ‘ ll ’ plus a leading ‘ einsteinium ’ that could very well be an ‘ a’—is well misspelled . ( I had to look it up before I wrote this station , tbh ) . Accounts that exploit this fact , almost always in concert with a proper “ Will Ferrell ” display name , form the largest detail of bastard account . And no wonder ; it ’s like walking into followers .
See@willferell ; 10,000 follower with just a unmarried ( masterful ) tweet .
screwing my cat
— Will Ferrell ( @willferell)December 9 , 2010
Meanwhile,@willferrel ; nearly 1.5k without so much as a peep .
And it gets worse . Thanks to Twitter ’s sans - sarif face , a minuscule l looks like a capital letter I.@WiIIFerrelI(aka @wiiiferreli ) expend this trick to the melody of ~430k follower . The alarmingly similar@WillFerreI(aka @willferrei ) to the melodic phrase of ~421k .
Also
@WillFerelll
@lWillFerrell
@WillFerreIII
As well as loads more . Enough permutation to make your head reel at the simple thought and I assure you they all survive for they are legion .
Nicknames
William ’s a fairly versatile name , and you ’ll find all variations of it in the army of accounts , with and without the aforementioned spelling hocus-pocus .
There ’s “ Willy”s :
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FOLLOW@KinqJordan
— Will Ferrell ( @WillyFerrrell)October 10 , 2012
And “ William”s :
I just end up taking a deuce . Much better .
— Will Ferrell ( @williamferrell)October 1 , 2009
Iiif yuh tiiiipe lik di$$ i 4uttomattiicly hate yuhh ! ¡
— Will Ferrel ( @WilliamFerrel)December 9 , 2011
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And , my personal favorite , “ Willy Will ” :
But is path to turd yes@NiaIIOflficialhow do you do it man I wish I had your appetite
— WillyFerrel ( @WillyWillFerrel)November 5 , 2012
The magnetic declination seem to end there , with few to no “ Bill”s “ Billy”s or “ Liam”s , effectively proving that a Will Ferrell spoof accounting maker ’s only limitation is creativity .
Name flippers
Take any of these antecedently talk about names , and just trade the first letters around . amusing , right ? plainly ; that ’s the trick behind the leading Will Ferrell account , @FillWerrell , with its 2.5 million followers .
When someone say they do n’t like getting drunk
○ く|へ〉￣ ┗ ┓ ヾ ○ ｼ ┗ ┓ ヘ/ ┗ ┓ ノ ┗ ┓
— Fill Werrell ( @FillWerrell)January 10 , 2015
Behind it follow twelve , if not hundreds of less successful imitators
@FillWarrell
@FiIlWerrelI
@FillyWerrell
@FilIWerrel
And when that well runs dry , just flip over the name calling altogether , like entries in a telephony book from hell .
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I bang my family !
— Will Ferrell ( @FerrellWilliam)May 6 , 2012
Or just give up all together , like@FillFerrellhere :
— Will Ferrell ( @FillFerrell)December 23 , 2013
Underscores
This is the last instrument on mitt for the purist , he who would not pollute the handle with any extra words or — god forbid — numbers . That this is a well - used shaft of the lampooner is no surprisal . What is a surprise is how far they go with it .
In the middle :
@Will_FerreII
@Will__Ferrell
@Will___Ferrell
@Will____Ferrel
@Will_____Ferrel
Or lead :
@_WillFerrell
@_willferell
@_WillFerrel
Or trail :
@FillWerrell _
@willferrel _
@williamferrel _
Or run and trailing :
@_WillFerrell _
@__WILLFERRELL _ _
In every conceivable space , flanking the name like little devil wings :
@_Will_Ferrell _
@_Will__Ferrell _
I both shudder and chill at the thought of legal Twitter handles that comprise star or tildes :
@~~WILL*_~**~_*FERRELL~~
@~WILL~_____~FERRELL~ *
Be still my masochistic heart .
The numberers
These , my friends , are the lowest of the low-toned . Unremarkable but necessary to mention . countenance us be brief .
@willferrel1
@willferrell67
@ferrelwill31
@fillwerrell420
And so on and so forth .
Adjectives
Once we get adjective into the mixture , the river of Will Ferrell handles floods out into an inconceivable ocean so chop-chop that its boundaries are difficult to fathom . Only by clinging to the most democratic trends can one keep one ’s brain above the scold breaker .
There are , of course , those that proclaim their authenticity , the “ material ” Will Ferrells :
@LegitWillFerrel
@ReaIWilIFerreII
@Real_WillFerrel
And those that disclose their falsity , pretend to the Trygve Halvden Lie that perhaps Law exists on Twitter :
@WillFarrelFan
@notWill_Ferrell
@Will_Not_Ferell
And those that do both at once :
Not Will Ferrell aka @ItsWiIIferrelI
Will Ferrell aka @ImNoWillFerrell
Will Ferrell Parody aka @itswillferrel _
Which is to say nothing of the accounts that actively and self - consciously head to the fact that , yes , they are funny :
At the lake
— funny Will Ferrell ( @WillFerrellFun)July 19 , 2013
Or crazy :
When a vegan goes absent do they put them on a soymilk cartonful ?
— Will Frickn Ferrell ( @CrazyFerrell)March 5 , 2013
Or just LOL :
Crime Scene#lol
— willferrelquotes ( @willferrelllol)February 1 , 2014
The alternate personas
When straight - up mimicking Will Ferrell die , there are other slant to take than mere impersonation . Endeavoring lampooner — who are also , coincidentally some of the forged — find an slant . A take . Will Ferrell becomes the adjective , elevating average tinker’s dam to shit with a name you may recognize .
view the regal King Will Ferrell , with the utterly nonsensical handle @The_Ifunny_King but appropriate avatar that really link up the whole muddle together :
Well ios7 suck ass….but i m still getting the Iphone 5s .
— King Will Ferrell ( @The_Ifunny_King)September 22 , 2013
There ’s also :
Will Ferrell ’s Wife ( the delightful @taterxtwat )
Will Ferrell ’s mom ( @WillFerrelsMom )
Will Ferrell ’s Twin ( @WiII___Ferrell )
Will Ferrell Hulk ( @WillFerrellHulk )
Next Will Ferrell ( @next_will )
But most importantly , there is my preferred Will Ferrell Twitter , @Pimpwillly , which does not really squeeze about whoredom or pimping and is all unremarkable but for the keep abreast poetic and uncomplicated bio :
All the other garbage everything is garbage
The rest ? It ’s garbage . I mean it ’s all garbage but this is the most garbagey garbage . fresh accounts . Nonsensical handles . Jumbled wish-wash tweet full of refuse speech . How did I get here ? What is go on ? Please send helper .
an average American language will watch 9 years of television in there life history
— Will Ferell ( @K00lFACTS)August 8 , 2012
mark 55 in Flappy Anchorman ! who can do better??#flapflaphttps://t.co / NNfTpLDCng
— Flying Will Ferrell ( @FlappyAnchorman)May 23 , 2014
Just address the poleice and narrate them I was on a ceiling , they say " we got you now motherfucker " . i think i ’ll bbe dependable and sound soone !
— ✨ We ❤ ️ WILL FERREL ✨ ( @PRAISE_FERREL)December 30 , 2014
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— Will Ferrell ( @BigbirdFerrell)December 15 , 2013
And this ? This is the future . As the endless drone of time scream on and babbling twitterati ptyalise in the brass ofthe internet ’s most sage advice , the cherry-red - shift twitterverse will bang up against the bound of a modified handlescape . These hodgepodge of chaos will be all that ’s leave , all that is .
I am record @fuknyw1lllllf3reIIl for my great grand - children . What else am I presuppose to do ?
My first method for pile up a list of Will Ferrell accounts was to just search “ Will Ferrell ” with Twitter lookup and written matter and glue entries selectively , found on whether accounts seem to be actively personate Mr. Ferrell , or just some tween who though it might make for a funny display name .
It was only after some 200 or so entries that I began to see the folly of my hubris , thanks in part to the macrocosm of accounts with a misspelled show name , or a handgrip the did not cite Mr. Ferrell at all , or both . To check myself ( before I wrecked myself ) I had Ashley find bill by her own means and then check them against my leaning ; Roughly one in four she bump was miss .
Then , I find thiswonderful and sketchy websitethat offers a more robust Twitter hunt , and devised the following ( batshit insane ) search interrogation to return as many Will Ferrell - related accounts as potential , within grounds :
“ will ferrell”|”will ferrel”|”will ferell”|”will ferel”|”will farrell”|”will farrel”|”will farell”|”will farel”|”fill werrell”|”fill werrel”|”fill werell”|”fill werel”|”fill warrell”|”fill warrel”|”fill warell”|”fill warel ”
Hereis what that returns .
From there , I gave the dickhead my credit identity card ( oh I should go scrub that complimentary test ) for the privilege of download the ~500 resultant role in the form of a .CSV file . From there I arduously ( and sloppily ) removed entranceway that appeared to be “ just some guy ” based on bio and avatar .
The whole shebang was only 500 long and I ’m not trusted if that ’s a limit of the search engine or not . Either way , the bottom of the lean starts pulling in zero - follower accounts so that ’s where the wasteland commence anyway . unluckily , I love this list to be non - thoroughgoing , due to the fact that a parody account Ashley started the other day ( @WillFerrell_LOLExcuse me,@LOL_WillFerrell ) is not admit . But fuck it ; I mean what do you want from me ?
The following is that list , ranked in order of turn of followers . Look upon my works , ye mighty , and desperation .
artwork by Tara Jacoby
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